Snipped for brevity only.
"PEF left just before SPM came in"
Any reason (or rumor) given for the departure?
We have beaten most of the known information to death over the years. Time to find some new information/evidence and to look much more closely at ALL the individuals around RFG before and after his going missing. Who, What, When, Where, Why and are they related. Who left just before RFG went missing? Who left shortly after RFG went missing? Who left when SPM came in and why?
PEF is Republican; SPM is a Democrat. At least 3 ADA's left, or were removed when SPM came in; it wasn't too unusual.
Why has the case of a missing Pennsylvania DA not been more thoroughly investigated, including a deep dive by Federal authorities?
This isn't a federal issue. Even assuming RFG was murdered, no federal crime was committed.
Have some in LE not given this case much attention due to some personal agenda or that of those above them? If so, why? Has evidence in this case been withheld from the public to protect one or more reputations, or even that of a major institution?
My first guess is legacy protection. That was specifically what LE said was the reason for not mentioning the mystery woman. If RFG walked away, there is the theory that there would be public "outrage."
The second possibility is that LE thinks they knew what happened, and it isn't criminal. The first police chief said he thought it was suicide; MTM said he thought it was walkaway. SPM famously said, "homicide is the least likely" possibility. Neither would result in criminal charges.
A third possibility is that they found something more than just damaging to RFG's reputation, something potentially illegal and it is a case, **If we can't find him, we can't prosecute him.**
BTW, you have done a lot on this case as well.
It would be a major bit of detective work on our part to figure out who the mystery woman was and why she and RFG were seen at the SOS. I seriously doubt that RFG would have been walking around the SOS with the mystery woman if he were planning suicide, if suicide had been the plan, I submit he would have been looking at some of the items with head down and a sad look, not walking around and chatting with a woman. The events in Lewisburg coupled with what was on the laptop and why RFG was so keen on destroying it are key elements in this review of the case.
We don't know that the mystery woman was anything more that a red herring. At times while shopping, I will see someone in a store. I will go into another store in the shopping center or mall, and see the same woman. This could be a case of that. It could have been someone who struck up a conversation about a product. It might have been a woman flirting with him, or RFG might have been flirting with her. That assumes that this was RFG.
I would find it informative to travel to Raystown Lake and stand in the exact spot the "Doctor" had seen RFG.
We would still not know what was going through RFG's mind. Was he looking for a place to commit suicide or to toss the laptop? Did he decide not to do either because the site was not suitable or because he saw someone he know? Was he just out for a drive to relax and stop to look at a picturesque lake? We just don't know.
It would be CRITICAL to me see if someone sitting in a Mini could reach over to the passenger window and tip or toss a laptop over the barrier on the bridge and into the river below.
I'm saticefied that it was possible that RFG, either traveling very slowly, or stopping for just 2-3 seconds,
could have toss the laptop, sans drive, from the driver's seat of the Mini. That does not mean that RFG
did toss the laptop from the Mini.
It is a bit unlikely that someone else tossed it from the passenger seat of the Mini, because there is no evidence that anyone else was sitting in the Mini. That does
not rule out someone tossing it from the passenger seat of another vehicle.
It would be CRITICAL to me to know if the ash had been planted or had been left by a second driver of the Mini.
As with above, there is no evidence that someone else drove the Mini; the ash was on the passenger side. Could someone, RFG, a killer, chosen to plant the ash? Sure. Could a smoker, retrieving something from the Mini, e.g. the laptop, have reached in and dropped a fragment of ash on the floor while doing so? Sure. Could a smoker have leaned into the open window or open door of the Mini, talked to RFG, and and dropped the ash? Sure. Unless the person who did this comes forward, we won't know. If it was not related to the disappearance, e.g. somebody asking him how the Mini handled because they wanted to buy one, the smoker might not even realize this.
The only thing I can say is that the Mini was secured after the smoke/ash went into it. That greatly reduces the chances the smoker forced RFG out of the car at that point, but that is not saying much.
