COPS CLOSE TO SOLVING '86 SALT LAKE CITY COLD CASE

SALT LAKE City cops are hoping the public can help solved the 1986 slaying of culinary student from New York City. Cops say Patricia Ramirez was strangled and then had her body dumped above the Utah city's Avenues. Detectives have hinted they may be just a step away from solving the heinous crime.
ACCORDING TO FOX13: Patricia’s family says she was a short, petite woman, full of life. She had moved from Brooklyn, New York to attend Job Corps for culinary school. But in July of 1986 the chef in training was found strangled in the upper Avenues.

"The murder was bad enough, but these individuals treated this body like trash and threw it to the side of the road," said Salt Lake Police Sgt. Shawn Josephson.

Patricia’s mom said she's "still hurting, my family is still hurting because of this...we are still in pain! They are cowards, cold hearted cowards!"
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