marabel ramos. she just vanished. yes. how often does that kind of thing happen? it doesn t happen often. ramirez started by investigating the man in marabel s life. it turned out there were a few of them. did you know she was doing that online dating? did she talk about that? yeah, she did. marabel sometimes met guys through a website called plenty of fish. that s how she found paul lopez. they had been dating for a few months and paul had even joined her weekly softball game. lopez was the last person marabel talked to on the phone. now police wanted to talk to him. you know, you re not under arrest, anything like that. i wouldn t think so. ramirez sat across from paul and asked about his relationship with marabel. it s been nothing exclusive, it s just been dating. you date other people, too? me, yeah. you don t know if she dates other people or not? i don t ask, don t tell. and he asked lopez where he
also had a bad feeling about everything. it sounds like you were taking this pretty seriously from the get-go? absolutely. why couldn t she just be off by herself or with some other friends and maybe she lost her phone or forgot to call? that was our hope, that she was just missing and she would come walking through the door, but family and friends expressed she was very responsible. nobody had heard from her? nobody. so ramirez and his team went into action. they quickly figured out that if she left on her own accord, it didn t look like marabel had planned to be out long. she left her car at home. her car was there, her keys were gone, her phone was gone. but her toothbrush was there. so was her big purse she used when she had a lot to carry. k.c. returned home hours after police first got there. he again told the cops what he told them that morning, that marabel was missing. lucy and the softball team went
good man and i m sure you ll find somebody out there for you but but it s not going to be her. yeah. now the woman k.c. had told lucy he wanted had told him that not only did she not love him, but he had to basically get out of her life. despite that, k.c. continued talking with police. mr. joy was being cooperative. he was. talking to officers, let you guys take stuff out of the house. he did. and never showed up with a lawyer. he did not. it didn t sound like there was a lot to set aside your suspicions. no. it didn t. suspicions, sure. but no proof a crime had even occurred. marabel ramos was missing. that s all anyone knew. ready, sir? so k.c. joy walked out of that police station like all the other men in marabel s life. a free man. finally the clue they had been waiting for, and you won t believe how they got it.
and k.c. seemed to have a great time. they even went on a cruise together. soon police would be talking with k.c. joy. the formalities over, detective ramirez started asking about marabel. as you know, right now there are some family and friends that are worried about marabel, your roommate? i am her friend and i care about her very much. but he said he had no idea what happened to her. when was the last time you saw her? about 9:00 p.m. that was thursday night, may 2nd, 2013. the next night when the cops were called to marabel 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 front.
argument? thursday. this thursday? that was the last night anyone saw marabel, the night she was caught on camera paying the rent which, k.c. said, was what they were arguing about. what would happen? tell me about that. because i m supposed to move out. it turned out k.c. had recently lost his job and could no longer pay his share of the rent. marabel had asked him to move out. that was reason for concern, of course. and so was this. detective ramirez had learned about the 911 call marabel had made 11 days before she disappeared. and he knew that in that call, the man marabel said she might have to kill was k.c. joy. his full name is quan chul