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🗓️ 18 December 2024
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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+.
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0:47.4 | It could happen to anyone. |
0:52.0 | Any one of our children, anyone of our family, |
0:56.4 | a good, wonderful, kind person that you love could suddenly disappear, that you could never see them again. |
1:04.1 | You can never talk about that person without everyone in the room thinking, oh, she's the |
1:07.2 | one was murdered. |
1:20.4 | This will be homicide case number 95336. |
1:30.3 | 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 slain. |
1:35.3 | My name is Carol Daly, and back in 1980, I was assigned as a detective in the homicide unit |
1:41.3 | with Sacramento County Sheriff's Department. |
1:53.0 | Sabrina Gonzalez and John Riggins were college coeds 18 years old. They were just bright, lovely young couple, carefree, and not a worry in the world. |
2:01.6 | The disappearance was at Christmastime, 1980. |
2:06.6 | They were headed to a birthday party for Sabrina's sister, Andrea. |
2:11.6 | Sabrina and John left the condo and were on their way, but they never showed. And I started thinking what could possibly have gone wrong. |
2:21.3 | First, we were told they found the van. |
2:25.3 | And I ran to a phone to call my dad. |
2:28.3 | And he said, Andrea, they think they have found the bodies. It was sickening the horrificness of what we were seeing and what they must have gone through. |
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