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>> k.c. explained he was walking the dogs when he saw a fishing line in a bush. worrying about the ducks in the park getting caught in the line, he reached in to remove it and got all those scratches. youve been around long enough, you can tell the difference between scratches that a person might get, you know, reaching into a bush, or from an animal, and scratches that somebody would get during a, you know, an actual fight with another person? >> right. some of the scratches on his arms did loo...

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...

Over about eight to ten miles. >> this area he was zeroing in on, was it an area that had 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 l...

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 occurred. maribel ramos was missing. tha...

Your house recently because you 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 ap...

City of orange. she 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. i want her to come back. 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 happy to include him...

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 you have the answers in your heart, that you do and that you should share them -- >> ill go. >> so once again k.c. joy wa...

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? >> about 9:00 p.m. about 9:00. then i we...

Who had come on too strong? he was in japan. 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 w...

Josh mankiewicz (voiceover): may 3, 2013, was a friday, a day that should have been an easy day for maribel ramos. >> may 3rd, 2013, was a friday, a day that should have been an easy day for maribel ramos. school was nearly over. graduation was so close, but that morning, things werent right. >> i got a text from k.c. at 10:00 a.m. and he said, your sister didnt come home. >> theyd been roommates for more than a year now. k.c. felt protective of maribel. he told lucy he had already called police...