At the time of his 1973 conviction, he was considered the worst serial murderer in American history.
By Ellie Silverman Ellie Silverman Metro reporter who covered crime and courts Bio March 4 at 2:39 PM Juan Corona, a farm labor contractor who was dubbed the “machete murderer” for hacking and killing 25 migrant workers in California — crimes that made him the worst serial murderer in American history at the time of his 1973 conviction — died March 4. He was 85.
The killings were uncovered after a peach grower, Goro Kagehiro, who had hired Mr. Corona to supply field workers, noticed a freshly filled hole about 4 feet deep, 5 feet long and 2 feet wide in his Sutter County orchard on May 19, 1971. Mr. Corona in 1987. He was denied parole eight times. When police searched Mr. Corona’s home and truck, they found a machete with an 18-inch blade, a meat cleaver, a double-bladed ax and a wooden club. There was also a ledger with a list of 34 transient workers, including several of the victims. Despite Mr. Corona’s assertions of innocence, prosecutors called the ledger a “death list.”
Less than a year after entering a state prison in Vacaville, Mr. Corona was stabbed 32 times by inmates, lost his left eye and had a blade permanently lodged behind his right eye. He had three heart attacks while incarcerated. His wife, the former Gloria Moreno, divorced him in 1974.
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