Overview
- A Dallas County grand jury issued a true bill charging Kristin Ramsey, 53, with first-degree murder in the 2011 shooting of Ashley Okland during an open house in West Des Moines.
- Ramsey was arrested, booked into the Dallas County Jail, and is being held on a $2 million cash-only bond, and police say no additional arrests are expected.
- Authorities declined to detail what led to the arrest or identify a motive, citing the need to preserve the integrity of the judicial process.
- Investigators pursued hundreds of interviews and thousands of leads over nearly 15 years, with assistance from the Iowa Attorney General’s Cold Case Unit.
- Reporting indicates Ramsey previously worked for Rottlund Homes, the developer of the model townhouse, and later at a firm linked to Iowa Realty, as Okland’s family publicly thanked investigators for the breakthrough.