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10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

Let Me Make You A Model

10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

Joe Kuner

Entertainment News, True Crime, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4.8614 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The promise of fame. The opportunity to have your picture seen by thousands of people. Reinaldo Rivera looked for young women that he thought would be excited at the chance to become a model. He would approach them and see if they were interested in taking photos for him to pass on to modeling agencies and escort services. The only true part about his story was that their picture would make it to the news… only it would not be for the reasons he promised.

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0:00.0

Discretion is advised.

0:12.0

Ten-minute murder.

0:38.6

The promise of fame and the opportunity to have your picture seen by thousands of people.

0:44.1

Reynaldo Rivera looked for young women that he thought would be excited by the chance to become a model. He would approach them and see if they were interested in taking photos for him

0:48.8

to pass on to modeling agencies and escort services. The only true part about his story was that their picture would make it to the news, only

0:59.2

it would not be for the reasons he promised.

1:03.2

Reynaldo Rivera was born in September of 1963 in Madrid, Spain.

1:09.0

His father was a doctor. When Reynaldo was seven, the family moved to Puerto Rico.

1:14.7

When he was 19, he joined the Navy, and he served in the Navy for a decade before his discharge.

1:20.1

During that time, he was in a pilot training program. He became a lieutenant junior grade

1:25.0

and lived in Texas, Florida, California, and North Carolina.

1:29.3

From 1986 to 1991, he worked for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, D.C.

1:34.9

He eventually pursued a degree at the University of South Carolina and settled in North Augusta.

1:41.4

On February 14, 1993, he married Tammy Bonnet. They had two children together,

1:47.0

and in 1998, Rivera started working at the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company as a tire inspector.

1:55.0

North Augusta is in South Carolina and right up the road from Augusta, Georgia. Both cities are classified as part of the

2:02.9

Central Savannah River area, or the CSRA. The CSRA includes several counties between the two states,

2:10.4

so in July of 1999, when 17-year-old Melissa Dingus went missing, It was on the news in all of the surrounding cities.

2:20.0

She was from Graniteville, South Carolina, and there was no trace of what happened to her.

2:25.6

Then in December of that year, 17-year-old Tiffany Wilson went missing. Only she wasn't alone. She had

2:32.8

her two-month-old daughter with her.

2:34.9

She planned on getting pictures with Santa that day.

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