Yes, the body was found in AZ. But they knew she lived in Bakersfield, right? And people must have known she had two children. Where did those kids go? What a mystery this is. I guess they were killed and buried in the desert. Meanwhile, 100 miles away, two abandoned children have been found. Doesn’t seem like this requires 21st century police work.
Yes, the body was found in AZ. But they knew she lived in Bakersfield, right? And people must have known she had two children.
They didn't know when they found the body in Arizona in 1986 that she was Maria Ramos (originally from Bakersfield) until they did modern DNA on the body in 2022. They found they belonged to "Marina Ortiz" who had a criminal record for shoplifting:
A Bakersfield address for Ortiz led investigators to a roommate, who said she had a cousin named Marina Ramos who had been missing since 1989, the office said.
"It was later learned that Maria Ortiz was an alias used by Marina Ramos," the office said. Investigators also discovered that Ortiz had two young daughters who remained missing.
So when they first found the murdered woman they didn't know who she was or that she had kids. After the murder, they were apparently taken to Oxnard (probably by the murderer) where they were found in the park restroom.
They didn’t even know her real name until 2022. She was operating under an alias when she was found dead.
Nobody had a clue she had kids. Nobody would connect a couple of kids abandoned in California days later. There were probably kids abandoned in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Sacramento that same week. And how long do you look at a window for abandoned kids? 6 days, 12 days, a month? A year?
You find an abandoned baby in Cali, and then explore every murder nationwide for the last month?