A phone rings in a quiet Baltimore home. Minutes later, writer and filmmaker Rey Rivera is gone-no wallet, no watch, just flip-flops and urgency. His 4Runner appears behind the Belvedere Hotel that night. Eight days pass before searchers find a breached roof, a locked conference room, and a body that raises more questions than answers.The opening investigation reads like true crime, but what follows is stranger: a cold case framed by a switchboard call no one will claim, Belvedere Hotel cameras that went dark only on May 16, and rooftop belongings recovered without the damage physics would predict. Was this a fall, a staging, or something in between?Across tight, scene-driven chapters, you'll track the timeline from the last "clean morning" through the discovery on May 24, follow the forensic analysis of impact patterns, and weigh an Unsolved Mysteries-era public reckoning against what the original file did-and did not-preserve. Why was the parking ticket the most reliable witness? Who had access to the locked room, and who could silence surveillance for one critical night?This book contains no images-only cinematic narrative written in the style of a detective-investigator.You'll move through the case file and into the human stakes: the missing person report Allison Rivera filed at 3:00 p.m. on May 17, the undetermined ruling, and the objects that refuse to fit a tidy story. As the narrative returns to the roof, it asks the question that matters most: What truth survives when procedure fails?What You'll UncoverA precise, hour-by-hour reconstruction from the 6:00 p.m. switchboard call to the Belvedere discovery.Alternative trajectories tested against scene geometry and injury distribution.How intact rooftop items complicate every theory of entry and fall.The impact of missing footage, incomplete logs, and an undetermined ruling.A humane portrait that centers Rey, Allison, and a family's pursuit of clarity.This Book Is For Readers Who...Want a meticulous, document-grounded narrative that respects victims and families.Crave a page-turner that marries evidence, timeline, and lived context.Are drawn to cases where one missing record changes everything.Prefer clarity over speculation-and questions sharpened by proof.Believe that what's "undetermined" can still be illuminated.Perfect For Fans Of...An Unexplained Death (Mikita Brottman)Unsolved Mysteries (Netflix)Investigative longform about unresolved deathsThoughtful narratives at the intersection of forensics and accountabilityRead now and decide what the evidence refuses to say.