Word: coronas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pressed their search-even using a light plane equipped with an infra-red camera to detect buried decomposing bodies. By week's end two more corpses had been found near the banks of the Feather River; the total stood at 25. The only suspect in the case, Juan Corona, 37, a taciturn farm-labor contractor, was arraigned in Sutler County Courthouse and charged with ten counts of murder (he will be charged with more when the remaining bodies are identified). He remained calm; in his behalf, his lawyer pleaded not guilty to each of the charges...
...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...
Exemplary Father. The public case against Corona left many questions unanswered. The dead men were believed to be drifters, some from as far away as Baton Rouge, La., and Atlanta. Corona specialized in recruiting short-term farm-labor crews principally from among the Skid Row winos of Yuba City or neighboring Marysville. Corona collected them in an old blue school bus with his name lettered on the side; the first victim reported missing, Sigrid Beierman, also known as Pete Peterson, was last seen about six weeks ago being driven away by a Mexican labor contractor...
...Although Corona had no criminal record in Sutter County, in 1956 he spent three months in De Witt State Hospital, a nearby mental institution, after being committed by his brother Natividad; two doctors tentatively diagnosed his illness as schizophrenia. He was released as "cured." A year ago, he and Natividad were defendants in a civil suit filed in Yuba County by one José Raya; Raya won $250,000 in damages against Natividad for an attack, apparently with a machete. No judgment was entered against Juan. Police believe Natividad fled to Mexico two months ago. The Rev. Joseph Bishop...