Meredith Ramsey (Jacqueline McKenzie) is the main villainess of "Terminal Velocity," episode 10.13 of CSI: Miami (airdate January 29, 2012). She is a former high school chemistry teacher who was married to skydiver Kevin Ramsey, who was younger than she is.
After Kevin was killed while skydiving, his past as a sperm donor was revealed to Meredith by Ryan Wolfe, with Kevin's donations resulting in the birth of 103 children. Meredith stated that she was unaware of Kevin's donors and his immense amount of children, and claimed that she had no plans on having children of her own when she married Kevin.
However, Meredith's claims to Wolfe were proven false after Calleigh spoke with one of the donor kids, Jessica Wyatt, who stated that in an attempt to call Kevin, she ended up speaking to Meredith instead--who warned her to stay away from him. It was also revealed that Meredith had wanted children, and she married Kevin because him being younger meant he could keep up with their kids (while remaining unaware that he had a genetic disorder known as Wilson's disease). The latter told her that he was sterile, but after finding out about his donations, his 103 kids, and that he had a vasectomy after their marriage, Meredith confronted Kevin, who admitted his plans to not have children.
Furious over being deceived, Meredith went on a rampage and broke into the clinic that contained Kevin's sperm samples and destroyed them. She also planned to kill her husband, and she did so by slipping a bag of nitric acid into Kevin's parachute, which eventually burned through the plastic and burned the ropes, sending Kevin falling to his death after his chute opened.
Meredith's villainous reveal was completed when Natalia Boa Vista revealed the stains from the acid on her hands while she was signing a document, and it was at that moment that she confessed to everything. Regarding her motive, the evil Meredith vented over Kevin's obsession with skydiving, and she stated that she wanted to make sure that it would kill him. Meredith was later arrested (off-screen) for killing her husband.
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- "(Natalia: "So you did want to have children.") Yes. That's why I married a younger man. So that he could keep up with the kids. But it was just all skydiving to him, and car racing. Whatever he wanted to do, whenever he wanted to do it. (Natalia: "Oh, so you made sure that's what killed him.") He took my best years, so...yes." (Meredith Ramsey voicing her anger towards her husband, Kevin, as well as revealing why she killed him)