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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? >> he brought a voice recorder and a few more questions. >> how are you this morning? >> all right. >> good, good. >> detective ramirez already knew the answers to some of them. >> when you say work, she works at? >> fullerton. >> cal state fullerton? >> yeah. >> and to some he didnt. >> did you have any marks on your legs or anything? >> no. >> well, le...

You tell me. >> he tried backing k.c. into a corner about what might be found on k.c.s hard drive. >> the good thing is if theres anything that you ever deleted that you wish you hadnt, we should be able to help you out with that. >> youre hoping hes going to think to himself, okay, everything ive deleted theyre going to see. >> right. >> didnt work. >> didnt work. we were swinging and missing regularly on a daily basis. >> k.c. joy was willing to talk repeatedly without an attorney. >> k.c., yo...

>> by now, posters blanket the city of orange. maribel ramos was missing and her family was frantic. >> as soon as i got the call she didnt show up for her baseball game, i got the worst feeling in the world. >> putting himself out there with all the rest was maribels roommate, k.c. joy. >> shes the only family i have. shes my best friend. thats 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 happ...

Together. soon, police would be talking with k.c. joy. >> do you have a business card, sir? >> yeah. >> so i keep track of names straight. >> yeah, thats a good idea. >> formalities over, detective ramirez started asking about maribel. >> as you know, right now, theres some people, some family and friends that are worried about maribel, your roommate. >> i was her friend and i care about her very much. >> but he said he had no idea what happened to her. >> so when was the last time you saw her? ...

None of them could be connected to maribels disappearance. so in the end there was just one person the cops couldnt 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. shes 36 years old and she didnt 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 ...

Alone in that dusty canyon since before anyone knew she was missing. now ramirez knew it was time for one last meeting with casy joy. thanks for coming down here. i appreciate it. >> youre going to give me ride back to library, then ill have to walk. >> ramirez didnt tell casey that maribell had been found. he just tried for the final time to go k.c. to be the one who would say what had happened. >> k.c., i think you have the answers in your heart, that you do and that you should share them. >> ...

>> yeah. >> now the woman k.c. told lucy he wanted had told him that 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. >> doesnt sound like that did a lot to set aside your suspicions? >> no, it didnt. >> suspicions, sure. but no proof a crime had even...

>> it does. >> when was the last time you guys had any sort of an argument? >> actually that thursday. >> this thursday? >> that was the last night anyone saw maribel, the night she was caught on camera paying the rent, which k.c. said was what they were arguing about. >> well, what happened? tell me about that. >> because i was -- im supposed to move out. >> it turned out k.c. had recently lost his job and could no longer pay his share of the rent. maribel had asked him to move out. that was re...