The 61-year-old Oklahoma woman charged in the 1993 slaying of a convenience store owner in San Carlos appeared in court Wednesday after waiving extradition and agreeing to come to California to face prosecution.

Rayna Hoffman-Ramos was arrested last month in Dewey, Oklahoma, for the slaying of Shu Ming Tang on April 26, 1993. She appeared briefly in San Mateo county court on Wednesday but did not enter a plea, pending the appointment of a lawyer to represent her.

Hoffman-Ramos is now scheduled to be arraigned April 26, 29 years to the day of the killing of Tang.

Hoffman-Ramos was arrested last month after investigators in Oklahoma stumbled onto a private journal in which a page titled “Things I Regret” detailed the slaying of a Korean man during a robbery in San Carlos in 1993.

The Tan

See Full Page