California sisters missing for 36 years found alive as search shifts to mother's killer

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

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.

Victim Marina Ramos.Mohave County Sheriff's Office via FacebookJasmin was 2 months old and Elizabeth was 14 months old when they disappeared that month and were found days later abandoned in an Oxnard, California, park bathroom, the Mohave County Sheriff's Office said Sept. 22 on Facebook.

“A witness walking in the area heard children crying in the women’s restroom,” the office said. “He asked a woman to check the bathroom, and she found the girls laying on the wet floor with no adult nearby.”