Commentary Fifty Years ago, on May 19, 1971, American farmer Goro Kagehiro noticed that someone had dug out a man-sized space in his orchard near Yuba City, California. The hole turned out to be the grave of Kenneth Whiteacre, an orchard worker somebody had stabbed to death. Further diggings in the area turned up other victims: Charles Fleming, Melford Sample, Donald Smith, John J. Haluka, Warren Kelley, Sigurd Beierman, William Emery Kamp, Clarence Hocking, James W. Howard, Jonah R. Smallwood, Elbert T. Riley, Paul B. Allen, Edward Martin Cupp, Albert Hayes, Raymond Muchache, John H. Jackson, Lloyd Wallace Wenzel, Mark Beverly Shields, Sam Bonafide, and Joseph Maczak. Four others were not identified. The victims ranged from 40 to 68 years old, and all but three were white American workers. The others were black or Native American and not a single one was Mexican. The killer had buried each one on …