1.   Three months ago he was abducted, sodomized, murdered, dismembered and left in an avocado grove.

2.   Men with canvas sacks scramble up narrow ladders in the deep shade of a hillside avocado grove, harvesting fist-sized fruit for the second time this season.

3.   Sebanos Torres was supervising about a dozen seasonal workers at a muddy avocado grove owned by Acosta Farms Nurseries Inc.

4.   The wildfire hopscotched up mountains and through avocado groves throughout the hills around Fallbrook, a community north of San Diego filled with million-dollar ranch homes.