Conviction Cuban Santería Santería contexts Nariño, Colombia · 2025

Colombia: 'El Brujo de Sandoná' convicted of paying a hitman with a love ritual

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

self-styled santería and brujería practitioner

Organization

No organization assigned

Archive classification

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NOT AN AUTHORITY-ABUSE CASE toward the victim. The ritual element is the currency of the crime: the killer's fee was a spell, and the trophy was ritual material — belief functioning as payment.

Prosperity, divination, or curse-removal claim
Violent occult ideology or sacrifice

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2025-01-22 · conviction and sentence

Criminal circuit court, Nariño, Colombia. Oner José Castillo Villota, known as 'El Brujo de Sandoná', was convicted in January 2025 of aggravated feminicide and evidence tampering for ordering the 2023 killing of his former partner, and sentenced to thirty-one years and three months. He paid the hitman not in money but by performing a love ritual for him, and required the victim's amputated hand as ritual proof. The hitman, Danilo Galeano Loza, had been separately convicted in November 2023 and received twenty-three years.

Documented coercion mechanisms

a love ritual offered as the hitman's payment
an amputated hand required as ritual 'proof' of the killing

Cited record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report Infobae Colombia: conviction of 'El Brujo', 22 Jan. 2025.: Regional outlet's court report.
national newspaper court reporting sentencing report Cambio Colombia: sentencing report.: Independent corroboration.

Source provenance

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Source and tier basis: https://www.infobae.com/colombia/2025/01/22/alias-el-brujo-fue-condenado-por-feminicidio-le-pago-al-sicario-que-cometio-el-crimen-de-su-expareja-con-un-ritual-para-conquistar-a-una-mujer/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 60dfca93518e966cd311604378434d36c719ca791f8ae4da2421094300ab4ff5
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger
Source and tier basis: https://cambiocolombia.com/pais/condenan-31-anos-prision-alias-brujo-responsable-ordenar-homicidio-expareja-ritual Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: sentencing-report. SHA-256 2858698a45e0e86bf156a9f3571a3aa5b942219d65aff2ffb5a42a181c6be76b
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger

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