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. In the years that followed, other conspiracy theories would be floated by Ray. Ray confessed to the shooting after he was eventually caught, only to change his story three days later, saying a mystery man named “Raoul” was the real killer.
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