Terra Linda, CA: Terra Linda worker confirmed as murder victim

Staff Report
Posted: 09/22/2010 07:18:48 PM PDT

A Terra Linda retirement home worker was confirmed Wednesday as the victim of a homicide in Vallejo this week, police said.

Ritchie Lei Lusung Campued, an employee at AlmaVia of San Rafael, was found dead Monday inside her boyfriend's car. An autopsy Wednesday confirmed her identity.

Her boyfriend, William Espinosa Ubando, was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and murder, Vallejo police said. His arraignment in Solano County Superior Court was delayed Wednesday for lack of a Tagalog interpreter.

Family members of victim Campued, a 33-year-old Vallejo resident, were visibly upset at the hearing's delay, with one family member removed from the courtroom after shouting out.

Judge Peter Foor maintained Ubando's no-bail status at the hearing.

According to Vallejo police reports, Ubando called his estranged wife Monday afternoon to inform her he had killed Campued. Ubando was later arrested at an American Canyon coworker's residence, and police found Campued's body on the front passenger-side floor of Ubando's car, police officials said.

Police said Campued might have been bludgeoned with a metal baseball bat.

Campued had worked for AlmaVia of San Rafael for about a year, an employee said. The retirement community is on Northgate Drive.

Ubando, a 39-year-old Vallejo resident, has no criminal record, police said.