MERCED, Calif. — When Kathy and her daughter Katrina first saw surveillance images of the man accused of kidnapping and killing four members of a Merced family, they did not immediately recognize him.
Jesus Manuel Salgado, now 48, had aged significantly and Kathy and Katrina weren’t sure if it was the same man who had threatened them with a gun as he robbed them in their dark garage 17 years ago.
But the man’s method seemed eerily similar: terrorize a family on their property at gunpoint and force them to follow his orders under threat of death. Kathy and Katrina survived their ordeal.