The Orchard Graves

A farm labor contractor was charged with murdering twenty-five men, all migrant farm workers. The bodies were found buried on two ranches. Most had chop or hacking wounds to the head and were laid out in a similar way. No one saw any killing. A ledger in the contractor's handwriting listed names of some of the dead. Receipts bearing his name and bloodstained items were found at the burial sites. The defence says another man, the accused's half-brother, was the real killer.