Constanzo allegedly studied Vodou and Palo Mayombe, which traces its roots back to the Congo River Basin. In Palo Mayombe, offerings are made to the gods in a ceremonial cauldron known as a “nganga,” ...

It was all part of the rituals of a religion known as palo mayombe, a violent voodoo cult ... was “El Padrino,” Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, a man with his bloody fingers in the dark worlds ...

Aldrete describes how she willingly bowed to Constanzo’s persuasion, and how the other members of El Padrino’s cult came under his spell, even as his practice of Palo Mayombe escalated from ...

Human sacrifice is not unheard of in the black-magic religion of palo mayombe. “It’s unusual, but it’s not surprising,” said palo expert Dr. Charles Wetli. “Human sacrifice is rare ...

Richard Couto explains that it is a site for sacrificial rituals performed by practitioners of the Palo Mayombe religion. "They often use human remains in their ceremonial sites and that is ...