Superior Universal Alignment

Valentina de Andrade received her gift of prophecy in 1981. Her neighbors found her talents of clairvoyance and fortune telling remarkable, and she became a trusted seer in the backwater Amazonian town of Altamira. She was also the leader of "Lineamiento Universal Superior" (L.U.S. -- Superior Universal Alignment), a group that believed that the end of the world would come in 1986, with extraterrestrial space ships saving only the sect's followers.

Valentina's preaching started in 1981 after having received extraterrestrial messages through divine cosmic beings. Valentina embarked upon her mission to spread the information she had received. Her teachings were to be found in her book God, The Big Farce, claiming that God does not exist, that Jesus is an extraterrestrial, and she assumes the mantle of a lofty cosmic entity of "light, love and truth", which had become incarnate on Earth to perform a mission.

A central pillar to the beliefs of Superior Universal Alignment is that children born after 1981 are a reincarnation of evil and must be expunged. To become a member, one must abandon one's children and only the true adherents were to avoid the pending destruction of the earth by escaping in a spacecraft.

As with many “apocalypse cults” of the past, the coming and going of the date for the end of the earth left many followers unsettled. Certain core members believed that maybe they had not lived the word to its fullest, that they had proven themselves unworthy. In 1989 the children in and around Altamira started going missing.

19 children disappeared and 5 corpses were found between 1989 and 1993. The children were boys between the ages of 8 and 13, tortured, raped and stabbed to death. The bodies had been mutilated with genitals and vital organs removed. The region was in a panic and the police initiated seven separate investigations. Though several of the children were indigent, making a living as “shoe shine boys” in the town center, the police couldn’t seem to make a connection and the probes went nowhere.

The break came with the escape of 9 year old Wandiclei Pinheiro. Indentifying his captors as influential members of society (the son of a very wealthy local land baron, two physicians, a policeman as well as Valentina herself) the truths sent shockwaves through southern Brazil. The story that unfolded painted a picture of ritualistic human sacrifice and cannibalization with the doctors removing the organs to sell on the black market.

Four of the men were arrested immediately. Valentina escaped custody by fleeing the country. She remained highly mobile for the next decade, spending time in Argentina, Uruguay and at one point even Las Vegas.

Coven/ Satanic Mass

Riz Ortolani/ Massacre of The Troupe

Sir Richard Bishop/ Blood-Stained Sands

Six Organs of Admittance/ Eighth Cognition/ All You've Left

Boduf Songs/ I Can't See a Thing in Here

Los Jaivas/ Que O La Tumba Serás

Orthodox/ Marcha De La Santa Sangre

Broadcast & The Focus Group/ A Seancing Song

Delia Derbyshire/ The Wizards Laboratory

To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie/ The Needle

The five were eventually collected and put on trial in 2003. Though the other four were convicted and given life sentences, de Andrade once again escaped due to an alibi which placed her out of the area when the murders were committed.

Valentina de Andrade, now 82, continues to live and preach among her flock in Buenos Aires, Argentina.