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Criminal Records - Most Wanted |
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Profile |
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Name: Ray F. Gricar
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Race: White |
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Age at Disappearance: 59 |
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Age Now: 62 |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Gray / White |
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Wanted for :
Missing |
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Location(s) |
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Last Seen : Bellefonte, PA |
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Possible Location : Lewisburg, PA |
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Last Known : Pennsylvania |
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Traits |
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Case Story |
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Missing Prosecutor's Laptop Found |
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Police say two fishermen found a laptop computer at the bottom of a river that belonged to a county prosecutor who has been missing for more than 3 months.
The laptop was found Saturday in the Susquehanna River under a bridge and was turned over to state police. Cops say the laptop was missing its hard drive. Authorities had searched the river several times already. Dive teams searched it again but found nothing else.
Pennsylvania Prosecutor Disappears
Centre County District Attorney Ray F. Gricar, 59, has been missing since Friday, April 15th, 2005. Family and friends of Ray Gricar say they are baffled by claims the missing district attorney was seen May 27th near Detroit but are hopeful the reported sightings will further the investigation.
A customer at a restaurant in Southfield, MI said he thinks he saw Gricar eating with a woman who appeared to be in her early 70's. The customer told police he made eye contact with the man and said hello.
The witness said as he was sitting down to dinner with his daughter that he "knew him from somewhere," Bellefonte Police Chief Duane Dixon said.
That night, the witness saw a rerun of Greta Van Susteren's show on Fox that featured an interview with Gricar's housemate and girlfriend, Patty Fornicola.
"He saw that and said, 'That's where I knew him from," Dixon said.
Bellefonte police sent a photograph of Gricar and photos of seven similar looking men to authorities in Southfield for the customer to examine. Darrel Zaccagni, a Bellefonte officer, said the man immediately picked out Gricar's photo as the man he saw at the restaurant.
Police are treating the reported sighting as the first real lead in the case since a similar sighting in Wilkes-Barre on April 19th.
"I'm hoping it's an accurate sighting," Fornicola said. "But I don't know what to think."
Gricar has no friends or family in Detroit, Fornicola said. She said that, as far as she knows, he's never visited that area.
Police have no theories as to why Ray Gricar would be in Michigan.
According to investigators there has been no activity on Gricar's bank accounts or credit cards since his disappearance, according to police.
Police in Southfield are also looking into whether the man may have stayed at a hotel close to the restaurant.
Even as they look into the possible sighting, police are continuing to investigate other explanations for Gricar's disappearance, including foul play. |
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Family Makes Pleas At Press Conference |
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At a news conference the Monday after Gricar disappeared, authorities said they had called the FBI for help and that no leads have emerged since the prosecutor's car was found over the weekend in Lewisburg, about 45 miles east of his home in Bellefonte.
Gricar's daughter Lara stepped to the podium and said in a statement directed at her father, "My heart aches deeply, very deeply, for your presence.''
"I want more than anything to hear your voice and for you to hug me. Maybe we can go for a hike - go hike up a mountain and sit and talk,'' said Lara Gricar. "Please call. To everyone else out there, if you have seen my father, please contact police.''
Patty Fornicola, Ray Gricar's longtime girlfriend and a clerk at the DA's office, also spoke.
"Ray, I love you very much and I miss you. I want you to come home. Please call us. We will wait for as long as we need,'' Fornicola said. |
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Digging For Clues |
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Bellefonte Police Chief Duane Dixon said he had contacted the FBI on Monday to help analyze Ray Gricar's credit card and phone records. Authorities were also studying Ray Gricar's calendar and files on his computer.
Authorities have said there were no signs of foul play and that they did not think the disappearance was related to any of his cases.
"I don't have a logical theory at this point,'' Dixon said.
Authorities in Bellefonte said Ray Gricar did not have any personal or family problems, though colleagues said he had been working hard recently.
Gricar's red-and-white Mini Cooper was found Saturday in a parking lot across the street from an antiques market he frequented in Lewisburg. The market was on a lot near a small wooded area that backs up to the Susquehanna River. An abandoned, rusted railroad bridge sits nearby, along with a newer bridge that carries cars across the river.
State police have been searching the river by helicopter but have found nothing, Dixon said. Authorities also brought in a bloodhound and interviewed workers inside the market. At least one employee there told police she might have seen Gricar there on Saturday.
Gricar was last seen by his girlfriend before she left for work Friday morning. He was scheduled to take a half-day off work.
Gricar called Fornicola at 11:30 a.m. from his cell phone on a road leading to Lewisburg, saying he was taking the whole day off. It was the last time anyone heard from him and the last time his cell phone was used, police said.
Gricar's Brother Disappears In 1996
Gricar's 53-year-old brother, Roy J. Gricar, vanished under similar circumstances in May 1996, and was later ruled to have drowned himself, The Centre Daily Times reported.The West Chester, Ohio, resident told his wife he was going out on an errand and never returned, according to an account at the time in the Dayton Daily News. His car was found abandoned near a river, and his body was later pulled from the water. |
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