Juan Corona was born in Autlán, Jalisco, Mexico on February 7, 1934. He first entered the United States illegally in 1950.
His victims were:
John J. Haluka Warren Jerome Kelley Sigurd Beirman John Smallwood Mark Shields Joe Carriveau Raymond Muchache Kenneth Whiteacre Melford Sample Charles Fleming Donald Smith William Kamp Elbert Riley Paul Buel Allen William Henry Kemp Clarence Hocking Edward Martin Cupp John Henry Jackson Lloyd Wallace Wenzel Sam Bondafide Joseph Maczak
Four bodies were never identified.
All victims were not fellow Mexican citizens
Well he got 3 hots and a cot bastard should have fried
Need commas, I know who am I? of all posters to complain.
Pathetic. decades too late
too late
No justice.
Thank you for posting his victims’ names.
I remember Juan Corona from when I was a kid.
Illegal alien. I hadn’t known that.
Are they putting up a Statue of him in downtown??
Pathetic that he wasn’t executed back in 1971.
Another homosexual serial killer:
Corona (born 1934) had arrived in Yuba City, California in the 1950s as a Mexican migrant worker. By the early 1970s, he’d moved up the pecking order and was a labour contractor; he hired itinerants to pick fruit on behalf of local farmers (for minimal pay) around the Yuba area. Long before Corona’s series of homicides, as far back as 1956, he’d been diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia. However, no-one suspected the disturbing depths of his true mental condition. Though outwardly a macho man with a wife and children, Corona was a predatory homosexual and a brutal sadist. His murder victims were all male and all were sexually assaulted before being killed.
At least one other member of the Corona Family had a history of sexually motivated violence; in 1970, Juan’s half-brother Natividad, who owned the “Guadalajara” cafe in nearby Marysville, had molested and beaten a young man in the washroom at his place of business. The victim was discovered bleeding by other customers; when he sued Natividad for $250,000.00. The pervert fled back to Mexico.
As a labour contractor, Corona personally recruited migrant workers and housed the men in a barracks-like building on the Sullivan ranch. These men were, for the most part, elderly alcoholics, social dropouts, and misfits - the kind of people who would not ordinarily be missed if they vanished. In early May 1971, Corona apparently started to single out individual workers for sex and death. But it’s likely that his career as a homosexual rapist began much earlier. His job and his twisted inclinations gave him ample opportunities to prey on vulnerable men; his position and their lack of social standing would have ensured that the police were not informed.
On May 19, a Japanese fruit farmer noticed a large hole seven feet long and three and a half feet deep that had been scooped out of his land in a peach orchard. The next night he went to the same spot and saw that the earth had been packed back into the hole. He called the police who dug into what was a fresh grave. Inside of it was Kenneth Whitacre, a vagrant who had homosexual pornography in his back pocket. He had been sexually assaulted and then stabbed to death - somebody had chopped his head open with a machete.
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/immigration/corona.htm
Back in 1971, the concept of a serial killer was still pretty new.
Charles Manson and Zodiac were seen as aberrations; Charles Whitman and Richard Speck were spree killers. Ted Bundy, then age 25, was working at the Seattle Suicide Hotline. Richard Ramirez was 11, and was starting to get life lessons from his murderous brother Miguel.
...And nothing of value was lost.
I was TDY at Beale AFB when this happened. I always wondered if one of the dead men was found with a peck bushel basket on his head as there was a bum in Marysville who always went around bumming money while using the peck bushel as a hat. Lots of bums in Marysville at that time.
They can’t be really dead as none of them, were shot!
This was around the same time someone was throwing dynamite around town. One threw a stick into a motel pool and blew out the underwater window to a cellar bar.
Interesting that he picked non mexicans
Thanks for posting. Condolences to families and friends of his victims.