- [Narrator] What is up EMU Crew.
Today, we will be covering a few
of the devastating discoveries
made in the remote Lagomarsino Canyon in Nevada.
Lagomarsino Canyon is a remote area
located in the Virginia Range,
just outside Reno and Sparks, Nevada.
Though this canyon is a popular location for hikers
to trek along all year long, it is also the location
that a vast number of bodies have been dumped
and rediscovered throughout the years.
In April of 1983, single mother, Doris Schindler
was in desperate need of some extra help
in taking care of her then 10-year-old daughter, Maggie.
After asking around the neighborhood
of her hometown of Reno, Nevada,
Schindler found comfort in the willingness
of Zella Weaver to provide extra support.
Weaver, a mother and grandmother herself,
was a perfect fit to take care of Maggie
during weekday afternoons and evenings,
while Doris worked to support her family.
Zella's kindness and expertise in childcare
eventually extended her role as Maggie's part-time caregiver
on weekdays to the weekends, as she began
to pick up Maggie from ice skating on Saturdays.
It was a Saturday afternoon,
like any other for 10-year-old Maggie
and her nine-year-old friend, Carly Villa,
on May 14th, 1983.
The two ever-energetic young girls got along
like two peas in a pod, as they both loved ice skating,
especially in the spring time.
Doris had dropped Maggie and Carly off
at the Meadowood Ice Arena in Reno,
as she did every Saturday,
and allowed for the girls to skate and have fun
for a few hours.
Later that afternoon, Maggie and Carly knew
that they would have to wait to be picked up by Mrs. Weaver.
When Zella Weaver arrived at the Meadowood Ice Arena
that afternoon, she could feel her throat
practically drop into her stomach,
as she realized she could not find Maggie or Carly anywhere.
She walked around the length of the parking lot,
growing more and more anxious with the lack of response
to her constant calling of the girls names.
Beginning to panic, Mrs. Weaver asked
some of the staff members working at the ice skating rink
if they had seen the girls leave.
The staff remarked that they had seen Maggie and Carly
exit the arena, not too long before Zella arrived,
but they could not recall who the girls left with,
nor if they were in any distress
when they left the premises.
Terrified at the realization that there was some form
of foul play involved,
Zella contacted the local police department and Doris
to let them know that Maggie and Carly were missing.
Local officers from the Sparks Police Department
began an investigation right away,
hoping to locate the girls as soon as possible,
and hopefully alive.
The case was in a lull for the first few weeks,
before local law enforcement received a frantic 911 call
from two Reno men who had been out shooting
in Lagomarsino Canyon, on the afternoon of June 7th, 1983.
While the two men had been hiking
to their desired shooting location,
they had come across the gruesome sight
of two shallow graves along the Lagomarsino Canyon Trail.
The shallow graves, officers determined,
withheld the rapidly decaying remains of two girls,
a mere 50 yards apart.
Upon further investigation, the bodies were those
of Maggie Schindler and Carly Villa.
The skulls were both fractured,
and the bodies were left under a loose layer of dry dirt.
Nearby was a small pair of ice skates and skate guards
with Maggie S written on the side.
Their families were notified of the unimaginable truth
of the situation, and demanded justice be served
to whatever monster took their children's lives.
Sparks Police Department, having now located the bodies
of the two missing girls,
still had no real leads on the case,
as there had been very little evidence to point them
in any one direction.
That is until the monster himself confessed inadvertently
to the crimes he had committed.
On June 14th, 1983, just one month
after Maggie Schindler and Carly Villa
had been abducted and murdered,
a man by the name of Ricky David Sechrest
was being questioned by the police
at Sparks Police Department
for a completely unrelated grand larceny charge.
During his questioning, two members
of the Reno Police Department recognized Sechrest
as the grandson of the Schindler family's babysitter.
In fact, the police realized
that Sechrest still lived with his grandmother,
Zella Weaver, on the same street as the Schindler's.
Believing that he could have more information on the case,
Officer Bergeson and Detective Eubanks
of the Reno Police Department,
introduce themselves to Sechrest,
and proposed that he answer some of their questions
about the disappearance of the two Reno girls.
Though no one is quite sure why,
22-year-old Ricky David Sechrest
gave Reno Police an inculpatory statement
regarding his role in Maggie and Carly's disappearance.
Sechrest recounted that he had frequently been thinking
about his grandmother's babysitting schedule
as he had essentially memorized it.
On that Saturday, Sechrest knew that his grandmother
would need to pick Maggie up from the Meadowood Ice Arena
sometime in the early afternoon.
Without indicating exactly why,
Sechrest admitted that he had decided
to go pick the girls up for himself
before his grandmother would have the chance to.
As both girls knew that Sechrest was Mrs. Weaver's grandson,
they were easily coaxed into his truck.
After picking up Maggie and Carly from the ice skating rink,
Sechrest asked the girls if they wanted to go on a ride.
They gleefully agreed.
Sechrest drove the girls into Lagomarsino Canyon,
and suggested that the three of them hike around
and hunt for rocks.
The girls were eager to explore and go on an adventure.
So they continued along the trail with Sechrest
without any problems, that is until as Sechrest recalled
Carly slipped in the dirt and fell backward,
slamming the back of her head into a rock.
Sechrest said that he tried to feel for Carly's pulse
with no luck.
So, he assumed that she was dead.
At this point, Sechrest noted that Maggie
began to freak out on him and cry hysterically,
as she realized that she and her friend
were in a bad situation.
Unsure of what exactly she should have done,
Maggie made an effort to run away from Sechrest.
Sechrest remarked that he knew it was wrong for him
to have been out there alone with the girls anyway.
So when Maggie ran, he instinctively caught her.
Upon catching her, he swung and hit her
in the back of the head with a rock
he had grabbed nearby.
When she fell to the ground,
knocked out by the blunt force of the rock
he had hit her with, Sechrest panicked,
and repeatedly used the rock again and again.
Sechrest then quickly ran to his truck to grab a shovel
that he had said to have always kept in his vehicle.
He returned to where he had left the girls,
and thought that Carly may have still been alive,
despite having hit her head on a rock.
Sechrest took the edge of his shovel
and used it to hit Carly once or twice in the head
before finally deciding to bury both girls
under some loose dirt nearby.
The forensic pathologist who testified at Sechrest's trial
stated that it was highly unlikely
that Carly had fallen on a rock and died.
It was evident that Sechrest had used the shovel
more than he claimed.
The jury in Reno, presiding over
Ricky David Sechrest's case,
found him guilty of two counts of first degree murder,
and two counts of first degree kidnapping.
In turn, Sechrest was sentenced to life in prison
without the possibility of parole.
On December 1st, 2017, Sechrest died
in Carson Tahoe Hospital due to reasons
never released to the public.
The psychiatrist originally assigned to his trial
mentioned to the jury that Sechrest
was an incurable sociopath
who felt no remorse for his actions.
Though the families of Maggie Schindler and Carly Villa
will never be able to see
their bright-eyed daughters again,
the monster who took their lives
was met with consequences, and eventually his maker.
Unfortunately, the list of bodies discovered
throughout the Lagomarsino Canyon in Nevada
does not stop at Maggie Schindler and Carly Villa.
In their quaint Idlewild Drive apartment complex
in Reno, seven-year-old Monica Da Silva
enjoyed a relaxing evening with her mother,
father, and younger brother James, on September 23rd, 1990.
The four members of the Da Silva family
enjoyed a nice dinner together as they always did,
and decided to finish off the remainder of the night
by watching a movie.
After the movie ended, the collective family snuggle
on the couch came to an end.
Monica's mother and father said goodnight to Monica
and her five-year-old little brother,
as they tucked themselves into their respective beds
in their shared bedroom.
Monica's mother and father were completely unaware
that when they said goodnight to their children
around 11 o'clock that fateful fall night,
it would be the last time they would ever see Monica.
At some point throughout the night,
an unknown individual had managed
to prop open the window to Monica and James's bedroom,
located on the ground floor
of the parents' apartment in Reno.
After doing so, the individual made an effort
to remove Monica from her bed as she slept
without waking James.
It was not until Mr. and Mrs. Da Silva
entered Monica and James's room
to wake them up for breakfast the next morning,
that they realized the bedroom window was ajar,
and Monica was nowhere to be found.
Assuming at first that she was playing some sort of game,
they searched around the room for Monica to no avail.
Panic set in suddenly as the Da Silva's realized
something had gone terribly wrong while they slept.
They called the Reno Police Department immediately,
and an investigation began that same morning.
Much like the disappearance of Maggie and Carly,
the investigation had no real leads
for the first few weeks after Monica went missing.
In fact, nearly three weeks after she was abducted,
a family, hiking through Lagomarsino Canyon,
made a 911 call, explaining that they believe
to have come across human remains along one of the trails.
Officials who responded to the frantic call found a skull,
ribs, a collarbone and hair follicles,
where the remains were reported to have been found.
However, the Reno Police Department
thoroughly dropped the ball when determining
to who the remains had belonged.
It was not until a full 10 months
after the remains were discovered
that forensic pathologists were able to identify
the abandoned body as that of Monica Da Silva's.
Though, the police repeatedly admitted
that delaying the identifications of the remains
was a massive mistake,
Monica Da Silva's case, nonetheless, grew colder
and colder by the minute.
In July of 2011, Reno Police were on the verge
of what they had hoped to have been a new lead
in the Monica Da Silva case.
Back in November of 1986, seven-year-old April Marie Rhodes
was abducted from the bottom bunk of a bunk bed
she shared with her younger brother
in the middle of the night, sometime after 11:00 p.m.
Much in the same way that Monica's parents had realized
she was missing, April's parents came
to wake up her and her brother
and noticed that April had not been in her bed.
However, April's body was discovered
by North Las Vegas Police
a few hours later in a vacant storage room.
The assumed culprit of the abduction and murder
of April Marie Rhodes was a registered sex offender
by the name of Jasper Everett Goddard,
who was 62 years old at the time of his arrest in 2011.
Goddard had been wanted since 1986
on a felony warrant regarding April's death.
The Reno police department had been closely monitoring
the similarities between April's case
and that of Monica's.
Both girls were seven years old at the time
of the abduction.
Both girls were abducted in relatively the same fashion,
through the window of their parents' apartments,
around 11:00 p.m.
Both girls had younger brothers present in the bedrooms
they had gone to sleep in,
yet neither of their brothers was harmed.
Both of the victim's bedrooms were on the ground floor
of their apartment buildings.
Both of the girls' families
were of the same socioeconomic status.
The similarities between the two disappearances
and subsequent murders of April Marie Rhodes
and Monica Da Silva could not be overlooked
by neither the North Las Vegas Police Department
nor the Reno Police Department.
However, when the investigation
into Jasper Everett Goddard's role
in either of the girls' disappearances
was brought into question,
it was determined that he had only been responsible
for April's case.
Police reported no forensic evidence
to show that April and Monica's cases were linked,
nor that the same man committed them.
Jasper Everett Goddard eventually pleaded guilty
to killing April Marie Rhodes in January of 2019,
though, he ended up dying suddenly that same year
before he had received his sentencing.
To this day, the Reno Police Department
has been unable to bring closure
to Monica Da Silva's family, who had to bury their daughter
without so much as an idea of who the monster was
that tore their family apart.
As Monica's case has gone cold, anyone with information
regarding the identity and or whereabouts of her killer
should contact Reno Police Department.
Her family wishes for justice to be served.
Monica's remains should not be
just another Lagomarsino Canyon statistic
to be swept under the rug.
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