Felipe Larios

In this Oct. 1, 2009 file photo, a man carries two statues of the folk saint Santa Muerte, or Death Saint in Mexico City. Mexican prosecutors are investigating a family outside a small town near the U.S. border as alleged members of a cult who sacrificed three people to the Saint Death, a figure adored mostly by outlaws but whose popularity is growing across Mexico and among Hispanics in the United States. The first of the three victims was apparently killed in 2009, the second in 2010 and the latest in March 2012. (Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

Mexican agents probe family in 3 ritual murder

Last updated Sunday, April 1, 2012 - 5:18pm

NACOZARI, Mexico — It was a family people took pity on, one the government and church helped with free food, used clothes, and farm animals. The men were known as trash pickers. Some of the women were suspected of prostitution.

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