Dr. Richard Riggins

Investigators were back to square one. I thought it was over with. I was doing my best to get it buried and to get on with my life.

Why did you move from Davis? I couldn't stand all the memories. And when you went to the hospital to go to work, you passed the morgue every day. And that was just too much for me.

My name is Richard Riggins, and I am the father of John Riggins.

Visualizing the way he died, you know, wrapped up in tape. throat cut, thrown in a ditch, trying to breathe, knowing he's dying, and it's good.

I wasn't there. There was nothing I could do. So I'd failed in my biggest duty to him.

He is a very evil man, and this is a very appropriate penalty. If you think about Hirschfeld's contributions to society, what has he contributed? He's contributed humiliation, pain, and death.

Since he was murdered, I haven't given much thought to what he would have been as an adult. I just always left him there as a freshman at UC Davis. He's still been 18 years old. and never really pushed it beyond that.

And we just got out and drove in increasing circles, looking in the ditches and looking for some evidence of an auto accident. And the possibility that they'd been kidnapped and murdered was not even considered. I mean, we didn't want to consider that.

I can't see ever getting rid of that haunting figures that I see every now and then. There are bodies there in the ditch. That's never gonna go away.