Other than being distinguished as Brownsville or Matamoros boys, the real distinguishing factor was whether or not you were an athlete. We often had to fight to gain their respect, so fighting was familiar to me, it made me tough. Although the public-school boys resented us, many were our friends. Four generations of Zavaletas have attended St. The school was renowned for preparing boys for life and citizenship through rigorous scholarship, Catholic doctrine, and athleticism. The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate founded Saint Joseph Academy in 1865. All were upper middle class, and a few of the boys were from Anglo families in Brownsville. The other half were from Mexican American families in Brownsville. About half of the boys were from well to do Mexican families living just across the border in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Most of us had begun school together as kindergarteners in 1952. There were only 50 boys in our sophomore class, divided into two groups. The all-girls Catholic school was Villa Maria, located about five blocks away. My pals and I were sophomores at Saint Joseph Academy, an all-boys Catholic high school in Brownsville, Texas. The 1962-1963 school year began like any other.

This is the story of how they became friends and how she entrusted him with information about Magdalena Solís known as the “High Priestess of Blood,” and the cult of Yerba Buena before the cult’s demise in a shootout with police and before the story of human sacrifice ever appeared in the newspapers.

They met in the infamous Matamoros Boy’s town in 1963 just weeks before the downfall of the bloodthirsty cult operating in her village.

This is the unlikely but entirely true story of how a 16-year-old Saint Joseph Academy boy met a 16-year-old prostitute-sex-slave from the village of Yerba Buena in southern Tamaulipas, Mexico.

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