In mid-May 2001 in Phoenix, 19-year-old Tanya Sue Ramsdell, who was five months pregnant, was shot to death in her home on East Roberts Road. The killing occurred after an acquaintance, Tracy Allen Hampton, returned to the house and shot her in the head while she was sleeping. Hampton had earlier shot and killed Ramsdell’s boyfriend, Charles Findley, in a back room of the same residence.

The violence followed a visit by Department of Public Safety officers on May 16 to serve Hampton with a traffic ticket; Findley gave officers a photograph of Hampton, an act Hampton later described as informing. Hampton reportedly admitted the killings to a fellow inmate while awaiting trial, saying he killed Findley for being an informant and killed Ramsdell because he believed she was pregnant by a Black man. Hampton was arrested May 31, 2001, and later convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of manslaughter; the jury and court found the crimes especially heinous and depraved.

Did anyone who knew Tanya, Charles, or the household in 2001 have additional details about what happened that day?