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Welcome back. police were growing confident they knew who was involved in the disappearance of maribel ramos. but they hadnt made an arrest. and without a body, it was hard to say if they were even dealing with a crime at all. but that was about to change. heres josh mankiewicz with the conclusion of "mystery in orange county." >> as he dug deeper into k.c. joys background, detective joey ramirez found more and more evidence k.c. was infatuated, even obsessed, with maribel ramos. for instance, t...

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 ...

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...

>> we go to the park all the time. you go exactly -- we pick up, by the pond, we pick up fishing line all the time. you go there. -- >> can i see? >> fishing lines. >> those are from fishing lines? >> no, no. i will explain. >> 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 scratch...

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. >> werent the police out to 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...

Everything was horrible and i felt it. >> detective joey ramirez with 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 exp...

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 this brush here, the first and foremost thing we found was overwhelming smell of like a decaying body or something dead. my partner and i kind of turned our head and we looked over and saw th...

>> 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 it the old-fashioned way. detective sean hayden got the call on the radio. drive out to rustic majestic canyon southeast of the city of orange. >> we didnt know what to think. this is ...

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, let me just ask you, do you have any injuries on your legs? >> no. >> you have no injuries on your legs whatsoever? >> no, i dont have any. >> okay. >> then ramirez showed up ag...

>> 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...