Injured 2 | Name Ramon Salcido Date April 14, 1989 Killed 7 | |
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Born March 6, 1961 (age 63) ( 1961-03-06 ) Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico Weapons KnifeRuger .22-caliber handgun | ||
Criminal penalty Capital punishment Similar Richard Allen Davis, Murder of Polly Klaas, Scott Peterson Zodiac Sign Pisces Nationality Mexican | ||
Ramon salcido a modern monster
Ramón Bojórquez Salcido (born March 6, 1961 in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico) is a convicted Mexican-American mass murderer and as of 2017 is on death row in California's San Quentin State Prison.
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He was convicted for the 1989 murders of seven people, including his wife and two of his daughters, four-year-old Sofía and 22-month-old Teresa. A third daughter, three-year-old Carmina, left lying in a field beside the bodies of her sisters for 36 hours after being slashed across the throat by her father. She was rescued and later adopted by a family in Missouri. In 2009, Carmina Salcido wrote a book, Not Lost Forever: My Story of Survival, about her experiences.
The victims were killed in the cities of Sonoma and Cotati. Maria, Marion, and Ruth Richards were killed at a house at Lakewood Drive in Cotati, and Salcido's relatives and Toovey were killed in Sonoma.
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On April 14, 1989, after a night of drinking and snorting cocaine, Salcido slashed his daughters' throats; killing Sofia and Teresa. Carmina survived. He then drove them to a county dump. Salcido then drove to Cotati, where he killed his mother-in-law and her two daughters. He then returned to his home in Boyes Hot Springs where he shot his wife, Angela Salcido. He then went to the Grand Cru winery, his place of employment, where he killed Tracey Toovey his coworker.
Salcido fled after the killings to Mexico, via Calexico. He was arrested in Guasave, Mexico, on April 19, 1989. When arrested, Salcido told police that he committed the murders because he suspected his wife was having an affair with a coworker.
Trial
Salcido's trial had been moved out of Sonoma County due to extensive news coverage of the case. On October 30, 1990, Salcido was found guilty by a jury of six counts of first-degree murder, one count of second-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder. On November 16, 1990, Salcido was sentenced by a jury to the death penalty. Marteen Miller, Salcido's attorney, contended that his client was under the influence of cocaine and alcohol during the time of the slayings. The defense had sought a verdict of second-degree murder or manslaughter under the circumstance that the drugs had put Mr. Salcido in a state of psychotic depression when the rampage began.
Media
The Ramon Salcido case was featured in Investigation Discovery's docudrama series "Evil I," in an episode titled "Killer in the Sun," which first aired in 2012.
The investigative reporting series ABC's 20/20 features exclusive interviews with survivor Carmina Salcido, the episode is titled 'What Happened to Carmina", originally aired October 2009.
