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So what are your thoughts, Ray?

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Uh, I'm really excited.

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And I can't wait to see Allison come down here.

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We were both so happy.

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My wedding in Puerto Rico is just magical.

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We got married in a town called Isabella

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and rose right on top of each other.

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And I'm so excited.

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I'm so excited.

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I'm so excited.

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We got married in a town called Isabella

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and rose right on the beach.

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It's one of the things my brother got from our parents,

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Puerto Rico and the respect and the love that we have for Puerto Rico.

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He made it a point to honor that.

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I want to welcome you here today.

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For parte de las familias de Allison y Ray.

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This beautiful, very tale wedding was just the beginning.

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No matter what Allison, I love you forever.

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Ray, take this, Ray.

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I've just signed my love of you.

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I was probably one of the happiest times as the Rivera's, you know,

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that we had as a family.

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And I present to you Ray and Allison Rivera.

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Woo!

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Woo!

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Woo!

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Woo!

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I don't know why he disappeared.

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When they said it was suicide, it was like he ran out of the house,

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like he was late for something.

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Who sits there and says,

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oh, you know what, 6.30, time to jump off a big roof.

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I kept saying there is something bigger, there is something more going on.

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I think he turned over some rock and he shouldn't have turned it over.

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But I know that he didn't kill himself.

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My hope is that there is somebody that's out there that knows the truth.

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Get out!

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Don't let him in!

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Ray was 6'5", 260, a water polo player, so broad shoulders, thin waist.

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But also this beautiful smile that lit up a room.

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Family was definitely one of the key things with Ray growing up.

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Being Air Force Brats, my dad was in the military.

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When you're moving from city to city, you become really tight

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because you're constantly making new temporary friends.

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So the one constant is the family.

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He was happy, always had us laughing,

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could always find the funny in pretty much everything.

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He had a hysterical, awesome, keen sense of humor.

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You know, just naturally you would grab a tate towards him, you know, that kind of energy.

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His dream was to be a writer and director.

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Film was everything for him.

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And so we were living in Southern California.

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But screenplays and all of that was not bringing in money.

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So Ray turned to a friend in Baltimore, Porter Stansbury.

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Porter was his high school buddy.

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They were both water polo players, and they stayed very, very good friends.

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And Porter, who was like a big finance guy and had a company of Stansbury Associates

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that wrote financial newsletters.

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Porter had always wanted Ray.

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It was for a long time Ray to come write for him.

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Even though Ray didn't know finance or stocks, Porter's persistent

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and really wanted to work with his friend.

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So Ray took a writing job writing financial newsletters in Baltimore.

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We moved to Baltimore for this company and all we knew was Porter.

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We made a pact that we were going to live in Baltimore for 24 months.

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We moved in in December of 2004.

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We found this amazing home and we found a church.

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We found a community.

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We were so happy.

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May 16th, 2006.

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I had a business trip and that morning I was a little tired.

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I had a three hour drive and Ray got up with me and made me breakfast.

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It was such a beautiful morning and I said,

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to him, I was like, I love you so much.

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And he was like, thank you for loving me so much.

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He carried my suitcase down the stairs, put it in the car for me and I was off.

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I finished my day like six or six thirty.

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I checked into the hotel and I was like, I'm going to get a job.

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I was like, I'm going to get a job.

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I was like, I'm going to get a job.

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I checked into the hotel and I call him.

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It was just like, that's really strange.

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We had a house guest and her name was Claudia and she was a colleague.

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That night I call her and she said around six thirty.

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She had heard a phone call come in, heard Ray answered and then run out of the house in a hurry.

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And she was like, let me see if he came back.

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So she walked around the house, all the lights were on.

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She said, he's not here.

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And then she called me that next morning at five thirty.

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And she was like, Alison, he's not home.

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I'm not one to panic, but there was just something that wasn't right.

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I'm like, I'm headed home.

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I'm driving up calling everybody.

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At the time we were living in Puerto Rico, the phone rang and it was Alison.

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She always called me mama and she said, mama, I can't find Ray.

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I was like, have you talked to him?

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She's like, no.

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After that I called Angel, Ray's brother.

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I instantly knew something was amiss.

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He's not the dude to disappear.

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So for him to go, you know, MIA for any extended period of time and his wife not know about it.

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It was so out of the ordinary.

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By like one or two, I'm on a flight from Orlando to Baltimore.

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I get to the house. This car's not there.

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And I walk in and in the kitchen there was a soda can opened, a bag of potato chips and his invisible lines.

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I ran upstairs.

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Our bedroom light was on.

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The office light was on.

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He wasn't anywhere.

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By seven o'clock Angel landed.

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Claudia had went back to New York and all our friends flew down.

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We're just really, you know, coming to the street.

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And then Maria, his mother, came in and my parents came in the next day.

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So I had cleared out the entire dining room area.

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Then it became work.

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Where do we have to go? What do we have to do?

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Here's the license plate number.

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Do you want me to put a sandwich up for you?

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That's just a major stretch.

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I would be calling the hospitals, you know, if there was a John Doe, but I don't know what to do.

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I would be calling the hospitals.

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I would be calling the hospitals.

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I would be calling the hospitals.

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I would be calling the hospitals.

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I would be calling the hospitals, you know, if there was a John Doe.

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Porter put up a reward of $1,000 because Ray and Porter were good friends

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and was able to get the media in there and kind of get that all stirred up.

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So we're just kind of trying to think of places that people would have seen him.

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Coffee shops, different restaurants, that kind of stuff.

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You know, you're hoping that someone spotted him.

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But you didn't hear anything.

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There's no movement on credit cards.

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The cell phone was dead.

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There was no cash pullout from our bank accounts.

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You know, nothing.

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And every step of the way in this, I couldn't believe that it was real.

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Can I put the posters off?

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It starts getting real scary.

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But you feel like you've got to be strong in front of everybody and not lose hope.

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Sort of let those worst thoughts come into your mind.

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You're fighting that. I'm fighting that.

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But it gets daunting.

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Where is Ray?

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Where could he possibly be?

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Family and friends say Rivera had left the house in a hurry,

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as if he was late for an appointment.

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For the 11 News Eye Team, I'm Jay Miller.

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My interest in Ray Rivera's story was because it seemed just so unusual

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to have a 32, I think he was 32 years old at the time, popular.

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No evidence that he was trying to run from something

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or distraught about something that he kind of just poof, vanished.

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Baltimore City Police are searching for a missing 32-year-old man.

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So we're now six days into him being gone.

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I had come home from searching,

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and my mom and dad wanted to go to look for the car in different parking lots.

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They were on their own, and mom said, let's pull into this one.

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And my dad was driving, and she looks over to talk to my dad.

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And through my dad, she's like, Tom, that's the car.

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And dad said, no, it's not. She's like, Tom, that is the car.

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The search took a turn last night when Rivera's car was found

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behind a building on St. Paul Street.

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My mother and father found the car right here.

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This is parking spot number seven.

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By the time I got here, which is about 10 minutes,

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there were cops everywhere. The media was everywhere.

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When we found the car, there was a ticket on it.

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The parking attendant said that the car must have been found.

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The parking attendant said that the car was found

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The parking attendant said that the car must have been parked

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the evening that Ray disappeared,

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because the parking attendant had found the car

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when he arrived at work the next morning.

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So it was six days of him missing the six day we found the car.

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So we knew the car had been sitting there six days.

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I just like looked around and I was looking, you know,

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I was looking at these buildings.

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I just, I was like, why are you here? Why are you here?

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Why would you be here? Why, why, why, why, why?

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When they found the car, that really, you know,

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accelerated the interest in the case,

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because now you had a clue.

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The area where the car was found is a parking lot

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near the Belvedere Hotel.

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It used to be an old hotel in Azcan Miniam.

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But it was also located in the area of town

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where the company that he worked for, Stansbury, is located.

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So it wasn't unusual on its face that he would know that part of town.

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But it became this mystery right away.

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It was like, where is he? His car is here.

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What happened to him?

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Now it really started to have the appearance of, hmm, foul play?

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His cell phone was missing. Was his cell phone recovered in the truck or not?

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No. There's nothing in the truck.

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Nothing of evidentiary value in the truck.

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There's nothing to indicate a theft of the vehicle.

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There is nothing that we've uncovered in his background

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up to this point that gives a logical reason for him just to disappear.

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You got him in the box, like, 10 blocks.

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He's talking to a bunch of local businesses.

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After the car was located, all of these folks started to organize

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these kind of searches in that area around the car.

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The next big thing that happened is that

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someone discovered this hole in a roof of the Belvedere Hotel.

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Three of Ray's co-workers decided to go on the top of the parking garage

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next to the Belvedere.

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They looked over the edge and they spotted flip-flops on the lower roof area, near a hole.

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The only way to find the hole was to be on top of the Belvedere

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or to be on top of the parking structure.

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It just looked like a black spot on this white roof.

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It's not a big hole.

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You'd be just like, oh, well, you know, rain must have caused a leak or something.

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And then the three men who found the hole called the police.

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The doctors came in and they said, well, is the man through the building?

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They said, Gary, can you open up this door for us?

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And the space was the old racquetball club.

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We called it the old church space.

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A lot of people probably wouldn't know that it was used at all.

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I opened the door up and the first thing I did, I smelled a dead stench.

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The smell was a dead body and you could see the wall where the blood had came down

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and his legs were towards the door.

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I looked up and I saw outside that roof there was metal.

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So he came right through the metal and right through the ceiling.

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Still today, when I open up a door, sometimes I still see that body.

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It's just something that I would never want to see again.

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We get the call to go down to Baltimore Police Headquarters.

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And that was the longest, quietest drive I could ever recall.

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This guy is sitting behind his desk and he's like, would you like some water?

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So he gave me a coffee mug full of water.

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And that's when they confirmed that the body that they had found was raised.

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My hands, they went like this, like the water went everywhere.

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You couldn't even hold it.

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And I was just shaking and I sat down and just screamed.

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It was just anguish, a heartbreak.

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I mean, that's your little brother, you know?

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And so I remember everyone just starting to cry.

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And we put our arms around each other and everything.

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So the reality of it started setting at that moment.

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I didn't think about the who, what, and the where, how.

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Probably until later on when we got back to Allison and Ray's place.

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I was at their house waiting and I, you know, and I knew when they walked in that...

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And I looked up at Allison.

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And she was crying rivers.

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She was just crying rivers.

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And I just held her.

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We said, what's saying there, meet me at the Belvedere.

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And that was the biggest thing that was going on inside Baltimore City.

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What's the Belvedere?

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Real ritzy, high class place, you know, real nice.

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Anybody that was somebody stayed at the Belvedere.

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Spent 30 years of my life there.

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Started off as a busboy making $2.00 and something an hour.

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And then when I left, I left as a property manager.

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A lot of great memories, a lot of great memories.

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But not that memory of a river fair that was not a great memory at all.

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We got that call on the 24th of May.

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I believe that a body was found in a room in the Belvedere.

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So we, of course, responded out to the room where the body was located.

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The body pretty much was in a prone position.

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Decompensation was a very serious problem.

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The body pretty much was in a prone position.

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Decompensation was pretty extreme at that point.

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He had been missing for eight days.

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That's what really hurt.

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The decomp is going to destroy most of the evidence that you could see

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instantaneously if you got to that body right away.

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The body was in a prone position.

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Raise autopsy, it was some brutal reading.

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Multiple, multiple ribs fractured, punctured lungs,

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lacerations, seven, nine inches.

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Damage to his skull.

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The right leg had two different breaks in it

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to the point where the bone was actually protruding through the flesh.

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With the extent of the injuries, it seemed like the man came from such great heights

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when he went through that hole.

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The hole was pretty clean and it wasn't that large.

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I could fit through the hole with only little clearance around me.

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So that's how small the hole was.

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It wasn't this massive cave-in of a roof.

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He came vertical through that thing like a projectile.

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The biggest question is where did he come from?

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How did he get through that hole?

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The first theory was that he jumped off or fell off or was pushed off

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but came off the very top roof

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and then went through that lower roof ten or eleven stories down.

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Very top of the hotel roof.

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At best, maybe from point to point, was maybe a 40-foot open area.

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Of course, there's air ducts, there's air-conditioned units.

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There's a lot of different structures up there.

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The hole was quite a distance out.

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The rough angles I could get were 45 feet from the Belvedere to where the hole was.

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Even to attempt a jump, a running jump, to get to the point where the hole was,

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was in my mind virtually impossible.

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He was a tall fit man, but he also was in flip-flops.

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The hole never made sense, like where it was.

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So my dad and I went up on the roof.

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I'm afraid of heights.

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Ray was afraid of heights.

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And being up on the roof scared me to absolute death

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because there's no railing up there.

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And it's very far down.

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I couldn't imagine why he would be up there.

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Immediately, nothing about the evidence at that point felt good to me.

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The roof time was very short.

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The roof point felt good to me.

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The rooftop, the location of the hole, I didn't believe it.

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Ray went off that top of the roof.

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So after that, we went over to the parking garage right adjacent to the building.

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From the perspective of the garage, the hole was too far away.

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I mean, you have to go way out there to reach that area where the hole was.

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The top of the garage roof is only 20 feet.

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So to me, it seems feasible a man could survive that, even with going through the rooftop.

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Now, the extent of the injuries to the body were pretty intense.

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So that theory went to rest pretty quick.

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There was theories that he came off the 11th floor.

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There's a ledge that wraps around the building.

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From there, it's possible.

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But to get to those ledges, you had to go through somebody's personal property.

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You had to go through an office. You had to go through a room.

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You had to go through a condo.

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None of the hallways just left out to the ledge.

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And the windows are half windows, which barely even open if they opened at all.

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And then the ledge, it's not a catwalk.

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It's a ledge.

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And it's a really old building, so it's ornate.

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You'd really have to be pretty nimble to maneuver that without falling off the building.

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So that hole still is a mystery.

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Which part of that building he came off of?

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During the investigation, around the hole, on the rooftop, we find his cell phone.

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The phone was in totally working order.

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This is his cell phone that was found on the roof.

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And there is not a crack in the screen, which I find really strange.

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The phone is one of those things that I will never forget.

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I mean, you can go anywhere right now, drop your phone from three stories,

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and something's going to happen to it.

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Even from the garage roof.

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His eyeglasses, when they were found, there wasn't a scratch on them.

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His injuries were severe and fatal.

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And it's just odd that for the force it took for him to go through that roof,

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that the cell phone and glasses would survive that force.

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It's odd.

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None of these objects are damaged, yet he is brutal.

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One flip flop was broken, the other flip flop, they both were laying on the rooftop.

347
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These are his flip flops that were also on the roof.

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There's drag marks here that are pretty fresh.

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And then this one is, you know, this one is broken.

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I don't know how that, how all of this, how this even happened.

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The flip flops phone, his eyeglasses, they were almost like, it just to me, it looked staged.

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It raises that question.

353
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Well, did they really fall with him?

354
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Or did someone put them there, after the fact?

355
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But what wasn't found with Ray was the money clip.

356
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I bought him for a wedding gift and then engraved his initials R.R. on it.

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He would have, you know, his IDs, money and all that kind of stuff and then, you know.

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So, yeah, he liked, it was this thing, his little signature piece.

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That has never been recovered.

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When I got the car back from the police department, I turned that car on.

361
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I turned the car upside down for that money clip.

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Because it was just something that I was like, that doesn't seem right.

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That that's just gone.

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Naturally, you think, right?

365
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If this guy fell off the building, someone's going to have seen something.

366
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So, shortly after Ray's body was found, I literally like wandered throughout the hotel.

367
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And just tried to talk to anybody and asked him the same question.

368
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Did you see him? Did you hear anything?

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I mean, this happened in a public building where people are going to a restaurant.

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You know, Mount Vernon is a bustling neighborhood.

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There are people all over the place.

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And this guy just ends up dropping out of the sky and ending up in a conference room and no one knows anything.

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You have all those windows in the building and no one came forward and said,

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oh, I saw, I heard, I looked down, I was like, what is that?

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Nothing.

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I mean, there just, it seemed to happen without anyone seeing anything.

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There's no way my brother just walks into the Belvedere Hotel, walks to the lobby,

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and you get to the top of that building.

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I try to do it.

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I try to walk up there.

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I try to walk through that lobby.

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It's not something that just anyone casually can do walking off the street.

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You have to go through like these back stairwells that lead up,

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that in some cases are locked or are not open to the public.

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And then you go sort of navigate this labyrinth.

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To then get out through a door that's usually locked to get to this roof area.

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So in order to get there, you would have to know how to get there.

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At the beginning of the investigation, I tried to determine whether Mr. Riviera was in the hotel at all.

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So I checked the cameras in the hotel.

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And there was no footage of them anywhere.

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The camera on the rooftop was not working.

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It was disconnected.

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I was like, are you kidding me?

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00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:29,000
You know, that night, the night that Ray is supposed to have been wandering up in the hotel and there's no video.

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Like many elements of this case, it's just like another roll block.

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00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,000
No one could give us any indication that Ray was inside that building.

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No one saw this man that night.

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No witnesses, no phone calls, no jailhouse niches.

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We had nothing.

400
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Here's a look at the morning's top stories.

401
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Baltimore police say Ray Riviera jumped from the roof of the Balvidere and crashed through a lower roof.

402
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:03,000
This was a solid running story in Baltimore for about seven to ten days.

403
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And then it was kind of determined to be suicide, so the interest in it faded.

404
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:18,000
Police from the jump were leaning to suicide.

405
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The circumstances, the evidence, the hard evidence that we have really point to this probably being a suicide.

406
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,000
But there wasn't a lot of evidence.

407
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,000
He wasn't shot in the head. He wasn't stabbed.

408
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:39,000
There was nothing suggesting he'd been beaten or he'd been strangled.

409
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He ended up in a hole and he fell off a building. What else do you want to say about it?

410
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:49,000
It was, you know, he committed suicide. That was the posture of the police department.

411
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,000
That part of it was very disheartening.

412
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,000
They don't know Ray. They don't know my brother.

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00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:04,000
And then that obviously listening to us, we're telling them, no, he wasn't under any mental duress.

414
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,000
No, he wasn't under any kind of psychoactive medications or anything.

415
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None of those things, you know, the drug test comes back, indicates that, you know?

416
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:18,000
So there's no reason for that to be the first thing that you go to.

417
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They wanted to, like, big guy off a building through a roof, you know, like, he jumped.

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And I'm the grieving widow and I wouldn't want to believe my husband would commit suicide.

419
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:37,000
He just got married. No indication of, you know, someone that was sour at life.

420
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:42,000
Typically people that commit suicide, there's plenty of markers along the way.

421
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There's none of that in my brother's life.

422
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,000
He is not a guy that would jump off a roof.

423
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:54,000
He is not a, especially where we were in our lives.

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00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:58,000
He was so excited. He wanted a baby so bad.

425
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,000
He wanted a family so bad.

426
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,000
No one will accept suicide. We know that.

427
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:12,000
But this case just didn't have, it just didn't have that specter about it

428
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because there just wasn't any evidence that he was, somebody who was ready to take his life.

429
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:27,000
Part of my trying to figure all of this out is that I wanted to talk to the medical examiner.

430
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:32,000
I had a whole list of questions on how Ray died or the possibilities.

431
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:37,000
I met with the medical examiner and she closed the door and she said,

432
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I know what they're trying to do and we are not closing this case.

433
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They said that what wasn't consistent with the fall was the way that his shins were broken.

434
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And that's all she would say.

435
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:55,000
They did not say anything of what would cause the breaks.

436
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They just said it was inconsistent.

437
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:05,000
So with the questionable incidents of how Ray came through the hole

438
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and the unusual circumstances behind it,

439
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the medical examiner decided to declare undetermined.

440
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:18,000
When you rule a case undetermined, what you are saying as a medical examiner

441
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:23,000
and a forensic examiner is, we don't have enough information to conclude

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00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:28,000
this person took his or her own life or someone else took their life.

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00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,000
And so you can't close the case.

444
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:36,000
When Ray was missing, I just went through the entire house trying to figure out

445
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,000
any clues of where he might be.

446
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:46,000
We were looking through the office and that's when we found a note that was behind the computer.

447
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,000
Often in a suicide you have a note.

448
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,000
Most people who contact the doctor,

449
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they are not sure what the person is doing.

450
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,000
They are not sure what the person is doing.

451
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,000
In a suicide you have a note.

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00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,000
Most people who contemplate suicide and commit suicide,

453
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,000
they don't want to leave their family in the lurch.

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They want them to understand what happened.

455
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The note was probably about, you know, this big and all.

456
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So it was shrunk down really, really small.

457
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:24,000
And I know that he wrote the note the day he disappeared.

458
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Because there were scraps in the trash can.

459
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The note starts out, Brothers and Sisters.

460
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Brothers and Sisters, right now around the world, volcanoes are erupting.

461
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What an awesome sight.

462
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Whom virtue unites, death will not separate.

463
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It was a very unusual note.

464
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It had different names on it, some movie star names on it, family names on it.

465
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It was very unusual.

466
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There's a whole page of people he knew.

467
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:03,000
But he's missed some significant people, so that seems strange.

468
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:10,000
There were movies, and the movies were the ones that really stuck to him.

469
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I know what all of these things were.

470
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Nothing was really a surprise.

471
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It was just why they were all compiled, and in the format they were compiled.

472
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I stand before you, a man who understands the purpose and value of our secrets.

473
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That's why I cherish them as secrets.

474
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Because it was so weird, I just took that first sentence and laid it into Google search.

475
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And the first thing that came up was Freemasons.

476
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He definitely was, you know, kind of curious in just secret societies, the Freemasons,

477
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and maybe he was looking to do a screenplay.

478
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I would describe the letters cryptic.

479
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It's kind of like reading tea leaves.

480
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In fact, someone I used as a consultant thought when we were doing this story, he said,

481
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you know, maybe it's written in code.

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That was a well-played game.

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Congratulations to all who participated.

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Ray was a prolific writer, and he wrote all sorts of stuff.

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Everywhere.

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A lot of what he wrote down was just random thoughts that didn't necessarily connect.

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It could be from a phone number to a philosophy idea of why the sky is blue or work.

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And all in one pad of paper can be all of those things with not any rhyme or reason.

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Life is a test to see if you can control your spirit.

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Take care and enjoy the festivities.

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I didn't know what to do with it.

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Gave it to the police immediately.

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We actually sent a note to the FBI lab.

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They came back and FBI kind of cleared the note as just an unusual note, but not suicide intent.

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This note, I hate because I don't understand it, but this is definitely not a suicide note.

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I do know that.

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One of the other interesting elements in this case was on the day that he disappeared,

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whatever happened seemed to happen in a hurry.

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He left the house in a hurry.

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He seemed to park in a hurry.

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He didn't have much with him.

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It just seemed that whatever sent him to the Belvedere Hotel building seemed to happen in a hurry.

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This room is where Claudia, my business colleague, was staying.

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She had heard the phone ring and she just heard him push off from this room over here,

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his desk and run down the stairs and then out of the house that night.

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Based on what we're hearing from that friend of the wife, it was a brief conversation concluded with an exclamation of,

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oh, like a surprise type of response.

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This guy was working at home, received a phone call, left out his house quick.

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The police traced the call and found out the call came from Stansbury and Associates where Ray worked.

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But there was no way to figure out who made the call because the call came from the switchboard

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and they couldn't track down the caller's extension.

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The phone call was critical because it seemed like the phone call caught him by surprise and he was like,

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I gotta go, kind of in a panic.

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Unfortunately, the company he worked for, Stansbury, the minute the body was located and I started inquiring about it,

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put a gag order on all their employees.

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Now, every possible person that knew Ray worked with Ray or had any answers for me weren't allowed to legally talk to me according to their company lawyers.

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That's within hours of his body being discovered.

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His friend, Porter Stansbury, and Porter's office is the Stansbury and Associates have lawyered up.

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This type of case would need a task force with grand jury powers to subpoena people and to require them to testify and give statements.

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But for a homicide detective to try to break those walls, somebody doesn't want to talk to you.

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I can't force you to talk to me.

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And Ray's best friend, Porter Stansbury, would not even return our calls, would not talk to us, would not give us any answers.

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So to me, as a homicide detective, I think to the normal person, to me, that's really suspicious.

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Porter and Ray were very good friends for a very long time.

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Ray has known Porter since he was 15. They were pretty thick.

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They were in the same swimming team, same water pool team. They went to prom together.

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Now I'm mad. We move out here for him. And Porter was not going to speak to the police.

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And that's when it started to get really strange for me.

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He's your friend and you have no comment. Why?

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At the time Ray disappeared, he was a freelance videographer working for Stansbury Associates, producing documentaries or producing videos of conferences prior to that.

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00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:21,000
Ray was working on a newsletter called the Rebound Report, which is a newsletter that gives you stock tips to buy stocks that are not doing well, that are going to rebound in the future.

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Now, before Ray came out to join Porter in his business and work with him, Stansbury puts out a letter under a firm called Pirate Investors that touts the investment in a Russian firm that's going to discover uranium or something.

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That tip didn't work out and investors complained. And subsequently the SEC filed fraud charges against Stansbury and fined Stansbury over a million dollars.

534
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The company said that it was absolutely their first amendment right to give this advice. But according to the SEC, the advice was fraudulent.

535
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The SEC thing with Stansbury, it's part of what Ray needed to do when he came out initially, was a little bit clean up Porter's reputation while he was also writing financial newsletters.

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About two weeks before he died, there was something that was worrying him. At that time, I didn't really think much of it. But then that Monday before he went missing, the alarm went off.

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It was like 1 a.m. and that thing had never gone off. That's the master bedroom window, so it was blaring.

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And I went down the stairs and around the corner and Ray came flying out with his big bat. And the fear in this man's eyes scared me to death.

539
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That guy was never afraid of anything.

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The police, even though I brought them out, said it was a squirrel. Then again, the following Tuesday at 1 a.m., it went off.

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It was this window right here. And all of this foliage, none of this was here. You could walk directly up to the window with screens on it. And it was this window that was kind of, was tampered with.

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00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:46,000
Somebody was trying to get in the house. I believe that it was connected to his death because it was that evening is when he never returned home.

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00:43:51,000 --> 00:44:01,000
I just think something foul happened to Ray. Somebody or something got ahold of him and did something horrible to him.

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I believe that Ray had some kind of information. He may have stumbled on it, maybe didn't know that he stumbled on it.

545
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,000
I believe Ray was murdered.

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What I can't get in my head though is what would that information be for somebody to kill him?

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00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:50,000
The motive in my mind is probably about money. Ray's publication gets put out. Someone lost a lot more money than they were anticipating. And ultimately, I think money makes people do really bad things.

548
00:44:51,000 --> 00:45:04,000
We always considered all these different possibilities. Did someone push him off? Did someone force him to go off? Gunned to his head? Did he do something on a dare with someone? Was it some kind of game?

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It never felt to me like, oh, he jumped off the roof and killed himself and that was the end of it. It felt like this was some much darker story. That honestly, there probably a lot of people would have a great interest in keeping it quiet.

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When I met with Ray's wife, Allison, I advised her that she needed to be careful because she was working as hard as I was, if not harder, to investigate this. She was determined to turn every stone that can be turned all the way to his company, to his friends, every aspect of it.

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And if she's this afraid of what might have happened, she needed to be very cautious about who she talked to, when she talked to him, and how she goes about it. And just, she had to watch her back.

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I was probably the only one on the homicide floor that did not believe this thing was suicide. And I believe there was enough to investigate it as a homicide.

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And then, unfortunately, three weeks into the investigation, I was reassigned. I was being detailed to the FBI, Safe Streets Task Force. So I was off this case.

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00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:32,000
The week that I got back from the memorial, I called Detective Byer and he said he was being transferred off the case.

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He says, I'm no longer your lead detective. I said, are you on the case at all? And he said, no.

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It was very frustrating and I was angry.

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00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:53,000
After a while, I called the police station to follow up on the case. They were like, you need to get through your head. Your husband committed suicide.

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And then I got pissed and I said, I'll get that through my head when you show me evidence that that happened.

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00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:13,000
I was just talking to someone in the police department the other day. Oh, that's suicide.

560
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:20,000
So, the posture of the Baltimore Police Department is that Ray killed himself.

561
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:31,000
The fact that the medical examiner left the case open in terms of manner of death as undetermined is what the case is all about.

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Is that it doesn't have a firm conclusion to it.

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There are a lot of open cases, but they aren't open like this one is open.

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00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:53,000
To solve this, somebody somewhere has to come out. Somebody that knows Ray, somebody that knows who that phone call was.

565
00:47:53,000 --> 00:48:00,000
Somebody that worked with Ray is going to have to come out of the woodwork and give police somewhere to start with.

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00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:19,000
And losing somebody, there's a lot of people around immediately. And then, you know, it's kind of your world and you have to pick up the pieces to figure out what's next.

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And I came into the city with everything and I left with nothing.

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I just remember saying to my mom, I was like, you know, mom, I know God only gives you what you can handle. And somehow I can suppose to handle this.

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I don't know how I'm going to do it. But I think that Ray continues to give to me in ways that his strength will always wrap around me.

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00:48:51,000 --> 00:49:06,000
When somebody you love that much, that they're so young and they have a whole life ahead of them, dies. A part of you dies too.

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00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:21,000
Trying to deal with Ray's death has probably been the single most difficult thing I've had to do, period. We're not the same family.

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00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:30,000
The pain is still so raw that it gets in the way of us really feeling for each other as a family unit.

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Life has moved on for us. You know, I have a couple kids. My sister has a couple kids. And there should be a lot of joy in that. And there is. But right behind that, you know, I'm thinking, you know, Uncle Ray, he is missed in everything.

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I didn't watch the wedding video for six years after he died. I had seen stills of him. But when you see him move, it becomes a little more real. So, sorry.

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No matter what, I love you. I love you, Ray.

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As sad as it was, there was also this magic to remember how much love there was between us.

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I loved him more than anything in the world.

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I loved him more than anything in the world.

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00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:21,000
I loved him more than anything in the world.

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00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:31,000
I loved him more than anything in the world.

581
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:41,000
I loved him more than anything in the world.

582
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:51,000
I loved him more than anything in the world.

583
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:21,000
I loved him more than anything in the world.

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I loved him more than anything in the world.