Somebody. By somebody. He was the first da to investigate Jerry Sandusky, could there be a link between that case and his disappearance . Where is this man . Somebody knows something or a lot of somebodys do. Hello and welcome to dateline. Ray gricar was a District Attorney and bellefont, pennsylvania. Not far from Penn State University. He was the first to investigate allegations against Jerry Sandusky who abused the child. That was long before the scandal made headlines. But several years later, ray gricar mysteriously disappeared. The strange turn of events left people asking, was there a connection . Here is lester holt with the case of The Missing Da. The clues are tantalizing, as sporty red car, a speck of cigarette ash. A battered hard drive. It is a mystery, it absolutely is a mystery. But what do these clues say about the sudden disappearance of a District Attorney who left them behind . It is baffling, it is confusing and perplexing it is all of those things. His name is ray
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but when you have a member of the community, a well-known member of the community, and you look at the credibility of your alleged victims. does that become tough? then absolutely. if it ever got to a courtroom, the case would likely come down to the testimony of 1:11 year old boy against a hometown hero. that is where the staying, or something close to it, came in. we do not know all of the details, only this. that the mother confronted jerry sandusky on two occasions in may of 1998. while detectives listened and. had you ever known ray to do that kind of staying? or run that kind of operation? i don t know, i think that would be typical of what ray would do. like i said, he was the kind of guy when police would come in.
i see absolutely no connection between ray gricar disappearance in 2005, and anything connected with jerry sandusky. but you could see how people might make that leap? not to the imagination. this is a true mystery. it is a true mystery. anna nikema. why would anybody connected with the jerry sandusky matter, take out and eliminates a district attorney who declined to prosecute a case, and was leaving office in eight months? declined to prosecute years later? yeah. if you re gonna take someone out on a criminal case. you go after the witnesses. you go after the people that really can get on the witness stand and do you in. whether or not what happened to ray gricar, has anything to do with jerry sandusky, his disappearance remains an open case to this day. the pennsylvania state police still follow leads. they occasionally get reports of ray gricar sightings. he is supposedly been spotted in illinois, ohio, michigan, maryland, and texas. we had some pretty crazy sightings
significant missing person. daryl has now retired from the bellefonte police force, but back then he was the lead investigator on the case. i assume alarm bells are ringing loudly when the da goes missing? yeah when the da goes missing you get a little concerned. there s figure that there s foul play involved, then the guy does not come home because he s been out at the bars all night. and that s because you knew his character? we knew what ray had done all his life, he had prosecuted homicides and rape for years, then prosecuted here, and then became our da. foul play was only one possibility, in those first hours after ray went missing, the bellefont police said that they considered several others . they ordered a nearby search of the nearby roads, with many thinking that he may have had an accident. there were other searches too, they knew that he may have gone solo somewhere.