STATE : Defense: Salcido Depressed

A public defender conceded today that Ramon Salcido killed seven people but said the former winery worker was under a “psychotic depression” at the time of the 1989 rampage.

Marteen Miller made the admission in his opening statement before a San Mateo County Superior Court jury of eight women and four men at the trial of Salcido on seven counts of first-degree murder.

Salcido, 29, is charged with killing his wife Angela, 24, in their Boyes Springs home; daughters Sofia, 4, and Teresa, 1, at a remote dump site; his mother-in-law, Marian Richards, 42; her daughters, Ruth, 12, and Maria, 8, in Cotati, and Grand Cru winery co-worker Tracy Toovey, 35, on April 14, 1989. He was arrested several days later in Mexico.