Mann, 78, gets life in prison for 1982

An older man who suspected for four decades after having stabbed a youthful girl in Sunnyvale will probably spend the rest of his life in prison after being condemned in a courtroom in San Jose on Monday.

Gary Gene Ramirez, 78, who was delivered from Hawaii in 2022, pleaded in February 1982 in February 1982 no competition for the first degree murder for the death of the 15-year-old, living in Palo Alto, in Palo Alto, in Karen Stitt.

Judge Hanley Chew sentenced Ramirez to a prison in prison in 25 years when he was 103 years old.

The 15 -year -old Karen Stitt, who was shown in an undated photo, had recently moved from Pennsylvania to Palo Alto when she was stabbed 59 times and was dead in 1982 after a Sunnyvale Garden Center. (With the kind permission of the district prosecutor's office in Santa Clara)

The authorities claim that Ramirez Karen was kidnapped by a bus stop at some point after midnight on September 3, 1982, raped it and then stabbed it 59 times before she had her body behind a wall of ash blocks about 100 meters away.

Ramirez lived in Maui, where he had spent the decades since August 2022 when Sunnyvale Police Detective Matt Hutchison, armed with a DNA genealogy probe, which, as a single and main -suspect in Karen's death, tied him up and caught him.

A subsequent DNA analysis by the Santa Clara County Crime Lab, which was operated by the public prosecutor, corresponded to Ramirez to recover the blood evidence near the Old Woolworth Garden Center near El Camino Real near the Wolfe Road. There a truck driver discovered the body of Karen, naked and bound with their own clothes.

“Karen Stitt lost her life over 40 years ago, but she was not forgotten,” said district attorney Jeff Rosen in a statement on Monday. “Today, thanks to a committed detective, a persistent public prosecutor and our crime laboratory, the person responsible is behind bars.”

The murder case has been frustrating the detectives in Sunnyvale for decades until 2019, as a hat, who worked with the prosecutor and the current cold case supervisor Rob Baker, consulted with a DNA genealogist to find new leads. The DNA genealogy used from the genetic data of millions of people who submitted their DNA to public and private databases to pursue their descent had known for the identification and arrest of the Golden State Killer the previous year.

At this point, the investigations by DNA from the crime scene were not fruitful in identifying a suspect, although it was clear that Karens then took the friend by bus to Sunnyvale, who took Palo Alto's bus in the evening before her death. Ramirez – A native Fresno who had moved to Hawaii in recent years, where he married twice and had two children – was not a law enforcement radar due to a clean crime history.

The genealogy search reduced the suspicious pool Ramirez and his three brothers. Hutchison has tracked down one of Ramirez 'daughters and collected a DNA sample of her, which led to a search command that forced Ramirez to provide a DNA swab. Soon afterwards, the Crime Lab voted on his DNA for blood, which was found on Karen's leather jacket.

When this link was made three years ago, Karen's father and older sister died. Her case has long been a priority for the office that was the first to be presented on the agency's website when Rosen renewed the cold case unit of his office in 2014.

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