Unsolved Mysteries Unwittingly Presents:
A Letter From Rick Riffle reprinted with permission

From rdriffle@ucdavis.edu Thu Dec 11 20:08:52 1997
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 14:42:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Rick Riffle
To: rOTTEN@cyberverse.com
Subject: Kevin c/o rOTTEN

Hello. My name is Rick Riffle. I was the "actor" who played Kevin on Unsolved Mysteries. Today I ran across Kevin's site on the Internet and read some of the materials located there, namely his letter to the Unsolved Mysteries people. I began to feel pretty crappy for doing the job. I was ok with it then, but my life and priorities have changed considerably since that time. Now, the thought of profiting off of helping to send someone to jail is not at all appealing to me, nor is the thought of helping millions of veiwers to believe that Kevin is a bad guy. I don't really know whether he's bad or not, but either way I'm sorry for having participated in making things hard/harder for him. Thinking back, I don't think it ever seemed like what he was accused of was all that bad.

Please pass this message on to Kevin if you can.

I hope your life is going well Kevin, and I'm sorry for having helped to mess things up for you.

Take care,
Rick

"Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!"

-Thomas Carlyle