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
the car. would still baffles me in all of this is, basically a lack of a crime scene. she was a crime scene investigator, and at the time, and nbc news consultant. the crime scene at least helps to tell a story. something where you can prove, or disprove, witness statements. testimonies. through your crime scene, threw evidence. there isn t a crime scene. but how many times have we seen crimes of someone who willingly went away with the person who ultimately kills them? and there is no crime scene. correct, if you willingly go, there is no crime scene, it s just the last place that you you were seen. but if the car itself gave investigators little to go on, its location in lewisburg, 60 miles from ray gricar home did. that shifted the investigation to lewisburg at that point? we knew that he was definitely there then. the car had been there. so we immediately went down,
losbnnsyania back in april of 2005, he did a double take. tony s uncle ray had disappeared and they had located raise abandoned car in a parking lot. near a bridge, over a river. the scene took tony straight back to a bad place in his past. to say that it was an eerie parallel would be the understatement of the century. it was the exact same thing. nine years earlier, tony s father, ray s brother, had abandoned his car by a park near a bridge over a river. his body was discovered in the river in dayton, ohio, a few days later. the coroner ruled it a suicide. now this. geographically, everything lays out the exact same. it was a car, a park, a bridge.
his cell phone was inside. but there was no sign of ray. i was glad that it was found, not the car, but thinking that maybe there would be a clue. there were clues all right, real puzzlers. when they open up the vehicle, the first initial thing that struck them was, a strong odor of tobacco in the car. ray was not a smoker, and he definitely would not let anyone smoke in his car. there was more, inside the car, a speck of ash on the passenger side. how do explain that? in a car of a passionate nonsmoker? it would indicate to us that someone who had been in that car was smoking, or at least was leaning into the car, possibly talking to ray, holding a cigarette. investigators found cigarette butts on the ground, and sent them offered in a testing, nothing there. there was no sign of a struggle, or foul play. and not a bloodstain insight. nothing to indicate that a crime had occurred in, or near
turns out, he had done that before. he once took off to a cleveland indians game? he didn t go to this one. because we had called cleveland and had the stadium police looking for him. did you potentially lose time in the investigation because of a default position that he is going to turn up here soon? that there is a reasonable explanation? no, we worked on it from the minute we decided we were going after this as a missing person. it was constant go, go, go. investigators trapped his movement before he vanished, and found the last known pictures of him alive. on his way to the office. the evening before he disappeared. it seemed routine enough, and it had taken them nowhere. one of america s most intriguing mysteries. on day two, investigators caught a huge break, his many was discovered in a parking lot by an antiques mall called the street of shops. in the nearby town of lewisburg. ray had visited the antique stores there in the past. now his car was sealed up tight,