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Raquel Ramirez
Status: HOMICIDE
City: Hartford
State: Connecticut
County: Hartford County
Date of birth: February 15, 1956
Date of death: June 30, 1985
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Race: Hispanic/Latino
Cause of death: Ligature Strangulation
Anniversary month: June
LEA: Hartford Police Department, Hartford, Connecticut
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February 15, 2020 | By Joshua Lester This story is part of a collaborative project between Project: Cold Case and a University of North Florida Journalism class. The student credited above wrote this story as a class project. After Sunday dinner at her grandmother’s house each week, Brenda Perez sat and watched her mother, Raquel Ramirez, twirl to the music. Raquel was the life of the party. She loved to dance – especially salsa. She taught everyone in the family how to salsa dance, with varying levels of success. Brenda heeded those lessons, practicing in the dark so no one could see her missteps. Those dinners don’t happen anymore. There hasn’t been a dance lesson in decades. On June 30, 1985, 29-year-old Raquel Ramirez was found strangled in Hartford, Connecticut, near a bridge crossing the Connecticut River. Raquel grew up in Puerto Rico. She moved to New Jersey at the age of 15 with aspirations of becoming a teacher. She loved to cook meals from her place of... Read More
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