On June 4, another bodie would be discovered with two receipts with the same signature. In one grave, deputies found two receipts dated May 21, and signed Juan V. In nine days of discovering bodies from the orchard, totaling 25, the search was terminated. The corpse of Charles Fleming was found in it, before they had him identified, they had found the next burial site, and the next. The guy had been stabbed, and his skull torn open with blows from something sharp.įour days later, workers reported finding a second grave. He called the police in to the site the next morning, a bit of digging revealed the fresh corpse of Kenneth Whitacre. One of Corona's crews was working nearby so the farmer shrugged it off until later that night when he returned and found the hole filled in. On May 19, 1971, a Japanese farmer was touring his orchard and came upon a freshly dug hole, about the size of a grave, in between two fruit trees. Natividad fled to Mexico, and the case was left unsolved. The victim pressed charges agains Natividad, trying to get $250,000.00 in damages. In 1970, a young Mexican's scalp was laid open by a machete, in the cafe run by Corona's gay brother, Natividad. He was known to many ranchers supplying cres on demand.
He stayed there, and established a family, moving from being a picker in the fields to a labor contractor.
#JUAN CORONA TRIAL#
The basis was that he had been improperly defended and that new evidence would point to his own brother as the true murderer.The second trial was a money-wasting sham and Corona was sent back to the California penal system to continue serving out his life sentences.Ī native mexican, born in 1934, Corona moved to Yuba City, California in the early 50's. He was arrested for the murders and tried and though there were murmerings of an accomplice, Corona was found guilty and given 25 seperate life sentences in January of 1973.Īfter barely surviving a stabbing attack in prison, Corona won an appeal for a new trial about a decade after the original. Kenneth Whitacre was dug up from the earth, his throat and head hacked viciously and his upper body stabbed repeatedly.Ī search for more graves turned up more than anyone would have imagined and by early June the grand total had reached 25 bodies, all men who had been seen with or had gotten their jobs through Corona's labor contracting business. Even to s simple farmer it was obvious that this was more than likely a grave for someone or something and he called the police. When the man checked on the mysterious hole the next day, it was filled up. Workers often just up and left without notice.Ī fruit farmer in the area found a hole dug on his property on May 19.
The disappearances never raised any concerns. He would simply select a new worker, one that was owed money usually, kill them, nad bury them. Most were men that were transient in nature and not likely to be missed. But he was also a schizophrenic and a sexual sadist who truned to murder in the spring of 1971.Ĭorona found workers in the steady flow of migrant laborers coming out of his home country just plain vagrants that were looking for a paycheck. He was respected and seemingly happlily married with children. Penniless native Mexican Juan Corona arrived in Yuba City, California, sometime in the 1950's and slowly built a more than respectable living as a labor contractor. Status: Sentenced to 25 consecutive terms of life imprisonment in January 1973
Method of murder: Shooting - Stabbing - Bludgeoning Victims profile: Men (transients and itinerant farmworkers)
#JUAN CORONA SERIAL#
AKA "The Machete Murderer" Classification: Serial killer
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