Word: coronae
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...first Juan Corona seemed an unlikely suspect. He is married and the father of four daughters who have achieved the Chicano dream of middle-class American respectability. His stucco-and-wood ranch-style house in Yuba City proudly boasts a front-window trophy that Corona won last year for float decoration in the annual Our Lady of Guadalupe parade. He is deeply devoted to the Roman Catholic Church and is a member of the Cursilistas, a group trying to revive religion among Chicanes. Said his distressed wife Glo-rida: "He was always a good husband. He treated us right, without...
Unhinged. Yet Corona stands accused of wantonly slaughtering at least two dozen men, some of them drifters from Marysville's Skid Row. Indeed, his history has its seamy side. He and his elder brother Natividad, a known homosexual, came to the U.S. illegally in the late 1940s. They both won U.S. resident-alien permits, however, and began to prosper. Juan became a contractor who assembled work gangs before dawn and delivered them to the local orchards; Natividad bought the seedy but popular Guadalajara Cafe in Marysville. Juan was unhinged by the Feather River flood of December 1955, which killed...
...Corona returned to his contracting job, regaining the confidence of the area orchard owners (he had the run of the Sullivan ranch, where most of the bod ies have been found). He kept to him self and taught his family to do the same. "He never bothered anyone around here," says a neighbor...
...Welfare. There were other odd ities. His commitment to the church be came obsessive. He said the rosary every night with his family, went to Mass three times a week and recently went on a retreat. Curiously, although no one has ever seen him on a horse, Corona recently joined the El Charro Association, a society dedicated to promoting horsemanship in the Mexican tradition. He often went to his brother's bar at night, but never drank. Said one farm worker: "He would just sit silently and look at the rest of us." A year...
...Corona goes to trial, it would surely be the goriest-and hence the most sensational-in the nation's annals of mass murder. Whatever happens, one thing is certain: there will be no float-parade trophy this year to fill the other front window of the neat house on Richland Road. The window is occupied anyway-by a brass balance scale, the ancient symbol of justice...