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This man Ramon Salcedo would be con vicked of killing 11 people including two of his three daughters. He cut their throats and shot his wife to death. Salcedo also killed his wifes two sisters and their mother and he kill add coworker at the winery he worked. One daughter would survive despite having her neck cut nearly from ear to ear. April14, 1989 the day of the killings we got this report. Reporter officers swarmed sonoma locations trying to answer the questions of what happened and why. They believe the massacre started at 7 00 this morning. The first indication came to police at 8 20, kenneth moodey called 911 and reported one of his employees Ramon Salcedo had just gone to his home, shot him in the shoulder and drove away. They found tracy cobeey coming on their way. We noticed a vehicle stopped around midway. The storm was 40ing often. A victim had fallen ao firm wounds to the bay area. Reporter 8 miles east of highway 12, swatches of blood on the drive, they knew they were too late. We found a females 3year old victim, ages 2, 3 and 4 were not in the home. Deputies assumed salcedo took them with him. Later witnesses atphoupbtsed that they were in catatey. They laid scattered inside the lake wood home on srebgd dim. But the weapon was and neighbors and coworkers describe salcedo as an impact man, jealous of his gorgeous wife. He was real jealous of his wife. And any time she comes out in shorts, he tells her to get her butt back in the house or Something Like that. Reporter salcedo was having problems at the winery. And also had problems with our senior. Something bob raeufpds didnt like salcedo. To top it off the sheriff says on tuesday, salcedos former wife sued him for nonsupport of their children. We would learn that one of ramons these daughters had survived their attention. Carmela would lie with her throat cut for nearly 26 hours. They were among seven people their father fathered had built. 1996 were gathering details the day before when carmina was found. She was wearing a nightgown and she had dirt on one side of her face which would indicate to us that she was probably laying in the dirt. She was taking sounds and crying although i kapbt tell you whether or not he was actually saying any words. She had a cut to there her as a result. Was in surgery for about two hours. And initial little was considered in criminal can condition by the physicians and they declared her in stable condition. Hell have been dropping by the hospital ever since word got out the little gill hospital. The hospital has brought in Armed Security guards to protect the little girl and its own hospital staff just in case. Thats of course because investigators still dont know who salced aorbgs is. Its also still not clear when his three daughters were left at this Sonoma County. Although they were apparently there for a long time. The little survivor was able to speak. She indicate had the happened late last night and we dont have an example time. Reporter this is where Ramon Salcedo worked. Kenneth survived the rampage. Hes home now from the hospital, the bullets still lie in his kor chunks. Reme garcia is charged under is holding up well. Terry says the full impact of what happened is not yet seeped in. The Wine Community is closely nit and now stunned. Sonoma county wineries are like a family. When Something Like this happens, we all feel it as if it were in our family. C c relevantal little gills goes to school with a when i think about how difficult it was for her mother to tell her about it. It was really rough. Several of ramons neighbors say they feel a sense of helplessness. They said they knew ramon was violent yet in the end there was nothing they could do to stop him. One neighbor went identified with the fears that he may remember. Just thought he was a crazy person. I know he left his kids alone in the house for hours. He had no respect for the kids. To be over there crying and you can help them crying and this. Reporter the kids get taken from him. Away from him and stuff. I didnt want that to happen. You know so i dont know what to do. Sometimes. Still to come on a second look. A guilty verdict in Ramon Salcedos murder trial and the statement he made in court at his sentencing. Plus the surviving daughter, carmina all grown up now and with a baby of her own. What she remembers from her fathers attempt to kill her. Welcome back to a second look. We continue our look back now at Ramon Salcedo and the mass murder he carried out in 1989. He killed his wife and two daughters plus four other people. Salcedo would go on trial the venue changed. Rob roth was in court the day the jury reached its verdict. Ramon salcedo took his seat in a packed san mateo courtroom in afternoon and without displaying the slightest emotion, listened as the court clerk read the jurys verdicts one by one. As she read them the judge permitted microphones but no cameras in the court. We the jury find the defendant Ramon Salcedo guilty of murder in the first degree of angela salcedo. We the jury find the defendant Ramon Salcedo guilty. Reporter guilty of seven counts of murder. Six of them in the first degree. Guilty of killing his wife angela. Shot several times in the head. His eldest daughter sofia, her throat cut. Salcedos motherinlaw hit over the head. The jury con vicked salcedo of Second Degree murder in the death of marie richards. He killed her from keeping her to cry out. Reporter the jury found salcedo guilty of attempted murder twice for trying to kill his then 3yearold daughter carmina who somehow survived a slashed throat and kim boodey who survived. Salcedo said he was not responsible for his actions that day. That it was alcohol and drugs that acted that day. Salcedo says he has no quarrel with the jury. Were dealing with human beings, the photographs he had, the confessions they had. I can understand where theyre coming from. They had found him guilty. We knew he was going to die in prison one way or the other. The same jury would recommend that salcedo be sentenced to death. Seven weeks after that the judge would deliver that sentence. At that sentencing, salcedo spoke publicly for the First Time Since the murders a year and a half before. Ramon salcedo also made his first Public Statement since the killings. I want to express my intent, for the things that have p happened. To the family that i loved the most. I please ask everybody, to forgive me for the things that ive done. When he left the courtroom, he was taken to death row at san quentin. Under stay law his sentence was automatically appealed. But it wasnt until last year 22 years after he was sentenced that the ruling came down. The state Supreme Court upheld his conviction and death sentence. Salcedo can now file appeals in the court. Two years ago, salcedos only surviving daughter wrote a book about her experience. Rob roth talked with her about what she remembered from back then and about her life now. Oh, yes. Shes a good baby. Reporter carmena salcedo calls her 6 dayold daughter a miracle. Many might call carmenas life a miracle. Having a baby girl makes up for a lot of things. Reporter carmenas father went on a rampage. He came for 3yearold carmena and two sisters, putting them in a car and drove off. You can cut the air with a knife. It was so dense. The energy was so dark. Reporter he drove to the Sonoma County dump. Carmena says she can remember in detail of what happened. She says her father slashed the throat of her two young sisters, and then it was her turn. I said papa please dont cut me. I was thinking, i dont know if i said that but i know i was definitely thinking what on earth did i do wrong. Reporter it was off this road that a transient spotted carmena. He said he saw three doll line big yours then one of the dolls suddenly moved. Somehow carmena has survived for 36 hours. And now her daughter born five days before the day of the killing. I asked carmena y it that she survived. Maybe it was to help others, maybe its for her. Who knows. Remembering andrew sebastiani. And later, you could have bought this house if you had enough millions. The sale of the home that once belonged to robert mondavi. Not everyone who gets meningitis. Dies. The infection spread so fast. overlapping voices preteens and teens should get vaccinated against meningococcal meningitis, a rare but serious disease. Health officials arent the only voices recommending it. Hear ours at voicesofmeningitis. Org. The bay area is home to some of the greatest wine and wine makers in the world and one of the pioneers in this region was Samuel Sebastiani who started his own winery in 1904. In 1944 his son august took over the company and ran it until 1980. George watson brought us this look back at August Sebastiani. Reporter August Sebastiani died in a well chos chosen spot. He was in his living room. He was buried in a bib and straw hat that had been a symbol. A shrewd businessman yes but also a simple farmer. At the funeral it seemed as thousand august has prepared his family beforehand and told him not to grieve. His wife and sons were strong throughout the ceremony. Possibly they remembered the fullness of his life, the hours spent on the field. His dawn to dusk regiment seemed for him invigorating instead of tiring. Perhaps it was because he spent a lot of the day with his birds. Something struck me as strange. There was no outpouring of grief or sense of loss as you might have expected at the funeral of a man who was so loved by so many people. But then after a moments thought i realized their quiet was not strange. Im sure they knew that throughout his wife, August Sebastiani was a man at peace with his life. Who lived as a full man and who could have asked for more. I feel like man farrouck. I cant go into the house until its dark. To me its a sin to get in out of the open before it turns dark. Im just having a lot of fun with wine business, my birds, my family and just one happy fellow. I think you can easily say that August Sebastiani would have enjoyed this funeral get together. Family, friend, good talk, good wine. Sebastiani once said wine was good when one glass invited another. Another Wine Industry pioneer died, julio gallo. And George Watson brought us him obituary as well. Reporter julio gallo died yesterday after he was struck in a car. His wife and one of his granddaughters were injured and hospitalized but released this afternoon. The 82yearold gallo was considered a master wine maker of world renowned. Giving tribute to man who was coowner of the largest wine maker in the world. Started out with 5,000 borrowed dollars. They learned their first wine making techniques from a book from the modesto library. Julio gallo was not a flamboyant millionaire. He avoided the limelight and preferred life on his vineyards. People expressed shock. We lost one of the best citizens in modesto, as far as help in the community, hes 100 . Hes got thousands of people working for him. And he started from scratch you know in the early 30s. The gallos had had their fair of tragedy. Three years ago gallos wife ilene was involved in a head on collision in which the other driver was killed. In the 1980s the two brothers sued their younger Brother Robert to get him to take the name off his cheese products he produced. The brothers won but they paid a high price. That resulted in a very, very Bitter Court Battle which joe eventually lost. Both sides. But it tore the family a thunder. When we come back on a second look, robert mondavis napa county mansion. An inside look at a prpt that once listed for 25 million. Medications . I dont know. Last immunization shots . Really . Honey, whats my Blood Pressure medicine called . One time i took something and i blew up like a puffer fish. Im probably allergic to that. At kaiser permanente, your medical information is available to you and your doctors. Quickly. Securely. No guesswork required. Better information. Better care. Kaiserpermanente. Thrive. Over the years mondavi has become one of the most famous names in bay area wine. But what few outside the wine country may have known is that for years the mondavi brothers were not particularly close. But they made a very public reconciliation. Reporter blood may be thicker than water and the mondavi brothers may also tell you its thicker than wine. The scene may have been unthinkable. The now 91yearold mondavi sitting with his 60yearold younger brother peter. Their long publicized family feud kept them apart. They now say its resolved. For more than 20 years the two brothers made wine together at the winery until 1965 when disparked business style sent the siblings on their separate ways. Im on the conservative side. But despite different from being the aggressive promoter type. Reporter so peter stated crew his brother started mondavi winery. The brothers didnt see each other for a long time. Were in casual speaking terms. He had his own business, we had our own business. Reporter but recently the brothers decided enough was enough. The hatchet needed burying. They came together for the napa auction. And in 2010 his family put his home up for sale. The price tag, 25 million. But when no one bought it at that price they decided to auction off the house instead. And Deborah Villalon got this up close look before that auction in 2011. The man credited with bringing napa wines to the world brought himself home each night to a rustic ranch style mansion with sweeping views of vineyards but not a vine near the house. Mondavi insisted his home be designed around the trees. What is here compliments Mother Nature rather than invades Mother Nature. Reporter its huge, 11,000 square feet but intimate. Well there were people from julia child to john papon and others. Reporter imagine if the walls could talk about all those dinner parties. It didnt sell last year at 25 million. Next comes an auction at half. 13,900,000. November16th is the tate. Have there been many will recollect o been any looky lus up here . No. If someone comes in and knocks it down and building their own. If they enjoy it, i think hell be happy. Reporter the auction failed to meet the minimum bid of 13,900,000. But a couple made a deal to buy the house for less and they tried to remain anonymous. But it soon looked out that it was julio gallos granddaughter and her french husband both of which are well known in the Wine Industry. Using the amount of transfer tax they paid the assessor put the valley at 9. 74 million. That is it for this weeks second look. Im frank somerville. Well see you again next week. [ birds chirping ] [ reel clicking ] [ male announcer ] seize your vacation with southwests nationwide sale. Go to southwest. Com, where our lowest fares are now available starting at 59 oneway. Book now at southwest. Com and carpe vacay. [ camera shutter clicks ] hes always talking about dates, women, and bringing them back to the suitcase at night. Theres always a sawdust joke in there somewhere. He says kinky things cause hes made of wood and he can spin his head around. 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