What Happened to Porter Stansberry From 'Unsolved Mysteries'
The first episode of Netflix’s reboot of Unsolved Mysteries, titled “Mystery On the Rooftop,” looks into the unsolved 2006 death of Rey Rivera, who went missing for a week and whose body was found in a Baltimore hotel. While the police determined his death to be a suicide, some theories and facts discussed in the episode made viewers question what may have really happened. One of the most suspicious figures the episode prevents is Rivera’s friend Porter Stansberry, who employed him as a financial newsletter writer at his financial firm, Stansberry & Associates (now called Stansberry Research).
As fans watched in the episode, the last phone call Rivera received was from the switchboards of the financial firm (with the identity of the called still unknown), before he rushed out of his home in response. Shortly thereafter, the firm’s employees were instructed to not discuss the situation (although a very recent statement to The Baltimore Sun denied that), and Stansberry was supposedly offering a reported $1,000 reward for information on what happened to Rivera.
As Stansberry isn't interviewed for the episode and the producers paint him as something of a person of interest, viewers might be wondering what’s happened to him since Rivera’s disappearance and whether he knows any more information.
Where is Frank Porter Stansberry Now?
Since Rivera’s death, Stansberry became a controversial figure in the financial industry. Back in 2010, he posted a video called “End of America” to YouTube, spending 83 minutes discussing what he thought to be the end of the U.S. monetary system. The video also ends with an ad for a free trial subscription to Stansberry Research, with a voiceover from Stansberry, stating that he “knows in his heart it will be one of the best financial decisions you’ll ever make. The firm is still in business, and it also has its own podcast titled Stansberry Investment Hour.
As for what happened to Stansberry himself—although his LinkedIn account shows that he’s still working for the company he founded, he seems to have kept a private profile since Rivera’s case, and tracks with his not participating in interviews surrounding Rivera's death. Does that seem somewhat shady? Possibly. But chances are we won’t know any more details unless he breaks that silence.
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