Ramon Salcido

Who is Ramon Salcido?

Ramón Bojórquez Salcido is a convicted mass murderer and as of 2011 is on death row in California's San Quentin State Prison.

He was convicted of the 1989 knife murders of seven people, including his wife and two of his daughters, Sofía and Teresa. 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 Salcio's relatives and Toovey were killed in Sonoma.