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
maribel knew exactly how she d do it, joining the army and doing two tours overseas before returning to civilian life, but even her military experience wouldn t be enough to prepare her for the evil she battled back at home. finding out what happened to this tough tenacious woman would be one of the biggest mysteries a veteran detective would ever have to solve. here s josh mankiewicz with mystery in orange county. orange county, california. on tv, it s a place of sun, fun and privilege. it s where the real housewives first aired their dirty laundry and where the kids from o.c. showed us all what temperature cool really was. around here you get a sense everyone is rich and white and lives in a mansion with a view of the pacific. but step back from the coast and you ll see the orange county that isn t on tv, not as wealthy, not as white, full of those who came here from somewhere else, chasing a better life and finding it in places like santa ana, a mostly working-class immigrant co