The World - News from May 9, 1989

A U.S. investigator in Texas said he suspected that the leader of a drug-smuggling and satanic cult could have faked his death to fool police into ending their hunt for perpetrators of 15 ritual murders near the U.S.-Mexico border. But Mexican authorities maintained that Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo had been positively identified by his fingerprints and U.S. passport. Cult member Alvaro de Leon has said he killed Constanzo and a bodyguard in a Mexico City apartment on the leader’s orders. But Armando Ramirez, resident agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration in Brownsville, said the bodies were too badly shot up to be positively identified.