Ray Gricar

Ray Gricar was a well-respected District Attorney in Centre County, Pennsylvania, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in April of 2005. After failing to return from a brief trip, his vehicle was found in Lewisburg with his cell phone inside. His laptop and its hard drive, however, had been thrown into the nearby Susquehanna River…

When a person disappears, it’s a shocking event. It immediately captures our attention because it’s so hard to imagine how an otherwise normal person can vanish and become a missing person.

We immediately seek out answers to questions that can shed some light.

Was there a history of depression?

When and where was the victim last seen?

Was a vehicle found, and if so, in what condition?

Did the missing person have any obvious enemies?

The answers to questions like those can many times provide an obvious direction for investigators to focus their attention, but sometimes they don’t. Sometimes the answer is ambiguous and, rather than clearing the waters, adds mystery of its own.

Was there a history of depression? Well, kinda, depending on who you ask.

Did the missing person have any enemies? Yes, several.

Some of the answers would support a suicide theory. Others seem to indicate a possible murder.

We attempt to trace the last known movements of the missing person and discover it’s harder than it seems. In all but the smallest towns, it is possible for a person to get lost if getting lost is on the agenda.

Think about a recent day of your own, when you had ten things to do and errands to run. Did you tell someone each stop you intended to make? Did you drive your normal route? Did you, perhaps, go to a different store than the one you would normally visit?

If a person were to disappear before they got home from the store, the answer to each of those questions would have a dramatic impact on how likely it is they could be found.

That is, of course, assuming the missing person is dead.

What if the missing person is not dead, but disappeared voluntarily?

You would expect to find the missing person’s vehicle, but in what condition? A burned hulk left in the woods? Or abandoned near a bridge on the west bank of the Susquehanna?

What about their bank accounts?

Their phone?

The riddles multiply exponentially, like a virus that threatens to kill the investigation by overwhelming it with questions, and investigators have no choice but to fight back with an answer for each one. The scope of the investigation grows and more investigators are needed. In the shadow of unanswered questions piled one atop another, we begin to understand why missing person’s cases are so fascinating, why they captivate us the way they do — plead with us to solve them — and why, after nearly 20 years, we are still asking the question, “What Happened to Ray Gricar?”

It’s extremely common when a person goes missing to discover that the person engaged in a lifestyle considered high-risk. Many times missing persons are engaged in prostitution or drug use. Sometimes they suffer from untreated mental illness or dementia. Perhaps the reason Ray Gricar’s disappearance strikes us as so mysterious is that he was none of those things.

Ray Gricar was a native son of Ohio and a die-hard Cleveland baseball fan. By most accounts, Ray had a privileged upbringing in Cleveland’s Collinwood neighborhood and attended the prestigious Gilmour Academy Catholic school. After graduation he went to the University of Dayton and developed two great passions — a love of the law, which he learned as an intern working in a prosecutor’s office, and a romance with Barbara Gray.

Upon graduation, Ray and Barbara moved back to Cleveland and married in 1969. He enrolled at Case Western and got his Doctor of Law degree, and in 1978, he and Barbara adopted a baby girl, Lara. Ray was reportedly brilliant, a hard worker, and soon took a job as a prosecutor for Cuyahoga County. To all outside observers, Ray’s life was the picture of personal and professional bliss.

In 1980, Barbara was offered a job at Penn State and the couple moved to State College, Pennsylvania. Their adopted daughter was still a toddler and Ray intended to stay home and play Mr. Mom in their new town, but the District Attorney offered Ray an assistant position and he accepted. He served admirably for several years and, through a series of staff changes and retirements, Ray found himself ideally positioned to run for District Attorney of Centre County. In 1985, he ran, and won, by a margin of 600 votes.

By 1991, Ray and Barbara divorced. It was an amicable parting with no notable incidents of violence or scandal. He remarried for a time, then divorced again, all the while serving as the District Attorney for Centre County, an office he would be re-elected to four times.

Early in the new millennium, Ray found love again, with an employee in the DA’s office, Patty Fornicola. Ray moved in with Patty in her home in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, and they lived there together, without incident, until 2005.

By all outward appearances, everything about Ray Gricar’s life seemed normal. Even Ray himself was a picture of ordinary. He was a thin man, receding hairline. Some might say he looked a little like the actor James Woods. He was described as a private person, but willing to smile and perfectly pleasant to most.

On Friday, April 15, 2005, Ray Gricar should have been at work but nobody found it surprising when he decided to take a half-day. According to author Jenn Baxter:

Ray had been working hard for years, and lately it appeared to be catching up to him. He had started taking naps after work, and had complained of feeling exhausted.

That morning, he reconsidered the half-day and called his office to say he wouldn’t be in at all. There was plenty to do, but Ray led the kind of independent work life that professionals enjoy — able to take a day away and hit the links or something for a recharge.

In Ray’s free time, he enjoyed long drives and road trips to unwind.

At about 11:30, Ray called Patty at the office. He said he was driving on Pennsylvania Route 192, a narrow, two-lane highway that winds through rolling farmland and a state forest between Centre Hall and Lewisburg. It was an uncommonly warm spring day and the sun was shining.

Ray mentioned that he wouldn’t be home in time to take care of their dog, Honey, so Patty agreed to go right home after work and handle it.

While Ray was out there, somewhere, with the moonroof open on a Pennsylvania highway, a reporter from the Centre Daily Times was trying to reach him for a comment. A 16-year-old offender Ray previously charged as an adult was seeking to have his case transferred to juvenile court. The newspaper wanted to get a comment from Ray about the juvenile offender’s case by the end of the day, but Ray couldn’t be found. In the end, the copy they sent off to the press for the Saturday morning edition of the Daily Times simply read:

Gricar could not be reached for comment Friday afternoon.

By 11:30 PM Friday night, Ray had still not arrived home and Patty was worried. Although Ray could be something of a free-spirit, she didn’t think he would be out-of-touch for so long. Ray would have at least checked-in. Patty called 911 and reported Ray Gricar missing.

According to Jenn Baxter’s excellent piece on Medium, the authorities took Ray’s disappearance seriously from the start. However, Ray’s tendency to indulge whims fostered some hesitancy on the part of investigators.

Steve Sloane, a friend and colleague, mentioned that Ray had once hopped in the car and drove to Cleveland on the spur of the moment to catch a baseball game without telling anyone.  According to the Centre Daily Times:

When Gricar returned Sloane said he didn't understand why everyone was upset ‘He said he just felt like going for a ride He didn't really see what the big deal was’"

When investigators checked the MLB schedule, they saw Cleveland had a home game that night. You can understand why they thought “Maybe he just took off for a baseball game again.”

Through the night they waited for Ray to show up, hoping he would walk through the door at 2 am… or 3:30 am… or maybe by dawn, but he didn’t. At breakfast, police had mobilized a comprehensive search. According to a report:

The state police used a helicopter to search for two hours along the banks of the Susquehanna River, near where his car was found, for any signs of Gricar. Investigators also used a bloodhound to try to pick up his scent, to no avail.

Specifically, they were searching for Ray’s distinctive car — a bright red Cooper Mini with a white top. If it was still near Route 192, it shouldn’t have been hard to spot. The authorities reportedly even asked stadium security in Cleveland to look through their parking lot to see if Ray’s little red Mini was there.

But it wasn’t in Cleveland.

At 6:30 PM Saturday, they found Ray’s car in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, the eastern terminus of Route 192.

Ray was nowhere to be found.

On Sunday, April 17th, the news broke in the papers. The Centre County DA had been reported missing. According to the Carlisle Sentinel:

Police on Saturday found the car of Centre County's top prosecutor but no sign of the missing man, who failed to return home from a drive the day before, authorities said. Bellefonte Police Chief Duane Dixon said state police found the red and white Mini Cooper belonging to District Attorney Ray F. Gricar, 59, of Bellefonte, at about 6:30 p.m. in a dirt parking lot on the outskirts of Lewisburg in Union County.

The parking lot was at North Water Street and St. John Street, at a place called the Street of Shops, an assemblage of antique and craft and thrift shops where local collectors and artisans rolled their wares in and out. You’ve seen the kind of place we’re talking about. In a small town, where industrial interests have moved on to bigger, more-connected places, taking the young labor force with them, and the factories and warehouses and storefronts left behind fall vacant and hollow... Someone has an idea to bring some life back to this town, this block, this building, and soon, a place like Street of Shops springs up. You can take a beautiful drive in the countryside, then stop and shop at a kitschy little joint that ain’t too bad… as long as you don’t look too much deeper than the most recent coat of paint or the boarded-up storefront three doors down.

Ray’s car was found in the parking lot across from the Street of Shops.

[Bellefonte Police Chief Duane] Dixon said there were no signs of foul play but state police in Milton were processing the car for evidence.

Within a day, Ray’s disappearance was not only news in Pennsylvania but in his native Ohio, too. Everyone was urged to watch out for any sign of Ray Gricar.

Gricar was last seen wearing a blue fleece-type jacket, jeans and sneakers.

At that early stage in the press coverage we did not know exactly what the police had found in the car, but we know now, and the details are simultaneously thought-provoking and frustrating.

The car was neatly parked, nothing out of the ordinary, no sign of a struggle. It was locked. Ray’s phone was inside, but turned off.

And Ray’s keys, wallet and laptop were missing.

In the early hours of the search, everyone held out hope for the best. Sure, Ray’s car had been found, but there was no sign of anything else out-of-the-ordinary. Ray could still be out there.

Lawyer LeDon Young [said] “I’m just hoping that he comes back here and is mad as hell at all of us for making such a fuss.”

As time passed, many began to fear the worst, but if there was anything that left a glimmer of hope, it was Ray’s missing computer. Some dared hope the reason they hadn’t found it was because Ray was still out there somewhere.

In a piece that described Ray as “organized” and anticipating retirement, Ray’s girlfriend Patty Fornicola wondered about the computer:

Fornicola said she's puzzled that Gricar's laptop computer can't be found. She called him neat and meticulous, the type of person who would never leave a mess on his desk. When asked if Gricar would ever misplace the computer, Fornicola laughed and said, “No. No, I don't think so."

As Independence Day 2005 approached, a psychic profiler even weighed-in on the case. Carla Baron described a scenario in which Ray Gricar was killed by a criminal network that he had stumbled upon in his work. Baron claimed Ray was under surveillance by criminals who abducted him as he parked at the Street of Shops, and that Ray went with them willingly to protect his family, and was later murdered.

On July 30th, two fishermen found Ray’s laptop in the Susquehanna, and it was missing its hard drive. Police believed it had been thrown from the State Route 45 bridge.

In October, the hard drive was found about a football field’s distance from the spot where the laptop had been found. Investigators went to heroic lengths to recover data from the drive but were unsuccessful.

Question: Why destroy the laptop and hard drive? Was something on them that was incriminating?

Police examined Ray’s business dealings extensively. His convictions, his financial matters, insurance policies… there was no hint that Ray was involved in anything illegal, or that he would have been attempting to conceal something improper by destroying the computer. Although a clue or a new tidbit of information would show up from time-to-time, nothing ever seemed to bring police any closer to answers.

In 2011, his grown daughter Lara petitioned to have him declared dead and the court obliged. In the eyes of the law, Ray Gricar was legally dead.

There are those who are certain Ray Gricar committed suicide, and some of those people insist the circumstances and evidence support the conclusion.

There were no signs of a struggle near Ray’s car.

The car was in working condition. There was no mechanical issue, no breakdown that would have forced Ray to seek help from someone he didn’t know. Not even a flat tire.

Ray left his phone in the car. Like he knew he wasn’t going to be needing it.

And it wasn’t just the condition in which the car was found that led some to believe Ray had killed himself. A report in the local paper shone a spotlight on a unique feature of the location where Ray’s car was found:

A rusted railroad trestle, long ago abandoned, crosses the river nearby. No tracks lead to the trestle anymore and a weathered pile of branches and other debris blocks the bridge’s entrance. On a grassy stretch where a railroad bed once lay, a small bundle of yellow flowers sat conspicuously in a juice container.

Some couldn’t help but note, Ray’s disappearance had some similarities to a suicide that struck very close to home for Ray. According to the Lancaster New Era:

Gricar's brother, Roy J. Gricar, vanished under similar circumstances in Ohio on May 8, 1996 and was later ruled to have killed himself. The 53-year-old West Chester, Ohio, resident told his wife he was going out to buy some mulch and never returned. [...] His car was found two days later abandoned at a Dayton park near a river and a bridge. Weeks later, investigators pulled his body from the water. His death was ruled a suicide by drowning.

You heard that right.

9 years earlier, Ray’s brother Roy killed himself when he jumped off a bridge into the Great Miami River.

If you take a look on Google Earth at the location where Ray’s car was found, you can see the former rail bed, tracks removed, which leads to the abandoned bridge near the Street of Shops. There’s a quaint park with a picnic area and a short, wooded path to the bridge. It is not at all hard to imagine a person who is depressed and intent on ending it all choosing it as their spot. Ray was known as a poor swimmer and a leap from the bridge into the Susquehanna, swollen and flowing swiftly with Spring runoff, would surely have been deadly.

That raises serious questions, though, and they have to be addressed.

Did Ray suffer from depression?

It’s a tricky question because the people who knew Ray would tell you he didn’t. Not that anyone knew, anyway. He had never been diagnosed, clinically. But then there were the reports that Ray had been feeling tired and sleeping a lot, which can be a symptom of depression. The Citizen’s Voice reported:

Statements from his girlfriend, a clerk in his office, are raising questions about the prosecutor's physical and mental health. His girlfriend, Patricia Fornicola, "had encouraged Gricar to seek a medical examination for any possible medical or mental conditions that may need attention." For three weeks, he had been complaining of fatigue.

Friends and family point out Ray had announced his retirement months earlier and was reportedly looking forward to it. Some say that’s a sign Ray may not have killed himself. Others say it’s possible Ray was already planning his own death and was simply giving his County and his colleagues time to get a successive administration ready for the day when he would be gone.

And it’s easy to forget that depression is not always behind every suicide. Unfortunately, people kill themselves for a number of reasons.

Money trouble.

Romantic trouble.

Criminal wrongdoing.

Investigators, however, found no sign of any of that in Ray’s life. But knowing his brother killed himself in an apparent spur-of-the-moment suicide, and that depression can run in families, does make us question whether there was a family pre-disposition to depression that the Gricar brothers had become adept at concealing.

In 2009, investigators revealed someone had used the desktop computer in Ray’s home to search for "how to wreck a hard drive", "how to fry a hard drive" and "water damage to a notebook computer."

The Daily Times wrote:

Tuesday, a day before the fourth anniversary of Gricar’s disappearance, Bellefonte Police Detective Matthew Rickard released the information, raising the question of why Gricar would have wanted to destroy that hard drive.

Family spokesman Tony Gricar said it seems to dismiss the theory that Gricar was a victim of foul play.

“To me, it looks like it absolutely knocks out the theory of foul play.” But he’s quick to add that this is just one fact in a complex mystery.

Later, Tony Gricar would continue to advocate for the possibility that his uncle could still be alive, so obviously he was not totally convinced. In the end, though, it’s all just speculation because we don’t know.

If Ray was looking forward to retirement, and didn’t suffer from depression, and didn’t kill himself, what could be the explanation?

There were lots of cases over Ray Gricar’s career as a prosecutor that involved some very bad people, and it has made many question whether Ray could have been murdered by someone seeking revenge.

In 1996, Ray prosecuted a woman who opened fire and killed someone on the Penn State Campus. It was a high profile case that occupied the local press for a time, but nobody could explain how a case like that could lead to a murder of the DA.

In another case, Ray prosecuted a man in the witness protection program and some wondered whether Ray was murdered by a criminal who was bad enough to need witness protection.

Investigators, however, find these theories far-fetched. There are thousands of prosecutors who try criminal cases every week. Murders and rapes and kidnappings and beatings and stabbings.

Very, very, very few of those prosecutors ever meet their violent end as a result of a revenge plot. We see it in the movies a whole lot more than it happens in real life.

Some would argue, however, that the higher-profile the case, the higher the stakes, and the more likely a murder becomes.

Make no mistake. Ray Gricar handled one very high-profile case.

As the DA for Centre County, Ray Gricar had the duty of prosecuting cases in his jurisdiction, and in 1998, allegations were made against a very prominent name at Penn State: Jerry Sandusky.

You might be having a bad attack of cognitive dissonance right now or questioning your own sanity.

1998? Didn’t the Jerry Sandusky thing happen in 2011?

Yes it did, and that’s what makes this intriguing.

In 1998, when a boy made allegations of sexual abuse against Penn State’s Defensive Coordinator, Ray Gricar was in charge of investigating the case and chose not to prosecute. That’s not to say that Ray didn’t investigate the case thoroughly. He did. According to one report:

He tried to get information by having officers hide in the home of one of the victims as the mother confronted Sandusky.

For reasons we don’t know, Ray Gricar did not feel he could prove his case against Sandusky and chose not to prosecute him. Some will say it was the old boys’ network, once again, protecting a local sports hero. Regardless, the consequences were that Sandusky remained free to molest boys for another 13 years until the 2011 charges we all remember.

Did one of Sandusky’s victims take revenge on Ray Gricar for his perceived dereliction of duty?

It’s an intriguing proposition, but again, investigators find it implausible.

They have never uncovered any evidence that Ray was murdered, much less that it was connected to the Jerry Sandusky decision.

In 2005, just before Ray disappeared, his name appeared in the papers again. The AP reported, in a story under the headline “Deputy cleared of rape accusation”:

Charges have been dropped against a Philadelphia sheriff's deputy accused of raping an unconscious woman in State College. “The bottom line is this: Only (the deputy) and the woman know what happened between them on the date in question," Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar said. "I would not feel confident and comfortable going forward to a jury with any allegation against either party arising out of this event because of their credibility problems." Gricar said he decided to drop charges against the 43-year-old after police investigated some of the things that the defense said at a preliminary hearing. "I believe that would make it impossible to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she was unconscious as she claimed when the sexual episode occurred," Gricar said. "We have no choice but to drop such a case."

The woman who reported the rape in that case later gave birth to the Sheriff’s Deputy’s child, confirmed by paternity test. Ray had refused to prosecute the Deputy because the woman could not prove she had been raped.

That’s enough to piss somebody off.

Maybe you’re starting to pick up on it… for as kind as he was as a person, when it came to the law, Ray could be kind of a hard ass.

A dad or husband or brother or boyfriend has been known to take deadly action on occasion in our society, “in defense of her honor” is usually how it’s explained. Maybe it’s a bridge too-far to suspect Ray’s disappearance could have been a revenge murder by someone, or on behalf of someone he supposedly wronged in the course of his job, but maybe it isn’t.

If the question is “Did Ray have enemies with motive to want him gone?” The answer is obviously “Yes.” Many times over. Nobody can work as a DA for 20 years and not make some enemies.

In December of 2005, Pennsylvania State Representative Mark Cohen sent a letter to the DOJ requesting a “fresh, complete and independent investigation” to determine whether Gricar’s disappearance could be linked to the death of Assistant DA Jonathan Luna, who was found dead in a creek in 2003. He had been stabbed 36 times. There were real concerns that perhaps, in some way nobody had noticed, Luna and Gricar’s work had overlapped and the murderer of Luna might be responsible for Ray’s disappearance, too.

Luna’s murder is still unsolved and no connection to Ray’s disappearance was ever found.

On the other hand, Ray’s own colleagues seem to find allegations of revenge killings a little far-fetched. District Judge Bradley Lunsford, a longtime colleague, and several others who knew Ray closely, said there had never been any legitimate threats against Ray that they were aware of. From one report:

[A local defense attorney,] Jim Bryant, called Gricar a low-profile prosecutor “who does not make enemies.”

“I think you absolutely can rule out foul play.” He said that Gricar “leaves a trail pretty much wherever he goes. He's as predictable as the sunrise.”

Of course, work-related entanglements weren’t the only possible reason someone could have murdered Ray Gricar. It simply could have been a stranger; a “wrong time wrong place” kind of thing.

And there were some facts that made people wonder. According to the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, police found trace amounts of cigarette ash in the car. Ray was a non-smoker and did not like the smell of smoke. Two cigarette butts were found outside the car and were tested for DNA, but it didn’t match Ray or anyone else in the database.

Could Ray have been murdered by a cigarette-smoking stranger who saw an affluent man in a flashy car?

Law enforcement concluded there were only rumors and innuendo and unsourced allegations. They found no hard evidence that Ray was murdered, in a revenge plot or otherwise.

If Ray didn’t kill himself and he wasn’t murdered, is it possible he left on his own, to start a new life somewhere?

According to police, the bloodhounds that attempted to track Ray got confused in the parking lot, leading them to believe Ray could have left the scene in a second vehicle.

As usual, there are the typical objections from friends and family.

He would never just run out on his family like that.

He was looking forward to long road trips with Patty.

Nevertheless, if Ray was still alive, we could expect there might be some sightings of him. Surprisingly, there have been a lot of reports from people who claimed to see Ray.

In June of 2005, a man reported that he and his daughter had seen Ray with an older woman at a Southfield, Michigan restaurant on May 27th. The authorities pursued the lead vigorously, developed a sketch of the woman, who was in her 70s, and told the press they considered it their most credible lead. In the end, nothing came of it.

In another sighting, a woman reported seeing Ray at a Meijer grocery store in Ohio on June 7th. Ray’s nephews, Tony and Chris, drove to the store and watched the surveillance tape. They came away convinced the man the shopper had seen was not their Uncle Ray.

In August of 2005 a woman snapped some pictures of a man eating in a Chili’s restaurant in Texas, and some said he looked like Ray. It took the FBI six weeks to identify the man. It was not Ray Gricar.

One sighting had investigators reviewing recordings of the Oprah Winfrey Show because someone thought they saw Ray in the audience.

Perhaps the most tantalizing clue came in 2011 when a man picked up by police in Utah for a minor trespassing violation refused to give police his name. Someone noticed the man’s uncanny resemblance to Ray Gricar and for a day, the crime blotter was ablaze with speculation. The man matched Ray Gricar’s height and weight and appeared to be his approximate age. I’ve seen the photos and I agree, the man looks a lot like Ray Gricar.

It took some time but police eventually learned the man was a New Mexico native, Philip Todd Beavers. He wasn’t Ray Gricar, he just hadn’t felt like giving his name to the police. Another strikeout.

Ray Gricar was reportedly also seen watching a baseball game in a bar in Wilkes-Barre. Some wondered whether Ray had taken off to Europe and started a new life in Slovenia, where he had family ties.

None of the sightings of Ray Gricar have ever turned out to be him, but some can’t help but wonder if he is actually out there.

Where some see Ray leaving his phone behind as a sign that he committed suicide, because he wouldn’t be needing it again, others insist he left it behind turned off because he knew his phone could otherwise be traced, even when not in use, and he needed time to get away before his disappearance was discovered.

Some see the searches on Ray Gricar’s desktop computer, for “how to fry a hard drive,” as evidence that he was planning his suicide, which he later carried out. I would propose, perhaps it’s possible that Ray, without thinking, made travel plans on his laptop, and then realized they would track him down if he didn’t destroy the laptop and hard drive, which he did.

That could be what happened.

Or Ray could have been murdered. By a recently paroled offender or a wronged assault victim or a drug lord he prosecuted.

That could be what happened.

Or, perhaps he strolled to the picnic area between the bridges near Street of Shops, picked a few flowers, finished his juice, put the flowers in the bottle and left them on the path. With a glance over his shoulder to confirm nobody was watching, Ray slipped onto the wooded path and climbed onto the railroad’s rusting relic. A moment later, he jumped into the Susquehanna from his wobbly perch, never to be seen again.

The official position of law enforcement is that Ray killed himself.

That could be what happened.

Maybe he left a hint behind.

When investigators examined his office after his disappearance in 2005, they found Ray had left the County Code book on his desk, open to the page that contains guidelines for filling a vacancy in the DAs office.

That is where we are now.

We just don’t know. Until Ray shows up, dead or alive, the mystery of what happened to Ray Gricar will remain Unresolved.

Episode Information

Episode Information

Research & writing by Troy Larson

Hosting & production by Micheal Whelan

Published on July 9th, 2022

Music Credits

Original music created by Micheal Whelan through Amper Music

Theme music created and composed by Ailsa Traves

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