they even went on a cruise 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, that s a good idea. formalities over, detective ramirez started asking about maribel. as you know, right now, there s 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? about 9:00 p.m. about 9:00. then i went out. that was thursday night, may 2nd. the next night when the cops were called to maribel s house, k.c. wasn t there. he explained he had been so worried that he did his own investigation, watching his own front door from his car parked out front. i saw in movies, detective
who had been calling. police needed to check him out. and there was this lead. there was a person at cal state fullerton that was in the veterans association with her that had given her a bad feeling. he may have wanted to pursue some sort of dating relationship. but gave her a bad feeling how? she wasn t interested and she didn t give him any attention, yet he didn t go away. so he made her feel uncomfortable. correct. and by now, detective ramirez had learned something else. just a little over a week before she vanished, maribel ramos had called 911. hi, it s not an emergency but i just is there a recording? is there a what? is this conversation recording? yes. every conversation is recorded. maribel wanted it on the record. she wanted police to know she was very afraid of someone.
i felt that he was very confident that we weren t going to figure it out. what mr. joy apparently didn t know was that other officers were watching him 24/7. the surveillance teams noticed he was spending a lot of time at the public library, and he was using the computers there. probably because police had taken away his phone and maribel s computer, which was the one k.c. normally used. initially we would have undercover policemen go into the library and walk around and see what he s doing. at one point he s seen googling can a cell phone be tracked if it s turned off. well, that s certainly suspicious. it is. detective ramirez was consulting daily with orange county deputy district attorney scott simmons. there are things that can be called into question, but they re not immediately proof of anything. exactly.
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 i m 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 reason for concern, of course. and so was this. detective ramirez had learned about the 911 call maribel had made 11 days before she disappeared. and he knew that in that call the man maribel said that she might have to kill was k.c. joy. his full name is kwang choi joy. weren t the police out to
yes, i did. gisele was 14 at the time. but detective ramirez, who s been a cop for more years than gisele has been alive, was not as hopeful. she s not using her cell phone, she s not taking any money out. no one s heard from her. when you ve picked up no trace of her after a couple of days, you still think you re looking for a living person? the percentages are starting to drop, not in our favor. because by then you ve called all the hospitals. all hospitals, jails. there s an alert out that any police officer, what, in southern california sees her. correct. and the media was also helping. and nothing? nothing. no maribel on security tape from any nearby store. police checked all of them. they found only this image from the security camera outside the manager s office for her apartment complex. it s maribel paying the rent. it s may 2nd, 8:18 p.m., the night before anyone realized she had disappeared. maribel seems to be alone. so what the cops needed to do was tal