DOD: 8/25/1991
City of Murder: San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo Police Department - 805-781-7100
Lt. John Bledsoe
It was supposed to be a fun weekend in San Luis Obispo for Marina Ruggiero around family and close friends. But nearly 28 years later, police are still mystified by her ill-fated visit to SLO. The 20-year-old San Pedro resident was in town Sunday, Aug. 25, 1991, for the wedding of a close family friend. After Ruggiero left the reception alone to return to her nearby motel room, nobody she knew would ever talk to her again. The young woman who, by all accounts, had a fairly normal life, was brutally stabbed to death about 10 p.m. that night. Nearly three decades later, investigators still have many unanswered questions: Who would want to hurt Ruggiero and why? How did the killer approach her? Was the murderer a stranger lurking around the motel? A guest at the wedding? “This is one of the saddest cases I’ve ever seen,” Lt. John Bledsoe, of the SLO Police Department, said last week. “All homicides are sad, but this one is especially sad. She was with her family and close friends. It was supposed to be a happy time.” Marina Ruggiero was murdered in San Luis Obispo in 1991.
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