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Report maribel missing, her roommate, k.c. joy. >> 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 than he was telling us. >> so detective ramirez became k.c. joys shadow, appearing in the morning, and then later by moonlight. hours after k.c.s first police interview, a cheerful j...

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 around and see what hes doing. at one point hes seen googling can a cell phone be tracked if its turned off. >> well, thats certainl...

About 9:00. then i went out. >> that was thursday night, may 2nd. the next night when the cops were called to maribels house, 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 saw in movies, detective movies of a crime scene, whatever. i wanted to see who knocked on my door. i just parked my car in front with a notebook. had binoculars -- >> you were doing your own surveillance? >> yes. >> it s...

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 tout to rustic majesca canyon southeast of the city of orange. >> we didnt know what to think. this is very rural area. no one would be out here mountain biking or...

>> 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 afternoon, police were already headed to ...

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 what happened. what kind of force was used? nobody knows. who used it first? nobody knows. was there a weapon used? was it used by maribel or was it used by k.c. joy? nobody knows. >> all true. but the computer searches were enough for the jury. >> we th...

>> 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 again that night. >> k.c. joy, just a couple of quick que...

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 expressed that she was very respo...

Scratches from a hand. >> and that says to you he was in a fight? >> it does. >> when was the last time you guys had any sort of an argument? >> actually that thursday. >> this thursday? >> that was the last night 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 -- im supposed to move out. >> it turned out k.c. had recently lost his job and could no longer pay his...

>> 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. >> k.c. joy was willing to talk repeatedly without an attorney. >> k.c., youve been very...