Rey Rivera - Suicide, Accident or Murder? #58 - a podcast by SMP

What caused Rey Rivera to suddenly disappear on May 16 of 2006, and how did he fall to his death through a roof in downtown Baltimore? This week on Solvable Mysteries we examine the strange case of Rey Rivera, whose inexplicable disappearance after a mysterious phone call preceded his body being found 8 days later, victim of a fatal fall into an unused conference room at the historic Belvedere hotel.

On this week's show we investigate a topic from the Netflix reboot of Unsolved Mysteries, the case of Rey Rivera.  This case was the first episode of the new and revised series, and because of this, has gained new attention and momentum with web sleuths and amateur investigators.  We took our turn at this as well, reviewing the theory and general editorial direction the Netflix episode took on the topic, and comparing that theory to the evidence.  The main question is whether Rey Rivera's death was a suicide, with him leaping from the roof of the Belvedere Hotel to land head-first through the roof of the conference room below, or was he somehow murdered, forced to jump, or somehow thrown?  This second theory is the one that some people propose, that Rey had learned information that was inconvenient to certain business interests, and that his suicide was faked to hide what he knew.  That theory is proposed for why Rey Rivera suddenly left the house after a mysterious phone call that came from the switchboards of the parent company of his former, and maybe current, employer, Stansberry Associates, the financial newsletter firm run by his best friend from high school, Porter Stansberry.

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