On December 12, 1989, four friends exploring the desert near Kingman, Arizona, made a horrifying discovery: a young woman lying dead on a dirt road in a remote stretch of Mohave County. She had been brutally murdered just hours earlier. Investigators found remarkably detailed evidence in the desert sand, including tire tracks, drag marks and multiple shoe impressions, but nothing that told them who their victim was. With no matching missing-person report and no identification, she became a Jane Doe and the case went cold. For more than 30 years, investigators didn’t know her name, until a fingerprint match finally revealed the truth. She was Marina Ramos, a young mother from Bakersfield, California, and when Marina disappeared in 1989, her two youngest daughters disappeared with her. In this episode of Crime Junkie, Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat explore the work of Mohave County Sheriff’s Office Investigator Lori Miller as she reopens a decades-old Jane Doe murder and uncovers a chain of discoveries stretching from the Arizona desert to Bakersfield and Oxnard, California. You’ll hear about the discovery of an unidentified woman’s body near Kingman, Arizona, on December 12, 1989, the extraordinary shoe prints, tire tracks and drag marks preserved at the crime scene, what those tracks revealed about how Marina was killed and the possibility that more than one person was involved, the fingerprints recovered from a Coca-Cola bottle near Marina’s body, why investigators once explored a possible connection to convicted killer Joseph Michael Nissensohn, how Investigator Lori Miller finally identified the Jane Doe as Marina Ramos, and the revelation that Marina’s daughters, Elizabeth and Jasmin, had vanished with her Then investigators found Marina’s daughters. Marina was last known to be in the Bakersfield, California, area in 1989 with her two youngest daughters: approximately 1-year-old Elizabeth and infant Jasmin. Marina’s cousin Esther remembered seeing Marina leave with the girls and a mysterious man she knew as Fernando. She described him as having dark hair, glasses and an accent, and remembered that he wore suits even in the intense California heat. Decades later, investigators created a composite sketch of the man. Then a tip came in claiming a man named Fernando Coronel had killed Marina and that her daughters had been abandoned in a park near Los Angeles. Investigators couldn’t verify the man’s identity, but the part about the children turned out to be remarkably close to the truth. In August 2025, genetic genealogy led Investigator Miller to two adult sisters named Tina Mangum and Melissa. They had been adopted as young children and knew almost nothing about their biological family. Investigators discovered that on December 14, 1989, the two girls had been discovered alone inside a women’s restroom at Colonia Park in Oxnard, California. They were Elizabeth and Jasmin. The children were eventually adopted and grew up together in what Melissa describes as a loving home. This investigation also explores Marina Ramos’s life in Bakersfield, California, before she disappeared, Marina’s oldest daughter, Maria, who remained with family in Puerto Rico, a second man named Fernando who investigators confirmed was the biological father of one of Marina’s daughters, conflicting accounts about who Marina left Bakersfield with, the mysterious Fernando-David, who may also have used the name Fernando Coronel, the anonymous Phoenix tip that became far more significant once Marina’s daughters were located, new forensic testing of evidence preserved since 1989, a male DNA profile developed from evidence collected during Marina’s autopsy, and a mysterious genetic genealogy match named Victoria Garcia who blocked both Investigator Miller and Melissa after they attempted to contact her. For more than three decades, Marina Ramos was buried without her name. Today, her daughters are alive and have reconnected with members of the family they never knew, and Marina’s grave finally bears the name that should have been there all along. Now there is one mystery left to solve: Who murdered Marina Ramosa? Anyone with information about the people covered in this episode, or Marina’s murder, please call the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigation Unit in Kingman, Arizona. 928-753-0753 extension 4408. -------- Follow Crime Junkie: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crimejunkiepodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CrimeJunkiePodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrimeJunkiePod Crime Junkie is created anAmerican Idol Contestant Arrested For Murder!? The Case Of Ashley Flynn d hosted by Ashley Flowers. Follow Ashley: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ASHLEYFLOWERS/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ash_flowers TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ashleyflowerscrimejunkie Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ashleyflowers.af/