Mr Zig Zag: The Disappearance of Jo Ramsden

Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast

Mark Randell & Bethan Trueman

True Crime

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In April 1991, 21-year-old Jo Ramsden disappeared from the Dorset town of Bridport, a place she knew well and where her routine rarely changed. When she didn’t return home, concern quickly turned into a desperate search. Witnesses reported seeing Jo with a man in a distinctive zig-zag patterned jumper — a sighting that would become central to the case. Despite strong suspicions around a known offender, no one has ever been charged with Jo’s disappearance. More than three decades later, the identity of “Mr Zig Zag” — and what really happened to Jo — remains unknown, although we have strong suspicions... www.patreon.com/seeingredpodcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/seeingredtw⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ www.seeingredpodcast.co.uk Theme music arranged and composed by Holly-Jane Shears: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.soundcloud.com/DeadDogInBlackBag⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	...you know,
0:08.0	... Hello and welcome to seeing Red, a true crime podcast on Mark.
0:37.1	And I'm Bethan. Welcome back, everybody.
0:39.3	And thank you so much for joining us once again for another episode of seeing Red.
0:43.4	It's lovely to have you here.
0:45.2	Lovely to have you back. It's a lovely sunny day here, isn't it?
0:48.9	It's a beautiful day.
0:52.8	Yeah.
0:54.2	It is. It's a lovely sunny day. and now it's time to talk about something really horrible, I imagine.
0:59.6	It is, I'm afraid.
1:00.7	Unless you're going really off-piece and we've got nice happy story today.
1:04.0	We could do that one time, couldn't we?
1:06.3	We could do.
1:07.1	Like the Titanic, that was a nice departure.
1:09.8	Nice happy story.
1:14.3	Okay, this week we're heading back to 1991 and to the small market town of Bridport as we dive into the disturbing disappearance in April
1:21.3	that year of 21-year-old Joe Ramston, a young woman living with Down syndrome who on an ordinary Tuesday afternoon vanished
1:29.3	without a trace. Now, before we get into this, I feel like we've discussed this before, Beth and
1:35.9	possibly on crime wave, does it ring any bells for you? It doesn't really, no. Obviously,
1:42.7	we did cover the story of Debbieby yeah debby leach and she did have down syndrome
1:50.1	so um we've definitely covered a case of a young woman living with down syndrome but we haven't i don't
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