Background
A third daughter, Carmina, aged 3, lay in a field beside the bodies of her sisters for 36 hours after being slashed across the throat by her father.
A third daughter, Carmina, aged 3, lay 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, 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.
Carmina survived. He then drove them to a county dump. Salcido fled after the killings to Mexico, via Calexico.
He was arrested in Guasave, Mexico, on April 19, 1989. Ángela Salcido, 24, wife of Ramon Salcido
Sofía Salcido, 4, daughter of Ramon Salcido
Teresa Salcido, 1, daughter of Ramon Salcido
Marion Louise Richards, 47, mother of Angela Salcido
Ruth Richards, 12, daughter of Marion Richards
Maria Richards, 8, daughter of Marion Richards
Tracey Toovey, 35, winemaster at Grand Cru winery.