60-year old suspect arrested for allegedly killing her infant in a 30-year-old cold case

MONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. (KION-TV) -- The Monterey County Sheriff's Office announced Thursday that they teamed up with the Distract Attorney's Cold Case Homicide Task Force that they made an arrest this morning in an approximate 30-year homicide cold case.

They say suspect, the now 60-year-old Pamela Ferreryra of Watsonville, was arrested this morning for allegedly killing her own infant who was only a few days old at the time.

Ferrerya's bail is set to $1 million and she's held at the Monterey County Sheriff's Office at 1414 Natividad Road in Salinas.

The victim, dubbed "Baby Garin," was only a week old at the time of his death on December 3, 1994.

Articles from The Santa Cruz Sentinel at the time said the boy was found by a man collecting cans to recycle. He found the boy in a paper bag wrapped in a blanket.

The Cold Case Task Force worked with Texas-based Othram Labs to test forensics evidence to determine a match and begin investigating family members.

"Our goal is to get resolution. And it's not necessarily always a conviction of the perpetrator, though we would love that," Assistant District Attorney Matthew L'Heureux said. "We understand that that's not something that is going to be possible in every case. But, we don't give up just because that may not be the outcome that we get.”

To date, the Monterey County Task Force has aided in solving nine homicide cases with four conviction and five cases heading to trial.

The strides made in the case leading to the arrest brought closure for those who have worked on the case in the past.

“The people that investigated this case 30 years ago, they're all retired now. But I'm sure that to this day, it continues to bother them that they didn't find closure," Monterey County Sheriff's Office Commander Andy Rosas said. "They didn't get closure in this investigation and that has finally come today to them."

Ferreryra is expected to be arraigned on Friday afternoon.