- Jerry Ramrattan impersonated a police officer to harass and manipulate his victims.
- He used his legal knowledge to frame his ex-girlfriend.
The second episode of Netflix's "Worst Ex Ever" examines Jerry Ramrattan, a private detective who impersonated a police officer to manipulate his victims and framed his ex-girlfriend for armed robbery.
The show is production company Blumhouse's latest Netflix series after "Worst Roommate Ever." The studio typically works on buzzy horror movies, but has dabbled in true crime. Netflix has built up a solid reputation for providing true crime fans with gripping documentaries and dramatizations, so their continued partnership makes business sense.
The Ramrattan episode mainly focuses on his relationship with Seemona Sumasar, his ex whom he met in a New York restaurant in 2006.
Sumasar said in the docuseries: "He was wearing a suit and he had a holster and he had a gun at his side. He told me he was a cop and a detective for the Brooklyn DA's office."
They dated for two years until Sumasar ended things when she discovered that Ramrattan was married and had two children. She allowed him to live in her basement for several months after they split, per a 2016 lawsuit that Sumasar filed against Nassau County Police Department for her arrest and incarceration as a result of Ramrattan framing her.
In 2009, after their breakup, Ramrattan sexually assaulted Sumasar in her home and kept her captive for several hours, according to the lawsuit.
"Using duct tape, Ramrattan bound Sumasar's hands and legs and gagged her. Over the course of eight or nine hours, Ramrattan held Sumasar prisoner while he threatened to commit suicide with his gun, menaced her with the same gun, and raped her. After pleading with Sumasar not to tell anyone what he had done, Ramrattan eventually freed her," the lawsuit said.
Sumasar went to the authorities, and Ramrattan was charged with rape and impersonating a police officer.
While on bail, he used two associates to report fake armed robberies in Long Island. One of them claimed that Sumasar loaded a shotgun in front of them. Ramratta then painted Sumasar as the culprit by leaving a bullet at the scene of one of the fake crimes.
Police arrested Sumasar and she spent seven months in Nassau County Correctional Center. She was freed in December 2010 after an informant tipped off the Nassau County District Attorney's office that Ramrattan framed her.
Jerry Ramrattan is in prison
In January 2012, Ramrattan was convicted of raping Sumasar in 2009, as well as framing her for the faked armed robberies.
According to court documents, his convictions also included unlawful imprisonment, perjury, conspiracy, and falsely reporting an incident.
At the time, New York Assistant District Attorney Frank DeGaetano told CNN: "This is one of the most bizarre cases my office has ever seen."
Ramrattan was sentenced to 32 years in prison and will be eligible for parole in 2032, according to the New York State Department of Corrections.
He's serving his sentence in the Eastern Correctional Facility in Ulster County, New York.