Very sad, so sad. Can anyone say cover up? I just can't understand how and why Ray just vanished, this whole case doesn't make a lick of sense!JerseyGirl said:Centre Daily Times | 01/24/2007 | Officer to monitor school halls in Bellefonte
... With intentions of retiring later this year, Detective Darrel Zaccagni said he has decided to accept a part-time position as the school district's first school resource officer, a job the school board created for the first time Tuesday night.
But Zaccagni, who has been with the police department for 28 years, has just one regret.
"If things continue to go the way they go, I am not going to be able to see the Ray Gricar case closed and solved," he said. "That is always going to be a regret, if I am not going to be able to see closure on that before I leave..."
There are a couple of key things here, IMO. 1) His daughter lived on the other side of the country. 2) She was an adult. 3) They had recently reconnected. What this says to me is that this wasn't a Daddy's Little Girl situation - this was an adult woman that was living independent of (and quite far from) her Dad. It seems that they must have had some falling out at some point and had patched things up shortly before Ray went missing. Due to the above, I think that it is indeed possible that Ray would deliberately leave without his daughter knowing.Bobbisangel said:But why would he want to just disappear? Would he do that to his daughter? It doesn't seem that he would have.
I guess that might depend on how big the office is, how many people work there, what each person's duties are, etc. We've heard that Ray wasn't very sociable so perhaps she only saw Ray when there was need to do so. He may have stayed in his office and she in hers.i have always thought the woman was credible, but now i wonder if she worked in ray's office, why didn't she know that he had not been to work that day at all? that would have been my surprise, not that he was leaving early, but that he was in the parking lot after having not been there all day.
Ray worked hard and long to make the voices of victims heard. It seems only somehow fair that at least one would be raised on his behalf.
Odd and interesting. Karen Arnold is the one that saw Ray leave early that day in a different car, right?
The state police unit did not speak with Assistant District Attorney Carolyn Fenton, who said she saw Gricar in a parking lot behind the Centre County Courthouse at 3 p.m. April 15, 2005. She noticed he was not in his Mini Cooper or his girlfriend's car. She said she remembered because she felt better going home early knowing that the district attorney was doing the same. She was working as a law clerk for Judge David E. Grine at the time.
Police discounted Fenton's sighting because it did not fit their timeline of Ray Gricar being in Lewisburg.