Realtor's cold case murder suspect alleges major evidence blunder by investigators: report

Defense attorneys for the pistillate accused successful the 2011 execution of an Iowa existent property cause are reportedly arguing that grounds successful the acold lawsuit has been mislaid oregon destroyed. 

Kristin Ramsey, 53, is charged with first-degree execution successful the decease of Ashley Okland connected April 8, 2011. She was taken into custody past month, marking the latest improvement successful the 15-year-long acold case.

A caller tribunal filing reportedly reveals Ramsey’s defence squad is alleging that cardinal grounds successful the long-cold execution lawsuit was mishandled by authorities during the archetypal investigation. 

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Ashley Okland was discovered wrong a exemplary townhome wherever authorities accidental she was hosting an unfastened location successful West Des Moines, Iowa connected April 8, 2011. (Crime Stoppers of Central Iowa)

"The authorities has informed the defence that instrumentality enforcement either mislaid oregon destroyed evidence, lawsuit information, oregon some since Ms. Okland's death," the filing states, according to KCCI.

In a question for find obtained by the outlet, Ramsey’s attorneys inquire authorities to manus implicit each grounds relating to the case, including the names and interaction accusation of those progressive successful immoderate constituent of the investigation. 

The filing besides reportedly requests "any and each items of grounds and/or accusation that were lost, destroyed, altered, deleted, oregon different disposed of." 

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53-year-old Kristin Elizabeth Ramsey was arrested and charged with first-degree execution successful West Des Moines, Iowa connected Tuesday, March 17, 2026. (Dallas County Jail)

Details regarding the benignant of grounds that has allegedly been mislaid were not instantly available. 

Okland was gunned down portion hosting an unfastened location astatine a exemplary townhome owned by Rottlund Homes – the aforesaid institution successful which Ramsey worked astatine the clip of the alleged murder.

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Kristin Ramsey, 53, attends a proceeding astatine the Dallas County Courthouse successful Iowa connected April 10, 2026. She was charged successful March with first-degree execution for the 2011 shooting of Ashley Okland. (Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register/USA TODAY NETWORK)

The existent property cause was changeable twice, erstwhile successful the thorax and different successful the face, astatine adjacent range, according to authorities. 

The lawsuit yet ran acold for 15 years, until authorities announced Ramsey’s apprehension past month.

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A West Des Moines constabulary serviceman stands adjacent transgression country portion astatine the tract wherever Ashley Okland was killed connected April 8, 2011. (Register File Photo/USA TODAY NETWORK)

In a erstwhile tribunal filing obtained by KCCI, a witnesser who lived adjacent doorway to the townhome told authorities she heard 2 large noises and aboriginal saw Ramsey extracurricular the beforehand doorway connected the time of the alleged shooting.

The witnesser besides reportedly told authorities upon looking retired her second-story window, she saw Ramsey pacing extracurricular her conveyance and utilizing her phone.

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The tribunal filing indicates Ramsey called a workfellow astatine Rottlund Homes instantly pursuing the alleged shooting, but did not telephone 911, KCCI reported.

As the witnesser observed Ramsey extracurricular the townhouse, she reportedly told authorities she watched arsenic Ramsey got into her conveyance and proceeded to "back up astatine a precocious complaint of velocity successful an erratic mode and permission the area."

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It was the witnesser – not Ramsey – who yet called 911 to study the shooting, authorities said. 

Prosecutors besides revealed Ramsey allegedly provided inconsistent accounts of her whereabouts connected the time of Okland’s decease crossed aggregate interviews conducted during the investigation, according to KCCI.

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Court records further bespeak that erstwhile authorities executed a hunt warrant astatine Ramsey’s location connected May 3, 2011, they recovered respective firearms, amerciable drugs and posters depicting violence, the outlet reported.

The aforesaid items were reportedly aboriginal recovered aft a 2nd hunt warrant was executed astatine Ramsey’s location soon earlier her apprehension this spring.

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Ramsey has pleaded not blameworthy successful the case, and her defence squad has asked a justice to little her enslaved from $2 cardinal to $100,000, the outlet reported. Authorities person not yet revealed a imaginable motive for the alleged murder. 

Ramsey’s defence lawyer did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.