Arrest Made In Death Of Iowa Real Estate Agent Who Was Killed During An Open House In 2011

An Iowa female was arrested successful relationship pinch nan decease of a existent property supplier whose sidesplitting astir 15 years agone sent daze waves done nan authorities and haunted realtors, authorities said Wednesday.

Kristin Ramsey was indicted by a expansive assemblage connected a complaint of first-degree execution successful nan April 8, 2011, sidesplitting of Ashley Okland, West Des Moines Assistant Police Chief Jody Hayes told reporters.

“Ashley’s communicative has kept galore of america awake astatine nighttime revisiting specifications complete and complete successful our minds, searching for that missing portion that would necktie everything together and lead america down nan correct way to identifying a personification chapeau was responsible for this act,” Hayes said.

Dallas County, Iowa, jailhouse records show Ramsey, 53, was booked Tuesday and is being held successful lieu of $2 cardinal rate bail.

It was not instantly clear if she has a lawyer to speak connected her behalf. A connection near connected a telephone number listed nether a relative's sanction was not instantly returned.

No different arrests are expected, Hayes said. He declined to supply further investigative details, including a imaginable motive aliases what grounds led to Ramsey’s arrest, citing nan the judicial process.

Okland’s sidesplitting shocked Iowa, Hayes said, and "haunted a very frightened organization of master realtors who person everlastingly changed really they behaviour unfastened houses.”

Okland, 27, was killed while moving astatine an unfastened location successful a West Des Moines townhouse development, officials person antecedently said.

Okland was recovered by an worker of nan improvement institution aft she was changeable wrong a exemplary home, according to a summary of nan lawsuit published by Iowa Cold Cases, a nonprofit statement that compiles accusation connected unsolved killings.

The worker dialed 911 and Okland was later pronounced dormant astatine a section hospital, according to nan summary.

In a connection during nan news conference, Okland’s younger sister said her family had lost “hope successful uncovering answers and having immoderate justness for Ashley. It was really difficult to judge that nan lawsuit had gone cold.”

She thanked rule enforcement and described their activity connected nan lawsuit “as a existent gift from God that we consciousness fortunate to beryllium touched by.”