On December 20, 1980, teenage sweethearts Sabrina Gonsalves and John Riggins were supposed to attend a birthday party but never arrived. 36 hours later their bodies were found by police in a California ravine. The case went unsolved. Then in 2002, using advanced DNA technology, police were able to match samples stored in a FBI database to a convicted rapist. “48 Hours" correspondent Troy Roberts reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 5/17/2014. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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It can happen to anyone. Any one of our children, any one of our family. A good, wonderful, kind person that you love could suddenly disappear. That you could never see them again. You can never talk about that person without everyone in the room thinking, oh, she's the one who was murdered.
This will be homicide case number 95336. The trees that can be seen in the distance is the area of the ravine where the bodies have been located.
This was a brutal, brutal slaying. My name is Carol Daly, and back in 1980, I was assigned as a detective in the homicide unit with Sacramento County Sheriff's Department. Sabrina Gonsalves and John Riggins were college co-eds, 18 years old. They were just bright, lovely, young couple, carefree, and not a worry in the world. The disappearance was at Christmas time, 1980.
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