Murder Files Unsealed22 Sep 2024

Local Cases That Have Inspired True Crime Movies and TV shows

The true crime genre, which draws upon real-life atrocities for the purpose of entertainment, has frequently turned its attention to Sonoma and Napa counties throughout the years.
From startling homicides to an individual linked to JFK, this overview highlights several cases and residents with local ties that have served as inspiration for true crime films, documentaries, and television series.

The Salcido murders

Ramon Bojorquez Salcido committed the heinous act of murdering seven individuals, primarily women and children who were his family members, 35 years ago, an event that the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office describes as the worst mass murder in the history of Sonoma County.
On the morning of April 14, 1989, Salcido, a resident of Boyes Hot Springs and a winery employee, embarked on a violent spree fueled by alcohol and drugs. Within a span of three hours, he took the lives of his wife, two children, mother-in-law, two sisters-in-law, and his supervisor. A nearly weeklong manhunt concluded with his arrest in Mexico.

The case was dramatized in a 2012 episode of the Investigation Discovery series Evil, I, titled Killer in the Sun.

Carmina, Salcido’s only surviving daughter, also featured in the 2010 E! Network documentary Kids of Killers. This hour-long film included the stories of the daughters of Diane Downs, who murdered one of her children and attempted to kill her other two in 1983, as well as the Happy Face Killer, Keith Hunter Jesperson, who was responsible for the deaths of at least eight women in the early 1990s and infamously included smiley faces in his correspondence with the media and law enforcement.

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