Case file · Folklore / legend
Jesús Malverde, the bandit saint
Folk tradition says Jesús Malverde, a Robin Hood-style bandit, was hanged in Culiacán, Sinaloa, on 3 May 1909; his chapel there became a pilgrimage site for the poor, migrants and later drug traffickers.
1909 CE · 24.81, -107.39 · status: legend
The sceptical view
There is no firm record that Malverde existed; he may be a composite of several bandits of the Porfirian era.