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
strong soldier. but something had her terrified at home. i m scared. i don t feel safe. a desperate call to police. and then she vanished. something made her pretty scared. yes. no way to say what that was. right. what had happened to this beautiful army sergeant? the question would launch a spellbinding mystery. you ve got a roommate, a boyfriend who she s maybe about to dump. you ve got an ex-boyfriend who s suddenly back in her life. there were a number of 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 detectives said, you re not going to believe this. hello, and welcome to dateline maribel ramos was a fighter. her family immigrated to the u.s. when she was a baby and she was always determined to get ahead. maribel knew exactly how she d do it, joining the army and doing two tours overseas before returning to civilian life, but even her milit
going to have a career yes this is what you re gonna do mia. this is what she tell me okay gisele? yes dina maribel got a dog an rented a two-bedroom apartment in the city of orange, which h shared with a roommate, a quie chemist named casey joy, who also had a dog i thought it was the perfec match. he is a dog, she is a dog. he seems quiet, he s not gonna have all these people coming over by may 2013, everything seemed great maribel was leading by example finishing up her degree in criminal justice at cal stat fullerton. gisele was following in he strong footsteps and she was dropping of money at my house because i ha gotten great grades. and she had just got her hai done, died in styles, because, for her graduation she looks great yeah. and she was happy yeah, she was and that s why it made no
could be connected to mirabel s disappearance. so in the end, there was just one person the cops couldn t stop looking at, the first person to report maribel missing, her roommate casey joy. oh, this is not an emergency, i have a roommate, she is 36 years old and she didn t come home last night. he was also the last to see her alive. i felt you most likely was dead, i felt like there was a high probability mr. joy was responsible for it and he knew a lot more than he was telling us. detective ramirez became casey joyce shadow, appearing in the morning and then later by moonlight, hours after k.c. s first police interviewed a joyful ramirez showed up to his house. hello, k.c., can we come in?
called into question. that s why we didn t arrest him right away. police needed to see exactly what casey joy was doing on those library computers and that would require a very unusual plan. they obtained a search warrant to watch every move made on the computer. this is a recording of casey s actual computer key strokes and mouse clicks. that s casey checking his email. that s casey applying for a job. that s casey typing in how long does it take a body to decay. suspicious maybe but not enough. and then he did this. he pulled up a facebook page, show there was gonna be an awareness walk in the near future. a walk to help find maribel? it was. he google maps that park in zoomed in on to it and then pan