
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, March 18, 1990                   TAG: 9003182406
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: DALLAS                                LENGTH: Short

WOMAN DENIES KILLING IN MEXICAN DRUG CULT

A woman who investigators say was the high priestess of a Mexican drug cult that sacrificed 15 people last spring says she had nothing to do with the deaths and that police have tortured her.

Sara Aldrete Villarreal, 25, is also accused of ordering the May 6 slayings of 26-year-old Cuban-American Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, the alleged "godfather" of the cult, and his bodyguard as police closed in.

Police say Aldrete took part in at least one of the ritual killings. "It's not true, it's just not true and I'm fed up with saying it," Aldrete said in an interview with the Dallas Times Herald in Mexico City. - Associated Press

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