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In late 1962 or early 1963, brothers Santos and Cayetano Hernández, working as petty scammers, travelled to the isolated community of Yerba Buena, an impoverished and mostly illiterate village of about 50 inhabitants. In a ploy for wealth, they proclaimed themselves as prophets of "the powerful and exiled [[Inca Empire|Inca]] gods".<ref name=pro/> They proclaimed that "the Inca gods, in exchange for worship and tributes, would grant them hidden treasures in the caves of the mountains surrounding the town (a place where they also performed their rites); and that they would soon come to claim authority over their ancient kingdom, and punish the non-believers."<ref name=mex/> |
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Even though the Incas inhabited [[Peru]] and not Mexico, they convinced the inhabitants of Yerba Buena and founded a cult among the village, demanding economic and sexual tributes from adult members of all genders, ingesting drugs during orgies, and even selling some of their subordinates into [[sexual slavery]].<ref name=pro/> |
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Some time later{{clarify timeframe}}, the believers grew skeptical when the brothers failed to fulfill their promises.<ref name=se/> To remedy this, the Hernándezes went to Monterrey in search of prostitutes to participate in the scam. Eventually{{clarify timeframe}}, they met Magdalena Solís and her brother, who agreed to participate.<ref name=mex/> They presented Solís in later rituals as the reincarnation of the goddess [[Cōātlīcue]] through a [[smoke screen]] trick and convinced the followers of her authenticity. Solís eventually{{clarify timeframe}} came to believe that she truly was a reincarnated goddess and took command of the cult.<ref name=mex/> |
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==Crimes== |
==Crimes== |
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Magdalena Solís | |
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| Born | 1947 |
| Died | Unknown |
| Other names | "The High Priestess of Blood" |
| Criminal penalty | 50 years in prison |
| Details | |
| Victims | 2–15 |
Span of crimes | March – May 1963 |
| Country | Mexico |
| State(s) | San Luis Potosí |
Magdalena Solís (1947 – date of death unknown), known as The High Priestess of Blood, allegedly was a Mexican serial killer and cult leader responsible for orchestrating several murders which involved the drinking of the victims' blood. The murders were committed in Yerba Buena, San Luis Potosí, during the early 1960s.[1]
Solís was convicted of two of the murders and sentenced to 50 years in prison; authorities ascribed eight murders to Solís and suspected she was involved in as many as 15. She is regarded as one of the few documented instances of a sexually-motivated female serial killer, showing organized, visionary, and hedonistic characteristics.[2]
Psychiatric profile
Magdalena Solís came from a poor and most likely dysfunctional family in Tamaulipas, where she was supposedly born in 1947.[2] She is believed to have been working as a prostitute since an early age under her brother, a local pimp named Eleazar, before joining the Hernández Brothers' sect in 1963.[3] After this, Solís developed a serious theological psychosis, causing her to experience major religiously-oriented delusions of grandeur, coupled with a myriad of paraphilic disorders expressed in consuming the blood of her victims, sadomasochistic tendencies, fetishistic practices and pedophilia.[1]
The Hernández Brothers' sect
In late 1962 or early 1963, brothers Santos and Cayetano Hernández, working as petty scammers, travelled to the isolated community of Yerba Buena, an impoverished and mostly illiterate village of about 50 inhabitants. In a ploy for wealth, they proclaimed themselves as prophets of "the powerful and exiled Inca gods".[1] They proclaimed that "the Inca gods, in exchange for worship and tributes, would grant them hidden treasures in the caves of the mountains surrounding the town (a place where they also performed their rites); and that they would soon come to claim authority over their ancient kingdom, and punish the non-believers."[2]
Even though the Incas inhabited Peru and not Mexico, they convinced the inhabitants of Yerba Buena and founded a cult among the village, demanding economic and sexual tributes from adult members of all genders, ingesting drugs during orgies, and even selling some of their subordinates into sexual slavery.[1]
Some time later[timeframe?], the believers grew skeptical when the brothers failed to fulfill their promises.[3] To remedy this, the Hernándezes went to Monterrey in search of prostitutes to participate in the scam. Eventually[timeframe?], they met Magdalena Solís and her brother, who agreed to participate.[2] They presented Solís in later rituals as the reincarnation of the goddess Cōātlīcue through a smoke screen trick and convinced the followers of her authenticity. Solís eventually[timeframe?] came to believe that she truly was a reincarnated goddess and took command of the cult.[2]
Crimes
By the time Solís took control, two of her followers, fed up with the sexual abuse, expressed their desire to leave.[2] Fearing the repercussions, other members informed Solís and the Hernández brothers of this, with the former decreeing that the "heretics" be sacrificed. In response, the two unfortunates were lynched by fellow members.[1]
Blood ritual
After these first two murders, Solís' crimes gradually escalated in violence and brutality. As she was bored with simple orgies, she began to demand human sacrifices and devised a "blood ritual": the sacrificed (who was always a dissenting member) was brutally beaten, burned, cut and mutilated by all members of the cult, before being left to bleed to death.[1] The blood was then deposited in a chalice mixed with chicken blood and narcotics (mostly marijuana or peyotes), from which Solís drank, before passing it along to the brothers and finally to other members. This supposedly gave them supernatural abilities, and at the end of the ritual, the victim's heart was ripped out.[2]
Basing their beliefs of Aztec mythology, Solís and the Hernández brothers proclaimed that blood is the only food the gods can ingest, and that their goddess needed to drink it to preserve her eternal youth. The carnage lasted six continuous weeks, during which 4 people died and had their hearts extracted post-mortem.[1][3]
Last victims
One night in May 1963, a 14-year-old local, Sebastián Guerrero, was wandering around the caves where the sect was performing their rites. Drawn by the lights and noises coming from one of the caves, he went to investigate; to his horror, he watched as the cult was in the process of killing yet another victim.[2] Terrified, he ran for more than 25 kilometers to the town of Villa Gran, where the nearest police station was located. Exhausted and in a state of shock, Guerrero failed to give any other description than seeing a "group of murderers, seized by ecstasy, gathered to drink human blood".[1]
His claims were met with ridicule by the officers, who took them as the delusions of a mentally-ill or drugged boy. On the following morning, one investigator, Luis Martínez, offered an escort home for Guerrero, as well as to check where he had seen the "vampires". After their departure, Martínez never returned to work.[1]
Apprehension and conviction
Dismayed by the disappearance of both Guerrero and their colleague, the police started to take the case seriously, and contacted the army for assistance. On May 31, 1963, both police officers and soldiers conducted a joint crackdown in Yerba Buena, arresting Magdalena and Eleazar Solís at a farm in the town, where they were under the influence of marijuana.[2] Santos Hernández would later be killed while resisting arrest, while his brother, Cayetano, had already been killed by a delusional cult member, Jesús Rubio, who later claimed that he had wanted to take a part of the high priest's body to protect himself. Many of the cult members, who had barricaded themselves inside the cave, were killed in shootouts as well.[1]
In subsequent investigations, the dismembered corpses of Sebastián Guerrero and Luis Martínez were found near the farm where the Solís siblings were residing, with Martínez's heart having been removed. In later searches, investigators found the mutilated corpses of six more people while examining the caves.[2] For these two killings, both Magdalena and Eleazar were sentenced to 50 years imprisonment. Their guilt couldn't be proven in the other murders, since the surviving cult members refused to testify against them.[3] As for the rest of the cult members, taking into account mitigating factors such as their illiteracy and impoverished circumstances, each was given a 30-year prison term. Years later, some of the former members began giving interviews about the horrors they had experienced while in the sect.[1]
In popular culture
- A Belgian rock band named itself after Magdalena Solís.
See also
Bibliography
- Western Folklore. Western States Folklore Society. April 1964. p. 124.
- Bill G. Cox (1991). Crimes of the 20th Century: A Chronology. Crescent Books. ISBN 0517052466.
- Brian Lane and Wilfred Gregg (January 1, 1994). The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. Diamondis Communications. ISBN 1557739749.
- Brad Steiger (September 1, 2009). Real Vampires, Night Stalkers and Creatures from the Darkside. Visible Ink Press. ISBN 978-1578592869.
- Richard Glyn Jones (September 1, 2011). The Mammoth Book of Women Who Kill. Hachette UK. ISBN 978-1780333670.
- Don Rauf (December 15, 2015). Female Serial Killers. Enslow Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-0766072886.
- Ricardo Ham (2016). Asesinos seriales mexicanos: Las entrañas de una realidad siniestra [Mexican Serial Killers: The Bowels of a Sinister Reality] (in Spanish). Penguin Random House. ISBN 978-6074809565.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "De prostituta a diosa azteca y líder de una secta: Magdalena Solís, "la Gran Sacerdotisa de la Sangre"" [From prostitute to Aztec goddess and leader of a sect: Magdalena Solís, "the High Priestess of Blood"] (in Spanish). Infobae. July 24, 2021. Archived from the original on August 3, 2021. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Edgar Olivares (November 1, 2019). "Magdalena Solís, Suma Sacerdotisa de la Sangre, asesina vampírica mexicana" [Magdalena Solís, High Priestess of Blood, Mexican vampire murderer] (in Spanish). Código Espagueti. Archived from the original on August 3, 2021. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
- ^ a b c d Oswaldo Betancourt (October 18, 2017). "La secta de los hermanos 'Hernández'" [The sect of the Hernández Brothers] (in Spanish). Televisa. Archived from the original on August 3, 2021. Retrieved August 3, 2021.