A Hawaiian man has been arrested for murdering a teenager kidnapped from a California bus stop in 1982, officials said Tuesday.
Sunnyvale police arrested his 75-year-old Gary Ramirez on Maui. After concluding that his DNA matched the blood from the murder scene of his 15-year-old Karen Sitit,Santa he entered the office of the Clara County District Attorney.
Stitt was waiting for a bus in Sunnyvale. In the early hours of September 3, 1982, when she disappeared. A delivery truck driver discovered her naked body in the bushes on a football field away from the train station, according to her news story published Tuesday.}.
Police used DNA technology to identify Karen's leather jacket and her 4-foot-long body, where the killer left her after stabbing her 59 times. He said he used it to tie Ramirez from the cinder block wall.
Sunnyvale Police Detective Matt Hutchison appears too shocked while he arrests Ramirez — a retired exterminator and Air Force veteran with a wound to the hip. It was revealed that it looked like
According to police, the Fresno native Ramirez had no criminal record. His brother, Rudy Ramirez, who also lives on Maui, said it was unlikely his brother would carry out the gruesome murder.
"I never saw him get violent or angry," Rudy Ramirez told the newspaper. "He didn't hurt a fly."
In 2019, Hutchison partnered with a genealogist to narrow down the DNA to his four siblings.
Hutchison then searched for one of Gary Ramirez's children and collected a DNA sample, which revealed that the suspect was likely the father, he said. . Authorities then used a search warrant to take a DNA sample from Gary Ramirez's mouth. Crime labs have confirmed that it matches DNA found at a crime scene decades ago.
When he opened his DNA match email, "I wanted to scream, but I couldn't because I didn't want to wake up the hotel," he said, Hutchison. ``So I just thought about it.''
He opened his laptop and clicked on Karen's picture.
"I glanced at her picture," he said.
Ramirez is being held in a Maui jail, transferring him to California while awaiting extradition hearings on Wednesday.
With post wire
