May 20, 2024
Kemberly Ramer was 17 years old when law enforcement says she was forcefully taken from her Alabama home.
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Walton County Sheriff Michael Adkinson reported that they have received information suggesting her body may be in Walton County, involving multiple agencies in the investigation.
<<“This case has been worked on for over 20 years, involving the Walton County Sheriff’s Office, Covington County, Alabama, and the state’s attorney there,” Adkinson stated. “We’re trying to bring some measure of justice for Ms. Ramer and for Kem.”>>
<<Despite these challenges, investigators have pieced together a timeline and identified persons of interest, who are believed to be in Walton County.
“We need some people to have a change of heart and come forward with the truth,” Adkinson said. “It’s not just about what we know, but what we can prove.”>>
17-year-old Kemberly Ramer was last seen 8/15/97 in Opp, AL. The search for Kem continues still today. Alabama Cold Case Advocacy discussed Kem's case in Episode 6 of the Unforgotten podcast.
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<<On August 15, 1997, Kem spent the earlier part of the day at her mother’s before returning home to pick up her senior portraits and participate in the women’s city league softball game. After the game, she hung out with some friends and then went over to her boyfriend’s house. Kem left her boyfriend’s just before midnight in order to make it back to her father’s home a few minutes away by her curfew. This was the last time Kem was seen.
Kem’s father wasn’t home that night, but her car was in the driveway when he arrived the following morning. Assuming she was still sleeping, he wrote her a note letting her know he was going golfing and left. When he returned that afternoon and Kem wasn’t there, he assumed her mother had picked her up, but thought it was odd that Kem hadn’t left a note letting him know. However, when Kem was still not home Sunday morning, he called her mother to see if she was there. Realizing she was not at either of their homes, her mother promptly headed to Opp where they began contacting Kem’s friends and filed a missing person’s report.
When investigators arrived, they discovered signs of a struggle in Kem’s room, including several pictures knocked off the wall in her room and the hallway. They also discovered several phone calls had been made from inside the home to Florida numbers that neither Kem’s mother nor father recognized. Several searches for Kem were conducted in Alabama and Florida, but none of those searches were successful. Tips have come in over the years, but those tips have not led to any additional information related to Kem’s whereabouts or what occurred on the night of August 15, 1997.>>
