MURDERED: Marina Ramos

[pensive music] It's December 12th, 1989, when those four friends turned their car onto a dirt road east of Highway 93 in the very northern part of Arizona, like close to Nevada.

Three miles down is where they spot a yucca tree that they decide to take a picture in front of.

They're the only ones out there, save for, like, this dead animal that they can see not far off.

So they snap their picture and hop back in their rental car in search of the ghost town marked on their map.

But they're not having much luck actually finding this town.

Wink, wink.

Maybe that was intentional.

[laughs]

I don't know.

But not wanting to stray too far into just, like, the vast desert, there is no MapQuest, like, [laughs] this is hard, they decide just to turn around.

And as they head back in the direction of that yucca tree, there's something that just, like, nags at them.

There was something about the dead animal that was bothering them.

I don't know what, maybe the same mysterious force that pulled them to the tree to begin with.

But they decide to go back and have another look.

But it's no animal.

It is a naked woman laying dead in the road, and it's likely only because of them that she was ever found.

Now, it looks like this woman hasn't been out there long.

Even though they don't see anyone coming or going from any direction, they still don't wanna get out of their cars, as you can imagine.

Now, they know they need to notify authorities, but it's gonna be a hike to the nearest town of Kingman, Arizona, so they snap some pictures of the woman's body from the car, I assume just in case, like, she's gone by the time-

Mm-hmm

...

they can get police back out there, or maybe as proof to police, like, so they would take them seriously.

But deputies with the Mohave County Sheriff's Office don't brush them off.

Right after getting the report, they hop in their cars to follow the women back out to the body, which I can't reiterate enough is truly out in the middle of nowhere.

I mean, today, the closest paved road is White Hills Road, and it's over 200 feet away.