Ray arrived in Atlanta on March 18, checked into a rooming house on 14th Street near Peachtree, and purchased a map of the city.
Two weeks later he would leave L.A., headed for Atlanta. On March 5, 1968, he had surgery on his nose. He volunteered to work on the presidential campaign of Alabama Gov. Ray went to Los Angeles that fall and worked odd jobs through the winter. When he realizes he has no skill in film work, he leaves Mexico around Nov. He went by the name Eric Stravo Galt and took up a career as a pornographic film editor. Once in Mexico, Ray decided on another line of work. 19, 1967 - five months before he would head to Memphis. After a short stay, he left Acapulco and drove back north to Puerto Vallarta on Oct. He left Birmingham in the Mustang and headed to Acapulco, Mexico. In Birmingham, he got an Alabama driver’s license and purchased a white 1966 Ford Mustang. Louis and Chicago and then to Toronto and Montreal before heading to Birmingham, Alabama. Ray would be on the run after his escape from prison in Missouri. It was his third attempt at escape from the prison.
On April 23, 1967, Ray escaped the Missouri State Penitentiary by hiding in a truck that transported bread from the prison bakery. While he was a marginal thief at best, Ray did seem to have a talent for escaping incarceration - at least for periods of time. Officials at that prison would be the first to learn that Ray was not one to meekly accept time locked up in a jail cell. In 1960, an armed robbery netted Ray a 20-year-sentence in the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City. In 1952, he was sentenced to two years for armed robbery in Chicago in 1955, he was sentenced to four years in a Leavenworth, Kansas, prison for robbing a post office. The arrest in California marked the beginning of Ray’s string of incarcerations across the country. By December of 1949, he was in jail, serving a three-month sentence for burglary. Ray took a job at a Chicago rubber company in 1948 and stayed there for several months before heading to California. He was court-martialed for drunkenness and given a general discharge for "ineptness and lack of adaptability." Army in the days following World War II and was stationed in Germany.
Ray had a run-in with Ewing police when he was 14 - he stole some newspapers to sell - and ended up leaving school when he was 15.
The family went by the name of Raynes to avoid being tracked by police for the check. When he was 6, his family moved to Ewing, Missouri after his father passed a bad check in Alton. When Ray was 2, the family moved to Bowling Green, Missouri. Ray was born in 1928 in Alton, Illinois, a city about 15 miles north of St. Who was Ray and is there any question that he killed King? Here’s what you may not know about him.
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