Netflix's Worst Roommate Ever does a decent job covering the events surrounding Maribel Ramos' murder, but leaves out some details about her roommate and killer, K.C. Joy. Police began investigating the disappearance of army veteran and CSU student Maribel Ramos when she failed to show up to several important events, and her body was found about two weeks later. They arrested Kwang Chol «K.C.» Joy soon after, and Worst Roommate Ever dives a little into who the killer really was.
Ramos and Joy met when he answered her Craigslist ad for a roommate in Orange, California. Over the next 18 months, they became friends, but Ramos' sister said in Worst Roommate Ever that K.C. Joy wanted more than friendship. After a heated argument about rent, during which Ramos told Joy he had to move out of their apartment, Ramos was declared missing. Orange County Deputy District Attorney Scott Simmons said, "If he couldn't have her, no one was gonna have her."
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K.C. Joy was the police's prime suspect from the beginning, but at first, they had no solid evidence against him. That changed when a surveillance team managed to capture Joy searching the internet for satellite images of a remote location where police soon found Ramos' body. He was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. Worst Roommate Ever ends there, but here's everything the Netflix series leaves out about K.C. Joy.
Worst Roommate Ever doesn't cover much about K.C. Joy's life before meeting Ramos, perhaps because not a lot of information about his background exists. The Netflix documentary reveals that Joy had moved to California from Tennessee after his life there
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