He was not eligible for the death penalty because California's capital punishment law had been ruled unconstitutional at the time. It was overturned on appeal, but he was convicted again in 1982 and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. However, Corona was otherwise lucid despite being previously diagnosed with dementia and mental illness, the prosecutor said.Ĭorona was first convicted in 1973 of 25 counts of first-degree murder. "He specifically said that, 'I don't remember that I killed anyone, I don't remember that I did anything.'" "When it had anything to do with killing the 25 people or his mental state, he conveniently could no longer remember," Hopper said of Corona's comments at this week's hearing.
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He justified the killings because he said the men were "winos" who were trespassing in the orchards north of Sacramento. In 1973, when Juan Vallejo Corona was convicted of the grisly murders of 25 itinerant farmworkers, he was known as the worst mass murderer in United States. 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. Gacy was executed in 1994 in Illinois.Ĭorona was convicted of stabbing 24 of the men, hacking open their heads and burying their remains on two ranches where he once worked near Yuba City, 40 miles north of Sacramento.Ĭorona, a Mexican national and native of Jalisco, Mexico, acknowledged his guilt for the first time during a 2011 parole hearing, prosecutors said at the time. was convicted in 1980 of killing 33 young men and boys in Chicago. It was the nation's deadliest rampage until John Wayne Gacy Jr. The bodies were found all at once, but he said in 2011 that the slayings occurred over a year. Juan Vallejo Corona, 82, was denied parole for another five years and will keep serving his life sentence in Corcoran State Prison, corrections department spokesman Luis Patino said.Ĭorona, a farm labor contractor with a history of mental illness, was convicted of killing and mutilating 25 men with a meat cleaver, machete, double-bladed ax and wooden club that investigators found in his home, all stained with blood. (AP) - A California man once known as the nation's worst serial killer was denied parole again for murdering and mutilating more than two-dozen farmworkers 45 years ago, officials said Thursday. Licensed under Creative Commons By Attribution 3.SACRAMENTO, Calif. Licensed under Creative Commons By Attribution 3.0 LicenseĬopyright Fruitloops: Serial Killers of Color
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On this episode Beth and Wendy discuss Juan Vallejo Corona, a Mexican serial killer who was convicted of the murders of 25 migrant farm workers found buried in shallow graves in peach orchards along the Feather River in Sutter County, California, in 1971.
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