S3 Ep273: Rey Rivera: A Cryptic Letter (Part 3)

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🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 93 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.
0:15.8	And I'm Derek Lavasar. So we are diving into part three of the Ray Rivera case. And unless you have anything you want to
0:23.6	talk about, we can dive right in. No, we, uh, big episode of traders last night. Um, I won't spoil
0:31.2	it for anybody. But at some point, people keep saying we should, uh, I don't think you're watching it,
0:35.8	right? You're not watching. I'm not caught up, but I am
0:37.6	caught up. But last night was a big thing. I won't spoil it. I know you guys said you want us to talk
0:41.9	about it a little bit here, but we'll save it for another day. We got more important things to talk
0:46.0	about today. So Ray Rivera, we talked about last episode, how his fiance, well, his wife at that point, Allison, she had gone to Virginia for a work trip.
0:58.6	Everything was fine with Ray when she left.
1:01.6	He put her in the car, kissed her goodbye.
1:03.8	She drove to Virginia.
1:04.8	But when she got there and she started texting and calling him, he didn't respond.
1:08.9	So she called a friend of hers who was staying with Ray and Allison for a few days.
1:13.3	And this friend said, oh, yeah, Ray got a call.
1:17.0	He answered it.
1:17.9	He said, oh, shit.
1:18.9	He rushed out of the house.
1:20.6	Now, the next time we know anything about Ray, they find him dead in this kind of closed down office space area that used
1:30.4	to be the pool area of the Belvedere Hotel, but they turned the Belvedere into condominiums.
1:35.8	And then at that time, they also sort of changed that pool area into some office space.
1:40.1	The office space across from the room where Ray was found was occupied at that time, but the office space that he was found in was not occupied at that time.
1:51.3	And we're kind of going to go over some parts of the investigation, the autopsy.
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