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Summary: The High Priestess Of Blood By Magdalena Solis

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Magdalena Solis “The High Priestess of Blood” Report Magdalena Solis was born in Monterrey, Mexico sometime between the 1930’s and 1940’s she was born into poverty. Magdalena’s age is unknown so the age she started to kill is not known. She is believed to be responsible for two to eight deaths, but some speculation has gone around saying she might have killed up to fifteen people. Magdalena believed she was the reincarnation of an incan goddess and sentenced any disbelieving members of the cult to death. Her first victims were two members of the cult who wanted to leave the cult, they had to ask the goddess, Magdalena, for her permission to leave, but she sentenced them to death by lynching. Magdalena’s method for killing for the first two

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