The killer] was known for her extreme brutality, such as dismembering bodies, removing hearts, and placing the hearts in ...

In Mexico City, a growing number of people devote themselves to the Death Saint. May 29, 2013— -- What's the one certain thing that binds us all? Death. Regardless of race and economic or social ...

That was the first question following an investigation by the Bexar County Sheriff's Office in February, in which deputies uncovered a house with suspected stolen vehicles used for a human-smuggling ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A follower in New Orleans built a public shrine in her honor. An actor in Albuquerque credits her with helping him land a role on the TV show “Breaking Bad.” She turns up routinely ...

Pineda was convicted of homicide and sentenced to 50 years, along with four others — Jorge G.M., Joana Michelle A.G., ...

At first glance, La Santa Muerte appears like the Grim Reaper.For many in the Mexican community, however, the folk saint can be a miracle worker. According to believers, the skeletal icon brings ...

Every morning before opening her shop to customers, Cristina Perez says “buenos días” to a green-cloaked, three-foot skeleton covered in dollar bills — offerings folded in triangles and taped to the ...

Sunny Flea Market on Airline Drive is as full of raw life as any place in the state of Texas, especially on this hot Sunday afternoon in August. Fifty thousand weekly visitors stroll its long rows of ...

ECATEPEC, Mexico — The visions appear so often these days that they cause little stir. The tall, wiry figure of the late Jonathan Legaría is still a regular at his temple, while his followers say he ...

An FBI and U.S. Border Patrol task force recently arrested a Juárez woman in a raid at an El Paso motel in a border case featuring a dark brew of drug trafficking, mutilation killings and the occult, ...

Santa Muerte incense, left, necklaces and a prayer book for sale at Velas y Mas on North Navarro in Victoria. Her altar can be made of anything – a statue of marble in a temple or a carving of soap in ...

The prayer in Spanish sounded like one from an ordinary Catholic Mass. But the man who led it wore a coyote-skin headdress and called himself the last of 13 generations of brujos-- witch doctors -- in ...