Beaten Woman Dies 3 Days After Being Found in Park

A 31-year-old woman died Thursday after being found nude and badly beaten at a Garden Grove park earlier in the week. Her mother said the victim had had mental disorders most of her life.

Ramona Caresio Craw died shortly after noon at UCI Medical Center in Orange. Police officers, called at 7 a.m. Monday, found her lying unconscious in Pioneer Park, in the 12700 block of Chapman Avenue. She never regained consciousness.

Garden Grove police investigators, who identified the woman Tuesday through fingerprints, have no leads in the case, a spokesman said Thursday.

Mother’s Description

The woman’s mother, Teresa Gomez of Anaheim, said Thursday night that her daughter “was a borderline mental patient” who did not work and was known to frequent bars near the area where she was found.

Gomez said that her daughter had lived with her until two years ago and that she visited the Gomez home every day. She last saw her daughter at 7 p.m. Sunday, 12 hours before the body was found.

“I guess what happened here is that she got in with the wrong crowd,” the mother said.

Gomez said her daughter graduated from Loara High School in 1974 and worked for a time. But she said her daughter’s illness, diagnosed as manic depression, worsened, and she had not worked in several years. She said her daughter had been married and had two sons, ages 6 and 3, who now live with Gomez.

Grandmother Called

On Sunday night, Craw visited her mother and left at 7 p.m. According to Gomez, her daughter called her grandmother in Bellflower at 10 p.m.

“She said she was going out with friends,” Gomez said. “We never saw her again.”

She said her daughter “went out all the time,” but she knew just one of her friends, a woman Gomez said she was trying to contact.

“She was sort of a mixed-up girl,” the mother said.