Jan 25 2013
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ & FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ San Benito News Following news that the mysterious and controversial Santa Muerte statue at the San Benito Municipal Cemetery had been found destroyed on Wednesday, two university professors who’re considered experts on the occult offered their opinions on the matter. Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut, author of Devoted to Death: …
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Jan 25 2013
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com A Rio Hondo man was arrested by deputies of the Cameron County Sheriff’s Department on Sunday, January 20, for allegedly sexually assaulting two young girls. Nineteen-year-old Eloy Galvez was accused of sexually assaulting two sisters, the oldest of whom was 6-years-old. Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio reported that …
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Jan 23 2013
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com It appears as though someone may have taken the removal of a controversial statue of the Santa Muerte at the San Benito Municipal Cemetery into their own hands. The remains of the destroyed statue were discovered early Wednesday morning approximately 30 feet from its previous location. Also found …
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Jan 23 2013
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com San Benito police have reported that a 65-year-old disabled man was allegedly assaulted and robbed by the same people he was trying to help. According to a San Benito Police Department press release, 53-year-old Eduardo Reyes Valladares of San Benito was arrested on the 1000 block of West …
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Jan 22 2013
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut, author of Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint, has offered another opinion on a mysterious Santa Muerte statue that still resides on the grounds of the San Benito Municipal Cemetery. In response to Dr. Antonio N. Zavaleta’s comments in a Jan. 20 San …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.sbnewspaper.com/2013/01/22/author-shares-different-theory-about-santa-muerte-statue/
Jan 18 2013
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ & MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ San Benito News Shrouded in a veil of secrecy as murky as its signature black cloak, the identity of the owner of an oddly-placed 3-feet-high statue of the Santisima Muerte in the middle of the San Benito Municipal Cemetery has become somewhat of a mystery. On Thursday, two …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.sbnewspaper.com/2013/01/18/occult-expert-santa-muerte-statue-at-cemetery-designed-to-kill/
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