Netflix's new true crime show Unsolved Mysteries asks viewers to submit tips if they have any information about the real-life cases covered, and already, the producers have received a surge in tips, according to the Chicago Sun-Times . One Redditor may have even cracked the first case about Rey Rivera's mysterious death wide open.
The first episode of the series, "Mystery on the Rooftop," covers the sudden disappearance and subsequent death of Rivera, a 32-year-old man whose body was found in Baltimore's Belvedere Hotel. At first, many thought that Rivera had jumped from the top roof of the hotel, due to a hole in the lower roof above where his body was discovered. However, his unscratched glasses and fully intact phone were just some of the holes in that original explanation.
Despite the cause of death left "undetermined" by the medical examiner, police eventually ruled Rivera's death a suicide. His family, however, remains doubtful that he jumped, due to the lack of concrete evidence.
Rivera's wife, Allison, also found a note in their house that included cryptic references to the Free Masons fraternity, cult film director Stanley Kubrick, and the David Fincher film The Game, all mainstays in the world of conspiracy theories.
The Game follows a cold-hearted investment banker whose brother hires a strange company to empty his bank account, drug him, and bury him alive for his birthday (without him knowing)all as a way to make him appreciate his life again. It's a weird movie where everyone around the main character seems to be conspiring against him and ends with the investment banker crashing through a glass ceiling onto a cushion.
In the "Unresolved Mysteries" subreddit, one Redditor noticed some similarities between the last scene of The Game and the setting of Rivera's death.
"I am watching the Rey Rivera episode on Netflix and what really caught my eye was the note Rey wrote on the day he died and he hid the note behind the computer. It had all these names of actors, his friends and family, quotes from free masons and a list of movies," the Reddit user wrote. "One of these movies was The Game. Immediately, I thought: OF COURSE! There is one big scene at the end of the movie where the main character jumped off the roof (!) of a fancy hotel and goes through the (glass) roof. The similarities to Rey are truly astonishing. The whole movie is about this crazy game that a company arranges that makes you think you lose everything in order to let you appreciate life again. Rey was an unsuccessful movie script writer and maybe he got involved in [something] that tried to imitate The Game in some way."
Another Redditor responded that the letter seems to be the work of someone with mental illness: "The letter really makes little sense at all. It comes off as the writing of someone who was having mental issues."
If you have information related to Riveras case, or any of the cases covered on Unsolved Mysteries, you can submit your tips on unsolved.com .