LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Discovered deserted and crying in a park restroom in 1989, two sisters now know the names they got at delivery by a mom they in all probability do not bear in mind.
A murder investigation that went nowhere for 33 years took a large step ahead in February 2022 when forensic investigators had been capable of accumulate fingerprints within the effort to establish a girl who was discovered stabbed to dying within the desert about 50 miles south of Las Vegas. That added to DNA proof collected in 1989, and the sufferer was recognized as Marina Ramos.
Investigators continued to pursue leads after a relative revealed the lifeless lady had a 2-month-old daughter and a 14-month-old daughter when she disappeared.
Who killed Marina Ramos? (Credit score: MCSO)
The story of Ramos and her daughters — Jasmin and Elizabeth — remains to be unfolding, and the Mohave County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned final week that two ladies have been recognized as Ramos’s daughters. DNA matches confirmed their identities.
Particulars of the case present that the 2 women had been discovered about 400 miles away from the positioning the place their mom’s physique was discovered. They had been on a moist restroom ground in Oxnard, California, on Dec. 14, 1989. It was two days after their mom was discovered on Previous Temple Bar Highway off White Hills Highway in Mohave County.
In line with investigators, a witness strolling within the space heard kids crying within the ladies’s restroom, and he requested a girl to test the toilet. She discovered the women on the ground with no grownup close by. The kids had been taken to the police station and later positioned within the custody of Youngster Protecting Companies.
Photograph Elizabeth and Jasmin. (Mohave County Sheriff’s Workplace)
Photograph Jasmin and Elizabeth. (Mohave County Sheriff’s Workplace)
Photograph Jasmin and Elizabeth. (Mohave County Sheriff’s Workplace)
Photograph Elizabeth and Jasmin. (Mohave County Sheriff’s Workplace)
Photograph Elizabeth and Jasmin. (Mohave County Sheriff’s Workplace)
After that, the women had been positioned into foster care and stayed there for “a significant amount of time.” The ladies had been ultimately adopted by a pair in Ventura County and had been raised collectively.
Few particulars had been launched concerning the grown sisters. One lives in Tennessee. They saved newspaper clippings and photographs from the Oxnard Press-Courier. An article concerning the case was posted on MissingKids.org.
8 Information Now has adopted the case, posting tales about Marina Ramos’s identification in 2023 and a narrative containing “age-processed” photographs of the women final month.
Updates on the case have come via the Mohave County Sheriff’s Workplace Particular Investigations Unit.
Investigators didn’t say how they had been capable of join the 2 ladies to the case. It is doable that they noticed media reviews concerning the effort to search out the daughters.
“While we are excited to announce that one part of this 36-year-old mystery has been solved, the search for the suspects involved in the homicide of Marina Ramos continues,” in line with the sheriff’s workplace.
“A witness in the area told officers that she had observed a woman and two men with the children at the park. They were observed driving a black mini pickup. The witness saw the woman carrying the smaller child in a yellow blanket and one of the males carrying the older child. The woman was described as a Hispanic female wearing a long red skirt and white boots. The two males were only described as Hispanic,” the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
Anybody with data on this incident is inspired to name the Mohave County Sheriff’s Workplace at 928-753-0753 ext. 4408.
