After 40 years with no leads, a Santa Clara County deputy district explains why she is confident that the blood at the crime scene near a Sunnyvale bus stop “exactly” matched the DNA of Gary Gene R…
After 40 years with no leads, Santa Clara County District Attorney Barbara Cathcart stood outside a courtroom Monday and said the DNA evidence investigators now have from a 75-year-old Hawaii man is such a supreme match to the, it would take an incomprehensible number — a septillion has 24 zeroes — to prove otherwise.
Police were stymied for decades trying to solve the murder of Karen Stitt, a 15-year-old Palo Alto High School student who spent the evening at Sunnyvale Golfland with her boyfriend and was waiting alone for the bus around midnight on Sept. 2, 1982, when she was abducted, raped and stabbed 59 times. It wasn’t until 2018, after forensic genealogy techniques helped apprehend and convict the Golden State Killer, that Sunnyvale Police and the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office had new hope they could track down Karen’s killer, even 40 years later.
On Monday, Ramirez appeared with white hair and glasses, leaning on a cane beside Public Defender Lara Wallman. He isn’t expected to enter a plea until the next hearing scheduled for 9 a.m., Oct. 28. Although the killing is considered a capital crime, Ramirez will not face the death penalty because District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced in 2020 he will no longer seek it in any prosecutions.
Ramirez is being held without bail and his public defender made no attempt Monday to modify that, although she has that option in the future.
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