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Re: Karen Stitt was abducted from a California bus stop and stabbed to death in 1982. DNA has led to her suspected killer in Hawaii.
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Kill Everything Woke - Just Do It
Aug 10, 2022, 5:05:05 PM8/10/22
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<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
A Hawaii man has been arrested after DNA technology helped
investigators identify him as a suspect in the 1992 slaying of a
15-year-old girl who was abducted in Northern California from a
bus stop, raped and killed, authorities said.
Karen Stitt was waiting for a bus in Sunnyvale when she
disappeared in the early morning hours of Sept. 3, 1982. A
delivery truck driver discovered her naked body among some
bushes 100 yards away from the bus stop, the Mercury News
reported Tuesday.
Sunnyvale DPS
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75 year old Gary Gene Ramirez has been arrested in connection
with the 1982 cold case homicide of 15 year old Karen Stitt.
Media contact: Captain Fabian Monge 408-220-5144
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Last week, Sunnyvale police arrested Gary Ramirez, 75, in Maui
after they say his DNA matched the blood from Karen's leather
jacket and the 4-foot cinder block wall where the killer left
her after stabbing her 59 times, the newspaper reported.
Ramirez remains incarcerated in a Maui jail awaiting an
extradition hearing Wednesday to bring him to California. It was
not immediately clear if he has retained an attorney who can
speak on his behalf.
Once Ramirez is extradited, he will be arraigned on murder,
kidnapping, and rape charges, according to the Santa Clara
district attorney's office. If convicted, he faces life in
prison without the possibility of parole.
"Behind every old murder file in every major police department,
there is a person, heartbreak, and a mystery," Santa Clara
County DA Jeff Rosen said. "The mystery of Karen Stitt's death
has been solved thanks to advances in forensic science and a
detective that would never, ever give up."
Santa Clara County cold case investigators say they used DNA
technology linked to family tree genealogy, the same
investigative process that led to the arrest and guilty plea of
the Golden State Killer in 2018.
Sunnyvale police Detective Matt Hutchison said he arrested
Ramirez, a man with a bad hip who appeared so shocked he could
say little more than, "Oh my gosh."
Ramirez, a retired bug exterminator, had no criminal record,
police say. His older brother, Rudy Ramirez, who also lives in
Maui, said he can't imagine that his younger brother would be
capable of such a horrific crime.
"I've never seen him violent or get angry ever," Ramirez's
brother told the newspaper. "He wouldn't hurt a fly."
Three years ago, Hutchison teamed up with a genealogist who
narrowed the DNA down to four brothers. Hutchison then sought
out one of Gary Ramirez's children and collected a DNA sample,
which showed a high probability that the suspect was their
father, he said. After that, authorities used a search warrant
to swab Gary Ramirez's mouth for a DNA sample, which a crime lab
confirmed matched the DNA found at the crime scene.
When he opened the email with the DNA match, "I wanted to
scream, but I can't because I didn't want to wake up the hotel,"
Hutchinson said. "So I just took a moment to reflect."
He opened up his laptop and clicked on the photo of Karen.
"I took a quick glance at her photo," he said, "and I just told
her, 'We did it.'"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/karen-stitt-killed-1982-california-
dna-arrest-gary-ramirez-hawaii/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3b
<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
A Hawaii man has been arrested after DNA technology helped
investigators identify him as a suspect in the 1992 slaying of a
15-year-old girl who was abducted in Northern California from a
bus stop, raped and killed, authorities said.
Karen Stitt was waiting for a bus in Sunnyvale when she
disappeared in the early morning hours of Sept. 3, 1982. A
delivery truck driver discovered her naked body among some
bushes 100 yards away from the bus stop, the Mercury News
reported Tuesday.
Sunnyvale DPS
@SunnyvaleDPS
·
Follow
75 year old Gary Gene Ramirez has been arrested in connection
with the 1982 cold case homicide of 15 year old Karen Stitt.
Media contact: Captain Fabian Monge 408-220-5144
<https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZucbWCaQAASOe0?format=jpg&name=lar
ge>
Last week, Sunnyvale police arrested Gary Ramirez, 75, in Maui
after they say his DNA matched the blood from Karen's leather
jacket and the 4-foot cinder block wall where the killer left
her after stabbing her 59 times, the newspaper reported.
Ramirez remains incarcerated in a Maui jail awaiting an
extradition hearing Wednesday to bring him to California. It was
not immediately clear if he has retained an attorney who can
speak on his behalf.
Once Ramirez is extradited, he will be arraigned on murder,
kidnapping, and rape charges, according to the Santa Clara
district attorney's office. If convicted, he faces life in
prison without the possibility of parole.
"Behind every old murder file in every major police department,
there is a person, heartbreak, and a mystery," Santa Clara
County DA Jeff Rosen said. "The mystery of Karen Stitt's death
has been solved thanks to advances in forensic science and a
detective that would never, ever give up."
Santa Clara County cold case investigators say they used DNA
technology linked to family tree genealogy, the same
investigative process that led to the arrest and guilty plea of
the Golden State Killer in 2018.
Sunnyvale police Detective Matt Hutchison said he arrested
Ramirez, a man with a bad hip who appeared so shocked he could
say little more than, "Oh my gosh."
Ramirez, a retired bug exterminator, had no criminal record,
police say. His older brother, Rudy Ramirez, who also lives in
Maui, said he can't imagine that his younger brother would be
capable of such a horrific crime.
"I've never seen him violent or get angry ever," Ramirez's
brother told the newspaper. "He wouldn't hurt a fly."
Three years ago, Hutchison teamed up with a genealogist who
narrowed the DNA down to four brothers. Hutchison then sought
out one of Gary Ramirez's children and collected a DNA sample,
which showed a high probability that the suspect was their
father, he said. After that, authorities used a search warrant
to swab Gary Ramirez's mouth for a DNA sample, which a crime lab
confirmed matched the DNA found at the crime scene.
When he opened the email with the DNA match, "I wanted to
scream, but I can't because I didn't want to wake up the hotel,"
Hutchinson said. "So I just took a moment to reflect."
He opened up his laptop and clicked on the photo of Karen.
"I took a quick glance at her photo," he said, "and I just told
her, 'We did it.'"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/karen-stitt-killed-1982-california-
dna-arrest-gary-ramirez-hawaii/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3b
Greg Carr
Aug 10, 2022, 7:09:51 PM8/10/22
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https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/clues-from-public-sought-in-1982-sunnyvale-cold-case-murder-of-palo-alto-teen/ In 2014 police made a public plea for info on the then 32 yr old case. The dead 15 yr old and her boyfriend were fans of CDN rock band Rush a cool band I own 17 of their of their releases and seen them 3 times in concert.
https://www.itechpost.com/articles/112862/20220810/dna-technology-solves-40-year-old-cold-case-murder-california.htm more info on the case.
https://abc7news.com/place/sunnyvale/ Picture of the then recent to California blonde 15 yr old. Pala Alto, Ca. where she and her Dad lived has maybe 1 murder a year and a noticeably lower violent crime rate than the national and state avg. https://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Palo-Alto-California.html
https://www.facebook.com/SunnyvaleDPS Ppl in Sunnyvale remember the case and some retired cops has pics of the man busted and when he was around 40.
Hope if found guilty the rapist and murderer is executed also hope at trial he has a good lawyer.
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