J. J. in Phila
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More than likely, there are very very old threads here with mention of the last name " O'Kicki". Judge Joseph O'Kicki was a judge who disappeared for quite some time after he did some " bad stuff" and turned up alive and well in Slovenia. No idea if the daughter went with him, or with Ray or what. ( just kidding, mostly).
As I recall, a time or two, the young lady in question had a nickname here with a kink instead of a kick in a non- serious way because of the alleged age difference.... Steve Sloane mentioned both O' Kicki's a few times after Ray went missing..
There's more I remember from right here, years ago, but I don't feel comfy posting what all this speculation led to. I know " Ivy Butterworth" and her long blonde haired daughter were also mentioned along with the O'Kicki girl.... I think it's likely silly unfounded rumors, and we deduced the same at the time.. but if the O' Kicki female is not in PA and might be in Slovenia, then I'd be willing to re-evaluate things.
O'Kicki's wife did go to PSU and did have a State College address. She was about PEF's age and was probably 30 years younger that the former Judge. We are in Central Pennsylvania Gothic.
All that said, O'Kicki was a major topic of conversation in Central Pennsylvania. Reports about an investigation of someone began in 1987. O'Kicki was indicted in 1988-89, convicted, and lost his final appeal in early 1993, when he fled to Slovenia.
Excluding the third Johnstown Flood, O'Kicki was one of three biggest news story in the area in the last 60-70 years (the other two being the Gricar and Sandusky stories). Everybody was talking about it. There were stories about in both the Wall Street Journal and the National Inquirer. There was even a parody song to the tune of Toni Basil's "Oh Micky." "O'Kicki, people say that you are such a slime. If you did what they said, you will be doing time." This was a big story and a salacious one, as he was suppose to have been sitting around his chambers in his underwear.
Sloane did say that he and RFG did talk about it at the time, but that would be totally expected. I was a resident and I talked about it. It was a general conversation. Top that off with O'Kicki being spotted
in State College shortly after he was reported missing and it will come up in "water cooler" conversation all over Centre County. Add to that Sloane graduated from high school in Cambria County, which is the county where O'Kicki was judge. I talk to people from the area and a few still tell O'Kicki stories.
Anybody in the area, unless he was in a coma, had an IQ below 65, or was living in a cave, would have known about O'Kicki and known that he had fled to his "ancestral homeland," as the Johnstown newspaper called it, Slovenia. RFG obviously was not in a coma, had and IQ above 65 and was not living in a cave. There is no way that RFG could not have not known about O'Kicki, especially since RFG was interested in all things Slovenian.