Occult Profiles: Detective Amy Godoy

The coffin had been dug up and pried open, and a corpse, headless, sat against the tombstone. Arrayed around it: small gourd bowls, a severed rooster's head and a cow's tongue, nailed to a tree.

Time to call in Amy Godoy -- the "Occult Cop".

Godoy, a Miami-Dade (Fla.) county detective, walks a beat on the dark side; it is her job to investigate crimes committed during rituals some would find bizarre, or at the very least exotic.

Imagine agents Mulder and Scully from TV's "The X-Files," rolled into one. Godoy is skeptical but open to the extraordinary.

"I don't care how you cut up the religious and spiritual aspects of your life. ... What I am concerned is if you do break the law," Godoy said. "That's where I come in."