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36 years later, daughters of Arizona cold-case murder victim found alive
Two daughters abandoned as infants after their mother’s 1989 murder were identified through DNA testing nearly 36 years later, police said.
- On Aug. 27, 2025, detectives identified a woman with a high DNA match to the Ramos family, locating Marina Ramos' two missing daughters, Elizabeth and Jasmin Ramos, nearly 36 years after her 1989 murder.
- On Dec. 12, 1989, Marina Ramos was found naked with multiple stab wounds in Mohave County, about 50 miles south of Las Vegas; her daughters, 14 months and 2 months old, were abandoned in an Oxnard park restroom two days later.
- In February 2022 the Mohave County Sheriff's Office Special Investigations Unit resubmitted fingerprints to NamUs and the FBI, matching an alias, Maria Ortiz, while forensic genetic genealogy and DNA testing this year verified Elizabeth and Jasmin Ramos.
- The two women had been placed into foster care and adopted by a California couple, but the Mohave County Sheriff's Office said the homicide probe remains open with no arrests to date.
- Since 2023, SIU outreach used press releases, social media, and broadcast appeals while investigators reviewed newspaper clippings and photos to confirm details.
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The woman was found murdered in the desert and her two young daughters were missing without a trace. 36 years later, both sisters have been found alive, writes Fox News. – It's hard to describe the feeling when you've worked so hard for so many years, and then you not only reach an ending but it turns out to be a happy one, says police investigator Lori Miller.
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DNA links children abandoned in a California park restroom to 1989 cold case victim in Arizona
The Special Investigations Unit from the Mohave County Sheriff's Office was able to link two children who were found in California, to a cold case victim in Arizona.
·Walnut Creek, United States
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