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She seemed to be having a great time and went on a cruise together and soon police would be talking with casey joy. formalities is over. detective ramirez started asking about maribel. but ed he had no idea what happened to her. that was thursday night, may 2nd, 2013. the next night when the cop were called to maribels how, k.c. wasnt 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 felt that he was very confident that we werent going to figure it out. >> reporter: what mr. joy apparently didnt know was that other officer 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 maribels computer, which was the one k.c. normally used. >> initially, we would have undercover policemen go into the library, walk around him, see what he is...

Stanley was rewatching k.c.s google search trying to give detective hayden better directions. k.c. focused on an intersection and then moved over to the tree. >> in the center of the shot theres one tree that looks like the bush out in the middle of the wash. i told him to look for that tree and then in the wash from that area. >> he and his partner found the tree, then moved off the road and past a barbed wire fence. and then they knew they were close. >> as we were kind of trekking through thi...

Now ramirez knew it was time for one last meeting with k.c. joy. >> well, thanks for coming down here voluntarily, i really appreciate it. >> if you give me a ride back to library ill have to walk -- >> ramirez didnt tell k.c. that maribel had been found. he just tried for the final time to get k.c. to be the one who would say what had happened. >> k.c., i think that you have the answers in your heart, that you do and that you should share them -- >> ill go. >> so once again k.c. joy walked out ...

>> reporter: that was the last night anyone saw maribel, the night she was caught on camera paying the rent, which k.c. said is what they were arguing about. >> reporter: 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 s...

>> k.c. joy was convicted of second-degree murder, after which he told me the jury got it wrong. are you dangerous? >> me? im the perfect, most honest guy there is, most trustworthy. im a gentleman. you had a crush on her. >> no, we are absolutely not. we always maintained that real platonic friends. >> you never told lucy that you had a crush on her? >> no, i never said that. >> you never said you were in love with her? >> no, never said that either. >> you werent obsessed with her? >> no, i wa...

>> miss maribel ramos. maribel is no longer with us. >> the prosecution laid out the evidence against k.c. the unrequited love. the scratches. the 911 call. and finally the computer searches. >> hes wondering how close is maribels body to where theyre doing that awareness search? thats why he goes to google maps. >> the defense pointed out there was no dna, fingerprints, cell phone info, or standard forensic evidence that tied k.c. joy to maribels murder or to the crime scene. >> we dont know wh...

>> reporter: this area he was zeroing in on, was it an area that crossed your field of vision at all? >> no. >> reporter: here, k.c. is google mapping a place that no one had searched. watch as he zooms in to that area with the tree. that tree didnt figure in the investigation in any way? >> not in any stretch of the imagination. >> reporter: no one had searched there. >> no. >> reporter: and no reason for that to be in the paper or anywhere else? >> no. its out in a remote canyon location. >> r...

He tried backing k.c. into a corner about what might be found on k.c.s hard drive. youre hoping he is going to think to himself, okay, everything ive deleted they will see? >> right. >> reporter: didnt work? >> didnt work. we were swinging and missing regularly on a daily base. >> reporter: k.c. joy was willing to talk repeatedly without an attorney. he says to you ive seen this movie and now youre going to take my fingerprints. he is like a pro? he has seen it all? >> he is being very relaxed.

And he responded by getting plastic surgery. $12,000 later hes got a different face? >> correct. >> and he says the reason he got it is because of the woman whos missing? >> correct. >> now here was k.c. at the public library google mapping a remote wilderness area. since the dawn of detective novels, killers have returned to the scene of the crime. but these days theres no need for the bad guy to even get in his car. now it can be done with the click of a mouse. the good guys still have to do i...