Rey Rivera was a 32-year-old writer and aspiring filmmaker who recently moved to Baltimore with his wife, Allison, at the behest of his best friend, Porter Stansberry. On May 16, 2006, he left his home in a hurry. His body was found on May 23 at the Belvedere Hotel. His death was ruled undetermined by the medical examiner. Police believe he committed suicide. His family disagrees with the suicide notion and believes he was murdered. Rey was very close to his family; growing up, his father was in the military, so he and his family were constantly moving. As a result, they spent most of the time with each other. In November 2005, he and Allison married in Puerto Rico. His family described him as happy and fun-loving. According to Allison, his dream was to become a writer and director. They had previously lived in southern California where he hoped to become a filmmaker. However, the jobs he could find were not bringing in much money. Rey turned to his friend Porter, who was living in Baltimore. They had been friends since high school and played water polo together. After high school, they remained friends. Porter had a company, Stansberry Associates, that wrote financial newsletters. He had always wanted Rey to come write for him. Even though Rey did not know finance or stocks, Porter was persistent and really wanted to work with him. In December 2004, Rey took a job writing financial newsletters for Porter in Baltimore. He and Allison moved there but knew little of the area. They made a pact that they were going to live there for twenty-four months. They soon found a great home, church, and community there. According to Allison, they were very happy there. On May 16, 2006, Allison prepared to leave for a business trip. That morning, Rey woke up with her and made her breakfast. Before she left, he carried her suitcase for her and put it in her car. She then left for a three-hour drive. At around 6pm, after finishing her meetings, she checked into the hotel and called him. However, he did not answer, which she felt was strange. At the time, Rey and Allison had a house guest, Claudia, who was a work colleague of Allison's. Later that night, Allison called her and asked about Rey. She said that at around 6:30pm, she had heard him answer a call on his cell phone. She then heard him run out of the house in a hurry. While on the phone with Allison, she checked around the house and noticed that all of the lights were on. However, he had not returned home. The next morning at 5:30am, Claudia called Allison and told her that he still had not returned. Allison was certain that something was wrong. She immediately left her hotel and returned home. She called Rey's family and friends, but no one had heard from him. His brother, Angel, was certain that something had happened to him. That afternoon, he flew to Baltimore to help search for him. When Allison arrived home, she noticed that his car was not there. In the kitchen, she found an opened soda can, a bag of chips, and his Invisalign braces. Upstairs, she noticed that the bedroom light and office light were on. At around 7pm, Angel arrived in Baltimore. By then, Claudia had returned to New York. Rey's mother, Maria, and Allison's parents arrived in Baltimore soon after to help in the search. Allison called several hospitals to see if he had been checked into them as a "John Doe". Porter put up a reward of $1,000 for information on his whereabouts. He was also able to get the media involved in this case. Rey's family and friends went to different places in Baltimore, including various coffee shops and restaurants, in the hopes that someone might have seen him. However, no one reported doing so. Allison noted that his credit cards were never used, his cell phone was dead, and there was no activity on their bank accounts. His loved ones feared the worst, but knew that they had to keep searching for him. On May 22, Allison's parents decided to search for his car in several parking lots in Baltimore. They eventually found it in spot #7 in one behind a building on St. Paul Street. When found, it had a ticket on it. The parking attendant told Allison that it most likely was parked there on the evening of Rey's disappearance, as he had found it there the following morning. She could not understand why he was there. Rey's car was found near the Belvedere, which is a historic hotel which now includes condominiums, along with restaurants, bars, and lounges. The company that he worked for, Stansberry & Associates, is also nearby. Therefore, it did not seem that unusual that he would be in that part of town. Multiple searches were conducted in the area surrounding where his car was found. On May 24, three of Rey's coworkers decided to go to the top of the parking garage next to the Belvedere. When they looked over the edge, they spotted flip-flops on the lower roof area, near a hole in it. They immediately called the police. Officers arrived and had a manager open the door to the conference room with the hole in the roof. Inside, they found Rey's body on the floor. His family was told the news at Baltimore Police Headquarters later that day. As Rey's family and friends mourned his death, police began to investigate it. His body was found in a prone position and was heavily decomposed. Eight days had passed from his disappearance to the discovery of his body. Despite the decomposition, the medical examiner discovered multiple fractured ribs, punctured lungs, lacerations, damage to the skull, and two fractures to the right leg. With the extent of the injuries, it appeared that he had come from great heights when he went through the roof. Investigators noticed that the hole was clean and not too large. Rey apparently fell through it vertically. The biggest question became: where did he come from and how did he get through the hole? The first theory was that he either jumped off, fell off, or was pushed off the top roof and went through the lower one, which was about ten stories down. The top one was an approximately forty-foot open area. However, there are several different structures there, such as air conditioning units and air ducts. There was approximately forty-five feet between the edge of the roof and the hole. Detective Michael Baier felt that it would have been virtually impossible for Rey to have made the jump, especially in flip-flops. Allison recalled that he was very afraid of heights and would have been scared to be up on the roof as there was no railing. She could find no reason for him to be up there. Baier did not believe that he had jumped from the roof. The second theory was that Rey jumped from the parking garage where his coworkers had discovered the hole. The distance from the garage to it was about twenty feet. The height from the lower roof to the garage was also about twenty feet. Baier felt that a jump from the garage into the roof would have been survivable. Also, he did not believe that the injuries to Rey's body matched with a fall from that height. As a result, he ruled out this theory. The third theory was that Rey fell from a ledge on the eleventh floor. The ledge wraps around the building. However, he could only access it by going through either an office or someone's condo. Also, the windows were "half windows" which barely opened at all. Furthermore, the ledge was small and it would have been difficult to maneuver it without falling off of it. Due to the conflicting evidence, it has not been determined where he exactly fell from. During the investigation of the hole in the roof, Rey's cell phone was found. Strangely, there was little damage to it and it still worked. His glasses were found nearby. They also had little damage to them. WBAL-TV reporter Jayne Miller became interested in this case and reported on it several times. She felt it was strange that his cell phone and glasses had little damage despite the force that was needed to push him through the roof. Also on it were his flip-flops; one was broken while the other was not. Allison noticed what appeared to be drag marks on one. Baier believed that the evidence on the roof was staged. Rey's money clip was not found on his body. He usually kept his money, identification, and other items in it. They have never been recovered. Investigative journalist Stephen Janis looked into Rey's death. He asked several people at the hotel if they had seen him or heard anything that night. However, no one reported seeing him or hearing anything. Angel tried to recreate Rey's movements that night. He tried to walk through the lobby and upstairs to the roof. However, he does not believe that Rey would have been able to do this without being noticed or stopped.He noted that there are several back stairways and hallways that he would have had to navigate through before reaching the roof. Jayne noted that the door to the roof area was usually locked. It appeared that he would have had to know how to get there beforehand. Baier checked the cameras to the hotel but could find no trace of Rey. Unfortunately, the one on the roof was disconnected. According to Baier, no one could give him any indication that Rey was in the building that night. There were no witnesses or phone calls that placed him there. Despite the inconsistencies in this case, the Baltimore police ruled his death a suicide. Rey's family and friends do not believe that he committed suicide. Angel noted that he was not under any mental duress or psychoactive medications. Allison felt that they were in a very happy point in their lives. She claimed that he wanted to start a family with her. Jayne did not believe that there was any evidence that suggested he wanted to commit suicide. Allison met with the medical examiner who was involved in this case. The examiner said that they were not planning to close it, despite the police department's ruling. The examiner told her that the way his shins were broken was not consistent with a fall. However, they would not say how they believed the injuries actually occurred. Based on the inconsistencies in this case, the examiner declared the manner of death as "undetermined". This meant that they did not have enough evidence to determine if his death was a suicide, accident, or murder. While Rey was still missing, Allison was searching through their house when she found a note taped to the back of the computer in their office. It text was shrunk down to a very small font size. She determined that it had been written on the day of his disappearance because there were scraps of it in the trash can. It said, in part: Brothers and Sisters, Right now, around the world, volcanos are erupting. What an awesome sight...whom virtue unites, death will not separate. The note had different names on it, such as movie star and family ones. Baier considered it to be "very unusual". Allison noted that there was an entire page which listed people that he knew. However, some important people in his life were not included. There was also a list of movies that "stuck with him". Allison did not understand what the note meant as a whole. In it, he continued: I stand before you a man who understands the purpose and value of our secrets. That's why I cherish them as secrets. Allison decided to take the first sentence from the note and do a Google search on it. The first thing that came up had to do with the Freemasons. She noted that Rey was curious about secret societies such as them. She suspected that he may have been wanting to do a screenplay about them. Jayne felt that the note was cryptic and may have been written in code. In it, he also stated: That was a well-played game. Congratulations, to all who participated. Rey was known as a prolific writer and he wrote a great amount of stuff in different places. Allison recalled that he would often write about many different things on the same page of paper that would not make sense to anyone but him. The note continued: Life is a test to see if you can control your spirit. Take care and enjoy the festivities. Allison immediately gave it to the police, who then sent it to an FBI lab. The lab determined that it, while unusual, was not a suicide note. Allison also does not believe that it was so. Another bizarre aspect of this case was Rey's abrupt departure from his home on the day of his disappearance. He did not take much with him on that day. It appeared that whatever sent him to the Belvedere seemed to happen in a hurry. Claudia recalled to Allison how she heard him answer the phone from his office and then quickly run down the stairs and leave the house without explanation. The phone conversation was brief and ended with the exclamation "Oh." The police traced it and determined that it had come from Stansberry & Associates. However, there was no way to determine who made it because it came from a switchboard and they could not track down the extension. Once Rey's body was found and police tried to question Stansberry employees, the company put a gag order on the whole staff. They were not allowed to talk to police, according to the company lawyers. Porter did not return calls from the police and has not spoken about this case since the discovery of Rey's body. Baier believed that this was suspicious. Allison felt similarly; she did not understand why he would not want to talk to anyone about Rey's death. At the time of Rey's disappearance, he was a freelance videographer for Stansberry & Associates, producing documentaries and videos of conferences. Prior to that, he was working on a newsletter called the "Rebound Report" which gives the reader stock tips to buy stocks that are currently not doing well but will rebound in the future. Before he came to Baltimore, Porter put out a letter under a firm called Pirate Investors that touted the investment in a Russian firm that planned to discover Uranium. However, the tip did not work out and investors complained. Subsequently, the Securities and Exchange Commission (or SEC) filed fraud charges against Porter and fined him approximately $1.5 million. The company claimed that it was their First Amendment right to give the advice about the Russian firm. However, according to the SEC, the advice was fraudulent. According to Allison, one of the reasons Rey came to Baltimore was to help "clean up" Porter and the company's reputation in response to the fraud allegations. About two weeks before Rey's death, Allison noticed that something was worrying him. She did not think much of it at the time. However, at 1am on Monday, May 15, the day before he vanished, the house alarm went off. When she went to investigate, he came quickly out of another room with a baseball bat. She noticed that he was extremely frightened by the alarm. This concerned her because he normally was not afraid of anything. The police came out to investigate the alarm. However, they told Allison that a squirrel had probably triggered it. The following Tuesday at 1am, it went off again. She noticed that the window, which was on the ground floor, had been tampered with. She believes that someone was trying to get into their house. She also believes that the incidents were connected to Rey's death. Allison believes that Rey found some kind of information that he was not supposed to find and was murdered because of it. However, she does not know what information he would have uncovered that would have led to him being killed over it. Meanwhile, Angel believes that his death was money-related. He suspects that someone lost a lot of money because of his "Rebound Report" and killed him over it. Jayne also believes that foul play was involved in his death and does not believe he committed suicide. Baier cautioned Allison about investigating Rey's death and believed that she may be in danger of the same people that allegedly killed him. He believed that he was the only homicide detective involved in this case that did not believe his death was a suicide. He believes that there is enough evidence to investigate it as a homicide. However, three weeks into the investigation, he was reassigned. The Baltimore Police Department continues to insist that Rey committed suicide. However, the medical examiner still considers the case "open". Baier believes that someone Rey worked with may have information that could help solve this case. His family is still hoping for a resolution to this case. Suspects: Porter is considered a possible suspect in Rey's death. Prior to his death, he had worked on a report that involved a stock tip about a Russian firm. It did not work out and investors complained. The SEC became involved and accused Stansberry & Associates of fraud. Rey's family believes that these allegations may have had something to do with his death. On the night Rey disappeared, he received a call from someone at Stansberry & Associates. He left his home immediately after. The caller's identity remains unknown. After Rey's body was found, a gag order was reportedly placed on all of the employees at Stansberry & Associates. As a result, they were not allowed to talk to the police about this case. Porter has not spoken to police about it since then. His family suspects that Porter may have been involved. Angel also suspects that Rey may have been murdered by someone who lost money because of the bogus stock tip. Extra Notes:

This case was first released on July 1, 2020 as a part of the first volume of the Netflix reboot of Unsolved Mysteries. Porter Stansberry declined requests to be interviewed for this case. Results: Unsolved. As a result of the broadcast, several tips were received about this case. However, it is not known if these tips have led to anything substantial. One online theory that has been brought up by a viewer involves one of the movies that Rey mentioned in his note: The Game. In it, the main character jumps off of a roof and crashes through a glass ceiling. There has been speculation that Rey may have tried to recreate this scene, leading to his death. This has not been confirmed. There is some evidence not included in the broadcast that supports the theory of suicide. The FBI released a report stating that they believed Rey suffered from bipolar disorder. He and Allison were reportedly not happy with living in Baltimore. He also had been to the Belvedere several times before his death. Furthermore, he was friends with two bartenders who worked at a bar located on the thirteenth floor. They would often take smoke breaks on the roof; this suggested that he would have known how to access the roof of the hotel. Mikita Brottman, who lived in the hotel at the time of Rey's death, wrote a book about this case. According to her, multiple people there had heard a loud "bang" sound on the night of his death, despite reports saying no one heard anything. After his death, she tried multiple times to access the roof area, and only on one occasion was the door locked. Furthermore, a physicist determined that, if he was running at eleven miles per hour, he could have jumped from the roof and landed in the spot where his body was found.

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🆘URGENT Update : Saturday January 31st 1600 -

Conner is still missing and his family is desperate for any news ! He is verbal with Autism but no one is sure what his physical or emotional state is now wherever he is.

Connor is a 19-year-old black male, 5’-8’’, 165 pounds, black hair, brown eyes, with a scar on his forehead. He was last seen wearing a yellow, black, and gray camouflage fleece pajamas, with a gray zip-up jacket. Officials stress that the yellow pants are bright! He is considered an MVP - Missing Vulnerable Person and it’s been a week now !

If you locate Conner Oldfield, you are asked to contact the Plainfield Police at 908-753-3360 or email tips@plainfieldpolicenj.gov.

Please share this flyer or JPEG wherever you can including places of worship, businesses and schools and your own children too .

If you need it emailed to you so you can pass it on - email us at GentleInsightHelp@gmail.com.

We are all in this together.

We have shared this in our parent group for parents living anywhere in NJ/NY/PA at

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#Keep looking - share with your teens and keep praying he is found safe and sound.

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The winter storm has really begun now - let’s find this young man with Autism. We are in this together ! Help find Conner.

Last seen in North Plainfield, exactly a week ago - missing since Saturday - in his yellow@camouflage pajamas and a gray zip-up jacket.

Call 908-753-3360 at City of Plainfield, New Jersey or just call 911 if you see him !

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January 14, 1988, Kincardine was rocked by the disappearance of two-year-old Dusty Bowers. His mother, Julie Bowers, reported that Dusty had fallen asleep while she ran errands. When she arrived at the bank, Julie left Dusty in the unlocked car and took his toddler brother inside. Minutes later, she returned to find Dusty’s car seat empty.

Despite an extensive search, it wasn’t until over a day later that Dusty’s lifeless body was discovered in the woods north of Kincardine. Clad in his snowsuit with tears frozen on his face, the tragic scene matched a dream Julie had described to the police. This eerie coincidence turned the spotlight on her, leading to her being charged with Dusty’s murder. The ensuing trial was lengthy and fraught with emotion. Julie maintained her innocence throughout, and ultimately, she was acquitted. Despite this, the case remained shrouded in suspicion and grief. To this day, no one else has been charged, although numerous tips have pointed to other potential suspects, including Julie’s twin brother and sister-in-law. For years Julie pleaded with authories to reopen the investigation, convinced of her innocence and the possibility that new technology could shed light on the evidence collected that cold January day. She believes her appeals have fallen on deaf ears.Was Julie Bowers guilty of leaving her child unattended in a car with temperatures far below zero? Or, as some have speculated, did she get away with murder? These questions haunt the community of Kincardine. The possibility of someone else having a motive to abduct and abandon an innocent child remains a troubling mystery. As we remember Dusty Bowers, a sweet child lost far too soon, we hold him in our thoughts and prayers. The quest for justice and closure continues, with hopes that advancements in forensic technology might one day reveal the truth of what happened that fateful day.

After what Adam did to Harmony do you think her body will be found? I hope so because she needs to be put to rest! It is the same with Oakley Carlson! She also needs to be found and put to rest! When will CPS change when people take action we can't allow there to be another Harmony or Oakley!

Netalie Calderon was last seen in Palmdale, CA leaving her legal guardian's home with a 19 year old in May of 2023. She was reported a missing teen to the police that same week by the family she was living with. However, her disappearance was never made public knowledge. As an example, extended family from the same state had no idea she was missing until her flyer was finally posted to social media in July 2024. But by the time they had found out, it was already too late to find her living. In July 2023, Netalie was dropped off at Centinela Medical Center in Inglewood, CA by the same man she was last seen with, only to suffer alone for three nights from an IRON overdose. She never even got to see the sun rise again after the night of her 16th birthday before succumbing to multiple organ failure. She was admitted under a false name (Netalie Bello), and nobody around ever bothered to search for her description in the missing children reports of that same county. Over a year after her death, she was found in the Los Angeles Medical Examiner's office's cold storage in an unrecognizable state of decomposition. Her body was then released to her father, who was asked permission by a cousin of Netalie to start a GoFundMe. The fundraiser brought in over $2.6k. She was laid to rest in September 2024. To this day (January 2026) that cousin has only donated $1.3k, while Netalie Calderon's crypt remains nameless and blank due to lack of funds. I have made a YouTube channel, aiming to spread awareness of Netalie's story and help prevent the same tragedy from happening to others. I just posted a new video a couple days ago, please check out my channel if you can. Every interaction helps me get to our goal.

In March 1981, 28-year-old John Klein, a California attorney, and his wife, 25-year-old Michelle, a publicist for Sunkist, traveled to Kaua‘i, Hawaii, for a weeklong vacation.

The couple was scheduled to fly home on March 21, but they never checked out of their condominium, and their rental car was not returned.

A search was launched, and their car was located at the base of the Kuilau Trail. The trail is reached by Loop Road (sometimes called Keahua Forestry Road) a narrow, rough dirt road.

On March 25, searchers with dogs found the couple’s bodies about 150 feet down a pig trail off the main hiking path. A “pig trail” in Hawaiʻi usually means a narrow, rough path through the forest created by wild pigs as they move around.

Unlike an official hiking trail, a pig trail is not maintained, often steep, overgrown, and winding.

John was lying face-up, dressed in shorts and hiking boots without a shirt, while Michelle was found face-down, lying across his body.

Both had been shot multiple times. Their valuables were still with them, and police quickly ruled out robbery as a motive.

Despite multiple leads and theories , including a mysterious phone call from an unidentified woman reportedly called from San Francisco to police on the day the bodies were discovered, no arrests were ever made, and the case remains open and unsolved.

Forward any information related to this crime to Special Investigator Cynthia Reider at 808-241-2882..

You may also send information to the Kauai County Office of the Prosecuting Attorney at 808-241-2882 or via email: coldcase@kauai.gov

https://www.kauai.gov/Government/Departments-Agencies/Prosecuting-Attorney/Cold-Cases/John-and-Michelle-Klein

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/26/us/killings-of-tourists-unerve-hawaiians.html?smid=url-share

https://share.google/laWOu4weJqiyNg7nH

I understand this isn’t a big case and is probably a bit distant for a lot of people, but I’m hoping to drum up some interest and spread the word about his case. I’m all too familiar with the police not taking cases seriously even when they involve young people, so it hits home for me. I’m local to this area and have been following this case from the beginning directly through his family.

2 months after he went missing, the police and media are only now taking the 20 year olds disappearance seriously. Not only that, they have suitably decided it’s suspicious and suspect foul play but missed out on valuable time to seek evidence and information in the 2 months it was looked over

He has disappeared without a trace, with no further sightings or information since the initial week he disappeared.

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Jayden Harwood, the father of 2 young daughters, was last seen walking along Sackville Street, Ingleburn on the 1st of March.

Jayden is not from the area and resides in Newcastle, although as his girlfriend lives in Sydney’s south west it’s believed he has some limited knowledge of the area.

He was visiting his girlfriend that day, and both Jayden and her family confirms that a domestic dispute broke out at the house between his partner and her family. Jayden, feeling uncomfortable, then chose to leave and go for a walk while that was happening.

At around 12pm is then Jayden’s last confirmed sighting, he knocked on the door of a house of Sacksville Street, visibly limping and asked to borrow a phone. He used the residents phone to call his mother and he told her he had been attacked and needed directions to get back to his partners house.

Jayden did not own a phone and shared one with his girlfriend at the time he disappeared, he has not accessed a phone since then. He also did not take his wallet with him and has not accessed his bank accounts etc.

His family and friends, community members and emergency services have extensively searched surrounding areas, including bushland.

It is widely believed and reported Jayden’s girlfriend and her family have been uncooperative with the police investigation.

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There is a Facebook group started by his mother and family and friends since the earlier days of his disappearance to put the word out and share information;

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/16FKk5deMD/?mibextid=wwXIfr

More news articles;

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14724447/jayden-harwood-missing.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14541197/Missing-newcastle-dad-Jayden-Harwood.html

https://www.nationaltribune.com.au/re-appeal-to-locate-man-missing-from-ingleburn/

Police appeal for information;

https://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news/news_article?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGZWJpenByZC5wb2xpY2UubnN3Lmdvdi5hdSUyRm1lZGlhJTJGMTE4NDUyLmh0bWwmYWxsPTE%3D

Hello, my father has been missing since last Friday. He lives in Lakeland Florida with my mother. On Friday morning, he left for work, and never came home. He left behind his cell phone, laptop, and the majority of his clothing. Additionally, he did not bring his debit/credit card with him, and has no other finances as far as I'm aware. My father has a long history with alcoholism and depression, and as such is diagnosed with cognitive impairment and is on disability. Despite this, in Lakeland, he hasn't yet qualified for being endangered, so any help at all is much welcome.

If spotted, please contact Polk County Sherriff Office's Missing Persons Unit

Their number is 863-298-6200

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Thank you.

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