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 was on the night maribel disappeared. did you come into orange at all on thursday? no. police also had to consider this. maribel had told lucy that things weren t working out with paul lopez. she wasn t a match with paul. so she was online talking to people. it wasn t clear if paul knew, even as they kept dating, that maribel was back on plenty of fish and had met a new man. he was a photographer who d worked a lot with the military. it was a connection for both of them. how did she describe that guy? she said, oh, i met someone. he s very interesting. we have lot in common. and you thought what? good? i thought, great. they planned a date for cinco de mayo. two days before that date was to happen, maribel vanished. police talked to that photographer and made a recording of the conversation.
it sounds like you were taking this pretty seriously from the get-go. absolutely. why couldn t she be off by herself, or with some other friends, or maybe she lost her phone or forgot to call? that was our hope, that she was just missing, that she would come walking through the door. but her family and friends expressed that she was very responsible. and nobody s 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 maribel 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 maribel was missing. lucy and the softball team went
combat. she also made sergeant. and when her tour in iraq ended, she re-enlisted for another. she seemed fearless. she could very easily have become a casualty. yes. and other people did die, other friends of hers. in 2009 after two tours in iraq, maribel left the army and set part two of her plan into action, enrolling in college. but adjusting back to civilian life wasn t as easy as maribel had expected. like a lot of war veterans, she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, or ptsd. she d seen some terrible things. did she ever talk about that? not with me. instead, she focused on school, work and family, especially her niece giselle. she kind of adopted you as this project. yeah. now, why did she do that?
felony. k.c. joy was convicted of second degree murder. after which he told me, the jury got it wrong. are you dangerous? me, i m the perfect most honest guy there is. i m more of a gentlemen. you had a crush on her? no, absolutely not. we are platonic friends. you never told lucy that you had a crush on her? no, i never said that. you never said you or love with her? no, never said that either. you weren t obsessed with her? no, i was not obsessed with her. the plastic surgery? his choice, he says. not done for mirabel. and the computer searches of the area where mirabel s body was found? k.c. says he didn t do it, someone else did it by remotely accessing the same computer right after he had used it. you don t think that s quite a coincidence? it may be a coincidence, but i didn t do it. you re being framed here?
now, ramirez knew it was time for one last meeting with k.c. joy. thanks for coming down here voluntarily, i appreciate it. you re gonna give me a ride back to the library than i will have to walk. i don t have a car. premiers didn t tell k.c. that mirabel had been found, he just tried for the final time to get k.c. to be the one who would say what had happened. for k.c., i think you have the answers in your heart and i think you should share them. i have to go. once again, k.c. joy walked out of the interview room, he didn t get far. this time he was arrested and charged with the murder of maribel ramos. the woman he had loved who had not love him. when he was taken into custody, k.c. joy was wearing mirabel s dog tags. he pleaded not guilty, and in july 2014, a year after maribel vanished, he went on trial for