Ramon Salcido is responsible for one of Sonoma County's most heinous crimes, a mass slaying on April 14, 1989. Salcido, a death-row inmate at San Quentin, was convicted of killing seven people. Six of his dead were members of his family: two of his three pre-school daughters, his wife, his mother-in-law and two young sisters-in-law. He also shot and killed a man he worked with at Grand Cru Winery. His daughter, Carmina, was attacked but survived.

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• FRIDAY'S LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

  Published November 20, 2009
  EDITOR: Words cant adequately express how angry the article about the posh conditions on Death Row made me (Death Row may be worth it for some inmates, Nov. 12). Apparently, a death sentence in California entitles convicted murderers such as Richard...

• Tuesday's Letters to the Editor

  Published November 10, 2009
  EDITOR: It is most appropriate that the American flag should be at half staff for the soldiers and others killed at Fort Hood. Would it not also be appropriate to honor the young men and women who are killed so frequently in Afghanistan and Iraq?...

• EXTRA LETTERS: Is Death Row worth the cost?

  Published October 28, 2009
  EDITOR: Two stories on the front page of Saturdays Press Democrat: 1. The capital punishment system costs taxpayers $138 million a year (Death row: Worth the cost?) 2. And Santa Rosa schools must chop $5.6 million from next years budget (Drastic...

• Is Death Row worth the cost?

  Published October 23, 2009
  Ramon Salcido, the Sonoma Valley winery worker who slashed and shot seven people to death in 1989, probably will be in his 60s before the state of California executes him if it ever does. Salcido, 48, like many of the other 680 convicted killers on...

• Massacre survivor returns to Petaluma

  Published October 21, 2009
  Carmina Salcido, now 23, visits hospital, appears on 20/20, speaks at local book store.

• Sunday's Letters to the Editor

  Published October 18, 2009
  EDITOR: I found some elements of Wednesdays article Still working but feeling the sting of pay cuts disturbing. Statements such as his wife does not want to be married to a pilot with so little earning power and, regarding his childrens Christmas...

• Facing long-buried memories of a terrible crime

  Published October 18, 2009
  Standing outside the small Boyes Hot Springs duplex after 20 years, I still could clearly picture the three tricycles parked outside the front door, left by the three little sisters who lived there. It was a gray Friday morning on April 14, 1989,...

• Facing long-buried memories of a terrible crime

  Published October 17, 2009
  Randi Rossmann has been a Press Democrat reporter for 28 years.

• Carmina Salcido prepares for book signings

  Published October 15, 2009
  Carmina Salcido's life will likely shift into overdrive following tonight's airing of '20/20' on her nearly miraculous survival of Ramón Salcido's murder spree in Sonoma Valley 20 years ago.

• Carmina's next chapter

  Published October 14, 2009
  20 years after Ramon Salcido's horrific mass murders shocked Sonoma County, his surviving daughter tells her story in an effort to heal, start anew.

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