K.C. Joy’s alibi was that he was out for a drive during the timeframe Maribel Ramos disappeared. He had suspicious scratches on his arms, but he cooperated with officials and pleaded with local media to help find her and return her safely. As ABC 7 reports, he told Eyewitness News, “I need her to come back because she’s my best friend. Actually, she’s my only friend, my only family member I have, so I miss her.”

Ramos did not share Joy’s affection. Investigators uncovered 911 calls from a week and a half before Ramos went missing, where she said that she was scared. She told the 911 operator that “she’d take desperate measures to protect herself,” as Oxygen reports. Ramos’ family and friends posted about her on social media, distributed flyers, and went on television. They also planned an awareness walk in her name.

Meanwhile, Joy began traveling to a nearby library since the police had taken his cell phone and laptop. He looked up human body decay on a library computer, as ABC 7 reports. Then, he did a satellite map search near Santiago Canyon, where the awareness walk for Ramos was going to be held. Police discovered his search queries and then went to search the area he had Googled. Maribel Ramos’ body was discovered in a shallow grave in an area known as Modjeska Canyon on May 17, 2013. 

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