The closer that we get, the more my stomach is just like I can't even speak because if I open my mouth I feel like I'm going to vomit.

My gut will scream at me when something's wrong and my gut was bellowing from the void.

Something is wrong. Something's wrong. Something's wrong.

On Mother's Day weekend in 2021, skeletal remains were discovered in the shed on private property, belonging to a man who had passed away months earlier.

Though the identity of the body wouldn't be confirmed until that summer,

Danielle McNaughton knew in the pit of her stomach that it was her mother,

Denise Scott Ramsey.

The circumstances of Denise's death are suspicious. But will Danielle ever have answers about what happened to her mom?

The story took over the headlines that spring, but since then,

little has been discussed and little is known about the case. And that's why Danielle is on Dark Down East, to bring attention to her mother's story.

And she shares it with us under one condition, that you listen without judgment and with an abundance of compassion.

It's something she says her mother never received in her lifetime.

I'm Kylie Lowe and with Danielle McNaughton, this is Denise Scott Ramsey's story on Dark Down East.

At the time of this episode's original release date in February of 2023,

no one has been arrested or charged with any crime as it relates to the death of

Denise Scott Ramsey.

All names referenced in this episode are in the public record.

The first thing that was abundantly clear to me about Danielle McNaughton is that this woman is tough. She takes no BS, tells it like it is, and she is a fierce protector of the people she loves, her children,

her husband, and her late mother, Denise Scott Ramsey.

All of those traits were on full display as she began to tell me about her mom.

My relationship with my mother was very complicated and my childhood was not the best.

I am an only child.

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