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a week. We will be right back. After a word. From our sponsors. And welcome back. To the demon inside. 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. Back after a word. From our sponsors. 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. Don't forget to subscribe to the Demon Inside Podcast on any podcast platform. A new episode of The Demon Inside will be released every week.
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