CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : WOODLAND : 2 Will Be Tried for ’80 Kidnap-Murder

Two people accused in the decade-old kidnap-murder of a pair of teen-age sweethearts from Davis have been ordered to stand trial in Yolo County Superior Court. In ordering Richard Harold Thompson, 51, and Suellen Hunt, 45, to stand trial, Municipal Judge Rudolph Loncke called the murders they allegedly committed “most foul.” The two are accused, along with Suellen Hunt’s husband, David, and Douglas Richard Lainer, of abducting John Riggins and Sabrina Gonsalves, both 18, from a shopping center parking lot in Davis on Dec. 20, 1980, driving them to a remote area near Folsom and slashing their throats. A witness at a preliminary hearing for Thompson and Hunt identified Lanier as the man she saw driving Riggins’ van the day after the couple was killed.