50 July 29, 2019 PEOPLE
SIBLINGS ANNA AND AMANDA RAMIREZ WERE INSEPARABLE UNTIL A FATEFUL
FIGHT ENDED WITH ANNA DEAD—AND AMANDA ARRESTED
By ELAINE ARADILLASKILLER TWIN?
A SisterFatallyStabbedE
ven as infants, identical twins Anna and
Amanda Ramirez were inseparable. “If
I put one in the bassinet without the
other, they would start crying,” recalls
their mom, Ivelisse Class. “They couldn’t
be apart.” That closeness continued
throughout their childhoods, as they
grew up in Camden, N.J., and into adult-
hood, where the pair both worked in the
medical field and often spent their free
time together.
And so it was that on Fri., June 21, the
27-year-old twins were hanging out with a cousin
and a friend at Amanda’s apartment in Camden’s
Centennial Village. As the evening wore on, the
group were laughing and drinking, even snappinga happy picture of themselves that Anna cap-
tioned “You know the vibe” on Facebook at 3:43
a.m. But just hours after Anna’s post, shortly after
5:30 a.m., Camden County police responded to a
911 call at the complex. Officers discovered Anna
outside Centennial Village with blood seeping
through her clothes. A path of bloody footprints
led them to the door of Amanda’s apartment,
where police say they found Amanda with blood
on her clothes and scratches on her face—and
changing stories about what had happened
to her sister. “Officers located the victim lying
on the ground, and it appeared she had been
stabbed,” the Camden County prosecutor’s of-
fice said in a press release. “She was taken to
Cooper University Hospital and was pronouncedBROKEN BOND
Amanda Ramirez
(left, in Camden
County court June
27) is charged with
manslaughter in the
stabbing death of her
identical-twin sister,
Anna Ramirez (right).