Have you ever had nightmares about being set up to take the fall for crimes you didn’t commit? How about crimes that hadn’t even been committed, and then spending months in jail while trying to prove that it wasn’t you?
We’re pretty sure many people have had that nightmare, and there’s been more than a little activity around this plot on the Hollywood side, but Seemona Sumasar is probably one of the very few people who’ve actually lived that particular nightmare.
“Soon after Seemona Sumasar started dating Jerry Ramrattan, she had an inkling that something might be wrong.
Mr. Ramrattan in court
He said he was a police detective, but never seemed to go to work. He seemed obsessed with “C.S.I.,” “Law & Order” and other television police dramas.
About a year after he moved into her house in Queens, their relationship soured. One day, he cornered her, taped her mouth and raped her, she said. Mr. Ramrattan was arrested.
But he soon took his revenge, the authorities said. Drawing on his knowledge of police procedure, gleaned from his time as an informer for law enforcement, he accomplished what prosecutors in New York called one of the most elaborate framing plots that they had ever seen.
One night, Ms. Sumasar was pulled over by the police. Before she could speak, detectives slapped handcuffs on her. “You know you did it,” she said one later shouted at her. “Just admit it.””
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