An Almanac of Infamy

Mark Kilroy Sara Aldrete and Adolfo Constanzo In the early hours of March 14, 1989, American college student Mark Kilroy was kidnapped while celebrating Spring Break at a bar in Matamoros, Mexico. Kilroy, who grew up in the town of Santa Fe, Texas, was a pre-med student at the University of Texas at Austin. He had crossed over the U.S.-Mexican border by foot with Bradley Moore, Bill Huddleston, and Brent Martin. He and his friends were among the 15,000 spring tourists crowding Álvaro Obregón, the main street of Matamoros. One of the group's stops was the London Pub, a bar popular with spring breakers. It was two in the morning when Bill suggested the group head back to their hotel on South Padre Island, Texas. As the group left the London Pub, they spotted Mark Kilroy leaning against a car while talking to a girl. Bradley and Brent separated from the group and ended up at a restaurant while Mark stopped by a house on Álvaro Obregón to say goodnight to the girl he had been tal...