Two California sisters missing for 36 years were found alive and well in their home state with the help of familial DNA, authorities investigating their case in Arizona said.
When they were discovered in August, Jasmin and Elizabeth Ramos were living under new names given by foster parents who raised them in Ventura County, California, unaware of their missing status.
Now authorities want to find the killer of their mother, Marina Ramos of Bakersfield, California, whose body was found with multiple stab wounds in Mohave County, Arizona, on Dec. 12, 1989, the local sheriff’s office said.
Jasmin was 2 months old and Elizabeth was 14 months old when they went missing that month and were found days later abandoned in an Oxnard, California, park bathroom, the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office s