her daughter. i spoke with karlyn every day, sometimes twice a day. but tuesday august 25th would be different. susan called karlyn that morning. and she didn t answer. and is that i mean that s unusual. you have such a close relationship. so i waited and i called her again. and she didn t answer. so i sent her an e-mail to her work e-mail. never got a response to that. called her on my lunch break. and she didn t answer. i said, if you do not call me back or message me, i m going to call the police. a now frantic susan reached karlyn s commanding officer at his home. he promised to have someone on the base find her. i hang up with him. and i put the phone down. and i hear a ruffle in the front rock we have river rock. so i looked out and i saw three uniformed soldiers. oh, gosh. and i knew. that just made me yeah. sick. that s what it did to me too. it s what any relative of a somebody in the military
there may have been a sexual assault? it s something that you have to consider. the crime scene investigation ramped up. csis dusted for fingerprints and collected hair and dna samples. karlyn had been shot three times. ballistics experts traced the bullets trajectories and recovered a bullet if the floor. they were able to narrow down the weapon to a few different models. caliber of the projectile was. 357,. 38 special. of course a hard look at the spouse as homicide investigation 101. so the day after they found karlyn s body detectives flew to south carolina to talk with maliek. he d been placed in an interview room and he was waiting for us. they started by asking about karlyn. what can you tell us about her? she was the love of my life. maliek s superior officer had given him only the vaguest of details about what happened to karlyn. did he tell you how she passed away?
mother for her daughter?? you are my sunshine?? my only sunshine? our story is about that maternal tie that endures from generation to generation. it begins in a military town near the mexican border. del rio, texas. a small city anchored by the laughlin air force base. karlyn ramirez grew up there. she was an easygoing child says her mom, susan garcia - ramirez. karlyn, when she was young, she was real calm and quiet. karlyn loved to sing. she would sing all the time.?? whenever she was out with her friends, you know, she would sing for them. reporter: rosanna flores was one of those friends. what was it about karlyn you that wanted to be her friend? her smile. her voice. her big heart. i can honestly say she never saw any bad in anyone.
ramirez. it was important to the baby. it was important to the ramirez family to bring them some measure of justice. cat trial behind them, the ramirez family and karlyn s friends focused on raising vale and teaching her about her mother.? you are my sunshine?? my only sunshine? she sang to her when she bathed her. she sang to her when she dressed her.? my only sunshine? vale could still hear that loving voice. karlyn s sister put a recording of her singing inside a teddy bear.? you ll never know dear?? how much i love you? we are at this point the constant in her life. we want her to feel protected, loved, everything that i know her mom would have given her. that s all for this edition of dateline. i m natalie morales. thank you for watching.
the answers would come 1,700 miles away at karlyn s town house in maryland. homicide detectives kelly harding and dan meyers of the anne arundel county police department were on the case. a maintenance person saw a dog walking around into an open back door of the townhome. he called 911. and the officers got there. and karlyn ramirez had been murdered. patrol officers led the detectives to a second-floor bedroom and an appalling scene. it was karlyn and her four-month-old daughter together. she was laying in the master bedroom, and a little girl was they thought initially also had been murdered. but it turns out that she was just sleeping alongside her mom. the baby was unharmed. the investigators began their search for clues with karlyn s body. she was laying on the floor near the crib. her pants and her underwear had been removed. did that suggest to you that