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On April 7, 2008, Kathleen and Carl Schroll were found shot to death in their Kansas City, Kansas home. Within hours, a man named Pete Coones was arrested—and within months, he was sentenced to life in prison. What followed was more than a wrongful conviction. It was a case that exposed the deep cracks in a justice system where evidence was buried, witnesses were manipulated, and police were protected by silence.

📝 Sources & Legal Documents:

📄 The Coones' Family Lawsuit

https://mediaassets.kshb.com/NWT/Sam/CoonesLawsuit.pdf

📚 Justia – Amended Complaint Filing

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/kansas/ksdce/2:2022cv02447/144253/168/

📚 Justia – Ruling on Motion

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/kansas/ksdce/2:2022cv02447/144253/121/

📖 FindLaw – Kansas Supreme Court Ruling

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ks-supreme-court/1686656.html

📄 Midwest Innocence Project: Pete Coones

https://themip.org/clients/olin-pete-coones/

📰 Kansas City Star: Pete Coones Settlement Coverage

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article271727812.html

📰 KSHB News Report on Settlement

https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/settlement-approved-with-wrongfully-convicted-kansas-man

📊 National Registry of Exonerations

https://exonerations.dev.matrix.msu.edu/Pages/casedetail.aspx%3Fcaseid%3D5866.html

00:00:00 Introduction

00:03:16 Visit the Beach House 34 Patreon

00:03:39 The Caretaker Enters

00:08:06 Pete Visits his Dad

00:08:44 Elder Abuse Discovered

00:11:26 Pete's Father Passes

00:12:17 Major Financial Issues

00:13:51 The Plan

00:16:17 The Telephone Call

00:19:10 Pete's Arrest

00:25:22 Pete is Charged

00:30:12 Pete Convicted

00:34:24 Pete Granted New Trial

00:39:27 Pete's Second Trial

00:42:43 Convicted Again

00:43:57 Reinvestigation Request

00:51:02 Conviction Overturned

00:53:32 Pete Released

00:55:05 Estate Files Lawsuit

In July 1981, 13-year-old Mary Louise Day vanished from her family’s home in Seaside, California.

No one filed a police report. No missing posters. Not even a phone call to the local station. Her name wasn't even allowed to be mentioned in the household.

For more than two decades, she was missing. And then, in 2003, a woman claiming to be Mary appeared in Arizona.

Was she really the missing girl, or part of an elaborate cover-up?

In this episode of Beach House 34, we untangle one of the strangest true crime cases in American history—a case filled with a missing child, a stepfather, a mother who couldn't or wouldn't keep track of her own children, mysteries things buried in the yard and more.

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On May 16, 2006, 32-year-old Rey Rivera received a phone call that sent him running out the back door of his house, not even bothering to change his shoes from his flip-flops and this would be the last time anyone saw Rey.

Days later, his body was discovered in a very strange place. What happened to Rey Rivera? Was it on purpose? An acccident? Or, was it a staged scene?

🕵️‍♀️ If you have any information regarding Rey Rivera’s case, please contact the Baltimore Police Department Homicide Unit at 410-396-2100.

00:00 Intro

02:19 About Rey

04:40 Rey Goes Missing

08:44 Rey's Car is Found

10:57 Belvedere

12:33 Parking Structure

13:13 The Hole

18:55 The Belvedere Top Down

22:21 The Parking Structure

24:02 The Money Clip

24:28 Staged Scene?

26:28 Allison Talks to the Medical Examiner

26:58 Note Taped to Computer

28:03 The Note Contents

30:08 The Game

31:06 The Phone Call

36:11 The SEC Complaint

37:46 Rey's Job Length

40:36 House Alarms

41:38 The New Detective

42:41 Someone Wants Rey's Computers

43:14 Internet Theories

45:15 A Visit to the Fremason's

45:48 The Pieces of Evidence

47:23 Status of the Case

48:29 Do You Have Information?

49:02 Theories?

🔗 Sources:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200807031848/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-rey-rivera-netflix-inaccuracies-20200805-zxmiq4ppp5euxhbcm23ksgezva-story.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20200807031848/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-rey-rivera-netflix-inaccuracies-20200805-zxmiq4ppp5euxhbcm23ksgezva-story.html

https://decider.com/2020/07/01/unsolved-mysteries-netflix-rey-rivera/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/hj7w5c/stunned_by_rey_rivera_clue_that_no_one_seems_to/

https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a33510156/rey-rivera-case-update-computer/

https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/unsolved-mysteries-shines-light-on-rey-riveras-death-freemason-links

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnsolvedMysteries/comments/hmsat3/rey_rivera_decoding_the_note/

https://vault.fbi.gov/rey-rivera/Rey%20Rivera%20Part%2001%20%28Final%29/view