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
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?
anything that told the cops what had happened to her. as he dug deeper into k.c. joy s background, detective joey ramirez found more and more evidence k.c. was infatuated, even obsessed, with maribel ramos. for instance, the time maribel told k.c. so is the export front who had been calling, he had never mentioned he was a problem and police didn t think he was involved. there was the photographer from the website plenty of fish, his cell phone data placed him in san diego, out of the area at the time in question. and the veteran from cal statehood come on too strong? he was in japan, none of them
yes. and that s a bad situation. at that point i m like, okay, k.c. you know, you re a 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. told lucy he wanted had told him 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. doesn t sound like that did a lot to set aside your suspicions? no, it didn t. suspicions, sure. but no proof a crime had even occurred. maribel ramos was missing. that s all anyone knew. ready, sir? and so k.c. joy walked out of that police station, like all the other men in maribel s life, a free man. finally the coup they had been waiting for, and you won t believe how they got it. coming up. no one had searched there. no. but he