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[Music] It could happen to anyone. Any one of our children, any one of our family. A good, wonderful, kind person
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that you love could suddenly disappear. That you could never see them again. You can never talk about that
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person without everyone in the room thinking, "Oh, she's the one who was murdered.
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This will be homicide case number 95336. The trees that can be seen in the distance is the area of the ravine where
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the bodies have been located. This was a brutal, brutal slain. My name is Carol Daly and back in
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1980 I was assigned as a detective in the homicide unit with Sacramento County Sheriff's
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Department. Sabrina Gonzolves and John Rigggins were college co-eds, 18 years old. They were just bright, lovely young
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couple, carefree and uh not a worry in the world. The disappearance was at Christmas time,
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1980. They were headed to a birthday party for Sabrina's sister, Andrea. Sabrina and John left the condo
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and were on their way, but they never showed. And I started thinking, what could possibly have gone wrong. First,
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we were told they found the van. And I ran to a phone to call my dad. and he said, "Andrea,
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um, they think they have found the bodies." It was sickening the horrificness of
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what we were seeing and what they must have gone through. They had duct taped around their eyes and around their
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mouth. Looking at them, we knew their throats had been cut and they were dumped just like trash.
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Whoever was responsible for that was a cold-hearted animal, thoughtless, senseless in taking a life just for
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pleasure. Anybody that had done such a horrific crime, somebody was going to know who did it and somebody was going
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to send in a tip. And I really thought the case was going to be solved within weeks. And as the case went on and on
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and on, I think we had lost hope. 32 years they have been dead. How many people, how many years, how much effort
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does it take to put one horrible person away for life? 32 years later, it turns out there was a critical piece of
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evidence in the van that would end up solving the case. It was Sabrina's birthday present to Andrea.
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All this time we've been waiting. All this time the answer was there.