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name the show first aired on the NBC Network on January 20th 1987. this show went on to cover hundreds of
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real-life Unsolved Mysteries over the course of the next 15 seasons many of us remember tuning in each week to see
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Robert Stack stepping out of the smoke wearing a trench coat and telling us about alien abductions conspiracy
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theories and ghost stories this week's True Crime Story like some of the others we have covered here in
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the garage was featured on the show today we explore a story that is so much more than a unsolved
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mystery it is really a bundle of many small Mysteries all tied together with the unfortunate
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loss of a very loved man this big mystery starts as just a simple question for a woman named Allison
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and for her that question was where is my husband he was supposed to be at home working
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but he was not sensing that something was just not right she went to look for him
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soon the entire family was looking for this man and then the police joined in this question became a missing person's
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case then the questions not only grew in number but they got louder and louder as
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missing posters went up and suddenly a city was looking for a man named Ray Rivera
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his body was eventually found in an old hotel but how did he get there and why nothing seemed to add up
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and over time this mystery goes nowhere it just sort of sits there and goes cold
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no one can seem to agree on just what the hell happened this is a true story did Ray Rivera commit suicide
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or was he the victim of Foul Play join us perhaps you can help solve a mystery [Music]
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Ray Omar Rivera was born on June 10th 1973 to Angel and Maria Rivera Ray had an older brother named angel and a
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sister Elena at the time of his disappearance Rey was just 32 years old and recently worked as
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a finance writer and a video contractor now many of you from listening to today's trailer already know what case
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we are talking about and that is because when Unsolved Mysteries came out in July
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of this year on Netflix one of the stories was titled mystery on the rooftop and it was all about the
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mysterious death of 32 year old Ray Rivera Ray died in Baltimore Maryland in May of 2006 but the how and the why are
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the Unsolved Mysteries here let's start off with some background information and
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some key events and dates leading up to Rey's disappearance and death in 2004 Rey and his girlfriend Allison moved
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from California to Baltimore Maryland this is for the purpose of Rey taking a job working for his longtime friend from
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high school Frank Porter Stansberry Porter Stansberry is the founder of Stansberry and Associates which operates
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under the larger company Agora publishing Rey is a writer more specifically a screenplay writer
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Ray was hired to be an editor for the financial newsletter that is called The Rebound report sounds like they're
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describing my dating life now Captain I think that it's important to mention that Rey does not seem to have any real
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Financial background he has a writing background and as said it will be his job to be the editor of
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the financial investing newsletter called The Rebound report well it seems like this is a pretty big shift in his
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life and in his career yeah the rebound report offers investment advice specifically it tells you these one-time
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High performing high-valued stocks that have not been doing so well as of late well they are about to make a comeback
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and here is why they're going to make a comeback so it is time for you to buy these stocks while they are still low
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now Allison says on Unsolved Mysteries that Ray took the job so he and Allison could get married
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some sources say it was to purchase a ring for her but regardless this move does not overly seem like a desirable
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one for Rey but the job seems to me Captain like maybe some sort of sacrifice he's willing to make so that
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he and Allison could start their marriage life together off on the right foot yeah anybody in the Arts know that
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it's a struggle he's with this girl that he loves and she wants to move things forward and he probably felt like he
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wasn't able to afford them moving forward in his current position and also they moved across the country true and I
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mean as you're pointing out here I mean even Stephen King one of the most successful authors of our lifetime he
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started off as an English teacher because you need some kind of Base some kind of income to build your family life
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and your life around while you pursue your dreams if not you're you're just a starving artist so likely what they want
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to do here the goal I'm guessing is to have a good Financial foothold to start off their marriage
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plus Not only would this be steady income for Ray the cost of living in Baltimore has got to be less than Los
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Angeles so it makes all kinds of financial sense and also he's given this opportunity from one of his friends that
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he is successful yes I think that when your buddy that is successful and maybe you look up to him
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in that way and he's saying hey come over here and I can help you get get where I'm at yeah it's certainly an
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opportunity in December of 2004 Ray and Allison purchased their home in Baltimore this is for about two hundred
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and eighty thousand dollars after this Rey starts to express some unhappiness regarding his job different
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sources State different reasons for Rey's occupational unhappiness Allison recalls that the job was simply
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just not a good fit for Rey Allison says Rey was not a desk guy or your typical nine to five type of person one thing
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that is so important to any relationship be it marriage or otherwise Rey and Allison had a set of shared goals and
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their plan was not to stay in Baltimore forever as said Rey and Allison were both working hard to build a good little
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foundation and a short-term and very realistic goal for them was to move back to California
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now I don't have an exact date for this next event in the timeline I've seen this listed as early as the summer of
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2005 but I actually think it was more likely later in the year of 05 but Ray quit his editing job and according to
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everything I could find that this was on good terms so now done with the newsletter job Ray
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started a video production company he took out a fifteen thousand dollar cash advance from Allison's credit card
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to buy equipment Rey and his new startup gets some contract work producing videos for the
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Agora company on Saturday November 5th 2005 the happy couple Ray and Allison get married in
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Isabella Puerto Rico you can see some of the video footage from the wedding on Unsolved Mysteries both Rey and Allison
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are tall and good looking and they both look extremely happy in the videos yeah now here is a weird event
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on the timeline on December 27 2005 a friend of Rey's and an employee of Agora this is Tom hickling dies in a car
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accident while visiting his daughter in Africa it is said that Rey was quite suspicious of this death don't you think
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that raises some kind of red flag if your husband or your partner somebody at their work died now now
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they're not in the United States they're in a different country but they're going that's suspicious
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if they died maybe within the country right it's to me it's more of a red flag that he's suspicious of a death that
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happened even in another country but also who are you working with it's also a red flag is this some sort of
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paranoia that's setting in that it's not realistic for him to be suspicious about
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this death right you know you could go either way with it and it's really weird too Captain because I really wish that
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we knew more details regarding this death and why he believed it to be suspicious I mean we have his his former
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wife and his friends who who have said this they've echoed this throughout the years that he was suspicious of this
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death I don't know why though right was this guy into some kind of hot water with the
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company he was working for right or or did he have gambling debts and like you said if somebody is going to set this
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guy up this Tom hankley guy to die and what is to look like an accident they're going to have to go to the trouble of
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going all the way to Africa to do so now maybe you go there and take care of business there so to speak because you
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don't think it's going to be investigated the way it would be investigated here right it's just really a difficult
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situation on the surface but also a difficult situation to analyze his thoughts and
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feelings on it because we just don't have really any of the details regarding this whole event this tragic yeah and it
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wouldn't be that big of a deal if oh this guy died in a car accident I'm suspicious of that well why ah he was a
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drinker maybe he was driving drunk all right well that's a big difference between I think possibly somebody killed
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him who possibly from the company I was working for and doing contract work for currently but the the streets and the
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traffic and traffic laws or lack of traffic laws in other countries in some other countries not all and I don't know
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specifically what country this man was in when he we passed away but they're quite chaotic
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the traffic itself so I mean you can see some countries have a much higher rate of accidents than than others so I mean
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it really could be could be anything um didn't didn't TLC didn't we lose one of the members of TLC to some kind of
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vehicle accident another country left tire yeah rest in peace left eye in the spring of 2006 and I think this was in
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the month of April Ray and Allison returned to Los Angeles now one of the major reasons for this
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trip was to start planning their move back to Los Angeles when they returned to Baltimore
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according to Allison she says there is a noticeable change in Rey's behavior and
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demeanor she says Rey seems to be nervous which is totally out of character for this guy
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again another red flag yes she says he is agitated and he seems annoyed maybe with her I don't know with what
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she's not specific on this he says that um she says that he was concerned or overly
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concerned about her doing things by herself by her doing things alone there's a particular story of Allison
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going on a pretty routine jog this is roughly a week before Rey goes missing to which Rey insists on going with
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Allison and he does go with her he sits in the bleachers reading a book while she's running
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during the run a man enters the track area and Rey according to Allison has some kind of reaction to
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this he seems startled or whatever by this man being there but this man was someone that was unknown to both Allison
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and if Rey knew this guy he didn't tell her that he did well think about that for a second you just show up because
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you want to run around the track and all of a sudden this guy is causing a scene
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because he thinks you're there to hurt him or possibly him and his wife and this guy he leaves
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the area and for all we know he could have just been like you said showing up to go for a run or just to pass her by
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now I do want to point out that this quote change in Behavior well it's only really suspicious if you believe that
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Rey was murdered or think that Rey was truly afraid of something or someone Rey does not seem to tell anyone of this
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if he is in fact afraid of something specific yeah but what point as the the spouse
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are you gonna say hey I know we moved out here because your friend had this opportunity
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but my first question in this case is was this initial opportunity actually the job that Ray was telling her it was
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or was there something a little more involved that he may not have told her about
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was this opportunity on the up and up yeah that I don't know and can't say for certain it appears to me from everything
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I've seen that that the the job that he was working was in fact the one that he was offered long distance before he
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moved out there right but we don't again we have a guy that's suspicious of people's death that work at that company
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right and I think what I'm trying to point out here is what I would really like to know from
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those closest to Rey when they observe this change in Behavior is this something that clicked for them
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right away you know when he got back from La was this something that was just so obvious to them then or is this only
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something that they are seeing now in hindsight where they're going well something happened to this poor man
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oh and that oh now come to think of it he was acting a little strange he was acting a little different you know it
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only is suspicious in itself if it if you think something horrible happened to that this guy was set up or killed right
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the other thing that I want to point out here too again I'm going back to let's say he is agitated let's say he is
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afraid of something because that's what Allison says but again he doesn't say anything
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specific to anyone that we are aware of he doesn't say hey this happened and this happened and I'm afraid for my wife
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I'm afraid for me because of a b and c he doesn't say that to anybody this is all
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him behaving a certain way and people later saying that they noticed some kind of change in him
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you have to wonder since he does not cite anything specific to the people closest to him at the time
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could this just be something in regards to his environment that does not have anything to do with him personally on a
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personal level right because Rey is relatively new to the area of Baltimore as a whole I mean we just
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talked about that he just moved out there in 2004 he disappears in 2006 Baltimore has a higher violent crime
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rate than most cities is there a chance that this is something that he just recently became aware of
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Baltimore had 269 homicides in 2005. now that may seem like a low number as Baltimore has managed to score over 300
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homicides each of the last five years but for 2005 269 murders is a high number the days before Rey goes missing Rey
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spends time reading the builders it's a story and study of masonry this is by Joseph Fort Newton
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there's a different version a few different versions of this book the one that I'm referencing here is from 1914.
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so it's a new release on Sunday May 14th Rey and Allison go to church this is a regular weekend activity for this young
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married couple Allison overhears Ray leaving a voicemail for someone there's a couple
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different versions of this story Captain some say that he excused himself from the church service the other report is
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that this was shortly after church was over regardless what is the same and all the reports I could find is that
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this is coming from Allison his wife who says that she overheard her husband Ray
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leaving a voicemail for someone she says that he says something like hey man give
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me a call back I finally got it all figured out and that's as much as she says that she
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hears so who is this call to now I couldn't find anything to formally back up this
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next statement but this next statement comes from a Reddit post that says that Allison at
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some point later learns that the phone call was to Rey's friend Porter who he worked for
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and this post goes on to say when questioned by Angel Rey's brother Porter says he didn't know what it was about or
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what Rey meant by the the the message they call me back he wasn't expecting a call and did not
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know what the the message meant the next day this is Monday May 15th the rivers have a home security system and the
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alarm goes off at about 1am now police do respond to this alarm and they tell Ray and Allison after looking around and
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checking everything out that they believe that it was likely that a squirrel or some type of wildlife had
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caused the alarm to go off now this is a little weird and Allison says this is super weird to her because
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they had lived there for some time and the alarm had never gone off before about 24 hours later this is sometime in
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the early hours of May 16th the home security alarm goes off again and on Unsolved Mysteries Allison says that
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this is one of the front downstairs windows and given her description this appears
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to be a window that could be easily accessible from the outside yeah because I think they had some other windows but
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there were bushes in the way so maybe someone was trying to pry this window open yeah or tamper with this window in
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some fashion in the middle of the night in the dark I do question this a little bit like I'm
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not saying that that she's wrong or wrong to be suspicious it seems very weird to me
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that the alarm would go off two nights in a row and they've lived there for months and it's never gone off before so
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that I agree with her 100 percent seems very strange to me what I kind of question is the location and knowing
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what I know about security this does not this would not be the window that I would choose if I were wanting to gain
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access to the home it's easily visible from the street it just doesn't seem like the type of window that someone
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would pick when you get to choose from multiple windows to try to enter a home and later that morning the morning of
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May 16th Rey and Allison spend the morning together and then Allison leaves to go out of town for a work trip down
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within hours of her leaving for that trip Ray is going to go missing [Music] thank you
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[Music] all right we are back cheers mates cheers to all that morning May 16th Ray and Allison
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they spent the morning together Allison says that Ray made her breakfast she carries
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he carries her luggage out to the car and again Allison is leaving to go out of town for a work related trip she is
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going to Richmond Virginia later that day Ray talks to a Maryland Freemason member at the local Mason
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Lodge talk to him about joining later WBAL TV 11 News questioned the member and he stated there was nothing unusual
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about this conversation that it was a typical conversation of someone inquiring about a membership now note
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sometime leading up to this Ray purchased a book called Freemasons for dummies at a local bookstore Freemasons
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for dummies is your key to the history beliefs and rituals of free masonry here is the book description it says
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fascinated by Freemasons Freemasons for dummies is the international best-selling introduction to the Masons
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the oldest and largest secret society in the world this balanced eye-opening guide demystifies Freemasonry explaining
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everything from its elaborate rituals and cryptic rights to its curious symbols and their meanings find out what
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goes on in a masonic meeting you'll understand the true purpose of masonic secrecy and philosophy meet
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famous Masons throughout history and discover related organizations like the Knights Templar the Scottish Rite Order
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of the Eastern Star and the Shriners explore the controversies and conspiracy theories that swirl around this
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organization at the center of Dan Brown's novel The Lost Symbol and discover the changes coming to the craft
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all right but it's confusing to me that somebody that's planning to head back to California
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is going to try to enter this group and Baltimore yes that's a good point but it would be like because they have
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chapters right yes so essentially you could join in Baltimore and then relocate to California that shouldn't be
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much of an issue it's also we don't have anybody to explain to us why he is carrying out these actions
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yeah or if this was talked about months in advance where if this was just oh my wife's gone
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I got some time to kill let me go ask about the Freemasons well we have Allison who tells us that he was reading
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the book The builders so that's tied to the Freemasons we know that he purchased this Freemasons for
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dummies book at a local bookstore I don't have a date on that I've seen that it was the day that he went missing I've
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also seen that it was the weekend before or a week before right and one thing I want to point out here too I think with
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a lot of this information or lack there of specific detailed information is that the number one source for this
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case seems to be the episode of Unsolved Mysteries not just for me and you here in the garage today it seems like
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to everyone out in the whole big world and because they're giving you a report of this
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they're not super detailed about days and times and things like that as they don't want to to get kind of lost in the
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minutia of it when they have this bigger story to tell and also what is their purpose their purpose is not to inform
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every detail their purpose is to get some Spotlight onto this case but also entertain you
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so most people aren't entertained by every little detail correct so I also want to point out here
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like people have really pointed to this all this activity that he seems to be doing with the the Masons as again
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something suspicious or something to be worried about he's a wannabe screenwriter
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he just is not profiting off of it correct yeah is is this research for you know you write you write a lot of songs
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I'm sure you do some research for the lyrics that you put into those songs yeah I meet with different groups like
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the Freemasons and figure out how to write songs about them right but I mean you're you're making light of what I'm
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saying but it's it's not far-fetched to say okay um Dan Brown's novel The Lost Symbol The
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Da Vinci Code yeah we're huge books at the time and oddly enough if you want to try to tie in the Freemasons to Ray
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Rivera's death it's weird that the it's a little weird that the movie The Da Vinci Code came out the same week
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that he went missing no I think your point is very valid and I'd almost argue that it's it's more valid that he was
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doing research than actually wanting to join another interesting thing that happens that day we have Ray who calls
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Chesapeake systems and he speaks with a man named Adam Gold this is an employee at Chesapeake systems he calls late in
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the afternoon and this is for the purpose of booking a video editing suite for the weekend so he could edit a video
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for a Stansberry Associates conference Rey was an occasional customer of Chesapeake system so Adam Gold was
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somewhat familiar and he knew Rey and gold says that the call was business as usual Rey sounded normal but maybe a
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little pressed for time sometime between 6 and 6 30 P.M Allison checks into her hotel now this
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is when she calls Ray and she gets no answer Allison calls the house guest that is
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staying at their house okay so we have to explain this bit a little bit and I think it's a little weird that they
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don't explain it in Unsolved Mysteries this is this in itself is a mystery there is a woman named Claudia and the
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best description we get on the show is that it's a work colleague of Allison's that is staying at their house and is
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staying on the day that Rey happens to go missing there's not a whole lot anywhere else
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that I could find that explains any more about this house guest are you sure that she works without
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Allison and didn't work with Ray what I recall hearing and reading is that she is referred to as a colleague
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of Allison's I could be I could be wrong on that so Claudia says when Allison calls and
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speaks with her Claudia says that Rey got a phone call around 6 30. he had a brief conversation with someone
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and at the end of the call Ray says oh [ __ ] and then he runs out of the house in a hurry
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she says that Ray returns a few minutes later for just a very brief moment and then leaves again yeah and I believe
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they're both upstairs and I believe the rooms were connected like being there was a wall just separating them
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and so she could really kind of not only just hear what he was saying to the the person on the other line but she
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also talks about how he kind of thrusts his chair out hmm you know like you were saying you
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know we're leaving in a hurry yeah so the way that it's described is that Claudia would have been staying in what
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I'm again what I'm guessing is the guest room and that they had an upstairs office
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that Rey was you know he's working out of home at this point for the most part and I don't know if he shared if he and
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Allison shared this space as an office space but on that day that's where he's working and as you said it's like next
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door to Claudia where she is staying so he leaves in a hurry returns very briefly for just a few minutes and then
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leaves again there's no description given by Claudia or to the public anyway of what or why Rey returned to the house
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it could have been something as simple as he left it was a surprise to him that he was leaving and he you know oh I
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forgot my keys phone forgot my wallet forgot my wallet forgot my my phone the the interesting thing about the wallet
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though is um one thing they state is that he left with like twenty dollars in his pocket
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and assuming that he left with his money clip as well so I don't know that he actually had a
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wallet but yes he had um money clip same purpose as a wallet his phone could have been the keys that
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he returned for I don't want to throw a wrench into things I don't believe she actually saw Rey when he returned now
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I'm guessing that she hears the commotion of all of this she hears oh [ __ ] Here's the the the uh chair move
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and then he runs down the steps she probably hears the door open and close door open and close again yeah because
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again I've seen on a couple online forums where they question if it if it's Rey I would assume like you said because it
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was such a quick come back to the house that it was something as simple as forgot his phone
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or his wallet or whatever and it said that Ray left a soda some chips and his Invisalign retainer
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on the kitchen counter now I'm not certain if that means that he he placed these items down there before leaving or
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if they were just already there and he left abruptly Allison continues to try to reach Rey a
00:37:12
couple more times that evening to no avail she does find Rey's unavailability strange
00:37:19
but she says that she knew that Rey was very busy with his video projects and it
00:37:25
sounds like he had a deadline coming up at some point I do want to reference another source here and this is a good
00:37:33
source for people to check out in regards to this case there's a book out there titled an unexplained death
00:37:41
the true story of a body at the Belvedere and this is by Makita brotman in her book she writes that Rey had left
00:37:51
a website up you know when he leaves in this hurry he's busy working at his computer and whatever it's believed he
00:37:59
was looking at was still up uh and running at a later point was it porno yes it was porno because I mean I'm just
00:38:08
saying it could be very embarrassing well so the website that he left up was a website that gave the time of that
00:38:16
day's sunrise and sunset hmm that's weird well I can't say that he was looking up Baltimore specifically
00:38:25
I I don't know if if he you know was looking in his City or another city you can look up cities all around the world
00:38:33
on that day just for for reference on that day in Baltimore the sunrise is listed at 5 52 a.m and
00:38:42
the sunset was set for 8 14 P.M right I do know that people uh you know directors people that make movies like
00:38:52
the film things I don't know what it's called there's a word for it but there's like that magical hour
00:38:58
of the day when you want to film things because the way that it will look especially the sky is actually a very
00:39:05
good point I didn't think about that so knowing that that is his business at the
00:39:10
time it might be something that is important to him especially if he was planning a
00:39:15
future um project or not even that though but it doesn't have to be that time period
00:39:22
it could simply be I'm going to meet these people at whatever time I want to see what the Daylight's going to look
00:39:29
like because that's going to determine do I need to bring this camera or that camera or do I need to bring some lights
00:39:36
with me so that's definitely a tool that photographers and obviously filmmakers use
00:39:45
another thing that's interesting and this is just it's one of those little tidbits where I found a statement but I
00:39:52
can't find anything to formally back it up was that Ray at some point within a short period of time before his
00:40:00
disappearance had inquired or spoke to somebody about filming something from the Belvedere Hotel from the top of the
00:40:09
Belvedere Hotel there's no more detail that I could find on that but then you go okay well this
00:40:15
is a major city does he want to get some footage from a top of a big building at
00:40:21
night you know get the skyline get the city all lit up you know very cinematic type type stuff
00:40:27
so any anybody's guessing you should be a director I'm going to throw a little wrench into that idea about him
00:40:35
contacting the hotel because we have no way of knowing how he did that whether it was by phone or in person
00:40:46
I think the speculation was it's just by phone and all I'm going to put out there
00:40:50
is somebody can call and easily say that they're Rey and not be right right but again I I don't know who the person was
00:40:58
that he is supposed to have this conversation with so I don't want to take it a step further and say that
00:41:04
someone called the hotel or that this is a hotel employee that information is not there this could
00:41:11
have simply been a friend that he mentioned this to right so that evening on the 16th
00:41:18
Rey was on the receiving end of a phone call that Claudia has to believe led him to running out of
00:41:27
the house in a hurry and the short of it is that Ray never returns police state that the last phone call
00:41:36
received by Ray originated from Fells Point Unsolved Mysteries says it came from a
00:41:43
switchboard at Stansberry and Associates from my general understanding of this Captain it's possible that this could be
00:41:50
from both meaning someone could have called into Stansberry and Associates and get redirected or type in some type
00:41:59
of extension and then get sent along to Rey's phone right later Allison reviewed
00:42:07
the phone bill from that day and is on record saying that there were only four calls
00:42:14
that day and all of them were from Ray's work and that's about as far along as we
00:42:20
get of a description of who could have been calling Rey especially that last call before he runs out the door May
00:42:28
17th at 5am Allison wakes up she calls Claudia again and unfortunately Allison learns that
00:42:37
Rey still has not returned he's not come home and it's now been overnight yeah Claudia doesn't say you know oh I heard
00:42:45
him come in and then he left again no he he never came back according to the house guest Allison then decides this
00:42:52
might be some type of an emergency something really weird is going on so she decides to leave her work trip early
00:43:00
and head home a frantic Allison returned home and by this point the house guest Claudia has left she left sometime that
00:43:09
morning Allison is quoted as saying that Claudia quote had her own drama end quote
00:43:17
again another thing that doesn't make a lot of sense yeah it could be some more details here please it could be
00:43:25
something as simple as she just happened to be staying there that night and she doesn't want her you know her
00:43:35
her information out there she doesn't want you know she doesn't want to be involved well I don't know
00:43:41
that she doesn't want to be involved but but she probably has some kind of private life that she may not want every
00:43:46
detail that was going on in her life at that time out there right when somebody says to when somebody says she had her
00:43:55
own drama no and doesn't my imagination doesn't have to run too wild to go well maybe
00:44:01
she and a significant other or somebody she's living with or for whatever reason she needed a place
00:44:07
to stay that night and I don't think that it was just because she happened to be working in town that night usually
00:44:14
they don't refer to work as drama and Allison's going out of town so well when people are showing up dead from
00:44:21
your work that I would consider that drama Rey's brother Angel he gets on a plane that same day and
00:44:29
then the search for Rey commenced in the next couple of days several other family members arrive in Baltimore to
00:44:37
assist in the search on Saturday May 20th this was the video editing session that Ray booked so
00:44:47
he's now been gone for a couple of days and this appointment that he arranged on
00:44:52
his own has come and passed and we still don't have any Ray Rivera two days later on May 22nd Rey's car is
00:45:02
found mid-afternoon in a paid parking lot behind a building which is near the Belvedere Hotel
00:45:10
it's also near Stansberry and Associates so it's not really it's not really out of the realm of
00:45:19
possibility that you would find his vehicle there it doesn't seem like an entirely strange place to find the
00:45:26
vehicle right it's in an area where I'm also curious like would this be an area where he's parked before for work in the
00:45:34
past they don't really go into detail about that but what we do have is a parking ticket you know you have to pay
00:45:42
to park there so they have a parking ticket that confirmed that the car had been there for six days he's missing for
00:45:50
six days the vehicle's been there for six days this car somehow got to this paid
00:45:57
parking spot the same day that Ray went missing according to the parking attendant
00:46:02
this man left work at 6 PM that day the day that Ray went missing right he says that the vehicle that's later identified
00:46:11
as Ray Rivera's was not there when he left that day at 6 pm he said that he returned to work to
00:46:19
monitor the lot the next day May 17th at 7 A.M he says when he arrives at 7 A.M on the 17th Ray's car Ray's vehicle was
00:46:30
there at that time but the four calls that he's getting they might not be significant at all he might have stopped
00:46:38
writing for them but he was still doing projects for that company correct and there's any number of
00:46:45
reasons why those calls could have come in and had nothing to do with him going missing or later his death
00:46:51
two days later on May 24th some Oxford Club employees some Reports say two employees some say three regardless
00:47:02
these would have been like one-time co-workers of Ray Rivera we said Oxford Club employees
00:47:10
the company is a little confusing on the surface okay he worked he being Rey worked for Stansberry and Associates
00:47:20
worked for Porter Stansberry Stansberry and Associates is under the parent company of Agora
00:47:29
same with this Oxford club they're under the parent company of Agora and where it
00:47:36
gets more confusing about the calls coming into Ray's phone that day they necessarily do not have to be from
00:47:44
Stansberry and Associates it could have been any of the companies that fall under Agora and a lot of these
00:47:53
share office space or have buildings uh together or their businesses are located
00:47:58
on different floors of the same building all in this same area of Baltimore the same little intersection really so these
00:48:06
three employees one-time co-workers of Ray Rivera on May 24th they're out and about and they're looking for Rey or at
00:48:16
least looking for clues about Rey's whereabouts in the area of the Belvedere Hotel keep in mind this is not like they
00:48:23
went way out of their way to do this this is right by their work the three employees go to search a parking garage
00:48:30
that's located right by the Belvedere Hotel while on the top level of the parking garage one of them looks over at
00:48:39
the roof below them and sees a hole in the roof they also spot what they believe to be flip-flops a phone and
00:48:47
Eyeglasses they immediately call law enforcement and detectives go go to The Belvedere Ray's body is found lying face
00:48:55
up wedged against a wall in an unused portion of the Belvedere yeah isn't it just used for
00:49:02
maybe special events or something it could be it's a little unclear to me because I've seen it referred to as a
00:49:08
conference room as a banquet hall I've also at one point the guy on Unsolved Mysteries who eventually becomes the
00:49:17
property manager over the Belvedere right refers to it as the uh what does he call it like the old
00:49:24
the old racquetball quarter the old tennis he calls it something that seems seems strange but it may have been that
00:49:30
at one time and then repurposed for something else later regardless this is not an area that people frequently go
00:49:37
into it's a locked door a locked space that you have to believe has been unused from the time that Ray went missing
00:49:45
until they find his body his lifeless body there lying face up against the wall and it appears he came through the
00:49:52
roof that hole that we just talked about which created a 40 inch diameter hole in
00:49:59
the roof yeah and it seems like a lot of layers that you need to go through to go
00:50:04
through a roof yeah he's not a small man no He's listed at what six foot four six
00:50:12
foot five and about 250 pounds yeah and if he jumped from the hotel one would assume that he could
00:50:21
go through the roof yeah depending on what height he fell from or jump from or was pushed from I mean
00:50:28
that's where you start getting into well why did this happen and how did it happen yeah
00:50:35
crazy now all three of those employees that we mentioned that were involved in actually helping to find Rey they were
00:50:45
sent off to the police station and of course they were they gave statements at that time according to Allison and a
00:50:53
retired detective and now retired Detective still active at the time and some others they all say that shortly
00:51:00
after Rey's body is found that Porter Stansberry Rey's longtime friend he becomes uncooperative
00:51:10
where before when Rey was simply missing that he was cooperating and he was involved in the search for Ray right he
00:51:19
even offered up a thousand dollar reward for information leading to his missing friend
00:51:25
but they say you know as soon as the body was found magically now this guy doesn't seem to want to be involved in
00:51:34
any of the discussions into what could have happened to Ray yeah which is very suspicious that you'd be I'm offering
00:51:41
money if you can find him it's almost like and the way in which he finds him that that lets Porter know something
00:51:50
you see what I'm saying oh he this is a a murder or a possible murder or a murder where somebody's trying to
00:52:00
make it look like suicide I know who did this I know who's capable of this I know what
00:52:08
Circle that these individuals are running around in because this is my business and so these guys that did this to Rey
00:52:19
are capable of doing this to me so I need to not be involved and I need to keep my mouth shut
00:52:25
or I could be next that's interesting that you say that and I like that you say that because I've always found look
00:52:32
many people are suspicious of of porter in his behavior and what his is his involvement in this whole mess there's
00:52:43
no question about that but what I find to be weird is I get why people question his actions and are suspicious of him
00:52:52
but I also would like for everybody to keep in mind that if Porter knew in advance what happened to Rey and why or
00:53:01
if Porter was involved in what happened to Rey and why he knows that the body is very close to
00:53:12
him in proximity right so it seems strange to flip this behavior from cooperating when he's not found to not
00:53:20
cooperating when found so to give a little background here to those that don't know the area from the place that
00:53:28
Ray parked his car well we don't know that he parked it but from where his vehicle was found right in that paid
00:53:34
parking lot it is I'm gonna bring up my notes here I don't know how many cameras in this
00:53:41
parking lot nobody has referenced cameras in this parking lot at any time so if you were to walk from his from
00:53:48
that parking spot where the vehicle was found that parking lot it's a one minute
00:53:52
walk to the Belvedere Hotel if you were to walk from that parking lot to his old place of work Stansberry
00:54:01
Research it's a two-minute walk so all of this stuff is really within the same intersection of
00:54:09
Baltimore hold on a second there's a whole Porter Stansberry it sounds like a douchey Rich character from a John
00:54:16
Hughes movie or something from the 80s according to Allison and the now retired detective and some of the others that
00:54:25
say that they find Porter to be uncooperative immediately after the body is found they say that Porter is not
00:54:33
returning the detective's phone calls and when the detective tries to contact employees at the office he is told by
00:54:41
company lawyers that employees are not allowed to speak with him right he claims that this is some type of gag
00:54:48
order Allison said that Porter spoke directly to her and that he told her that he doesn't want to speak to the
00:54:56
police and fears that they will be against him due to his prior SEC investigation this is all this is all a
00:55:07
bit messy right here in this because it is true that Porter in the company were under investigation at the time by the
00:55:16
SEC right to be 100 clear though we should point out that this investigation was an ongoing one that started before
00:55:26
Rey even moved to Baltimore before he started working at Stansberry and Associates right it's just a [ __ ]
00:55:34
excuse and it was still going on after Rey's death it might be a [ __ ] excuse but we're
00:55:40
we're not hearing this directly from Porter we're here we're hearing it second hand as to why he says he doesn't
00:55:48
want to speak with police that they might oh they might be suspicious of him because there's already a government
00:55:54
agency looking at him and his company for missed dealings previous to this right right this is so strange because
00:56:02
when you when I finished the episode of watching Unsolved Mysteries you you go this this character this Porter
00:56:10
character is is extremely interesting and extremely suspicious but like I said it's like well did he
00:56:20
have something to do with this and if he did why would he be so involved initially in the search
00:56:27
unless that was a cover-up and then once they found Rey that he decided that he needed to be less
00:56:35
involved or more fingers would point to him I I believe that there is a reason that Porter brought his friend out there
00:56:45
from Baltimore not just to help him hey come out here there's great opportunities for you but
00:56:51
I think there were some opportunities that got them in trouble got them into situations that they couldn't handle
00:57:02
and I think that's why Ray was so concerned you know about people I worked with dying well that one
00:57:12
person all right to say people makes it sound like they're dropping like flies over at Stansberry and Associates Old
00:57:18
Stansberry and Associates they're dropping like that's their motto and again we're dropping like flies we have
00:57:23
zero information on that car accident other than this man died in in Africa that's a whole that's a whole freaking
00:57:31
continent like we don't we don't even have a statement that narrows it down to a specific country right so it seems a
00:57:38
very but it also seems like in a sense that this is stage to make it seem like he committed suicide
00:57:47
that he jumped off the the building or maybe he was thrown off the building who knows but if it was a possible
00:57:58
suicide then why would Porter just you know pack it in and cut off all communication with
00:58:07
law enforcement again it's the description of a select few people that are saying that that's what went
00:58:15
down and how it went down yeah as you've pointed out in plenty of our other cases
00:58:20
there's two sides to every story three well you we we can argue that we've we have in the past but sometimes there's
00:58:28
just two there's his and hers and the truth and sometimes one of those people are telling the
00:58:34
truth that leaves two other cases you do have two stories and then the truth is somewhere else out there right that
00:58:41
could be the situation here I don't know but I have worked for companies in the past where there is something some news
00:58:49
tidbit that hits the papers and I have been told this by several different companies
00:58:57
that if so and so contacts you that you are to refer them to such and such and that's so non-descriptive but well
00:59:08
we'll get your point right like I mean you can yada yada yada no I've been cold called by people in the media at
00:59:15
different jobs that I've had and they're like we wanna hey uh just so and so here
00:59:20
from channel four so and so here from The Columbus Dispatch just want to ask you about blah blah blah and you're not
00:59:27
supposed to speak to that because they've hired and paid someone to give the official
00:59:32
statement of the company and people can look into that and look at it with a with a a cross eye or
00:59:40
whatever and and say that this is suspicious Behavior but it happens everywhere all the time
00:59:46
which doesn't necessarily mean that it is suspicious I think we should also direct something to or dive into
00:59:53
something too in regards to the Belvedere Hotel because people that do not know this case might be a little
00:59:59
confused by the term Hotel the Belvedere at one point was a hotel in Maryland and it was built in 1902 and
01:00:09
1903 it's a probably a Historic Landmark in Baltimore by this time but in 1991 it
01:00:19
was converted into Condominiums so some of the some of the building remains open to the public from my
01:00:26
understanding but the majority of the building is now privately owned by these homeowners yeah last week's case was
01:00:35
strange and this one is already very strange and we have so much more to go well and
01:00:43
this starts off as a missing person's case and eventually his body is found but again it is the how and why he got
01:00:52
there yeah like he was just shot out of the sky through that roof into that room
01:01:04
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