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00:09pay attention to this a man and a teenage girl walk toward a house his hand is on her shoulder
00:16he looks left he looks right they go inside she never comes out but here's what makes this
00:24different from every other missing girl story you've heard this man is not a stranger he's
00:30her stepfather he's been her stepfather for three years he taught her how to drive he walked her down
00:37the aisle at his own wedding to her mother and seven years before this footage was recorded he
00:43made her real father disappear this is the story of a man who spent seven years building a family
00:49so he could destroy it and when you understand how he did it you'll never look at the helpful
00:53stranger the same way again rook holloway was 16 years old junior at riverview high school in florida
01:02she had a 3.8 gpa she played volleyball she wanted to study nursing her friends described her as the
01:09responsible one the one who always answered texts the one who never missed curfew the one who told
01:15her mom everything on march 22nd 2024 brooke came home from school with her stepfather ray
01:23carver a security camera mounted on the house captured them walking across the front yard toward
01:29the door that footage is 13 seconds long in those 13 seconds brooke is alive she's walking next to a
01:39man she trusts a man who's been part of her life since she was 11 a man her mother married
01:45when brooke
01:46was 14. after those 13 seconds brooke holloway was never seen again her stepfather called the police
01:54four hours later saying she'd vanished from her bedroom her window was open her phone was on her bed
02:01the question everyone asked was where did she go but that was the wrong question the right question
02:08was where did he take her and an even better question was why did it take seven years let me
02:14take you back to 2017 brooke was nine years old her father nathan holloway worked in pharmaceutical sales
02:24her mother denise worked as a medical assistant they lived in a nice house in a quiet neighborhood
02:30they went to church they had barbecues they looked like every other family on the block
02:36nathan traveled for work sometimes short trips a few days at most in march 2017 he left for a business
02:44trip to atlanta he kissed his wife he hugged his daughter he said he'd be back thursday he never came
02:52back his rental car was found abandoned at a rest stop in south georgia his wallet was inside his
03:00suitcase was inside nathan was not inside police investigated they found no witnesses no signs of
03:09struggle no body the case went cold some people whispered that nathan had run off started a new life
03:17somewhere abandoned his family denise refused to believe it but as years passed even she started to wonder
03:27her and then ray carver showed up here's what everyone believed ray carver was a co-worker of nathan's
03:34who stepped up to help a grieving widow he worked at the same pharmaceutical company different department
03:41he'd met denise once at a company event years earlier after nathan disappeared ray reached out sent a
03:49sympathy card then flowers on denise's anniversary then offers to help around the house he was patient
03:58he was kind he never pushed he let denise grieve he let brooke adjust he became a friend first then
04:07something more three years after nathan vanished ray and denise got married the neighborhood thought it
04:14was beautiful widow finds love again daughter gets a father figure everyone believed ray carver was a good man
04:24wrong ray carver was not a good man who happened to help a grieving family
04:30ray carver was the reason the family was grieving and the proof was sitting in a lock box in his
04:35old house for seven
04:36years waiting to be found let me tell you who ray carver really was
04:4248 years old when he was arrested never married before denise no children no criminal record no red flags on
04:51any background check he went to church occasionally he coached little league one summer he donated to
04:59charity he helped elderly neighbors carry groceries he remembered birthdays he remembered names he was the
05:07kind of man people described as one of the good ones the kind of man mothers pointed to and said
05:14why can't you
05:15find someone like him the kind of man you'd trust to watch your house while you were on vacation the
05:22kind of man
05:23you'd let pick your daughter up from school without a second thought but ray had a pattern that no one
05:29saw
05:29because no one was looking he watched people he collected information he studied routines and
05:37relationships and vulnerabilities and he waited patience wasn't a virtue for ray it was a weapon and when
05:47investigators finally searched his old house in brandon the one he kept empty for years the one he told denise
05:53he
05:53couldn't sell because of the market they found a fireproof safe hidden behind drywall in the garage
06:00inside that safe was a lockbox inside that lockbox was seven years of obsession photographs dozens of
06:09them screenshots printed from denise's social media going back to 2015 photos of nathan and company events
06:17photos of brooke at volleyball games taken from the bleachers where hundreds of other parents sat
06:23photos of the holloway house from across the street and one photograph that changed everything
06:30a photo of nathan holloway at a gas station in valdosta georgia dated march 14 2017 the day nathan
06:38disappeared the photo was taken from inside a vehicle parked nearby nathan is walking toward his rental car
06:44carrying a coffee cup he has no idea he's being photographed he has no idea that the man taking
06:50this photo has been planning this moment for two years he has no idea these are the last hours of
06:55his
06:56life here's what investigators believe happened ray carver had been watching the holloway family since at
07:03least 2015 he'd seen denise at a company barbecue something about her caught his attention maybe it was her
07:12maybe it was the idea of the family she represented the happy marriage the young daughter the life that ray
07:20had never built for himself whatever it was ray became fixated but ray was patient ray understood that
07:30you don't take something by force you take it by removing the obstacles and the obstacle was nathan
07:37ray knew nathan's travel schedule from office conversations pharmaceutical sales reps talk about their
07:44territories their roots their clients it's not secret information nathan mentioned once that he always stopped at the
07:52same gas station in valdosta on his drives to atlanta best coffee on i-75 he said he probably forgot
08:01he said it
08:02ray never forgot in march 2017 ray called in sick for three days no one checks where you go when
08:11you're
08:11sick he drove to valdosta he waited at that gas station he watched nathan pull in just like he knew
08:19nathan
08:19would what happened next is still technically unknown because nathan's body has never been found
08:26but the photograph in that lockbox proves ray was there ray was watching and nathan never made it to
08:33atlanta ray drove back to florida he went to work on monday like nothing happened he waited this is the
08:41part that investigators still talk about he waited seven months before reaching out to denise seven months
08:49most people would get impatient most people would make a mistake ray understood that the long game was
08:57the only game he sent a sympathy card through the company mail just wanted you to know i'm thinking
09:03of you and brooke if you ever need anything denise didn't respond at first ray waited another month
09:13sent flowers on her anniversary with a note i know this day must be hard you're not alone denise
09:20called to thank him they talked for almost an hour ray listened ray comforted ray said nathan
09:28loved you too much to leave i knew him he was a good man something terrible happened to him and
09:35that
09:35was true something terrible did happen to nathan ray just didn't mention he was the one who did it
09:43the courtship took three years ray never rushed he helped with yard work fixed things around the house
09:52told brooke's stories about her dad from work he didn't try to replace nathan he honored nathan's
09:59memory that's what made brooke trust him that's what made denise fall in love with him the man who
10:05murdered her husband spent three years pretending to grieve with her and she believed every word they
10:11got married in june 2020. brooke was 14. she was a bridesmaid in the wedding photos she's smiling
10:19ray's hand is on her shoulder the same way it was on the security footage four years later when he
10:25walked her into that house for the last time for three years after the wedding ray was the perfect
10:32stepfather he drove brooke to school helped with homework attended her games but brooke started noticing
10:40things in the months before she disappeared ray asking too many questions about her friends
10:46which ones had parents who worked late which ones had empty houses after school ray checking her phone
10:55when he thought she wasn't looking ray standing in her doorway at night just watching she mentioned it
11:02to her friend aliyah once he's just protective aliyah said that's what stepdads do brooke wanted to
11:11believe that but something felt wrong she couldn't explain it she just knew that sometimes when ray looked
11:18at her it wasn't the way a father looks at a daughter and she was right but by the time
11:24anyone listened it
11:25was march 22nd 2024 denise was working a double shift at the hospital she wouldn't be home until
11:32after midnight ray picked brooke up from volleyball practice they stopped for groceries they came home
11:41the security camera shows them walking across the yard ray's hand on brooke's shoulder ray looking left
11:48then right then left again not the way someone checks for traffic the way someone checks if anyone
11:55is watching they go inside brooke texted her mom at 4 52 pm home safe love you that was the
12:02last anyone
12:02heard from her at 6 30 pm brooke's friend aliyah tried to facetime her no answer at 7 15 aliyah
12:09texted
12:09nothing at 9 45 aliyah called denise at work worried denise called home ray answered calm and confused
12:18he said brooke went to her room after dinner around 6 he'd been watching tv he knocked on her door
12:25once
12:25and she said she was tired he assumed she was sleeping denise asked him to check ray went quiet
12:33then his voice changed her windows open she's not here denise called 911 at 10 0 7 pm police found
12:44brooke's window open from the inside her phone on her bed her wallet in her backpack her shoes by the
12:51door if she'd left voluntarily she'd left barefoot with nothing ray's story was simple dinner she went to
12:59her room tv he fell asleep on the couch woke up to denise's call the house was clean no signs
13:08of struggle
13:09nothing out of place initial theory was run away 16 year old girl open window maybe she snuck out to
13:17meet someone but denise knew brooke brooke didn't sneak out brooke would never leave her phone something
13:25was wrong and the person who knew exactly what was wrong was standing in the living room giving a statement
13:31the investigation circled for 10 days no witnesses no strange cars no evidence of abduction
13:41and then denise remembered something brooke had an apple watch a birthday gift from alia three weeks
13:49earlier brooke wore it everywhere it wasn't in her room it wasn't in the house denise logged into the
13:57family's apple account the watch had pinged a location march 22nd starting at 6 47 pm three hours
14:07of location data from a house in brandon florida an address denise recognized ray's old house the one
14:16he said he couldn't sell the one that had been sitting empty for years police got a warrant they searched
14:22the brandon house on april 3rd what they found inside would become the most important evidence in
14:28the case in the garage behind a stack of old paint cans they found a blue tarp folded neatly there
14:35was
14:35blood on it testing confirmed it was brooke's blood in the backyard cadaver dogs hit on three separate
14:43areas of disturbed soil all recently dug within the past two weeks all empty whatever had been there was
14:51gone moved somewhere else that ray had prepared in the wall behind a utility shelf investigators noticed
15:00the drywall didn't match it was newer than the rest they cut through and found a fireproof safe bolted to
15:07the studs inside the safe they found a lock box with a combination lock they cut it open inside they
15:16found
15:16seven years of obsession photographs organized by date in manila folders screenshots printed from denise's
15:25facebook and instagram going back to 2015 photos of nathan at company events standing in groups where
15:32you'd never notice who else was watching photos of brooke at volleyball games taken from the far end of the
15:38bleachers where any parent could sit without drawing attention photos of the holloway house from a car parked
15:44across the street in different seasons different times of day and one photograph that prosecutors
15:50would call the smoking gun a photo of nathan holloway at a gas station in valdosta georgia the time stamp
15:58on the digital file was march 14th 2017 the day nathan disappeared the day he was supposed to be
16:07driving to atlanta the day he never arrived ray carver was arrested on april 5th 2024 charged with the
16:17murder of nathan holloway and the murder of brooke holloway here's what investigators believe happened
16:24that afternoon after brooke went to her room ray waited sometime around 6 pm he entered her room
16:32he incapacitated her how is unclear then he opened her window from the inside he carried her through
16:41the back of the house to his truck parked behind the fence where no camera could see he drove her
16:46to
16:46the brandon house 20 minutes away what happened there is unknown because ray has never said a word
16:54the watch pinged until 9 43 pm then it went dead the blood on the tarp and the cadaver hits
17:02in the
17:02backyard tell investigators that brooke died at that house but her body has never been found ray moved
17:09her somewhere else somewhere he's never revealed and that's the cruelest part of the story ray carver was
17:17convicted in november 2024 two counts of first degree murder life without parole the trial lasted four
17:25weeks the prosecution presented the photographs the blood evidence the location data from brooke's watch
17:32the timeline that put ray in valdosta the day nathan vanished the jury deliberated for six hours guilty
17:39on all counts but the verdict didn't bring what denise needed most ray has never told anyone
17:46where nathan and brooke are buried not during interrogation when detectives sat across from him
17:51for 14 hours over three days not during trial when the prosecutor asked him directly in front of the
17:56jury not when the judge gave him one final opportunity to speak before sentencing not when denise stood
18:04at the podium during victim impact statements and begged him with tears running down her face to give her
18:10family back he sat there with the same calm expression he had in the wedding photos the same expression he
18:17had on that security footage walking brooke into the house the same expression he'd worn for seven years
18:23while pretending to be someone he never was he knows exactly where they are he will never tell
18:31and under the law he doesn't have to he has the constitutional right to remain silent
18:37and he's using that right to inflict one final punishment on the woman he claimed to love
18:42denise will never have a funeral she'll never have a grave to visit she'll never have the closure
18:49of knowing her husband and daughter are at rest she's hired private investigators she's consulted with
18:56search and rescue volunteers she's walked the woods around ray's brandon property with cadaver dogs
19:02three times since his conviction nothing the bodies were moved somewhere ray prepared somewhere he scouted
19:12during those seven years of planning somewhere that might never be found during her victim impact
19:19statement denise said this you came to my house with flowers you told me nathan loved me too much to
19:26leave
19:27you held my daughter when she cried about her father you taught her how to drive and the whole time
19:34you
19:34knew you knew because you did it i let you into my home i let you raise my child i
19:42will never forgive
19:43myself for not seeing what you were but i need you to understand something i will find them i don't
19:50care
19:50if it takes the rest of my life i will find my husband and my daughter and i will bury
19:55them properly
19:57and when i do your name will mean nothing you'll be a footnote they mattered you never did ray watched
20:06her speak when she finished he turned forward he never looked at her again ray carver passed every
20:14background check he had no record he went to church he was patient and helpful and said all the right
20:21things he waited seven years to complete what he started with a photograph at a company barbecue
20:28there is no system that catches someone like ray no database that flags a man who screenshots a woman's
20:34social media for two years no algorithm that notices when someone takes sick days during their co-workers
20:41business trip no warning that tells a widow the man sending flowers is the reason she's grieving
20:48we want to believe that evil is obvious that predators look like predators that danger announces
20:55itself but ray looked like safety ray looked like second chances ray looked like the answer to denise's
21:03prayers after losing her husband and that's exactly what he wanted to look like think about the
21:10patients required to do what ray did he saw denise at a barbecue in 2015 he decided he wanted her
21:18life
21:19not her exactly her life the family the stability the thing he'd never built himself and instead of
21:27accepting that it wasn't his to take he spent two years watching learning planning he killed nathan in 2017
21:37then he waited seven months before sending a sympathy card then he spent three years becoming denise's
21:44friend before becoming her husband then he spent three more years as brooke's stepfather before he took her
21:51too seven years from first photograph to final act most people can't stick to a diet for seven weeks
22:00ray stuck to a murder plan for seven years brooke knew something was wrong she told her friend she said
22:08ray
22:08looked at her in a way that didn't feel right she said his questions were too specific she couldn't explain
22:15it but she felt it and no one listened because ray was so good at being trustworthy so good at
22:22being patient so
22:24good at waiting brooke's instincts were right her gut was right that uncomfortable feeling she couldn't
22:32put into words was her subconscious recognizing a threat that her conscious mind couldn't identify
22:39and she ignored it because everyone around her said someone tells you they have a bad feeling about
22:44someone but can't explain why listen to them pay attention to who you let into your home pay attention to
22:51who you let near your children pay attention to the man who shows up after tragedy with flowers and
22:57patience and kindness because sometimes the person who looks like a savior is the reason you needed saving
23:04in the first place nathan and brooke holloway are still missing their bodies have never been found
23:11denise holloway still lives in that house in riverview because she can't bring herself to leave
23:16she says she keeps expecting brooke to walk through the door
23:19she keeps expecting to wake up from this nightmare every morning she looks at the security camera
23:25footage for march 22nd 13 seconds her daughter walking across the yard ray's hand on her shoulder ray
23:34looking left then right then left again the door opening the door closing denise watches those 13 seconds
23:43looking for something she missed some sign some signal some moment where brooke looked at the camera and said
23:52help me there's nothing brooke looked safe brooke looked normal brooke had no idea ray carver will die in prison
24:03knowing exactly where nathan and brooke are buried and he will never say a word that knowledge is his final
24:10act of control
24:11his final victory he took everything from denise and even from behind bars he's still taking still
24:18punishing still winning the law gave him that power the right to remain silent and he's using it the way
24:26he used everything else as a weapon if you've ever had that feeling about someone in your life trust it
24:34talk to someone document what you notice don't let anyone convince you that your instincts are wrong
24:40just because the person seems nice because ray seemed nice ray seemed perfect and brooke had that feeling
24:50and she told someone and no one listened now she's gone if you're watching this and something in your life
24:57feels wrong even if you can't explain it even if everyone else thinks you're overreacting trust yourself
25:03because brooke trusted the wrong person and the person she should have trusted was herself
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