Pictures, ethical social media. It was a whole new world. She was excited. She goes, i think somebody is breaking into my facebook, i also think somebody is breaking into my house. I havent heard from my daughter since tuesday. In the apartment, there is blood stains on the carpet and Blood Spatter on the wall. And shes missing. They find a note with i do have great pleasure tearing her part. I just went, oh my god, youve got to look into this guy. He was so good at pretending. Hes a monster. He said, do you have a suspect, i said, yes, he said, who, i said, you. Hello and welcome to dateline. It can be very unsettling, the feeling youre being watched, followed, possibly stocks. Lajoya mccoy suspected all of those things was happening to her, but who would threaten the hardworking mother of two . Friends and family also sensed she was in trouble, but no one could predict what was about to happen. Here is Josh Mankiewicz with, the Dead Of Night. It was the Dead Of Night and she ran as fast as she could, frightened, panicked, wearing next to nothing, she climbed over the iron gate, climbed over the door and begged for help. Who was this woman . What or who was she running from, and which she make it out alive . Monrovia, california, a quaint, family city nestled in the foothills of the rugged scenic mountains, one of the many suburbs of los angeles. It was the Ideal Landing Spot for 31yearold lajoya mccoy. She works hard to get here. She was the only one in my family that actually went to college , what she did being raised by a single mother. For david clark and his wife, alicia, there needs, lajoya, success always seemed within reach. She knew what she wanted an education was the very top thing. And school is where lajoya, a starship star student, would shine the brightest. I went to a couple of her graduation that university and i could not have been more proud. For lajoya, education was a gift to share with others like her younger sister, breanna. Growing up poor, although it did not feel like it sometimes, she just wanted better for herself and for the rest of us. When lajoyas mom and younger siblings left california and moved to tell of las vegas, lajoya stayed behind and strengthened the bond she had with her aunt and uncle beards i knew it was unconditional love when she told me, uncle david, you should run for mayor. Im thinking, wow, you are thinking a lot of me. Soon, lajoya met an aspiring playwright. Things got serious. They moved together and had two children. That relationship did not last, but lajoya was committed to parenting. And lajoya continue to pursue her dreams. She never gave up. She was very determined. She always kept evolving. Lajoya had a job with l. A. County as an auditor. She also open her own Clothing Boutique and was developing a smart phone app. She just enjoyed her job and loved it. When she started her boutique after that i am thinking, where is she getting all these time to do all of these things . Lajoyas friend, evelyn, visited the boutique and understood why success was critical for lajoya. What she wanted to do was definitely your own boss, spend more time with her kids. She just wanted them to have the best life. She was learning the piano. She was also teaching what she learned to her kids. Lajoya was spreading her wings , but was she also spreading herself too thin . Even though she shared Childcare Duties with jose, she needed a helping hand, so lajoya called her mom in las vegas and asked her to have one of lajoyas sisters come out to california to help watch the kids. The next day, the vegas bus pulled into l. A. Almost an hour late. Lajoyas sister stepped off the bus and did not see lajoya, who was supposed to meet her. Her uncle david then got a call. I was at work she was crying. It was his sister, lajoyas mom. Lajoya did not show up and she was like im worried here she knew she was coming because she sent for her. You are texting her, shes not at home . No. David left work to collect his younger niece. He was perplexed. I was hoping she just was somewhere and would show up and say, you know what, im sorry, i was doing this and doing that. I thought she just lost track of time. We do that. Like i said, she was juggling the boutique, the work, and im thinking, maybe she lost track of time. According to social media, lajoya might have been juggling Something Else here just a week before, she had posted a message on facebook that read, okay, he may be requested and has a rooftop pool, hes a keeper. The man in the fork at photograph, david and alisha had no clue. When i seen that, im like, okay. Shes back in a relationship, im hoping this one is a good one. The way the picture look, im like, is he a Record Producer . I dont know what he did. Maybe they took a flight somewhere, i dont know. One day past, then two days, still no sign of lajoya. On friday, june 12th, 2015, her mom called the Monrovia Police department. Im thinking that she might be sick or unconscious in her apartment. She was worried because she knew things about lajoya the police did not. Coming up, what lajoya had been telling friends. She goes, i think somebody is breaking into my facebook. Even scarier, with someone breaking into her house . I know for sure i am leaving some Stuff Somewhere and when i come home, it is somewhere else. I was always, always worried about her. When dateline continues. But hey. Nothing wrong with sticking it to the boss. Ooooh, flo, you gonna take that . Why would that concern me . Because youre. The. Arent you the. . Huh. We never actually discussed hierarchy. Ok, why dont we just stick to letting dave know how much he can save when he bundles his home or auto with his boat or rv. Wait, i thought jamie was the boss. 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Day to fly. June 12th, 2015 was a summer friday in monrovia, california. Families gathered at the local street fair, leaving their hectic work weeks behind them, not so for summer jackson. A long nightmare was about to begin. Her daughter, lajoya mccoy , was not answering calls or texts, and no summer was on the phone to police. I havent heard from my daughter since, well tuesday. For many departments, that call is as routine as they come. Adult children dont always check in with their parents, then, summer shared this. She keeps telling me that her tires were slashed a few days before, like over the weekend. Somebody is kind of stalking her a little bit. So, thats a big concern. All right, we will go when we will find out, okay . Okay, thank you so much. Im so worried. Lajoyas mom was one of the few people that knew about her daughters closely guarded secret. She believed someone was stalking her. Lajoya also told her friend. Lajoya had just broken up with jose when she and eva became friends. It was a whole new world. She opened her boutique. She started going to the beach in bikinis. She had gone to europe. She was going out dancing at night. Ever since lajoya loved her new freedom, she was starting to date again. She was very beautiful, very beautiful. She never had a problem, at least when she was with me, with guys coming up to her and trying to get her number. Were there guys she was going out with that you were worried about me that you did not trust . Me . Everybody. I did not trust any guy. Lajoya rekindled old flames and started new ones , often posting about them on facebook, like this guy, luther walls, a friend from her past she had reconnected with. She was looking for like marriage, like a life partner. Turned out, that wasnt luther. They did remain friends. According to eva, lajoyas dating life really blossomed into anything serious. Something seemed to be holding her back. She goes, i think somebody is breaking into my facebook. I also think somebody is breaking into my house. And i was like, huh . What makes you think that . And i go she goes, i know for sure i am leaving some Stuff Somewhere, and when i am coming home, it somewhere else. Lajoya said, things werent just moved around, some of them were missing. The first thing that came to my mind, you are under a lot of stress. It is easy to forget where you leave things and misplace things. It happens to all of us. I think you are just a little stressed. Now, lajoya was missing. After her mom called lajoya pd , they went to lajoyas apartment. Lines were drawn. They couldnt see in the windows. Checked the doors, the doors were locked. Sergeant chad harvey was a detective in 2015. She he says, Patrol Officers found lajoyas apartment locked and secure. Everything looked normal at the time. They went ahead and contacted lajoyas mother and told her, nothing seems peculiar, and left it at that. Lajoyas mom was not alone. That night, police heard from other worried friends and family. I text her last night and she did not respond. I have an employee that has not reported to work. Officers went back for a second look. They started talking to some neighbors. Nothing really seemed out of the ordinary again. Police called lajoyas , jose turner, the father of their two kids, and he said, the last time he saw lajoya was the previous weekend, when he dropped off the kids at her place. A few weeks later, he picked up the kids as usual. Police also called lajoyas Cell Phone Carrier who told police lajoyas cell phone was active that day. When lajoyas mom heard that, she told police she would hold off on filing a Missing Persons report. Maybe lajoya would contact her. As friday night drew to a close, news about lajoyas disappearance was already making rounds. Lajoyas sister, breanna , heard it from their grandmother. She said it very nonchalant. She just said that lajoya has not talked to my mom in a few days, and me knowing lajoya, i felt like maybe she just wanted some space. It wasnt uncommon for her to like disconnect from time to time. Even remembered a conversation shed had with lajoya a week before. She told me that she wanted to just escape. She found a place, like a retreat in arizona, no cell phones, whatever, meditation and what not. I told her, it is a great idea. I take it will help you gather your thoughts. Lajoya had a lot to think about. Earlier that week, shed gone to happy hour with her friend, bernadette, whod sometime helped out with lajoyas Clothing Boutique. They talked about lajoyas decision to close the store due to financial problems. Despite that, bernadette said, she did not see any signs lajoya wanted to escape, unplug , or vanish. Rings are okay now, because she closed the store. Now she has that stress off her and she was very positive about the future. She even posted this video of herself dancing in the boutique just days before the doors closed for good. So, where was she . Lajoyas Brother Called Luther , even though theyd never met, to ask him if he had heard from lajoya. In fact, he had, luther told him, but that was a few days ago. After that call, luther said, he went by lajoyas apartment. I want to see if i see her car out there, but i didnt hear her Parking Space is like to the back into the side right there. So, luther said, he did not knock on her door. It had now been nearly a week since lajoya had gone silent , with a Clock Ticking loudly in her head, lajoyas mom called police. Officers made a third trip to lajoyas apartment, and this time, they forced their way in. And what they found was a crime scene. Coming up. I went in through the window, i yelled who i was yelled for lajoya, no answer. I noticed that there is blood stains on the carpet. What had happened and where was lajoya . The answer just might be on video. 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I went in through the window, yelled why was yelled for lajoya, no answer. Detective harvey opened the front door for his partner. As we entered, we still announced our presence. Nobody was inside. It is clean, does not look like anything out of the normal. Some close lying around, just normal, everyday things. Then, they look in the main bedroom, where it did not look normal at all. I noticed there is blood stains on the carpet. I noticed blood stains on the mattress and a Blood Splatter on the wall. And all of lajoyas bedding is gone. And she is missing. You have been doing this and while, what are the odds that that person is missing is still alive . We like to think that they are, we dont know that they arent. In l. A. County, a small apartment like monroeville often turns to the Sheriffs Department for a case like this one. That evening, detective eddie brown and his partner were on call. We got a call from our residence, and we go straight to the location. Brown scanned lajoyas apartment. The kids room were totally disabled. The drawers were taken out, some of them were on the floor, some of them partially opened. Clothing material is on the floor. It looked a mess. Lajoyas car was gone and detectives noticed her purse and phone work missing too. Had someone robbed the apartment and taken lajoya with them . Detective brown did not think so. There was no forced entry. Somebody could push their way in . If he did that, why would he take the bedsheets if something did not occur . If this is a pushing bad guy and he disabled or killed her, hes going to leave it right there, still what hes going to steal, and leave her right there, no reason to take her body. Brown believed the most likely scenario was somewhat staged the scene to make it look like a robbery, which meant, lajoya was probably the target. Because the womans bedsheets were gone, which i believed that was used to transport her out of the house. She was either knocked out, unconscious, or dead. The apartment also smelled like bleach. Which tells me that someone probably tried to crane clean the crime scene. And then can a lead. Was there a video record of what had happened . Neighbor directly across from her apartment was having a problem with some petty theft, so he decided to put up a motion camera. It is the type of camera that has to be activated by a sensor, so an animal or person walking by. And that camera was faced at the perfect position. Investigators downloaded the neighbors video. You dont usually get that lucky. No. Thats why i was very excited about this camera, especially when i started watching the video. Because you could see the door clear as a bell. Brown watched that video for hours. I keep playing it over, and over, to see her being carried out of that apartment. That is what he wanted to see, but it wasnt there. Her door is too far away for the motion to activate the camera. So you are lucky, but you are unlucky. Yeah, i needed a cat to walk past their just the right time. No cat and still no lajoya mccoy. Police put out a bulletin for a silver toyota camry, lajoyas car. And hours after the alert went out, a Patrol Officer found it, not far from her apartment, parked in a residential neighborhood. A Parking Ticket had been wedged into the doorframe, and there was something inside. The passenger and drivers windows were tinted. The officer took a closer look and he thought it. It was a body. The identity of that body will solve one mystery, but the questions are only beginning. Coming up who would want to do this . Shes a mother. Shes a sister. Shes a daughter. I just couldnt understand it. I just felt like my world had ended. Lajoyas loved ones get terrible news and investigators make a discovery. Thats got to make everybody sit up a little taller in the saddle. Thats a red flag for us, yes. When dateline continues. 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