New Moon and serial killers

Fecha: 2007-11-08 17:26:22por: Iris Atma (iris.atma@yahoo.com )


Now you are
a shade between shades
(also my shade)
Cristy van der Laat

The September New Moon took place the night of the 12, and was the cabalistic 13, that this year coincides with the beginning of the Ramadan, and the Jewish New Year, when Ricardo Ham chose to present his book "Mexico y sus asesinos seriales” (Mexico and its seriales assassins), in the Police Cultural Center (Victory 84, Historical Center). In that same mythical place, one dark night of September 8 of 1942, to two moons from the new one, was where Goyo Cárdenas, Mexican serial killer, recognized corpses of his victims, who had been exhumed from the garden of his house...

Ricardo Ham is a cultural promoter, director of the group "Sombra de Cloto" and his first book was: “Estética del asesino en serie”, (Serial killer aesthetic), graduated from communications and journalism, the red note is one of his passions that he shares by Internet. They accompanied him in his presentation, Jose Xavier Nava, who publishes about horror cinema in the written press and Rafal Aviña, author of two books “Asesinos seriales” (serial killers), and “El cine oscuro y El Cine de la paranoia y una mirada insólita” (the dark cinema and the paranoia Cinema and an unusual glance).

The New Moon used to be celebrated with a holiday (novilunio, neomenia), symbol of the time that regenerates and of the fist-born, favorable omen and hopeful for the future, occasion of confidence in the temporary realities, reason why was celebrated with obligatory rest and sacrifices (Num 28, 11-15; 29, 1-6; Ez 46, 6-7; Lev 23, 24-25; 2 Re 4, 23; Is 1, 13-14; A.m. 8, 5; You 2, 11). There were also superstitions around the moon; that its arrival caused divine or demonic influences in men (lunatics: Salt 121, 6; TM 4, 24; 17, 15). Negatively, it was considered an imitation or opposition to the sun, diminished light, half-darkness. However, we must to differentiate the “lunario”, moon inhabitant, from the lunatic, inhabited by the moon, and described by Luciano, Locke and other observers.

The summary: Ham briefly reviews histories of diverse Mexican killers:

1. The Chalequero, (Antonio Prida), with more than twenty crimes against whores, to those who he rapes, stabs, cuts their thoats and throws its bodys in the area surrounding Río Consulado. He is arrested on June 13, 1888, in 1904 he gets his freedom, six years later. Kills an old woman and he’s arrested again on June 13, 1908, waiting for the capital punishment, he dies in 1910.

2. Gregorio Cárdenas Hernández, (Goyo), the Tacuba strangler, kills four women, he has sex with the victim, asphyxia to three and kills the fourth hitting her, and he tries to hide the bodies in his house on Mar del Norte No. 20.He is arrested in September 1942, and released on September 8 of 1976, he dies on August 2, 1999 when he was 82 years old. During his imprisonment Dr Quiroz Cuarón diagnosed him from criminológica psychology: neurotic personality, evolutionary neurosis, organ-neurosis, narcissism and anal sadistic eroticism. From the psychiatric point of view, his neurotic state is esquizo-paranoide. Goyo, who rejected a scholarship from PEMEX, writes three chronicles of his jail years, and after his liberation, receives a tribute, by the House of Representatives: an standing ovation to him. Inspired by his history, they have been generated theater plays and cinema: "El Asesino” (the Assassin), kind of porn short movie, from the years forty. “El profeta Mimí” (Mimí prophet), film directed by Jose Estrada in 1973. “El Criminal de Tacuba” (The Tacuba Criminal), work of Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda, directed by Raul Quintanilla, who showed the play in the “Helénico” Theater in the ninety. Goyo went to see the play, and as he displeased the references to hispersonality, he demands to the producers and writers, who are forced to pay 8 million old pesos. "Raptola, matola, violola" (kidnaped, raped, killed her), videohome of Benjamín Cann, makes reference to the case in "The Nativitas strangler". "Goyo", documentary made in 2003 by Verónica de la Luz, Marco Jalpa, Ricardo Ham y Salvador Méndez.

3. The Poquianchis, the González Valenzuela sisters, white slavers. In Guanajuato and Jalisco, they kidnap women of 13 years old in ahead to those who they explode sexually, limit the food and medical attention to them and they punish them with violence, many die by the violent hitting, diseases or unhealthy abortions, then they are buried in its dormitories. The Poquianchis are immune per years due to a corruption network that implied the state police, municipal employees, criminals, etc. On January 14, 1964 they are arrested, in their property are found buried as many as 80 women, 11 men and several fetuses.

4. Juan Corona. Mexican inmigrant. In 1973 he is accused of 25 homicides to undocumented people in 1971, attacked with a knife or machete and with signs of homosexual activity before the murder. He’s condemned to 25 life imprisonments, one by each victim.

5. Ángel Matutino Resendez, his real name is Ángel Leoncio Reyes Resendiz. Mexican inmigrant who kills beating, with violence, he’s accused of eight murders in three states: Texas, Illinois and Kentucky, between 1997 and 1999. He is difficult to catch since he uses 30 names and differents dates of birth, he moves with facility by the railroads and dominates the English. The FBI puts a price of 150 thousand dollars by his head and more than 200 agents looking for him at once. He was condemned to death on May 22, 2000.

6. Sara Aldrete and Jesús Constanzo, narcosatanics. Constanzo, Cuban descendant born in Miami, is dead, whereas Aldrete, Mexican, fulfills a sentence by 14 people homicide, arms possession, criminal association, and drug trafficking. On April 11, 1989 during the policial inquiry made by the Federal Police to the Santa Elena farm, Matamoros, there are found the rest of 14 people; carved up, bled, sacrificed, between cuban ritual instruments. The farm proprietors, drug dealers, mentioned that "the padrino", Constanzo, protected them. We don’t know yet, how that so certain it is the responsibility of Constanzo in the Matamoros homicides, there has been only demonstrated to him the crime to "Claudia Ivette", travesti who is carved up with saw, taked the eyes of from him, they roll up his skin, they put his body in a stock and they throw it to an empty lot. During the persecution of the narcosatanic ones, Aldrete requests aid and with it she betrays them, hoping to be rescued of its presumed kidnapping, nevertheless, she has been imprisoned, raped and tortured. Aldrete narrates her history in the book “Me dicen la narcosatánica” (they call me the narcosatanic) , 2002. The novel of Barry Gifford "Perdita Durango” went to the cinema under the direction of Alex de la Iglesia.

7. The “Mata Viejitas”, Juana Barraza, “La Dama del Silencio” (Silence Lady)(1). In Mexico city, she chooses single women of the third age, she appears in their houses as an nurse or social worker and offers health services or economic aid, she ask them a false survey and returns to strangle to the old ones. She is captured on January 25, 2006, and processed by more than 20 old womans killed.

8, Raul Osiel Marroquín, "The Sadist". In Mexico city, he chooses homosexual young people to those who he seduces, invites them to a hotel, and if he realices that their family has money, then he takes them to his house where he tortures them and also requests a rescue, later, although the asked money is paid to him, he executes the victim and conserves his voter credential like a "trophy". He is arrested on January 23, 2006, by at least four homicides.

The pros: It think that is great that books about this subjet are developed in Mexico (2), in the presentation of the book was evident that many of the spectators were imprisoned of a retro inquisitorial –fashion and rejecting the people who dedicate themselves to investigate and to write about the serial killers. Some, prisoners of socially accepted moralistic fanaticism, asked to the author if his book urges to the violence or to idolize the killers "mixing up the good values and the consciences" . Ham insisted about that, to make history of the crimes even facilitates to detect social problems to facilitate his attention and solutions or to denounce the lack of present attention. In fact, it is well-known that in our country the crimes proliferate victimizing the called "vulnerable groups": old women, homosexuals, whores, womens, which it speaks of that the police authorities fail in the protection to these groups, and therefore it is necessary to create conscience on the matter and that as much the authorities as the society we generate the safety necessary measures.

The cons: Some of the divergences that I establish with the present with book are: I. In the introduction it is described that serial killers are "incapable to control their killing impulses", point on which I discord, since many of the seriales killers are distinguished of passional or accidental ones, indeed because often in addition to premeditation, deliberation and advantage, count on a fine strategy for their murders. II. I do not consider that the Poquianchis are serial killers, since the motivation of their murders was mainly economic. Most of the criminologists agree, in: the killers whose motivation is basically economic, or those who have ideological or political motivations, are not serial killers, since the serial ones are motivated specifically by a variety of psychological urges, primarily power and sexual compulsion. Helen Morrison indicates that the serial killers are not result from sexual abuse or socioeconomic estatus, but by a delay in its emotional development. They often have feelings of humiliation, poverty, inadequacy and worthlessness, and their crimes compensate for this and provide a sense of potency and often revenge. III. For the same reasons I have serious doubts to consider serial killers to Sara Aldrete and Jesus Constanzo, the narcosatanic ones, in addition to the economical motivation implied drug trafficking, there is the point that to Constanzo only has been proven to him a crime and Aldrete continues alleging "innocence".

And he said: Why you have to go to him today? It is not new moon, nor Saturday. And she responded: Peace.
2 Re 4, 23

Peculiar data; some book points for the fanatics of the subject:
- The term "serial killer" was created in the Seventies by the special FBI Agent Robert Ressler and used for the first time with the women killer Ted Bundy.
- Dr Jonathan Pincus mentions between serial killers characteristics: dominant mother, neurological damage and sometimes, intelligence over of the average.
- According to Dr Joel Norris the serial killers have three fundamental characteristics: pyromaniac, excessive cruelty with animals and enuresis.
- In agreement with Norris, six phases in relation to the homicide exist: 1, “Aúrea” phase: the assassin goes into his fantasies. 2. Fishing phase: search of the victim. 3. Seduction phase: ritual to create false surroundings of security that deceives the victim defenses. 4. Capture phase: the victim accepts to be alone with the killer. 5. Murder phase: in many occasions, the crime is substitute of sex and the death of the climax. 6. Depressive phase: after the crime the killer enters in a crises, that happen quickly, disappearing the guilt.

Moon and serial killers
In tarot, arcane 18 is the Moon, it corresponds in astrology to Uranus in Escorpio, and in Hebrew letter to Tsaddi: the force serpentine and the magnetism, hook. In Egyptian divinity it sends us to Nut, the feminine principle. In numerología it is the 18-9: gestation and fruit. It symbolizes the scorpion and the moon in four positions: new, full, last quarter and first quarter.
Most of the killers prefer privacy, yet it be to take to the victim to his address or chosen site, or to gain his confidence to visit his in his house, nevertheless the murders are committed as much by day as at night, although probably, according with the tarot, always under the moon influence. This arcane represents the hidden, the dangers that watch, deceits, enemies, traps, lies, shades...

Perhaps more it burns
the fire of a shade
that the fire it self
Cristy van der Laat

Mexico City, New Moon, Friday October 11, 2007.


1, Barraza is considered the first woman serial killer of the Mexico history (in the world-wide statistics, only a 2 percent is women).
2, Mexico occupies the tenth world-wide place and first in Ibero-America as far as number of serial killers, with 29. The United States heads the list with 1,291 delinquents of this type.


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Fecha: 2007-11-08 17:26:22por: Iris Atma (iris.atma@yahoo.com )