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Trial for her murder. >> 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 sce...

Two-way radio, detective brian 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 we...

K.c. says he didnt do it, someone else did, by remotely accessing the same computer right after he had used it. >> you dont think thats quite a coincidence? >> are many questions but i didnt do it. >> youre being framed here? >> i say yes. if i had a paid attorney, somebody who could -- somebody like o.j. simpson had, i wouldnt be here right now, id be out. >> the problem here is not that youre guilty, its that you dont have enough money? >> exactly. seems like money talks. if i had money, i wou...

Guys had an argument? >> wed been drinking that night. she started yelling at me. >> k.c. said it was all just a drunken misunderstanding. >> i dont like you, im not attracted to you. i said, maribel, we had a great time tonight. whats the problem? >> what was the problem? detective ramirez heard from maribels family something very interesting. k.c. joy had wanted to be more than just roommates with maribel ramos. lucy told us the same thing. when did it become apparent to you that k.c. sort of ...

Crossed your field of vision at all? >> no. >> here, k.c. is google mapping a place that no one had searched. watch as he zooms in to that area with that tree. that tree didnt figure in the investigation in any way? >> not in any stretch of the imagination. >> no one had searched there? >> no. >> no reason for that to be in the paper or anywhere else? >> no. its out in a remote canyon location. >> but hes looking at it. >> yes, yes. >> by the time k.c. was walking out of the library that afterno...

To believe this. we found her. >> maribel ramos had been left alone in that dusty canyon since before anyone knew she was missing. 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...

>> but its not going to be her. >> 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, sur...

>> hes being very relaxed. i felt that he was very confident that we werent going to figure it out. >> what mr. joy apparently didnt 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 maribels computer, which was the one k.c. normally used. >> initially we would have undercover policemen go into the library and walk aroun...

You tell me there was blood? i dont know anything about it. what blood? 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. >> ...

The orange police department got the call that evening. and he also had a bad feeling about everything. >> it sounds like you were taking this pretty seriously from the get-go. >> absolutely. >> why couldnt she be off by herself, or with some other friends, or maybe she lost her phone or forgot to call? >> that was our hope, that she was just missing, that she would come walking through the door. but her family and friends expressed that she was very responsible. >> and nobodys heard from her? >...