Kemberly Ramer
Missing – August 15, 1997 – Opp, AL
Ep 6: Kemberly Lorin Ramer & James "Amp" Reynolds – Unforgotten
COVINGTON COUNTY
17-year-old Kemberly Lorin Ramer was last seen in Opp, AL, on the evening of August 15, 1997. At the time of her disappearance, she was approximately 5’4 and 130 lbs. She had long brown hair and brown eyes. She is believed to have been wearing grey cut-off sweats, a white t-shirt with several bright colors and the words “New Orleans” under the design. It’s also believed she may have been wearing a gold ankle chain and gold rope necklace.
Kem was the daughter of Kenneth Raymer and Sue Infinger. Her parents divorced before she graduated high school, and Kem continued living with her father in Opp while she finished school. Her mother Sue moved to Leonia, FL, which was only about 30 miles from away, which meant Kem frequently traveled back and forth between their homes.
At the time of her disappearance, Kem was preparing to enter her senior year of high school and planned to attend college in Mobile upon graduation.
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.
Over 20 years later, Kem continues to be listed as an active endangered missing person in the ALEA and NamUs databases.
You can learn more about Kem’s case in Episode 6 of Unforgotten.
If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Kemberly Ramer, please contact the Opp Police Department at 334-493-4511 or oppcid@opppolice.com or the FBI at 251-438-3674.
2 responses to “Kemberly Lorin Ramer”
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How closely was the neighbor that saw Kem return home that night interrogated? The father’s vehicle wasn’t home, so neighbor knew she was probably home alone………..If there was a struggle during her abduction, Kem was probably screaming her head off. Why didn’t that neighbor hear or see anything then? The house Kem lived in was close to the neighbors. Or maybe Kem was intoxicated, staggering around when she arrived home, maybe she unintentionally knocked the pictures off the wall & someone she knew came by & asked her to ride to the store or up town with them; that would explain why she left her purse, personal belongings @ home, expecting to be right back……..
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Hello! Thanks for your comments and questions! (And thanks for your patience with our response!) To our knowledge at this time, I believe the neighbors were questioned and ruled out, but I would have to verify that piece. If I find a definitive answer, I’ll post again. As far as the struggle, she may have tried to scream but possibly had her voice muffled either by hand or otherwise. Also, we don’t know if she did or didn’t know her kidnapper. There are a few schools of thought on that topic. We don’t believe Kem was intoxicated, but from what we’ve seen, the scene wasn’t consistent with that being the reason for the disarray. I also don’t think personally even if she rode with someone somewhere voluntarily she would have left some of the personal items she did. I’m definitely open to any ideas though. There’s a group that is working with Kem’s family that have been doing a great job and have also put together a podcast as they go along in their investigation. I’m not caught up with it, but I did listen to a couple episodes. Here’s the link. They are very informative. https://open.spotify.com/show/2IKrGYXTtqkFHq3xNmiX7p Thank you again! -Stormy
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