Word: santeria
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Dates: during 1989-1989
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According to officials, Constanzo commissioned Kilroy's abduction by ordering his followers to "go out and bring in an Anglo male." Constanzo, who as a youth in South Florida reportedly practiced Santeria, the Caribbean voodoo, led the crazed rituals that accompanied the bloodletting. In the killing field, police found dozens of long candles as well as garlic, peppers and scores of half-burned cigars -- the accoutrements of an African offshoot of Santeria known as Palo Mayombe...