In the vast and lonely Arizona desert about 50 miles south of Las Vegas, tourists who took a wrong turn stumbled across a woman's naked and bloodied body on Dec. 12, 1989.
Two days later and nearly 400 miles to the west, good Samaritans found two baby girls crying on the dirty floor of a park restroom in the working-class coastal California city of Oxnard.
At the time, detectives in each jurisdiction had no idea the cases were connected. Arizona investigators couldn't figure out who Jane Doe was, and California authorities had no idea who the babies were.
Each case remained a mystery for decades. Until this year.
Not only was a cold case detective in Arizona able to identify Jane Doe as a 28-year-old California woman named Marina Ramos, she later made the shocking discovery that the baby girls left on the bathroom floor were Ramos' daughters. With the help of familial DNA and dogged determination, the detective recently tracked down the girls in what she calls "a miracle."
