The “machete murderer” who killed farm workers

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Juan Corona

, a Mexican who was called the “machete murderer” after he killed at least 25 farm workers in California in the 70s , died yesterday.

The serial killer , who was serving a life sentence , died on Monday at a hospital.

The “machete murderer” , who was a farm workers contractor , killed dozens of migrant workers and buried them in shallow graves in farms and orchards along the Feather River in Sutter County , California , in 1971.

The majority of the victims were brutally attacked and dismembered with a machete or a butcher knife .

In 1973 , he was found guilty of first-degree murder on all 25 counts , becoming the worst serial killer in the history of the U.S . until John Wayne Gacy was found guilty of 33 murders in 1980 .

Juan Corona

was born in Jalisco on February 7, 1934, and migrated to the U.S . to become a farm worker.

Family members

say he was traumatized by a flood that took place in California in 1950 . After the blood, he said he saw the ghosts of those who died in it. He was later diagnosed with schizophrenia .

In 2011 , he told a psychiatrist that he murdered the farm workers because he thought they were “ winos ” who were trespassing.

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