moonlight. hours after k.c. s first police interview, a cheerful joey ramirez showed up at his house. hey, k.c., how are you? can we come in? he brought a voice recorder and a few more questions. how are you this morning? all right. good, good. detective ramirez already knew the answers to some of them. when you say work, she works at? fullerton. cal state fullerton? yeah. and to some he didn t. did you have any marks on your legs or anything? no. well, let me just ask you, do you have any injuries on your legs? no. you have no injuries on your legs whatsoever? no, i don t have any. okay. then ramirez showed up again that night. k.c. joy, just a couple of quick questions for you, and i ll get out of here. how are you doing? are you okay? i ve been crying. how many times did you talk to him? i believe i talked to him at least nine times. ramirez tried scaring k.c. about potential evidence found in his car. why would there be blood in a r
you tell me. he tried backing k.c. into a corner about what might be found on k.c. s hard drive. the good thing is if there s anything that you ever deleted that you wish you hadn t, we should be able to help you out with that. you re hoping he s going to think to himself, okay, everything i ve deleted they re going to see. right. didn t work. didn t work. we were swinging and missing regularly on a daily basis. k.c. joy was willing to talk repeatedly without an attorney. k.c., you ve been very cooperative with us. i ve seen movies. the detective takes my fingerprints. he says to you, i ve seen movies, and now you re going to take my fingerprints. he s like a pro. he s seen it all.
by now, posters blanket the city of orange. maribel ramos was missing and her family was frantic. as soon as i got the call she didn t show up for her baseball game, i got the worst feeling in the world. putting himself out there with all the rest was maribel s roommate, k.c. joy. she s the only family i have. she s my best friend. that s all. k.c. had moved from tennessee to southern california for a job. he had no family and few friends here. so he turned to maribel, and she was happy to include him. she even arranged for k.c. to tutor her niece in math. he seemed nice, respectful. he liked to be involved with the family and my aunt. he didn t have family of his own so he kind of attached himself to yours? yeah. but they weren t boyfriend and girlfriend? no. even so, in photos, maribel and k.c. seemed to be having a great time. they even went on a cruise
together. soon, police would be talking with k.c. joy. do you have a business card, sir? yeah. so i keep track of names straight. yeah, that s a good idea. formalities over, detective ramirez started asking about maribel. as you know, right now, there s some people, some family and friends that are worried about maribel, your roommate. i was her friend and i care about her very much. but he said he had no idea what happened to her. so when was the last time you saw her? about 9:00 p.m. about 9:00. then i went out. that was thursday night, may 2nd. the next night when the cops were called to maribel s house, k.c. wasn t there. he explained he had been so worried that he did his own investigation, watching his own front door from his car parked out frt. iaw in vies, detective movies of a crime scene,
none of them could be connected to maribel 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, k.c. joy. orange police dispatcher. this is not an emergency. i have a roommate. she s 36 years old and she didn t come home last night. he was also the last to see her alive. i felt she most likely was dead. i felt there was a high probability mr. joy was responsible for it and he knew a lot more than he was telling us. so detective ramirez became k.c. joy s shadow, appearing in the morning, and then later by