Baltimore, 2006, a city buzzing with life suddenly became the backdrop to one of the most perplexing mysteries in recent history.

Ray Rivera was a young, charismatic writer with big dreams and a loving wife by his side.

He seemed to have it all.

But on May 16th, he vanished without a trace, leaving behind nothing but a hurried phone call

and a series of unanswered questions.

Eight days later, his body was discovered in the

most chilling and bizarre circumstances you could imagine, inside an unused conference room in the

historic Belvedere Hotel. He appeared to have fallen from a significant height, crashing through the

roof of the conference room. As the investigation into Ray's death began,

theories swirled. Had he done this to himself? Was this an accident? Or something far more sinister?

Nothing was adding up, and the deeper investigators dug, the more tangled the mystery became.

Ray had left his home abruptly that night for seemingly no reason. Why?

What had led him to the Belvedere Hotel? And what secrets were hidden in a cryptic note found taped to his computer screen?

A note filled with references to movies, codes, and seemingly nonsensical musings.

This is not just a story about a man's life tragically ending.

It is a journey into the unknown,

a labyrinth of secrets, shadows, and haunting questions that still linger,

almost two decades later.

Music Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow. And I'm Derek

Lavasar. And today we are diving into a new case, part one of a new case. And we're covering a case that I

covered on YouTube several years ago, five years ago now in 2020. It's the Ray Rivera case,

huge mystery, lots of rabbit holes to go down. It was featured on the Unsolved Mysteries

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