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Hello, my demon insiders, and welcome back to The Demon
Inside. I'm your host, John Venom, and
today before I begin my episode, I would like to take some time
to read a comment that I received from Jacob Bernard.
Now, Jacob Bernard is the uncle of Matthew Bernard, and I did a
show on him a few episodes back. Matthew Bernard was a young
teenage kid. Who killed his?
Family and ran off and was naked and started to try to choke and
bite a groundskeeper. Well, I relate this back to
three other episodes that I had covered, which was Austin
Haroff, Rudy Eugene and Annison Joseph.
If you haven't heard any of those, I suggest you go back and
listen to those. But Matthew actually heard his
nephew's episode and he sent me a comment and I'm going to read
that now. Now keep in mind, he sent me 4
answers that I didn't know, that I wasn't sure.
And I said on the podcast, so I'll read those to you as well.
But this is how he starts. And I quote, I'm Matthew's uncle
and I got to say you're not too off from your research.
Keep up the journalism number one.
Papa wasn't around at the time Matthew killed Nana and Emily.
He was on the road looking for Matthew.
No one knew where he was. It wasn't until Aunt Rachel
heard the gunshots and called 911 did she see Nana on the
ground and then she saw Papa and they went and checked and saw
Nana had been shot. I feel so bad for him #2 Matthew
had narcolepsy and capilepsy so he couldn't sleep like we could.
He basically didn't sleep at all which is why I believe he
snapped. He saw demons and had constant
nightmares about them too, and they were always talking to him
#3 He's had nine mental evaluations now and is somewhat
competent to continue with the court process and hopefully we
finally get everything over with.
He was also diagnosed with schizophrenia and is finally
starting to come back to reality.
It's been a rough five years. Number four, he didn't have any
drugs in his system nor does he truly have an idea what they are
or even where to get them. Matthew grew up surrounded by
people who love him. Nana wouldn't even let us
continue to watch a movie or a show if the word stupid or even
shut up came up if that tells you anything.
He was the representation of a golden child and never did any
harm to others nor did he even have outbursts.
He was always filled with joy and fun to be around.
The continuation of his letter says.
I don't hate Matthew for what he's done because I know it
wasn't him. I believe he was possessed at
the time due to all I've seen with everything and from someone
who grew up with him, I can confidently say that wasn't
Matthew when he did that. I've seen him multiple times and
I've talked to him when I can to show my support for him.
Yeah, a lot of people call me crazy for being there for him
and seeing him, but I know with all my heart that when
everything happened, that wasn't Matthew.
Yes, his body physically did the killings but mentally I know it
wasn't him and because of that I will continue to support Matthew
anyway I can because I still love him and that's what Nana
and Emily would have wanted. I miss them and hope one day we
can put this all behind us. I don't wish Matthew death or
anything like that, but I'd like to see him finally be able to
stay stationed instead of constantly being moved around
due to court proceedings. It's a lot to wrap anyone's head
around, but sometimes with situations like this you have to
think outside the box and look at the direction of everything
to see where the truth really lies and most people can't see
that. End Quote.
Jacob, first I'd like to thank you for sending this comment and
it really means a lot to me and my show.
It shows that there are people out there that believe the
demons exist, and as hard it is as it is to acknowledge that,
it's even harder to see when it takes effect on a family member.
I think Jacob, you are a brave person, loving, trusting and
honest and I think people that are calling you crazy you, we
don't believe that you're not crazy.
From all my demon insiders and myself, we think you're a
special person who loves and cherishes his family and we send
you nothing but good hopes and prayers and God's love.
Again, I want to thank you for being brave and sending this to
me and we will give you the support you need or want.
We're here for you. Again, thank you for sending the
comments. I wait to hear from you.
If possible, I'd really like to know how Matthew and you are
doing. So with that, we'll continue
with the demon Inside. Today's episode we are talking
about Adolfo de Jesus Costanzo. 30 miles from his Brownsville
home, Mauricio Rodriguez stared in disbelief at the Santa Elena
ranch at A1 Room Shack filled with candles and other reminders
of the devil worship that ended the life of 21 year old Mark
Kilroy, one other unnamed U.S. citizen and 10 Mexicans.
Outside, a scorched cauldron still holds the remains of what
authorities say is human brain matter, animal parts and blood.
What happened over? Here I never believe it.
So far, authorities have unearthed 9 shallow graves still
filled, some of them with human hair, skin and body parts.
They believe two more young victims remain buried here.
That Mark Kilroy spent 12 hours on the ranch before dying.
They wrapped heavy duct tape around his his eyes and and
forehead and face and his head. They assured him that he was not
going to be harmed, that he was not in danger.
They Fred him some bread and water, we understand.
And then one of them ultimately came up behind him with the
machete and and and hit him across the back of the head with
it. Already say that the devil
worship and human sacrifice practiced here may be a brand of
voodoo or black magic that comes from the Caribbean and Cuba.
And if the Padrino, our godfather, is a Cuban still on
the loose. We've been led to believe from
Mexico City as a residence of Mexico City, we've been led to
believe that he has a. Family in Miami.
Florida, we were told that he's a Cuban extraction.
He's about 40 years of age and that he periodically travels to
Brownsville. From a balcony at federal police
officers in Matamora, not far from where Kilroy disappeared,
authorities paraded 4 suspects who admit to cult involvement, 2
who say they helped abduct Mark Kilroy.
On March 14th, as he celebrated spring break in Matamora, 1
bared his shoulder to reveal 6 ceremonial marks, one for each
person he said he had killed. The suspects say that at one
point Mark Kilroy almost escaped his fate at Santa Elena, that he
got away but was recaptured by this group of Satanists who
believed that the souls of their dead would protect their drug
smuggling. Shelley Koffler, Channel 5 News
near Brownsville. So Adolfo de Jesus Costanza is a
serial killer. Who?
Was born in Miami, but actually grew up in certain parts of
southern South America. So let's get into this.
On November 1st, 1962, Adolfo was born to a single mother
named Dalia. Dalia was a widow and a Cuban
immigrant. When he was six months, she took
him to a Polaro, which is like a priest in the Palo Mayambe
religion. But for those of you which I'm
one didn't know what Palo Mayambe is.
It's a religion that centers on the spirits of the dead and
often involves dark practices such as grave robbing and the
use of human and animal remains. Palo Mayambe is sometimes used
to inflict misfortune on enemies such as insanity, divorce or
death. Now the religion itself doesn't
encourage criminal activity, but the members can go two ways.
They can be Christian, follow Mayambe, which is following God,
doing good, praying to angels and Saints.
Or they could be unbaptized, follow Mayambe, which is
basically doing evil, doing harm, and worshipping
Karyopenbi. Now Karyopenbi is like the devil
in Christianity or in Catholicism, and Karyopenbi is
also known as the devourer of souls.
We've heard that before, remember?
So the palatal looked at Adolfo when he was six months and he
told his mother, Dalia that Adolfo was going to do great
things and he offered to become his teacher and spiritual
advisor and his mother, of course, accepted.
So six months later, when he was one year old, his mother took
him to Puerto Rico to broaden his knowledge.
She got married to a man there, and Adolfo was chosen to be an
altar boy in the Catholic religion.
But his mother was also practicing Santeria.
Now, Santeria is another religion, kind of like
Balomayambe only because it calls for animal sacrifices.
So as he was growing up, his mother was teaching them how to
sacrifice animals for their religion.
Eventually, Adolfo would accept the fact that animal sacrifices
were a part of religion. We will be right.
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And now it's time for the shout out of the week and today I have
a couple of shout outs. First one is.
To Russell. And he works at the Max Car
rental and he actually, we were talking about the podcast and I
was telling them about the three cases that I had.
And. With Austin Harroff, Rudy Eugene
and Anderson Joseph. And.
He suggested that I look into the geographical locations of
the rivers that flow through each and every one of those
killings. So that's something to think
about and I'm probably going to start doing that eventually, but
right now I just kind of got caught up with everything.
So thank you for that suggestion, Russell.
Then I also have Tyro and Davinski and.
They're a couple. That I took to the VFW.
Sweet couple love like them very much, but I honestly don't think
they're going to listen to this show.
They were kind of freaked out when I played before them, but
I'd like to send Tyrone Davinski and also Russell a shout out for
this week. All right, guys, back to the
show and welcome back. To the demon inside.
In 1972, when Adolfo was 10, his mother moved back to Miami.
His godfather, who had said that he was going to do great things,
immediately started teaching Adelfo the ways of palomayombe
he was teaching them how to read cards, which is telling the
future. He was teaching them how to
heal. He was teaching them practices
in pretty much witchcraft and that kind of culture.
Now his padrino or his pulero, his godfather had a naganga.
Now this naganga is kind of like a altar in the Palomayambe
religion. And in this altar, which is
actually a cauldron, it's supposed to communicate with
spirits and deities. In their belief for them to
invoke the spirits of the dead, they have to use human skulls
along with other human body parts.
From that person. They would invoke the spirit to
do their bidding for personal gain, protection or revenge.
This was often used when a criminal would die.
They would go and bury his body, use the pieces in the nganga and
his spirit was supposed to be controlled by the palatal.
Sometimes it would work because the spirits were OK with it,
sometimes it wouldn't. But the faith that you have in
Palomayombe decided if you could control or not control.
Now remember, Adolfo was the chosen one.
This is going to come to play a little bit later, so let's
continue. So this naganga, when his pilato
was trying to teach him at 10 years old, he would walk him
into a little shed that had no windows and Adolfo was not
allowed to look upon the naganga.
So he would have a blindfold on whenever he would enter that
room. Now, the nanganga was supposed
to be so powerful that if he would have looked upon it with
his eyes, he would have been killed immediately by the
spirits or by the deities. Eventually he started saying
that he would receive his own naganga when he got older, and
his godfather agreed with him. He said you're going to have the
best, most powerful naganga that anybody has ever had.
While he was teaching them his philosophies.
He told Adolfo it's OK to work with drug dealers, it's OK to
work with killers, it's OK to work with any of these people.
He goes but let the non believers kill themselves with
drugs. We will profit from their
foolishness. And also told him don't ever use
drugs if a spirit enters your body and sees that you are
unclean. The spirit will kill you.
Now this affected him for his whole life.
He even killed his members whenever they use drugs.
So when Adefa was 14, he started displaying psychic powers, and
one of these psychic powers was reading into the future.
He actually predicted a few months before President Reagan
was shot that President Reagan would be shot, but he would
survive. In 1983, when he turned 20, he
decided to move to Mexico City, where his Padrino, his
godfather, told him to go because there was no Palo
mayambe in Mexico and this was a good time to put himself in
there to gather a following. So when he got there, he started
doing card readings, readings of the future.
He started doing limpias, which is clean cleansings.
And what that means is if you're cursed or you have bad luck or
anything like that, he'll clean you so that you can have better
luck, you know, things like that.
So while he was there, he eventually met two guys, Martin
Quintanilla Rodriguez and Omar Chui Oriya Ochoa.
And these two guys eventually became his lovers and his
disciples. When he was 21 he he moved back
to Miami where his Polaro told him that he was of age and he
would prepare him to receive his own naganga and would and
prepare him for the initiation to become a palatto.
So during his initiation, on the first day of his initiation, he
selected Cariapambe as his own spirit guide.
So Adolfos Palatto blindfolded him and asked him questions.
And for his final question, he asked them, Are you sure this is
what you want? Now, this was after two weeks of
our three weeks or so, many weeks of cleansing.
There's a whole thing, a spiritual cleaning that goes
with this. But I'm not going to say because
I don't want people trying to mimic this.
I've had I've received a lot of weird emails and and messages.
That. I kind of worried somebody would
try to do this, but let's continue.
So when he asked Adolfo if he was ready for this, he said
there is no going back. You will lose your soul.
Adolfo responded by saying, and I quote, my soul is dead.
I have no God. End Quote.
His palatto then carved markings into Adolfo's shoulders, unique
to him. So he was a palatto in his own
right. Now.
He took off the blindfold. After 10 years he had his own
naganga, so shortly thereafter he moved back to Mexico City and
went on his way to charm wealthy drug dealers, helping them
schedule shipments and meetings on the basis of his predictions.
Of course, for a price, he offered magic that would make
dealers and their hit men invisible to police, bulletproof
against their enemies. He had a lot of followers that
were judges, police officers, narcotics officers, influential
people, you know, and drug dealers.
Now, his followers went beyond just the reading of cards and
the philosophies of Mario Paulo Mayambe.
They started worshipping him as a minor God in his own right.
He was their living conduit to the.
Spirit World. I believe this is where he loses
control, not that he ever had any because I believe that
during that ceremony that he becomes a palatal.
The demon got inside of him, he welcomed it in.
Now this deity or a demon was taking more and more control,
but Adolfo was also taking control because Adolfo felt like
a God. So eventually Adolfo started
making more grand rituals, ceremonies.
He started to give his members the to a lateral rights as well
like he had, but they weren't doing it in the traditional
sense like he did. He spent his whole life
learning. They were doing it within a few
months. I think this was a way for him
to get control of them faster. Now, because of that, they had
to faithfully and loyally be with Adolfo.
So when Adolfo started using real bodies from the cemetery,
he figured that it wasn't going to be enough for some of these
drug dealers. They were paying huge money for
what they called their spiritual father.
So he started killing people. A lot of them were drug dealers.
A lot of them were drug rivals to the dealers he was
protecting. Eventually he got to the point
where he thought he deserved a partnership in the drug
syndicate. Well they refused him and he
ends up taking revenge on that family.
Later on after he kills like six members of the family and uses
them for his naganga, he ends up with another drug family.
And so this guy starts doing these rituals and starts telling
people that if you're not in this religion, then you're going
to be sacrificed. But if you betray this religion,
you're going to be sacrificed. He was becoming a God on earth
that was vengeful and everybody needed to please him.
Eventually he meets Sarah Aldrete who becomes his madrina
which is his partner and she becomes like the mother figure
of this religion. She and herself has a whole
different story. If you want you can watch
Netflix. She even talks about how she had
seen his face change into a demonic face.
It's really interesting. Oh, I'm sorry, it's not on
Netflix. It's on Max.
So if you get a chance to look at it on Max.
So one day his members go out and find sacrifice, sacrificial
people, and they bring them back to Adolfo where he is going to
kill them on his ranch. And this the sacrifice didn't
plead for his life, didn't scream, didn't cry, didn't do
anything. So it didn't feel Adolfo's need
for his naganga. So he told them his followers to
go out and find an American. Now in 1989 was spring break
near Mexico and the town of Brownsville, which is actually a
few hours from where I live, and it had made big news.
His followers went out and grabbed a young man named Mark
Kilroy. They ended up sacrificing Mark
Kilroy and using his body parts for the naganga.
A few weeks later, one of the followers was driving by a
checkpoint where the police were at.
He figured because he was protected that they wouldn't see
him. And of course they could see
him. They grabbed him.
They started questioning him. He started talking about the
drugs and the killings. He led them to where they had
been killing people. They ended up catching other
members of this cult group and they ended up finding Mark
Kilroy's pieces of his bodies. So Dolpho and his lover 2 lovers
the the two disciples from the beginning and Sarah ran and hid
in a motel and eventually they found him and he had one of the
guys shoot him in the face and that guy also committed suicide.
Sarah was arrested and given life.
Now I don't like doing cult leaders because I believe
everything they do is for themselves and this is what
happened. Adolfo eventually started doing
for himself, but it was at the beginning when the palatal made
him give up his soul that I believe he became something
else. I think his soul or pride or
whatever was still in there trying to take over.
So let me explain it this way. And I've, I've heard this and
I've read this in the book called The Exorcist Interview,
and it was given to me by one of the demon insiders, Aaron.
And what it says is even when you allow a demon in you, you
are still in control of your spirit.
You can still cast that demon out.
Even if you allowed them in now the demons going to tell you
it's not allowed. But it is because.
It's under the grace of God. I think he wasn't praying to God
for God to help him. I think what he was doing was
trying to take control of the demon and have the demon do what
he wanted. Now for me, I believe he was
fighting with the demon spiritually to be in control of
his own body. That's the only reason I'm doing
this one Dolpho de Jesus Costanzo I believe was
possessed, but he was also trying to take control of the
demon. Now my question is this.
If you're trying to control a demon, what's that demon going
to do? Is he going to mess up your
plans like this happen? Is he going to go along with it?
You're talking about a deity that has been around for a long
time now. Remember that I said in
Palomayombe they have curses that will get you divorced, will
cause death, will cause bankruptcy, will cause all this
stuff. How do we know that a curse
isn't just the demon doing what somebody is asking or is doing
it just to prove to the human that he thinks he has power
'cause there's one thing about demons that people don't
remember and that these demons can't physically harm us, but
they are smarter than us because that's all they do is learn how
to manipulate, how to lie, how to find our weakness.
And this is what they prey on. Thanks for listening guys.
Hope you enjoyed the show. Again, I wanted to thank Jacob
Bernard for his comments and thank you Aaron for the book.
Loved it and thank you guys for listening.
It's been fun doing this show and I'm going to keep doing it
as long as I can. So with that, I will talk to you
all next week. Have a good week, take care.
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