Identified! NY - Brooklyn, Gates Ave, BlkFem 20-40, UP8115, ears pierced 3Xs, multiple scars, clothes, 24 February 1990 *id'd April 2025 - Sheila Ramsey (21)*

[Moonwalker9]

1077UFNY
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

Warning PM

Date of Discovery: February 24, 1990
Location of Discovery: Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
Estimated Date of Death: Hours prior
State of Remains: Recognizable face
Cause of Death: Unknown

Physical Description
Estimated Age: 20-40 years old
Race: Black
Gender: Female
Height: 5'2"
Weight: 105 lbs.
Hair Color: Black; kinky
Eye Color: Brown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Scattered scars on her chest. Multiple scars on the left upper abdomen. Three-inch "X" scar on her right forearm. Scattered scars on her left forearm and base of the left thumb. Multiple scars on the knees and shins. Each ear pierced three times.

Identifiers
Dentals: Available.
Fingerprints: Not available.
DNA: Unknown.

Clothing & Personal Items
Clothing: Tan bra and a brown patterned sweater.
Jewelry: Unknown.
Additional Personal Items: Unknown.

Circumstances of Discovery
The decedent's body was found in an abandoned building at 1065 Gates Avenue.

Investigating Agency(s)
Agency Name: Office of Chief Medical Examiner New York City
Agency Contact Person: Angela Soler
Agency Phone Number: 212-447-2030
Agency E-Mail: N/A
Agency Case Number: K90-01836

NCIC Case Number: Unknown
NamUs Case Number: 8115
Former Hot Case Number: 2318

 

[Moonwalker9]

Street view
Google Maps

No mention of how she died, but possible homicide.

 

[Moonwalker9]

Bumping for this poor lady too

 

[Beccalicious]

Bumping

 

[Anomalocarididae]

Do we have a recon? I'd like to check the NamUs missing persons list for her, but I really really don't like viewing PM pics.

 

[DS2021]

Do we have a recon? I'd like to check the NamUs missing persons list for her, but I really really don't like viewing PM pics.

No recon, and a post mortem photo used as the main picture.
I would advise you not look

 

[Anomalocarididae]

No recon, and a post mortem photo used as the main picture.
I would advise you not look

Thanks. Have accidentally seen enough un-spoilered, un-hidden PM pics to last me a lifetime. Hoping she gets a recon soon.

 

[Aurora90]

Bumping

 

[iulia]

Her NamUs page is down at the moment.

 

[Otterly]

Doe Network: "1077UFNY discovered on February 24, 1990 in Brooklyn, New York has been identified per NamUs. No further information is available."

 

[The4TierBridge]

Doe Network: "1077UFNY discovered on February 24, 1990 in Brooklyn, New York has been identified per NamUs. No further information is available."

Unless it says “per law enforcement’ or something like that (except sometimes on a case-by-case basis), that doesn’t actually mean anything. “per NamUs” just means that the NamUs page has been down for at least a few days.

 

[The4TierBridge]

This person was identified in April 2025 through genetic genealogy as 21yo Sheila Delores Ramsey from the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. She had been bludgeoned to death and this is now an active homicide investigation.

NYPD used DNA research to identify the victim of a brutal 1990 homicide. But who wanted her dead?

A mystery woman found bludgeoned to death in an abandoned Brooklyn building in 1990 finally has a name, investigators using DNA research to reach back generations and build a family tree that ultimate...

www.yahoo.com

 

[victoriarobinson642]

All R Ramsey knew was what his grandmother had told him when he was about nine. M Ramsey, with whom he and his mother lived, sat him down and explained how one night he had a fever. His mother left the family’s Williamsburg apartment to get medicine, but never returned.
His grandmother also said she had filed a missing person report at some point and that Sheila Ramsey was later declared dead by the state.

NYPD used DNA research to identify the victim of a brutal 1990 homicide. But who wanted her dead?

The case dates back to Feb. 1990, when, a man called 911 and reported that he had slipped into a vacant Bedford-Stuyvesant store to relieve himself only to find a dead woman in the basement boiler …

www.nydailynews.com