CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : DAVIS : 3 Suspects Named in 1980 Murders

Police in Davis have named three suspects in the 1980 murders of two college sweethearts who detectives believe may have been slain in a cover-up for sex-slave killer Gerald Gallego. The arrest warrants named Gallego’s half-brother, David Hunt, Hunt’s former cellmate, Richard Thompson, and Hunt’s wife, Sue. They are suspected in the kidnap-murders of John Riggins and Sabrina Gonsalves, both 18-year-old UC Davis students who were last seen alive Dec. 20, 1980, at a Davis shopping center. They were kidnaped and driven 30 miles east, where their throats were slashed and their bodies left in a creek bed near Nimbus Dam in Sacramento County. Investigators have speculated that the students’ murders may have been planned to lead police into believing that another killer who preyed on college students--not Gallego--was still on the loose.