Realtor's cold case murder suspect accused of fleeing scene, skipping 911 call in new witness account: report

The pistillate arrested successful transportation with the 2011 acold lawsuit execution of an Iowa existent property cause was reportedly spotted acting "in an erratic manner" by a witnesser instantly aft gunshots, according to recently released tribunal documents. 

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

Okland was fatally changeable doubly astatine adjacent range, erstwhile successful the thorax and different successful the face, portion hosting a exemplary townhome owned by Rottlund Homes – the aforesaid institution successful which Ramsey was employed astatine the clip of the alleged killing. 

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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)

In a caller tribunal filing, a witnesser who lived adjacent doorway reported proceeding 2 large noises earlier seeing Ramsey extracurricular the beforehand doorway of the townhome, according to KCCI.

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

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

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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)

Shortly after, the witnesser reported seeing Ramsey "back up astatine a precocious complaint of velocity successful an erratic mode and permission the area," tribunal documents show, according to KCCI.

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Authorities besides indicated the witnesser – not Ramsey – called 911 to study the shooting.

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Ashley Okland's siblings Josh Okland and Brittany Bruce talk aft the apprehension of Kristin Ramsey successful the 2011 shooting decease of their sister astatine the West Des Moines Police Department connected March 18, 2026. (Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register)

Prosecutors person since revealed that Ramsey has fixed conflicting versions of her whereabouts connected the time of the alleged execution successful aggregate interviews since the probe began, according to KCCI. 

Court records besides amusement that authorities discovered respective firearms, amerciable substances and convulsive posters wrong Ramsey’s location upon executing a hunt warrant connected May 3, 2011, the outlet reported.

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

A question has reportedly been filed by the authorities opposing Ramsey’s petition to little her enslaved from $2 cardinal to $100,000.

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Authorities person not released a imaginable motive, and Ramsey has not yet entered a plea successful the case. She is expected to look successful tribunal Friday for a bail hearing.  

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