She is regarded as one of the few documented instances of a sexually-motivated female serial killer, showing organized, visionary, and hedonistic characteristics.
[3] After this, Solís developed a serious theological psychosis, causing her to experience major religiously oriented delusions of grandeur, coupled with a myriad of paraphilic disorders expressed in consuming the blood of her victims, sadomasochistic tendencies, fetishistic practices and pedophilia.
[1] In late 1962 or early 1963, brothers Santos and Cayetano Hernández, working as petty scammers, travelled to the isolated community of Yerbabuena, an impoverished and mostly illiterate village of about 50 inhabitants.
[1] They proclaimed that "the Inca gods, in exchange for worship and tributes, would grant them hidden treasures in the caves of the mountains surrounding the town (a place where they also performed their rites); and that they would soon come to claim authority over their ancient kingdom, and punish the non-believers.
[2] They presented Solís in later rituals as the reincarnation of the goddess Cōātlīcue through a smoke screen trick and convinced the followers of her authenticity.
[2] Basing their beliefs of Aztec mythology, Solís and the Hernández brothers proclaimed that blood is the only food the gods can ingest, and that their goddess needed to drink it to preserve her eternal youth.
Exhausted and in shock, Guerrero failed to give any other description than a "group of murderers, seized by ecstasy, gathered to drink human blood".
On May 31, 1963, both police officers and soldiers conducted a joint crackdown in Yerbabuena, arresting Magdalena and Eleazar Solís at a farm in the town, where they were under the influence of marijuana.
[3] As for the rest of the cult members, taking into account mitigating factors such as their illiteracy and impoverished circumstances[dubious – discuss], each was given a 30-year prison term.