Overview

• Mohave County investigators confirmed the two women are Elizabeth and Jasmin Ramos after a close DNA match on Aug. 27 led to direct testing.
• Records show the sisters were abandoned in an Oxnard, California park restroom on Dec. 14, 1989, two days after their mother’s body was found in Arizona.
• Witnesses reported a Hispanic woman in a long red skirt and white boots with two Hispanic men leaving in a black mini pickup, with one child wrapped in a yellow blanket.
• The sisters were placed in foster care and later adopted together in Ventura County, and a DNA upload by one of them helped generate the investigative lead.
• The victim was identified in 2022 as Marina Ramos, who had used the alias Maria Ortiz; her stabbing death near Old Temple Bar Road remains unsolved as MCSO seeks tips at 928-753-0753 ext. 4408.