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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell you about a mystery that
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Speaker 1: is both incredibly haunting and incredibly weird. There are so
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Speaker 1: many clues and pieces of evidence in this mystery, but
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Speaker 1: they all basically point in different directions or in some
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Speaker 1: cases literally defy the loss of physics. But before we
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Speaker 1: get into today's story. Around one am on May sixteenth,
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Speaker 1: two thousand and six, a thirty five year old woman
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Speaker 1: named Alison Rivera bolted upright suddenly in her bed in
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Speaker 1: her home in Baltimore, Maryland. Her home security alarm was blaring,
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Speaker 1: but even though that was obviously pretty surprising, it didn't
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Speaker 1: really surprise her because the alarm had gone off at
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Speaker 1: almost the exact same time the night before, and so
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Speaker 1: now in the dark, Alison could see the shape of
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Speaker 1: her husband Ray as he grabbed a baseball bat. And
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Speaker 1: then Ray rushed out of the room and down the
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Speaker 1: stairs he went, and Alison quickly trailed right behind him,
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Speaker 1: And when the two of them got downstairs, near the
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Speaker 1: alarm still going off, they flipped on the lights and
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Speaker 1: they looked around, but Alison didn't see anybody inside of
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Speaker 1: their house and all the doors were shut, but when
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Speaker 1: she looked at one specific window, she saw it was
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Speaker 1: just slightly open. And again this didn't totally surprise her
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Speaker 1: because the previous night, when their alarm had gone off,
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Speaker 1: they had gotten in touch with the police, and the
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Speaker 1: police had looked around, and even though they didn't find anybody,
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Speaker 1: they discovered that that particular window that was currently opened
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Speaker 1: slightly had been tampered with the night before, which set
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Speaker 1: off the alarm, and it apparently had happened again tonight.
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Speaker 1: But the police didn't think this was an attempted break in.
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Speaker 1: They said the alarm had probably been set off by
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Speaker 1: a squirrel. Now at the time, Alison and Ray had,
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Speaker 1: you know, thought that was pretty crazy that a squirrel
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Speaker 1: had set off the alarm here, but it seemed plausible,
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Speaker 1: and the police seemed pretty certain of it, and so
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Speaker 1: they had accepted it and just gone back to bed
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Speaker 1: after you know, turning off the alarm and shutting the
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Speaker 1: window again. But now twenty four hours later, to be
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Speaker 1: standing in their house, the alarm's going off and clearly
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Speaker 1: this window has been lifted up again. It just seemed
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Speaker 1: weird that a squirrel's doing this. That just seems far fetched.
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Speaker 1: Something's off here, and so Alison and Ray they couldn't
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Speaker 1: help but feel like maybe the police were wrong, Maybe
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Speaker 1: this is an attempted break in by a person, not
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Speaker 1: a squirrel. In fact, Alison had this nagging fear what
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Speaker 1: was maybe going on here that she couldn't shake. She
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Speaker 1: wondered if someone might be out to get her husband, Ray,
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Speaker 1: Ray and Allison had recently moved to Baltimore because Ray
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Speaker 1: had gotten a job at this financial investment firm called
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Speaker 1: Stansbury and Associates that was in the city. Ray's actual
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Speaker 1: job was to write the firm's email newsletter, which gave
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Speaker 1: advice to subscribers about buying and selling stocks, but Ray
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Speaker 1: didn't actually know anything about investing. His background was in
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Speaker 1: screenwriting and freelance videography, not finance, and the only reason
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Speaker 1: he'd gotten the job was because one of his friends
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Speaker 1: owned the company and had basically hired him as a favor. So,
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Speaker 1: even though Ray was sort of trying his best here,
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Speaker 1: some of the advice that he was pumping out in
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Speaker 1: this newsletter was terrible and people had very likely lost
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Speaker 1: money because of it. So it felt possible that maybe
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Speaker 1: one of these disgruntled subscribers could have found Alison in
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Speaker 1: Ray's address and was now trying to get even with Ray.
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Speaker 1: But even though this seemed plausible, that theory was kind
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Speaker 1: of wild and conspiratorial, and so on this night, Alison
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Speaker 1: didn't say anything about these fears to Ray. Instead, she
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Speaker 1: just went over and turned off the alarm while Ray
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Speaker 1: did a sweep of the house and then also made
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Speaker 1: sure this window was firmly shut. And then afterward, Alison
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Speaker 1: asked Ray if maybe they should call the police again,
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Speaker 1: but you know, Ray just said no, He said, you know,
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Speaker 1: very likely it was just a squirrel, like the police said,
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Speaker 1: and so the house is safe, or okay, let's just
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Speaker 1: go to bed. And so, even though Alison felt pretty
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Speaker 1: uneasy here, she said, okay, and the two of them
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Speaker 1: went back to bed. Early the next morning, Alison sat
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Speaker 1: at the dining room table and quickly ate the breakfast
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Speaker 1: that Ray had made for her. She was leaving that
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Speaker 1: morning for a business trip three hours away in Virginia,
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Speaker 1: and she needed to get on the road, so after
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Speaker 1: finishing her food, she put her plate in the sink,
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Speaker 1: and then Ray carried her suitcase out to her car
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Speaker 1: for her, and then she and Ray exchanged I love yous,
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Speaker 1: and then now Alison got into the car and drove off,
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Speaker 1: waving at Ray as she left. Three hours later, Alison
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Speaker 1: made it to Virginia. She would spend the entire day
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Speaker 1: working and then finally, at about six thirty pm, she
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Speaker 1: checked into the hotel where she was staying. By this point,
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Speaker 1: Allison was so exhausted that she practically collapsed onto the
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Speaker 1: hotel bed. All she wanted to do was just check
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Speaker 1: him with Ray, watch a little TV, and go to sleep.
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Speaker 1: So she took out her phone and she called him.
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Speaker 1: It rang a few times, but just went to voicemail.
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Speaker 1: So Alison waited and then tried again, but the same
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Speaker 1: thing happened, which was odd. Alison wondered if Ray wasn't
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Speaker 1: picking up because something had come up with work or
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Speaker 1: maybe family. I mean, normally he would answer, and certainly
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Speaker 1: he'd be expecting a call from her around this time.
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Speaker 1: But fortunately one of Allison's colleagues, whose name was Claudia,
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Speaker 1: was actually staying with them in Baltimore. She was traveling
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Speaker 1: through the area and so that night she was going
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Speaker 1: to be there with Ray. So Allison called Claudia, who
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Speaker 1: did pick up, and she asked Claudia if Ray was around.
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Speaker 1: What Claudia said was pretty surprising. She said a couple
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Speaker 1: hours earlier, so between five and six o'clock, Ray had
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Speaker 1: been at the house. He'd been doing something on his
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Speaker 1: computer down the hall from the guest room where Claudia
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Speaker 1: was staying, and from the guest room, Claudia said she
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Speaker 1: heard Ray's cell phone ring. He picked up the call
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Speaker 1: and a few seconds later he said, quote, oh shit.
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Speaker 1: Then Ray, literally, according to Claudia, sprinted out of the house.
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Speaker 1: Claudia heard him climb into his car and he peeled
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Speaker 1: out of the neighborhood. Claudia said she had no idea
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Speaker 1: where he'd gone, and he still was not back. Now, obviously,
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Speaker 1: Allison was confused when she heard this, but she did
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Speaker 1: not immediately panic. She figured that whatever had sent Ray
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Speaker 1: running out of the house was probably just an emergency
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Speaker 1: with work or friends or family, which could be bad,
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Speaker 1: but she assumed Ray would call her back and explain
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Speaker 1: everything as soon as he got a chance. And so
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Speaker 1: Allison thanked Claudia, doing her best not to give off
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Speaker 1: any vibes that she was worth, and then she hung
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Speaker 1: up and began getting ready for bed, and the whole
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Speaker 1: time Alison is watching her phone, waiting for what she
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Speaker 1: is sure will be a call from Ray. The next morning,
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Speaker 1: at five thirty am, Alison woke up to the sound
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Speaker 1: of her phone finally ringing. She felt this immediate jolt
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Speaker 1: of hope that it was Ray calling to explain what
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Speaker 1: was going on, but when she looked at the face
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Speaker 1: of her phone, she saw it was actually Claudia calling.
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Speaker 1: But she figured, okay, maybe Claudia is with Ray and
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Speaker 1: she has an update that everything's fine and that this
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Speaker 1: is all going to be explained. And so Alison picked
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Speaker 1: up and she goes, hey, Claudia, is my husband back.
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Speaker 1: Is everything okay? And Claudia said, you know, your husband
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Speaker 1: has not come home yet. I have no idea what's
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Speaker 1: going on with him, but I have to leave. I
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Speaker 1: have to go to the airport. At this point, Alison
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Speaker 1: couldn't even hide her worry in her voice. I mean,
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Speaker 1: she basically was completely panic stricken what was going on
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Speaker 1: with Ray? It was completely unlike him to stay out
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Speaker 1: all night, miss her calls and still not be home.
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Speaker 1: Like she had no idea what was going on here.
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Speaker 1: So she told Claudia, who at this point is basically saying,
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Speaker 1: do you want me to stay and wait for your husband?
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Speaker 1: She was sort of insinuating this. Alison told Claudia, like,
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Speaker 1: go ahead, go to the airport, do your thing. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to cancel my work trip. I'm coming home. I
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Speaker 1: got to figure out what's going on with Ray. As
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Speaker 1: soon as Allison was off the phone, she packed up
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Speaker 1: her stuff, she checked out at the hotel, and began
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Speaker 1: the three hour drive back to Baltimore. As she drove,
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Speaker 1: she did her best to stay calm, but you know,
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Speaker 1: she's calling Ray's cell phone basically the whole time, over
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Speaker 1: and over and over again, and he wasn't answering. And
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Speaker 1: then eventually when she would call, it wouldn't even ring,
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Speaker 1: it would just go straight to voicemail, suggesting that his
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Speaker 1: phone was turned off or maybe you know, had died.
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Speaker 1: And at that point Alison really couldn't control her panic.
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Speaker 1: I mean, she knew something's wrong here. She had this
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Speaker 1: theory that that had something to do with her husband.
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Speaker 1: She couldn't prove it, she had no evidence, but it
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Speaker 1: just felt like something bad has happened here and she
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Speaker 1: had no idea what it was. And so Allison spent
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Speaker 1: the rest of the drive frantically calling Ray's workplace, his friends,
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Speaker 1: his family, asking everybody if they had heard from him,
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Speaker 1: or or if they had called him and said something
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Speaker 1: that freaked him out the previous evening anything, But everyone
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Speaker 1: she spoke to said they had not seen or heard
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Speaker 1: from Ray. When Alison finally pulled onto her street, she
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Speaker 1: had this hope, this small hope, that she would get
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Speaker 1: home and raised car would be there, and Ray would
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Speaker 1: be inside and he'd have a story, they would explain
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Speaker 1: this whole crazy thing. But no, she got there, his
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Speaker 1: car was gone, the house is empty, and she just
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Speaker 1: knew something is definitely wrong, and so she turned right
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Speaker 1: around and drove to the police station. However, when Alison
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Speaker 1: reported her husband was missing to the police, it was
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Speaker 1: immediately clear to her that the police were not really
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Speaker 1: that concerned. Ray was an adult who had apparently left
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Speaker 1: the house of his own volition. He also hadn't even
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Speaker 1: been gone for a full twenty four hours yet, so
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Speaker 1: the police took down Alison's report and they did tell
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Speaker 1: her they would look for him, but she just felt
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Speaker 1: like they were not nearly as concerned as she was.
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Speaker 1: But Alison and Ray's friends and family were definitely concerned,
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Speaker 1: and over the next few days they flocked to Baltimore
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Speaker 1: to support Alison and also to help look for Ray.
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Speaker 1: They drove all around the city literally looking for Ray,
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Speaker 1: but they didn't see any sign of him anywhere. They
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Speaker 1: called local hospitals and asked about any John Does who
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Speaker 1: maybe had come in, but none of them matched raised description.
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Speaker 1: They also checked Ray's bank records, but he hadn't used
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Speaker 1: any of his cards since he had disappeared. And as
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Speaker 1: days passed with no new information and no new updates
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Speaker 1: from police, Alison only got more and more desperate, and
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Speaker 1: so finally, one afternoon, a couple of days after Ray
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Speaker 1: first went missing, she just started looking through her own
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Speaker 1: house looking for any clues about where Ray had gone,
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Speaker 1: and eventually, when she was in that room where Ray
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Speaker 1: had been in his computer when Claudia had heard him
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Speaker 1: you swear into the phone and bolt out of the house.
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Speaker 1: In that room, at Ray's desk, she did find something strange.
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Speaker 1: It was this piece of paper that was folded up
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Speaker 1: really small, and it was wrapped in plastic and taped
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Speaker 1: to the back of his computer monitor. And so Alison
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Speaker 1: peeled off the tape. She opened up the bag and
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Speaker 1: she unwrapped the paper, and what she found is it
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Speaker 1: was a typed letter addressed to quote brothers and sisters.
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Speaker 1: And then the actual contents of this letter made absolutely
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Speaker 1: no sense. It referenced some kind of secret society called
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Speaker 1: the Council. It talked about secrets in some kind of game,
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Speaker 1: and it also contained three lists, one with technologies like
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Speaker 1: Wi Fi and Bluetooth, there was one with a bunch
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Speaker 1: of movie titles that seemed to be completely random, And
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Speaker 1: also there was one with names of real people, but
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Speaker 1: they included celebrities and also some of Ray's family members. Now,
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Speaker 1: to any random person, this note would have probably looked
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Speaker 1: pretty unhinged, maybe even like a possible manifestation of serious
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Speaker 1: mental illness. But to Alison, it actually didn't read that way.
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Speaker 1: She knew Ray was very interested in conspiracies and secret
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Speaker 1: societies from a creative standpoint, and so after a brief
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Speaker 1: moment of confusion when she first read this thing, she decided,
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe this document was him collecting ideas for
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Speaker 1: a new screenplay. It wouldn't have surprised her at all
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Speaker 1: if he was trying to write a script about the Council,
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Speaker 1: whatever that was. But what did surprise Alison was the
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Speaker 1: way this letter was printed, folded up, and then taped
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Speaker 1: to the computer. It just seemed so weird. So Alison
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Speaker 1: actually took the note to the police station and handed
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Speaker 1: it over to the officer in charge of Ray's case.
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Speaker 1: The officer took it as evidence and said they'd be
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Speaker 1: in touch with her about it. But they weren't in touch,
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Speaker 1: and more days went by and Ray didn't show up,
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Speaker 1: and there were no updates from police, and so Alison
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Speaker 1: really didn't know what to do. But then on May
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Speaker 1: twenty second, so six days after Ray disappeared, Alison was
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Speaker 1: at home when she got a call from her parents.
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Speaker 1: twenty six, A few minutes later, Allison skid it into
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Speaker 1: was Rai's car, and so Alison jumped out of her
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Speaker 1: vehicle and she ran to the nearest police officer and
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Speaker 1: she asked them what was going on, and they told
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Speaker 1: her after Allison's parents had called her about Raised car,
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Speaker 1: that was the thing they had found. They'd called the
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Speaker 1: police and officers had come to investigate, and they discovered
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Speaker 1: that Rai's car had a parking ticket on the windshield
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Speaker 1: that showed it had been parked in this lot for
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Speaker 1: six days, so since the evening of May sixteenth, which
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Speaker 1: meant raised car had been right here since the night
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Speaker 1: he'd gone missing, which was May sixteenth. The officer told
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Speaker 1: her that none of Ray's belongings, like his phone or
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Speaker 1: his money clip, were inside the vehicle, and there was
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Speaker 1: no sign of a break in, so they weren't stolen
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Speaker 1: from the vehicle. So on the surface, it appeared that
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Speaker 1: on the night Ray went missing, he'd driven here, parked
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Speaker 1: in this lot, gotten out, But after that, nobody knows
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Speaker 1: what happened. This discovery sent Allison's fear and panic to
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Speaker 1: a whole new level, and it also seemed to make
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Speaker 1: the police and the public take Ray's disappearance much more seriously.
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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, people all over the city were
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Speaker 1: looking for Ray, and two days later, on May twenty fourth,
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Speaker 1: so this is eight days into Ray's disappearance, a volunteer
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Speaker 1: search party decided to go into the roof of a
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Speaker 1: downtown parking garage to get a better view of the
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Speaker 1: city to help with their search for Ray. And when
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Speaker 1: they got up there, they saw something that if it
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Speaker 1: had to do with Ray. It was very dark, and
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Speaker 1: so they called the police. Adjacent to this parking garage
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Speaker 1: was a historic building called the Belvidere. It used to
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Speaker 1: be a hotel, but now it was just a condo complex.
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Speaker 1: The Belvidere at its highest point was thirteen stories high,
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Speaker 1: but it also had a smaller section that was still
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Speaker 1: a part of the Belvidere that was just two stories high,
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Speaker 1: and they kind of butted up against the thirteen story section.
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Speaker 1: From the top of the parking garage where the search
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Speaker 1: party was, they could see the Belvidere, of course, but
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Speaker 1: they could also look down and see the roof of
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Speaker 1: the smaller section of the Belvidere. They could see the
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Speaker 1: very top of that building, and on the roof they
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Speaker 1: saw four things, a pair of flipflops, a pair of glasses,
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Speaker 1: a cell phone, and a very obvious hole in the roof.
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Speaker 1: Within the hour, a detective named Michael Bher and a
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Speaker 1: team of Baltimore PD officers followed a concierge down the
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Speaker 1: hallway of the Belvidere Hotel building. When Detective Byar and
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Speaker 1: his team had arrived, they'd asked the building staff about
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Speaker 1: a hole in the roof of that two story section
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Speaker 1: of the Belvidere, but none of them knew what the
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Speaker 1: police were talking about. The employee said that that two
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Speaker 1: story section of the hotel where the hole apparently was
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Speaker 1: was closed off and had been for a long time,
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Speaker 1: so nobody, at least none of them had gone over there,
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Speaker 1: not anytime recently, and so they really couldn't speak to
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Speaker 1: there being a hole or not. It was possible, but
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Speaker 1: nobody knew. And on top of that, nobody, not staff
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Speaker 1: or guests, had reported seeing or hearing anything strange in
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Speaker 1: the last week and a half, so there was no
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Speaker 1: indication that damage had been done really anywhere in the hotel.
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Speaker 1: But now the concierge led Detective Bayer and his team
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Speaker 1: down several winding hallways and through a series of locked
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Speaker 1: doors until eventually they reached the room that corresponded to
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Speaker 1: where the hole in the roof was, and as soon
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Speaker 1: as the concierge unlocked that door that would lead into
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Speaker 1: that room. Detective Bayer and his team were hit by
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Speaker 1: a horrible smell. They went inside to this big, large,
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Speaker 1: empty room that looked like it once had been a
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Speaker 1: conference room, and daylight was streaming down through the hole
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Speaker 1: in the roof, and the light was shining directly on
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Speaker 1: Ray Rivero's body. Ray was lying on the floor, face up,
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Speaker 1: surrounded by dried blood, and his body was mangled. One
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Speaker 1: of his legs had been broken so badly that the
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Speaker 1: bone were sticking up at odd angles, and he was
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Speaker 1: very badly decomposed, and so obviously was responsible for the smell.
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Speaker 1: At first glance, Detective Bayer is looking at Ray's body,
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Speaker 1: He's looking at the roof, and he's thinking, Okay, clearly
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Speaker 1: Ray fell through the roof down here, That's how he's
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Speaker 1: got here. He came through the roof. But when police
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Speaker 1: examined the hole and also those items that the search
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Speaker 1: party had literally seen from their vantage point on the roof,
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Speaker 1: the glasses, the flip flops, and the cell phone, and
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Speaker 1: then also when they did an autopsy on Ray's body,
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Speaker 1: they realized that it actually was physically impossible for Ray
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Speaker 1: to have come through the hole into this room because
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Speaker 1: there were only three possible places that Ray could have
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Speaker 1: fallen or jumped from to land on the Belvidere's roof
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Speaker 1: where the hole was, and none of them made sense
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Speaker 1: when compared to the evidence that police had. The first
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Speaker 1: possibility was that Ray had fallen or jumped from the
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Speaker 1: very top of the Belvidere, which is thirteen stories tall.
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Speaker 1: All fall from that height would definitely have killed him
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Speaker 1: and cause the devastating injuries found in the autopsy, like
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Speaker 1: broken legs, a broken skull, broken ribs. But the edge
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Speaker 1: of the thirteenth story roof was forty five feet away
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Speaker 1: horizontally from the hole in the second story roof, and
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Speaker 1: so from a physics perspective, it was basically impossible that
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Speaker 1: Ray could have somehow gone fast enough and then leaped
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Speaker 1: off the roof as fast and as far as he
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Speaker 1: could that he could have carried himself forty five feet
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Speaker 1: forward the four plummeting down and hitting the roof. That's
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Speaker 1: just too far of a distance for a person to jump.
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Speaker 1: The second possibility was that Ray maybe had gone off
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Speaker 1: of a thin decorative ledge that wrapped around the outside
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Speaker 1: of the Belvidere on the eleventh floor. If Ray fell
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Speaker 1: from there, he could have landed in the spot where
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Speaker 1: the hole was. However, that ledge was impossible to access
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Speaker 1: without first going through a privately owned condo or office.
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Speaker 1: Ray would have had to be physically let in, But again,
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Speaker 1: no nobody in any part of the building had reported
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Speaker 1: seeing or interacting with him. And the third possibility was
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Speaker 1: that Ray had gone off the top of that same
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Speaker 1: parking garage that the search party had been at. It
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Speaker 1: was close enough horizontally that, you know, Ray could have
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Speaker 1: landed in the spot where the hole was, But the
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Speaker 1: very top of that parking garage was only about twenty
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Speaker 1: feet above the second story roof of the Belvidere, which
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Speaker 1: was obviously enough of a height to fall to have
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Speaker 1: serious damage done to your body. But that's not enough
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Speaker 1: of a fall to cause the extreme injuries that were
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Speaker 1: found on Ray's body. It just wasn't enough. And then
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Speaker 1: to make this whole situation even stranger, when police examined
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Speaker 1: those items that were found on the roof, raised flip flops,
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Speaker 1: his glasses, and cell phone, they found that all the
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Speaker 1: items were not you know, helter skelter sort of cast
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Speaker 1: around as if he blasted through the roof and everything
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Speaker 1: fell off of him. No, they were sort of organized,
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Speaker 1: placed neatly on the roof like they had been staged
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Speaker 1: on purpose, and also raised classes and phone were not
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Speaker 1: damaged at all. So it just sort of begged the question,
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Speaker 1: how could this have happened? You know, how did he
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Speaker 1: fall in the first place? How did he wind up
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Speaker 1: in this room? But even if you identify where he
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Speaker 1: fell from or how he fell, how did his belongings
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Speaker 1: wind up place so neatly on the roof like that
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Speaker 1: without any damage, It just didn't add up. And so
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Speaker 1: the police didn't know what to make of any of this,
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Speaker 1: and so they turned their attention back to a totally
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Speaker 1: different piece of evidence, that weird note that Alison had
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Speaker 1: found taped to the back of Ray's computer in their home,
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Speaker 1: and so they sent that note to the FBI for analysis,
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Speaker 1: hoping it would tell them something, and it did. The
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Speaker 1: FBI said that, based on the note, Ray was likely
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Speaker 1: mentally ill and experiencing some kind of psychotic episode. This
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Speaker 1: was not like a screenplay. This was, you know, manifestation
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Speaker 1: of something off in his mind. And the police, you know,
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Speaker 1: this didn't really answer all their questions, but it was
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Speaker 1: sort of a relief. It seemed like, you know, this
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Speaker 1: sort of generally answered a very complicated and confusing situation. Basically,
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Speaker 1: this was enough for the Baltimore PD to stop investigating,
23:07
Speaker 1: although they didn't actually officially close the case and tell
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Speaker 1: Ray's wife, Alison and her family that Ray's death as
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Speaker 1: bizarre as it is, even though we don't really know
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Speaker 1: how it happened, what we do know is that it
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Speaker 1: most likely was a suicide. But Alison was not satisfied
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Speaker 1: with this explanation because one, it still didn't answer the
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Speaker 1: question of where Ray had fallen from. That seemed like
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Speaker 1: an important thing to answer. And two, she didn't think
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Speaker 1: Ray was mentally ill, and she was certain he had
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Speaker 1: not killed himself. Allison's theory was that her husband was
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Speaker 1: murdered very likely because of his job. Here he is
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Speaker 1: parading around like he's got great investment advice, and he's
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Speaker 1: pumping out his tips into that newsletter that she knows
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Speaker 1: and he knows are basically fraudulent. He doesn't know anything
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Speaker 1: about investing. The opportunity to basically screw over subscribers was
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Speaker 1: pretty high. People are taking his advice and they could
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Speaker 1: be losing money because of it, and so it seemed
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Speaker 1: entirely possible that somebody who was disgruntled over his bad
24:08
Speaker 1: advice came after him. And then also adding to the
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Speaker 1: idea that like this was not you know, self harmed,
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Speaker 1: that something bad happened to Ray from an outside source,
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Speaker 1: there was that strange phone call that Claudia the friend
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Speaker 1: overheard him have when he said oh shit and then
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Speaker 1: ran out the house. The police were able to trace
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Speaker 1: that particular call back to Stansbury and Associates, the investment
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Speaker 1: firm where Ray worked, but they were never able to
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Speaker 1: figure out who had placed it or why, because as
24:38
Speaker 1: soon as detectives began asking questions of this firm, well,
24:42
Speaker 1: Stansbury and Associates hired attorneys and told its employees not
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Speaker 1: to speak about what happened to anyone, not even the police.
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Speaker 1: And so to this day, Ray's case remains officially unsolved.
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Speaker 1: But somewhere out there is the person who placed that
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Speaker 1: final phone call to Ray. This person you must know
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Speaker 1: why Ray ran out of his house in a panic
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Speaker 1: that night, and they might even know how he died
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Speaker 1: or who killed him. But as of now, that person
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Speaker 1: has not come forward. Thank you, so much for watching.
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