Sicko Juan Corona rots in jail after mass killings on California fruit farms

Strange that a receipt for a slab of meat would turn out to be the main clue in the worst case of butchery America had ever seen. In the spring of 1971, fruit farms around Yuba City, Calif., 40 miles north of Sacramento, brought forth a harvest of horror — dead men, mutilated — some beyond recognition — and buried in peach orchards. Eventually, investigators would dig up 25 victims, most of them white male vagrants or transient farm workers. They were known as “fruit tramps,” wanderers who picked peaches for a few days and then moved on. The killings came to light on May 19, 1971, when peach grower Goro Kagehiro went out to inspect his orchard and discovered that someone had dug a large hole, about 6 feet long and 3 feet deep, on his land. When he went back the next day, the hole was filled in with fresh dirt. Figuring someone had been using his property as a garbage dump, Kagehiro called the sheriff. After a few minutes of digging, they realized this was no case of illegal trash disposal. They uncovered a dead man. He had been knifed repeatedly in the chest, and the back of his head had been split open by two powerful blows from what appeared to be a meat cleaver or machete.

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