by Michelle Willson, Editor-in-Chief
“Unsolved Mysteries Volume 1” is a series on Netflix that was released July 1, 2020. From the producers of “Stranger Things,” this six episode series follows unexplained cold cases.
The first episode follows the story of Ray Rivera, a happy family man who disappeared sporadically one day it took them a while before they found his car in a parking lot. After a few more days of investigation they found a hole in the top of a building next to the hotel at first it looks like suicide, but there’s so many unanswered questions. The hole was too small, his phone and sunglasses were found on the roof with the hole unbroken and there’s a 40 foot distance between the top of the hotel room to the hole even at a running jump It’s unlikely that he would have fallen the way he did. Even the medical examiner said that his fractures in his legs don’t match what it would look like if someone had fallen from that distance into a roof and through a ceiling.
I did not like this series because the cases are still open they don’t give you a definitive answer on what happened. Each episode either leaves you baffled with what’s happened or positive you know who did it and how they did it (which is unlikely because you just watched a 53 minute episode on the case). Either way you’re frustrated that the episode does not give you any conclusion into the case at all.
I gave this series a two out of five stars overall and a one out of five on the scary scale. It’s not meant to be scary. It’s not scary and nor do I think there is any way they could twist it to make it scary. The scariest thing to think about is that someone probably got away with murder.
I recommend the series to anyone who is in to unsolved cases. anyone who is really into crime shows or anyone who likes to be left with questions.