A Yelp User Guessed At The Identity Of A Veteran's Killer
This is Army Veteran Marbel Ramos with her roommate KC Joy. After Disappearing in May 2013, Ramos's body later turned up in Silverado Canyon. Police had no leads, until an intrepid yelp user noticed strange comments from Joy that seemed to implicate him in his roommate's death.
There was a missing person report filed for California resident Maribel Ramos in May 2013, after Ramos failed to show up for several events. The body of the 36-year-old US Army veteran turned up two weeks later in Silverado Canyon.
Before investigators found the veteran's body, Ramos's roommate, KC Joy, discussed the case with strangers on a Yelp thread. Yelp user Grant K. noticed how Joy referred to Ramos in the past tense and found the oversight disconcerting, as it implied the roommate was possibly nefariously involved.
Though others online defended Joy, authorities later arrested him and convicted him of murdering Ramos, reportedly over a rent dispute. In addition to the incriminating posts made on Yelp, police confiscated Joy's computer, on which he'd recently searched human decay and a map of Silverado Canyon.
On May 3, a 36-year-old Iraq war veteran and college student named Maribel Ramos was reported missing by her family, after failing to turn up to several events in Santa Ana, California. A couple of days later Maribel's roommate KC Joy started posting...
On May 3, a 36-year-old Iraq war veteran and college student named Maribel Ramos (pictured above right) was reported missing by her family, after failing to turn up to several events in Santa Ana, California.
A couple of days later, a friend of Maribel's named Emily C started a Yelp thread called “My friend Maribel Ramos is missing!!” in an effort to track her down.
Somebody posted asking if Maribel's roommate had been questioned by police yet.
This is where the roommate, KC Joy (who is pictured at the very top of this post with Maribel), joined the conversation, posting that Maribel was his BFF and giving details of the police's search of the apartment they shared.
Then a user called Grant K joined the thread, pointing out that it was suuuuuuuuuper suspicious that KC was referring to Maribel in the past tense.
Some other users weren't too happy with what Grant was implying and told him off.
And KC returned to explain that he wasn't intentionally referring to Maribel in the past tense, but was actually having trouble with his English, as he is originally from China.
The next day, KC returned to the thread, and said some weird, kinda suspicious stuff.
Like, really, really weird and really, really kinda suspicious stuff.
Then a user named Daniel J came along and offered KC the (very solid) advice of shutting up.
KC thanked him. This was KC's final post in the thread.
On May 17, exactly two weeks after Maribel went missing, Emily C returned to break the news that a body had been found.
The body was found in a canyon after people living nearby reported a foul smell in the area.
Later that day, another user confirmed that the body had been positively identified as Maribel Her missing persons case was reclassified as a homicide.
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