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This is Bill Keisling, author of The Midnight Ride of Jonathan Luna, and a subject of some of your posts. Keep up the good work, guys!

I've posted the following story on missing DA Ray Gricar at yardbird.com:

Another drug prosecutor vanishes on a Pennsylvania car ride

Missing DA Gricar had days earlier announced arrests in
'largest heroin operation... ever seen in Centre County'

     Only days before his disappearance, Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar had announced the prosecution of what the State Attorney General's Office called the "largest heroin operation that we have ever seen in Centre County."
      Gricar, 59, of Bellefonte was reported missing on Saturday, April 16, 2005, after he failed to return from a drive. His car was later found abandoned on a dirt parking lot outside of Lewisburg, PA, in Union County. Police and fellow prosecutors initially said they knew of no motive for foul play.
      Gricar's strange disappearance is the latest in a long series of peculiar endings for prosecutors and prosecutor office employees in Pennsylvania. Over the years, Pennsylvania law enforcement has had an equally bizarre history of attempting to classify these events as suicides, even as controversies involving organized crime swirled around the offices of the deceased.
     Three other curious cases where suicide theories were floated come to mind: Jonathan Luna, of course, in 2003; Allegheny County DA Robert Duggan in 1974; state attorney general aide Gaylor Dissinger in 1983. Both Duggan and Dissinger were found shot to death under mysterious circumstances, even as controversies involving organized crime swirled around the offices of the deceased."

Read the full story, and view an aerial photo, at :

http://www.yardbird.com/midnight_ride_another_missing_PA_prosecutor.htm

or visit:

http://www.yardbird.com/luna.htm

bk

First time blogger: Mr. Keisling, I bought your luna book.
What is going on in pa? South American Justice system/corruption is it? I'll bet they don't find the body until June, when the river gives up its dead. Did the same drug guys do Luna and this Gricar? I read the article in the story on your Yardbird site and had to look up the story for myself. Free Press is what keeps America Free.

Interesting article about Dissinger. I lived in that neighborhood when this happened. There were several suicides in Camp Hill that year. In fact, in the eighties, Cumberland County had the highest suicide rate in the state.

It is not unusual for someone who has made up his mind to commit suicide to get a burst of energy just before the act, and to do the things Dissinger did: go jogging; attend to the yard work, etc. Putting things in order.

One factor in his suicide, as well as those of other prominent people in that affluent neighborhood, may have been the abysmal mental health care given at the local hospital at that time. More than one patient recently released from the mental health unit there committed suicide right after getting out.

Now as to Ray Gricar: given his family history, he may have been brooding over his brother's death and may have decided to take the same way out. This happens in families that are prone to suicide.

However, I hope that is not the case, and that Ray will be found alive and well.