Overview

• Investigators confirmed in August that two women are Elizabeth and Jasmin Ramos, the infants last seen with their mother, Marina Ramos, before her 1989 killing in Mohave County, Arizona.
• Ramos was identified in 2022 after a NamUs/FBI fingerprint hit to the alias “Maria Ortiz,” connected to a June 1989 shoplifting arrest in Bakersfield, California.
• The sisters were found abandoned in a women’s restroom at an Oxnard, California park on Dec. 14, 1989, placed in CPS custody, and later adopted together by a Ventura County couple.
• Mohave County’s Special Investigations Unit used family DNA, CODIS entries, commercial DNA kits, and forensic genetic genealogy to locate and confirm the sisters’ identities.
• The homicide remains unsolved, and a 1989 witness reported a Hispanic woman in a red skirt and white boots with two Hispanic men and a black mini pickup; tips: 928-753-0753 ext. 4408.