Woman Charged In Fatal Shooting Of Iowa Real Estate Agent Released On Bond

The Iowa female accused of gunning down a existent property supplier during an unfastened location 15 years ago was released connected enslaved aft dozens of group revenge letters pinch nan judge saying she isn’t a threat aliases a formation risk, tribunal records show.

Kristin Ramsey, 53, posted 10% of a $500,000 enslaved Thursday aft a judge reduced it from $2 cardinal successful rate only, nan records show.

Ramsey was charged pinch first-degree execution past month successful nan fatal shooting of Ashley Okland, 27, astatine a exemplary location successful West Des Moines successful 2011. She has pleaded not blameworthy and her lawyers person said that she “adamantly” maintains her innocence.

Okland’s sidesplitting shook nan existent property industry, prompting a bid of measures aimed astatine making nan day-to-day activity of agents safer.

Authorities person not identified a imaginable motive successful nan killing. At nan time, Ramsey worked arsenic a income head for nan institution that owned nan improvement wherever Okland was hosting an unfastened house.

Kristin Ramsey enters a enslaved proceeding astatine nan Dallas County courthouse successful Adel, Iowa, past week. Three witnesses, including her mother, testified connected her behalf during nan hearing.Zach Boyden-Holmes / The Des Moines Register via AP pool

In his bid reducing Ramsey’s bond, 5th Judicial District Judge Coleman McAllister cited 52 letters of support for Ramsey, respective of which were excerpted successful nan archive and picture her arsenic a “devoted woman and mother” who “poses nary consequence to nan organization whatsoever” and has “deep and longstanding roots successful Iowa.”

Three witnesses, including her mother, besides testified connected her behalf during a enslaved proceeding connected April 10, nan bid said.

The charismatic presented nary grounds during nan hearing, McAllister noted, but opposed Ramsey’s effort to trim her enslaved amount.

McAllister concluded that Ramsey posed a “relatively moderate” consequence of fleeing, he wrote, while nan convulsive quality of Okland’s sidesplitting raised “reasonable concerns” astir whether she’s a information risk.

“$2,000,000 is not nan slightest restrictive information of merchandise supported by nan grounds presented,” nan judge wrote.

In summation to a request of $50,000 cash, McAllister ruled that Ramsey will stay connected location apprehension and nether GPS monitoring. He ordered each guns removed from her home.

Okland was changeable doubly astatine adjacent scope connected April 8, 2011. A witnesser saw Ramsey extracurricular nan exemplary location wherever Okland was changeable soon aft nan personification heard 2 evident gunshots, authorities alleged successful a filing earlier this month. The witnesser reported seeing Ramsey pacing by her car, past getting successful nan conveyance and driving distant successful what nan filing described arsenic an erratic manner.

The witnesser recovered Ramsey unresponsive wrong nan location and called 911, according to nan filing.

The archive says Ramsey was interviewed connected aggregate occasions astir nan shooting and provided conflicting versions of her whereabouts connected April 8, 2011. Less than a period later, authorities executed a hunt warrant connected her home.

The judge’s enslaved order, citing that hunt warrant and nan interviews, said it appears Ramsey was identified arsenic a personification of liking by rule enforcement early connected successful nan investigation.

“It is noteworthy that moreover though she intelligibly remained a personification of liking to rule enforcement arsenic nan investigation proceeded, Defendant did not fly aliases time off nan area,” McAllister wrote.

Neither her lawyers nor nan charismatic responded to requests for remark Friday afternoon.

Ramsey’s adjacent tribunal proceeding is scheduled for June 19.