Corona’s carelessness eventually caught up with him. In early May 1971, a ranch owner discovered a
seven-foot freshly dug hole on his property. When he returned the following day he found the hole
filled. He became suspicious and called authorities. When the hole was uncovered, the mutilated
corpse of Kenneth Whitacre was found three feet in the ground. Whitacre had been sexually
assaulted, stabbed and his head split opened with a machete