Dateline: Who was Remy Ramsaran and what terrifying crime did he do? Disturbing details of the incident, revealed 

Dateline reported on the case of Ganesh Remy Ramsaran, who committed a heinous crime for which he has been serving jail time for over ten years. What makes this case stand out is not only the crime itself but also the way Remy discusses his prison sentence. In an interview with Dateline correspondent Andrea Canning for Dateline: Unforgettable, Remy described life behind bars as surprisingly easy. He told Canning,

“Prison is easy. You don’t understand. There’s so much freedom in prison,”

Now, Remy insists he is innocent, despite serving a manslaughter sentence in connection with his wife, Jennifer Ramsaran's 2012 death, after his earlier murder conviction was overturned. His case is one of the most unsettling ever covered on Dateline.

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Dateline: The Disturbing Case of Remy Ramsaran and Jennifer Goes Missing

As Oxygen True Crime reports, on December 11, 2012, Remy called 911 to report his wife missing after she failed to return from what he said was a shopping trip in Syracuse. He told the dispatcher,

“Uh, my wife left this morning between 10 and 11... and she hasn’t been back, and I’m really freaked out. This is totally unlike her, and none of our friends have heard from her,”

The following day, Remy used the Find My iPhone app to try to track her phone when he was at the police station. Officers checked the location in South Plymouth but found nothing. When Remy went himself, he located the phone and called 911 again, saying,

“I found my wife’s iPhone.”

Five days later, Jen’s father discovered her red minivan abandoned in a parking lot eight miles from her home. Spots of blood inside suggested something violent had happened. On February 26, 2013, the case turned into a confirmed homicide when Jen’s naked body was found in a remote area.

Jen and Remy had once been a seemingly happy couple, raising three children together. But detectives soon uncovered that there were problems in the marriage. Jen spent much of her time in the online game Kingdoms of Camelot, where she had started to flirt with a man in England. At the same time, Remy was hiding his own affair with Jen’s best friend, Eileen Sayles. Sayles later told investigators she had been ready to end things, but Remy resisted. As Sayles told Dateline,

“He gets upset. You know, he wants what he wants,”

Investigators became suspicious of how Remy had personally found Jen’s phone. They also questioned his alibi. He claimed he went for a run after Jen left, yet no surveillance cameras confirmed his route until he suddenly appeared at a YMCA. Interestingly, blood was also discovered on the couple’s mattress and on the sweatshirt Remy wore that day. Detectives concluded he had killed Jen, moved her body, left her van, and dropped her phone before attempting to create an alibi.

On May 17, 2013, Remy was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. When interviewed by Dateline after his arrest, Remy denied any motive. He said,

“I had the perfect life. I had a wife, had a girlfriend, had kids, I have everything anyone would want. I didn’t do anything,”

Remy’s first trial took place in 2014. Prosecutors argued he wanted Jen out of the picture so he could freely continue his affair with Sayles. He was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life. However, in 2022, a judge overturned the conviction. According to NBC News, the court found that Remy’s attorney, Gilberto Garcia, provided an

“egregious and prejudicial”

defense. Garcia admitted to the jury that he had questioned his client’s innocence

“a million times.”

Special prosecutor Ben Bergman told Dateline,

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen or have heard of the sort of ineffectiveness that occurred in this case.”

A retrial was planned, but the years that had passed weakened the case. Lead investigator Richard Cobb had died, and new forensic findings complicated the evidence. Although Bergman still believed Remy was guilty, the case ended in a plea deal. In 2023, Remy pleaded guilty to manslaughter in exchange for a twenty-two sentence. With good behaviour, he could be released in just over eight years. Even so, Remy maintains his innocence and continues to describe prison as a place of freedom.

Dateline is streaming on Peacock.

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