in this fbi interview, the seller said ray paid him in cash, mostly 20s. he paid that guy $2,000 in 20s, that would be a lot of money. there s another dot connected to the bank of alton. reporter: detective john light thinks that money came from the robbery. if so, enough to keep ray on the run for another year. $30,000 back in 1967 was a lot of money. but james earl ray claims the money came from the mysterious raoul. never a last name. he just called that name raoul. that s the only name they called him. ray got an alabama driver s license under his alias, eric starvo galt. he registered the mustang under the same name. with this new license plate and his new identity, ray left for mexico. this is james earl ray that fall in puerto vallarta where he spent much of his time with a prostitute. by mid-november, ray on the right moved on to los angeles and settled into a low-rent hotel on hollywood boulevard. he took dancing lessons and bar tending lessons, but perhaps mor
seller said ray paid him in cash, mostly 20s. he paid that guy $2,000 in 20s, that would be a lot of money. there s another dot connected to the bank of alton. detective john light thinks that money came from the robbery. if so, enough to keep ray on the run for another year. $30,000 back in 1967 was a lot of money. but james earl ray claims the money came from the mysterious raoul. never a last name. he just called that name raoul. that s the only name he ever called him. ray got an alabama driver s license under his alias, eric starvo galt. he registered the mustang under the same name. with this new license plate and his new identity, ray left for mexico. by mid november, ray, on the right, had move on to los angeles and settled into a low-rent hotel on hollywood boulevard. he took dancing lessons and bar tending lessons, but perhaps more significantly, he did this.
that s when he told me, he said, from now on i ll be known as eric s. galt. eric galt. ray never told him why or how he got the name. instead, the fugitive who had fled the country only a month earlier rode the train south to a still largely segregated alabama. in birmingham ray answered a newspaper ad and bought a car much like this. the car i finally bought, a 1966 mustang, had about 18,000 miles on it and was in good condition. it cost $1995. the only thing i didn t like was the color. it was white. in this fbi interview, the seller said ray paid him in cash, mostly 20s. he paid that guy $2,000 in 20s, that would be a lot of money. there s another dot connected to the bank of alton. detective john light thinks that money came from the robbery.
it cost $1,995. the only thing i didn t like was the color. it was white. in this fbi interview, the seller said ray paid him in cash, mostly 20s. he paid that guy $2,000 in 20s, that would be a lot of money. there s another dot connected to the bank of alton. reporter: detective john light thinks that money came from the robbery. if so, enough to keep ray on the run for another year. $30,000 back in 1967 was a lot of money. but james earl ray claims the money came from the mysterious raoul. never a last name. he just called that name raoul. that s the only name they called him. ray got an alabama driver s license under his alias, eric starvo galt. he registered the mustang under the same name. with this new license plate and his new identity, ray left for mexico. this is james earl ray that fall
in birmingham ray answered a newspaper ad and bought a car much like this. the car i finally bought, a 1966 mustang, had about 18,000 miles on it and was in good condition. it cost $1995. the only thing i didn t like was the color. it was white. in this fbi interview, the seller said ray paid him in cash, mostly 20s. he paid that guy $2,000 in 20s, that would be a lot of money. there s another dot connected to the bank of alton. reporter: detective john light thinks that money came from the robbery. if so, enough to keep ray on the run for another year. $30,000 back in 1967 was a lot of money. but james earl ray claims the money came from the mysterious raoul. never a last name. he just called that name raoul. that s the only name they called him. ray got an alabama driver s license under his alias, eric starvo galt.