US Edition78-year-old man sentenced for 1982 Sunnyvale cold case murder of teen Karen Stitt | News Channel 3-12
- On May 12, 78-year-old Maui resident Gary Ramirez received a life sentence with the possibility of parole after pleading no contest to the 1982 murder of 15-year-old Karen Stitt in Sunnyvale.
- Police linked Ramirez to the crime decades later after a 2019 tip and DNA technology matched his blood and bodily fluids found on Stitt's body.
- On the night of September 2, 1982, Karen Stitt’s boyfriend accompanied her to a bus stop in Sunnyvale after they spent the evening together at a 7-Eleven and Golfland.
- Stitt's naked body was found the next morning about 100 yards from the bus stop, hidden behind a blood-stained cinderblock wall, with 59 stab wounds and evidence of sexual assault.
- Ramirez pleaded no contest to first-degree murder and received a sentence of 25 years to life, with parole possible, concluding a decades-long investigation aided by persistent detectives and prosecutors.
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78-year-old man sentenced for 1982 Sunnyvale cold case murder of teen Karen Stitt
By Dustin Dorsey Click here for updates on this story SUNNYVALE, Calif. (KGO) — The man charged with the brutal murder of 15-year-old Karen Stitt from 1982 finally received his sentence in a Santa Clara County courtroom on Monday. The investigation went cold after decades without any new leads before new technology and a tip linked Gary Ramirez to the crime back in 2022. It has been more than 40 years since Karen Stitt was murdered, taken fr…
78-year-old man sentenced for 1982 Sunnyvale cold case murder of teen Karen Stitt | News Channel 3-12
By Dustin Dorsey Click here for updates on this story SUNNYVALE, Calif. (KGO) — The man charged with the brutal murder of 15-year-old Karen Stitt from 1982 finally received his sentence in a Santa Clara County courtroom on Monday. The investigation went cold after decades without any new leads before new technology and a tip linked Gary Ramirez to the crime back in 2022. It has been more than 40 years since Karen Stitt was murdered, taken fr…
Man, 78, sentenced in vicious 1982 rape, stabbing death of California teen
In 1982, 15-year-old Karen Stitt’s naked body was discarded near a bus stop in Sunnyvale after she was brutally raped and stabbed and finally, more than 40 years later, her killer has been sentenced. The Palo Alto teen had spent the evening with her 17-year-old boyfriend, who, after a night of walking around together, left her at the bus stop around midnight so she could get back home, and he wouldn’t miss his curfew. A truck driver spotted …
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