i m craig melvin, and i natalie morales. and this is dateline yeah i m freaking out i walk in, and my sister s not there. her doors open, her lights are on, her bans on done everything was horrible. and i felt it. as she had been fearless on the frontlines in iraq pretty amazing. i saw her as like, a reall strong soldier but something about her terrified at home. we i m scared i don t feel safe. a desperate call to police. and then she vanished. when something made a prett scared yes there s no way to say wit that was right what had happened to this beautiful army sergeant? that question would launch a spellbinding mystery there were a number o potential suspects, absolutely was a killer out there? she was in danger could police catch him? they hatched a plan of virtual genius one of the detective said you re not going to believ this welcome to dateline maribel ramos was a fighter. join the army and doing tw times overseas before returnin to
that morning, things were no right. i got to text from casey at ten a.m. and it said, your sister didn t come home. they d been roommates for more than a year now casey felt protective of mirabel. he told lucy he had alread called police to report he missing. orange police - dispatcher, rose this is not an emergency. i have a roommate. she s 36 years old, and sh didn t come home last night. so, what i did is, i texted he at 11. i said, happy friday. because we usually text each other anyways. that was my way of connecting. and she didn t text me back. unusual yes lucy still wasn t worried she knew her combat-hardened sister could take care o herself. but then evening came and fo maribel, friday night softball night. she loved to play and neve missed a game. but this friday night sh didn t show. now, lucy s phone was ringing,