Case Details
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- Missing Since:
- Missing Since 06/05/2004
- Missing From:
- Missing From Cave Junction, Oregon
- Classification:
- Classification Endangered Missing
- Gender:
- Male
- Race:
- Race Hispanic
- Date of Birth:
- Date of Birth 07/20/1982 (42)
- Age:
- Age 21 years old
- Height and Weight:
- Height and Weight 5’7 – 5’10, 135 – 145 pounds
- Clothing/Jewelry Description:
- Clothing/Jewelry Description A white shirt, a white or light gray t-shirt, tan pants, black Lug shoes, a silver necklace with silver beads and a silver hoop earring with a silver bead in his left ear.
- Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Distinguishing Characteristics Hispanic male. Black hair, brown eyes. Ramirez has a large dark-colored scar on his lower abdomen and a scar on his right knee. His left ear is pierced. He has a half-inch brown-colored birthmark in the middle of his outer forearm. Ramirez may have a goatee. His nickname is Mingo and he may use the last names Company and/or Company-Ramirez. He wears a contact lens in one eye.
- Details of Disappearance:
- On June 5, 2004, Ramirez left his home in Cave Junction, Oregon, for a day trip to Kelly Lake in California. He vanished.
A week later, his dog, Kandi, was found badly injured (shot in the head) but alive in Page Mountain Park. Ramirez’s belongings were there too, but he wasn’t. His gun was missing.
His car, a dark green 1997 Oldsmobile Bravada (license plate VHW-491), was also gone. It was later found in Klamath Falls, Oregon; the driver was arrested.
Police have two suspects, Jose Luis Villegas-Cavada and Joel Brian Rico-Orozco, who were in the Happy Camp, California area around the time Ramirez disappeared. They were driving a white 1996 Chevrolet Monte Carlo.
In 2006, investigators found evidence related to the case in a foreign country. They think Ramirez was kidnapped and murdered, likely in California. Some of his things were found on Native American land in Northern California.
The case is still unsolved.
- Agency:
- Josephine County Sheriff’s Office 541-474-5123
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This person was missing Missing Since 06/05/2004