Juan Vallejo Corona, also known as the Machete Murderer, was a notorious serial killer who brutally murdered 25 migrant farm workers in California in 1971.

His heinous crimes, which involved mutilating and burying his victims in shallow graves, sent shock waves through the community and garnered widespread media attention.

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Juan Vallejo Corona was born in a rural area in the state of Holisco, Mexico,

on February 7, 1934.

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