S3 Ep271: Rey Rivera: The Belvedere Hotel (Part 2)

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🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Baltimore, 2006. A city buzzing with life suddenly became the backdrop to one of the most perplexing mysteries in recent history. Rey 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 Rey’s death began, theories swirled; was it suicide, an accident or something far more sinister? Nothing was adding up, and the deeper investigators dug, the more tangled the mystery became. Rey 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.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow.
0:16.2	And I'm Derek Lavasar. So today we are diving into part two of the Ray Rivera case, which some call a mystery,
0:24.2	and I'm not adverse to that.
0:26.4	It could be mysterious.
0:27.6	Definitely has mysterious aspects to it.
0:29.4	But before we kind of dive into that, we want to mention the fact that CrimeCon is coming
0:35.4	up in September.
0:36.8	It's going to be in Denver, Colorado,
0:38.7	and we would love to invite everybody to come and check it out.
0:44.6	And not only that, but come and hang out with us there.
0:47.1	Yeah, I know we just mentioned on Crime Weekly News,
0:49.5	but we have a much bigger audience on these main Crime Weekly episodes.
0:53.0	So we obviously wanted to mention it here,
0:54.7	as Stephanie said, September 5th through September 7th, Denver, Colorado. We mentioned it for a
1:01.1	couple reasons. One, it's a great event. You get to meet a lot of families who have gone through
1:06.9	incidents that we talk about right here on Crime Weekly. You also get to meet a lot of people
1:11.7	in the true crime space, whether that's podcasters, TV personalities, industries that are actually
1:16.7	working out in the field like an authrum. So there's a lot of opportunity to actually explore
1:21.5	and immerse yourself and all the things that you hear about on your podcast or your YouTube
1:26.2	channels that you watch.
1:27.7	So it's a really great experience.
1:29.7	If you can get out there, strongly recommend you do it,
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