BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — This chronology of the last days of Genesis Mata is derived mostly from police reports and court documents.
Some names are redacted in those documents. In some cases, witnesses who have publicly spoken revealed it was their names that were redacted.
The truthfulness of accused murderers Ray Mata and Graciela Bustamonte is unpersuasive. Their statements to police were at first self-serving — each blamed the other — and later inconsistent with their own previous description of events. That’s why every event listed in this timeline based on their statements is fully attributed. The reader is invited to make up their own mind…