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 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?
guilty of the crime of felony, to wit 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, most trustworthy. i m a gentleman. you had a crush on her. no, we are absolutely not. we always maintained that real platonic friends. you never told lucy that you had a crush on her? no, i never said that. you never said you were in 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 maribel. and the computer search of the area where maribel s body was found? k.c. says he didn t do it, someone else did, by remotely accessing the same computer right after he had used it. you don t think that s quite a coincidence? are many questions but i didn t do it. you re being framed here?
miss maribel ramos. maribel is no longer with us. the prosecution laid out the evidence against k.c. the unrequited love. the scratches. the 911 call. and finally the computer searches. he s wondering how close is maribel s body to where they re doing that awareness search? that s why he goes to google maps. the defense pointed out there was no dna, fingerprints, cell phone info, or standard forensic evidence that tied k.c. joy to maribel s murder or to the crime scene. we don t know what happened. what kind of force was used? nobody knows. who used it first? nobody knows. was there a weapon used? was it used by maribel or was it used by k.c. joy? nobody knows. all true. but the computer searches were enough for the jury. we the jury in the above-entitled action find the defendant, kwang choi joy,
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
that s why we didn t arrest him right away. police needed to see exactly what k.c. joy was doing on those library 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. that s k.c. checking his e-mail. that s k.c. applying for a job. that s 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 that showed there was going to be an awareness walk in the near future. a walk to help find maribel? it was. he google mapped that park and zoomed in onto it. he then panned out, navigated