I have agree and with SJ as well.
First, there is zero evidence of bribery. We have looking at RFG's finances for a while. No one has ever said, "Where did Gricar get all this money."
Second, there are no indication RFG was investigating Sandusky. In 1998, he could have prosecuted. He also could have said, **This will require an major investigation; I'm calling the OAG.** Statute does permit a DA to do that when he doesn't have the resources. RFG didn't even have an investigator on staff.
There was no Sandusky file in the office; there was nothing in his papers, no notes, nothing scheduled. There were no e-mails regarding it. RFG was planning to erase the data on the laptop, so why would he keep it on there.
Third, there is no way that RFG could have known that Freeh would be involved with Penn State. The decision to hire him was in response to a November 17, 2011 from NCAA president, Mark Emmert. Freeh was hired on December 2, 2011 and was not the only person being considered. Giuliani and Chertoff were also under consideration, and Giuliani almost got it.
We don't even have evidence that Gricar and Freeh were in the same town, at the same time.
I was astounded by her " theory" that Gricar met up with Freeh in Vermont as they both vacationed.
I think it's more than a stretch to say this happened, given the date of 2011 that Freeh started work on his investigation, and Gricar going missing in 2005.
Also, didn't Ray usually take a companion with him? Were they supposed to " wait in the car" while the two men chatted about a prolific PSU pedophile?
Makes no sense to me, either, J.
Just now listened to the latest part of the podcast.
I wish I'd made a bet that she'd shoot arrows at Tom Corbett, too. I remember when the early sentiment ran so high against Corbett in this case and its discussion. It was hard to shove past Tom Corbett's huge shadow to discuss practical theories related to the case. I wonder now, all these years later, why Corbett was the very early scapegoat and boogeyman. NOT that I want to get anti-Corbett sentiment stirred up again- never would I wish that upon this cleaned up case discussion again.
Barely an intro to the series and BAM, we're already into " Corbett failed to investigate Gricar's disappearance".
Is Corbett the most hated man to come out of PA's executive branch of government in our lifetimes, or was their a direct and focused enmity between Corbett and Gricar specifically? ( I know about the televised press conference where Gricar looks so upset as Corbett is talking but don't recall the specifics of the reason for that occasion's bad atmosphere).
There's a huge difference in failing to act when ONE PERSON'S actions could direct a focus on Gricar's disappearance early on, and letting the law enforcement agencies with local and area jurisdiction be the ones doing the investigating.
Once again, I think it's time we each remember: There was NO sign of foul play. NO sign of anything beyond some computer searches and an old work computer put into the river separately and without even the basic knowledge of who separated the parts and put them into the river. We think we know, because of logical reasoning, but it could have been someone other than Ray. Water and sand corroded the HD after time in the sand and water. The laptop case was extraneous, the HD was what mattered and was not readable by a specialty firm. From what I've seen in the photographs, it's likely never going to be readable. However, I remember when criminal cases sometimes hinged on fingerprints or blood types and subtypes before DNA sequencing was perfected as well.
So, what was Corbett supposed to do as AG of PA? Later, as Gov.?
I think he and Gricar were not openly antagonistic, but openly uncommunicative mutually.
However, the same could probably be said for many people in PA gov't. at that time with Corbett, from what I've read separately from Gricar's case.
It's really difficult for me to assign blame to anyone at all with the facts as we know them. Ray disappeared. No clues. No ransom demands, no plane ticket, no passport found, not even a speck of displaced DNA in ALL these years.
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How do you follow a ghost down a wishing well? I ask myself this more and more as the years without him pass. ~*~*~*~*~
I think of the sudden cessation of his usual life in a small town for something unknown, and I'm afraid for him all over again..
The bereft feeling that comes with knowing he's somehow lost or gone .
There's something about the podcasts, Rebecca Knight's verbal intonations, that cause me to feel very sad, almost like I'm somehow missing as well. I have to give her kudos for the sadness she conveys. I won't be listening in the darkened stillness of a sleeping household at midnight in the future. Haunting. All of it, the case and the memories of what we've known for so long, just haunting at times. I'm very sad.
