Summary
Two women who went missing as babies over 36 years ago were found alive, having been adopted together after being discovered abandoned in a California park. Their aunt, Margarita Maldonado, expressed her desire to meet them. The case reopened efforts in the investigation of their mother, Marina Ramos, who was murdered in Arizona in 1989.
Key Facts
- Marina Ramos was murdered in Mohave County, Arizona, in 1989.
- Her two daughters, aged 2 months and 14 months, were last seen with her and later found abandoned in a park in Oxnard, California.
- The girls, initially unidentified, were adopted by a family in Ventura County.
- A recent DNA test matched the adopted women, now Melissa and Tina, with their birth identities as Jasmin and Elizabeth Ramos.
- Mohave County investigators confirmed Marina Ramos’s identity in 2022 through fingerprints from a prior arrest.
- A witness saw the babies with a woman and two men at the park where they were found.
- The case of Marina Ramos's murder remains unsolved, and the sheriff’s office seeks public assistance for further information.
