Overview
- Pamela Ferreyra, 61, was sentenced on Feb. 18 to 13 years and four months in state prison.
- She pleaded guilty in December 2025 to voluntary manslaughter and felony child abuse, admitting great bodily injury to the infant.
- Investigators say she hid her pregnancy, delivered at home, then left the newborn in a remote Prunedale location and never returned.
- The baby’s partial remains were found in a grocery bag on Dec. 3, 1994; an autopsy showed he was born alive and unfed for about 24 hours, with no definitive cause of death.
- A county Cold Case Task Force launched in 2020 used DNA testing to identify Ferreyra in 2024; the case is the unit’s tenth cold-case murder conviction, and the offenses count as strikes under California law.