UNSOLVED Mysteries' creator has revealed they were forced to cut a major interview from the Rey Rivera episode.
The first episode of the hit Netflix series focuses on Rey, who disappeared in 2006 only to be found dead in a hotel room a week later.
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The police have never reached a conclusion as to what happened to Rey, and fans are equally perplexed after watching the episode.
However, the show's co-creator Terry Dunn Meurer has now revealed Rey's lifelong friend and former co-worker Porter Stansberry was interviewed off-camera.
Porter has been a key person under question about Rey's disappearance and was mentioned a lot in the episode, but never appeared in person.
None of Porter's employees appeared in the documentary either.
In the show's companion podcast – You Can't Make This Up – Terry revealed: "I actually personally spoke to Porter Stansberry and asked him to interview for the episode.
"We had a long conversation and he declined to be interviewed, ultimately."
"He said that they recommended to their employees to not speak to the media because they wanted the entire situation to just kind of die down and not make it a big media event.
"He would say he didn’t put a 'gag order' on his employees but in the piece, as you know, Mike [Michael] Baier, the detective, tried to reach out and couldn't get co-operation from many of the people he tried to speak to.
"So, I think that Mike felt like he hit a brick wall."
She continued: "One of the things that was very troubling to Allison that she told me about was that [Porter] did speak to the media very early on but what he said was Rey and Allison had been in therapy, which was not true, that Rey had some psychological issues which was not true.
"There is no one that we spoke to that supported that idea and Allison was very troubled by the fact that Porter would say that to the media, because that was one of the things that probably made the police head in the direction of, 'Oh this is just a suicide'."
Unsolved Mysteries is available to stream on Netflix now.
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