marriage to work, i did not give up. soon he was gone, vanished without a word or a trace. he left the young daughter behind. he left the house. was this a husband who did not want to be found? or could this be something else. detectives are not an undercover operation. that would lead to a long hard to say ready for that? i know that it has to happen. disappearance in the desert. could it be the perfect crime. i can only imagine what would be like to keep that. welcome to dateline. i m lester holt. for eight years it was a mystery, a husband who had simply vanished. on the surface it didn t make sense. he had a wife, a lucrative job, a daughter he loved. but investigators were told he also had a secret. so was he missing or was he hiding? that question would lead detectives to a dark discovery because someone else had a secret to. here s josh michael it s. there is an old saying, that two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead. we never talked about
executive. but as your career was on the rise. her marriage was on the rocks. sydney i still wanted this marriage to work, i did not give up. soon he was gone, vanished without a word or a trace. he left the young daughter behind. he left the house. was this a husband who did not want to be found? or could this be something else. detectives are not an undercover operation. that would lead to a long hard to say ready for that? i know that it has to happen. disappearance in the desert. could it be the perfect crime. i can t imagine what would be like to keep that. welcome to dateline. i m lester holt. for eight years it was a mystery, a husband who had simply vanished. on the surface it didn t make sense. he had a wife, a lucrative job, a daughter he loved. but investigators were told he also had a secret. so was he missing or was he hiding? that question would lead detectives to a dark discovery because someone else had a secret to. here s josh michael it s.
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
department. the investigator wanted to know if she had spoken with mike. you say what? i say they don t consider him. he is right where he wants to be. that he left me, with his boyfriend, and i haven t heard from him since. police seem to find it understandable that, perhaps, and i didn t really care much about mike s whereabouts at that point. they never asked me any more questions. never showed up at your house? no. whatever suspicions might side with family may have had, police didn t share them. so, with a few computer keystrokes, and without the family s knowledge or any further investigation, mike snider s name was literally wiped out of the national missing persons database. ellen had said, he was not missing. back then, that was good enough for the police. there should have been, obviously, a little bit more investigation other than just the word of ellen snyder. all this time the you
police needed to see exactly what k.c. was doing on those elaborate computers. that would require a very unusual plan. they obtained a search warrant allowing them to watch in realtime every move made on the computer. this is a recording of k.c. s actual computer keystrokes and mouse clicks, this is him checking his emails. that is k.c. applying for a job, that is k.c. 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 and it showed that there is going to be a walk in the near future a walk to help find mirabel? it was. he google map that park and zoomed in on to it, he then panned out navigated over about