In 1989, a woman is found brutally murdered in Mohave County, Arizona. Decades later, a detective identifies her as Marina Ramos, and discovers that her two young children disappeared with her. Several pieces of this tangled mystery have since been solved, but the biggest question remains: Who murdered Marina Ramos?
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21 Sep 2026
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In 1989, a woman is found brutally murdered in Mohave County, Arizona. Decades later, a detective identifies her as Marina Ramos, and discovers that her two young children disappeared with her. Several pieces of this tangled mystery have since been solved, but the biggest question remains: Who murdered Marina Ramos?
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-Hi, Grand junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers. -And I'm Britt. -And you know what I love more than a girls trip? -Nothing. -Literally nothing. There is something about being with your friends away from home base and routine. It can make even the most mundane things seem to have this, like, spark of adventure. Take, for instance, a loan tree in the middle of the Arizona desert. Back in December 1989, four friends from Ohio driving through the desert in search of some ghost town marked on their map, decided to stop and take a picture together in front of a tree, proof of their escapades, probably. Now, they never found the ghost town that they were looking for. What they found instead, by sheer happenstance, would unlock layered, decades-long mysteries that get tossed around like loose pieces of a puzzle until one investigator finally came along and slowly started to put those pieces together. Leading to a shocking discovery in 2025 that has her this close to solving the case. And you might have the remaining missing pieces to solve the mystery of who murdered Marina Ramos. So buckle up, crime junkies. You are in for a wild ride. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ 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 yuck-a-tree that they decide to take a picture in front of. They're the only ones out there, saved 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. Wing, wing, maybe that was intentional. I don't know. But not wanting to stray too far into just like the vast desert. There is no map quest. Like, this is hard. They decide just to turn around. And as they head back in the direction of that yuck-a-tree, there's something that just like nags at them.
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In 1989, a woman is found brutally murdered in Mohave County, Arizona. Decades later, a detective identifies her as Marina Ramos, and discovers that her two young children disappeared with her. Several pieces of this tangled mystery have since been solved, but the biggest question remains: Who murdered Marina Ramos?
