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This person was missing Missing Since 10/30/1984

Missing Since:

Missing Since 10/30/1984

Missing From:

Missing From Kansas City, Missouri

Classification:

Classification Endangered Missing

Gender:

Female

Race:

Race White

Date of Birth:

Date of Birth 10/27/1964 (60)

Age:

Age 20 years old

Height and Weight:

Height and Weight 5’7, 120 pounds

Clothing/Jewelry Description:

Clothing/Jewelry Description A blue and white striped knit shirt, an ankle-length brown leather coat, blue jeans, blue sneakers, a gold wedding band and another ring. Carrying a red cigarette case.

Distinguishing Characteristics:

Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female. Red hair, blue eyes. Ramsey may use her maiden name, Snow, and some agencies refer to her by that name. Her nickname is Big Red. Ramsey’s hair was shoulder-length at the time of her disappearance. She had previously broken her left arm; the injury had healed by the time she disappeared but may show up in an X-ray. All of her teeth are missing.

Details of Disappearance:

On October 30, 1984, three days after her 20th birthday, Ramsey visited her parents in Kansas City, Missouri. She left to talk to a neighbor and vanished. A friend saw her later that day, and she may have been seen walking towards her parents’ house, but she never arrived. Ramsey lived about a mile and a half away, and walked there daily. She left behind a husband and two young sons, and her disappearance was completely out of character.

Ramsey was one of several women (aged 13-31) from northeast Kansas City who disappeared or were murdered over 12 years. Some were prostitutes. Many bodies were found in rivers, badly beaten and mutilated. Ramsey and another woman, Tammie Wilkinson, remain missing.

Gregory Breeden became the prime suspect in seven of these cases in 1994. Police found disturbing items in his home: women’s clothing, teeth, knives, and muddy underwear. He knew some victims, had dated one, and seemed to know details about the murders that weren’t public. He claimed to have seen Ramsey after her disappearance and said her body would never be found.

In 1996, Breeden was charged with murder but the case was dropped due to a key witness refusing to testify. He served time for writing bad checks but was never convicted of violent crimes, although violence was mentioned in a divorce. He died in 2014.

It’s unknown if Breeden was involved in Ramsey’s or Wilkinson’s disappearances, or if the cases are connected. Both remain unsolved.

Agency:

Kansas City Police Department 816-234-5136

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