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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...

What k.c. joy was doing on those library computers. that would require a very unusual plan. they obtained a search warrant allowing them to watch in realtime every move made on the computer. this is a recording of k.c.s actual computer keystrokes and mouse clicks. thats k.c. checking his e-mail. thats k.c. applying for a job. thats k.c. typing in how long does it take a body to decay. suspicious maybe, but not enough. and then he did this. >> he pulled up a facebook page that showed there was go...

With mystery in orange county. >> by now, posters blanket the city of orange. maribel ramos 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 havery she was like my best friend. thats all. >> k.c. had moved from tennessee to southern california for a job. he had no family and few friends here. s...

>> you never told lucy that you had a crush on her? >> no, i 97 said that. >> you never said you were in love with her? >> no, never said that either. >> you werent obsessed with her? >> no, i was not obsessed with her. >> the plastic surgery? his choice, he says, thought done for maribel. and the computer search of the area where maribels body was found? 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 ...

Person the cops couldnt stop looking at, the first person to 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 moon...

You do and that you should share them -- >> ill go. >> so once again k.c. joy walked out of the interview room. he didnt get far. this time he was arrested and charged with the murder of maribel ramos. the woman he had loved who had not loved him. when he was taken into custody, k.c. joy was wearing maribels dog tags. k.c. joy pleaded not guilty and in july 2014, a year after maribel vanished, he went on trial for her murder. >> miss maribel ramos. maribel is no longer with us. >> the prosecutio...

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 the jury in the above-entitled action find the defendant, kwang choi joy, guilty of the crime -- >> k.c. joy was convicted of sec...

>> 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 scratches that a person might get, you know, reaching into a bush or from an animal and scratches somebody would get during a, you know, ...

>> no. >> even so, in photos, maribel and k.c. seemed to be having a great time. they even went on a cruise together. soon, police would be talking 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 h...

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 afternoon, police were already heade...