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
And freaking out. I walk in and my sister is not there. Her doors open, her lights are on, her bed is undone. Everything is horrible and i felt it. She had been fearless on the front lines in iraq. But, something had her terrified at home. Im scared. I dont feel safe. A desperate call to police, and then she vanished. Somebody made her pretty scared. Theres nothing to say what that was. Right. What had happened to this Beautiful Army sergeant . That question would last lunch a spellbinding mystery. Was a killer out there . Could police catch him . They would hatch a plan a virtual genius. One of the detective said youre not going to believe this. Welcome to dateline. Maribel ramos was a fighter, joining the army and doing two tours overseas before returning to civilian life, but even her Military Experience would not be enough to prepare her for the evil she battled back home. Here is Josh Mankiewicz with mystery and Orange County. Orange county, california. On tv, it is a place of sun
i would say yes. if i had a paid attorney, someone like og simpson had, i would be out. the premiers know that you re guilty is that you don t have enough money? exactly, money talks, if i had money, i would not be here. k.c. joy was sentenced to 15 years to life for killing maribel ramos. what do you think happened? i think, she went to bed, and i think what he did is he got a pillow and smothered her and as he has his pillow over her face, she struggles a little bit and i believe that s where he got the scratches on his right triceps. mr. joy hadn t done that google maps search leading you to the body, would he be a free man? if no other evidence came up? yes. he would be a person of interest in a cold case? correct. mirabel ramos graduated from college, posthumously, her
could be connected to mirabel 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 casey joy. oh, this is not an emergency, i have a roommate, she is 36 years old and she didn t come home last night. he was also the last to see her alive. i felt you most likely was dead, i felt like there was a high probability mr. joy was responsible for it and he knew a lot more than he was telling us. detective ramirez became casey joyce shadow, appearing in the morning and then later by moonlight, hours after k.c. s first police interviewed a joyful ramirez showed up to his house. hello, k.c., can we come in?
way radios, detective bryan stanley was rewatching k.c. s google search, trying to give the detective hate in a better direction. focus k.c. on an intersection and then moved over to the tree. on the center of the shot there s one tree that looks like a bush at the middle of the wash, i told him to look for the tree and in the wash in the area. him and his partner found the tree and moved off the road and pass the barbed wire fence and then they knew they were close. as we were trucking to this area here, the first thing we found was an overwhelming smell of a ducking body or something dead, and my partner and i turned our head, we looked over and saw this shallow grave site. at long last, there she was. one of the detectives called and said, joe, you will not believe this. we found her. maribel ramos had been left alone in that dusty canyon since before anyone knew she was missing.