couldn t feel. my body went numb. i told her karlyn s gone. she s gone. she was a beautiful young mom doing important work. she was an intelligence specialist. some of her work was very sensitive. top secret. i believe she had top secret clearance. when she was found dead, everyone wondered, did her work cost her her life? i remember them telling me did she come into a lot of money she couldn t explain? maybe she was selling secrets? maybe. that s like out of a spy novel. what about other secrets? the personal kind. we knew they were having issues. right before they got married she found out that he was cheating. but somewhere out there was a stranger keeping secrets too. my data guy starts going through her facebook. she made reference to firearms in her social media. we saw that they were communicating her gas mileage. what a weird thing to do. a mystery that would drag on for months. and then, one final secret uncovered by science. you s
i believe she had top secret clearance. when she was found dead, everyone wondered, did her work cost her her life? i remember them telling me did she come into a lot of money she couldn t explain? maybe she was selling secrets? maybe. that s like out of a spy novel. what about other secrets? the personal kind. we knew they were having issues. right before they got married she found out that he was cheating. but somewhere out there was a stranger keeping secrets too. my data guy starts going through her facebook. she made reference to firearms in her social media. we saw that they were communicating her gas mileage. what a weird thing to do. a mystery that would drag on for months. and then, one final secret uncovered by science. you start peeling the layers back until the number is visible. hello and welcome to dateline. texas native karlyn ramirez grew up surrounded by friends and family, then moved east after joining the army. she had a j
back. she found herself volunteering at an orphanage. well, she starts sending me pictures of a little boy that she s in love with, and she says mom, i want to adopt him. i said, no. in korea karlyn found another kind of love. she began dating a handsome sergeant named maliek kearney. she was attracted to his confidence, to his air, the way he carried himself. he was a decorated soldier. yes. did she like that about him? yes. they worked out together and they ran. they were very competitive. karlyn gushed about maliek to her friends. she said that he was a great man, that he treated her right. and then she told me they were engaged. engaged and expecting. pregnant, the army drafrd her to fort meade, maryland, home of the national security agency and one of the agency s most secret and secure facilities. was she happy? was she excited? she was excited. she started working and absolutely loved it. top secret, some of it? she would say mom, i can t
probably somebody close to her did this. with no obvious progress in karlyn s case, friends began to despire. it scared me that karlyn was never going to get her justice. but what they didn t know was maryland detectives and the army s criminal investigation division had been quietly collecting a massive amount of electronic information. of course police had initially talked to karlyn s estranged husband, maliek. but his phone records had indicated he was at home. 500 miles away from karlyn was murdered. but months after they d asked for it police finally had not only maliek s data but the data of everyone who had been contacted from his phone. we then requested and received information from the people that maliek was communicating with. all their tedious digital searching paid off. it was a development that took them in a whole new direction. buried in maliek s phone records were numerous calls and texts with a woman named dolores delgado. a former soldier living in florida.
daughter. susan had little time to mourn. she was busy caring for karlyn s daughter vale in texas while her father, maliek, was on active duty in south carolina. susan was also doing everything she could to help solve the case. investigators asked again and again, who would want karlyn dead? i would say you know, i am racking my brain and i wish i could tell you but i just cannot think of anyone. detectives cast a wide net. they spoke with karlyn s roommate marisa multiple times. they were curious about the soldier karlyn had the brief relationship with before she married maliek. could her death have been the result of a love triangle gone bad? their line of questioning made me think that they were looking at the soldier that she was involved with. the guy she was having the fling with at work? yes.