Police Search for Pennsylvania Prosecutor Missing Since Friday

AP ^ | AP-ES-04-16-05 2345EDT

[cricket]

"Well, this lawyer faked his suicide by leaving some articles of clothing on the beach at the Jersey shore. Presumed drowned. Was found a few weeks later living in Mexico with his paramour, with whom he'd eloped."

a pp.s. of sorts here. . . Hard to understand, the pain of a suicide; that someone can so easily inflict that one, on those left behid.

Don't know whether he was divorced or widowed; but he has a girlfriend, who also made a statement/plea for him to return.

Also, it was mentioned that. . .maybe twenty years ago - his brother disappeared; and and was found having committed suicide; though no details were offered.

[hershey]

I caught a news segment on this last night. The missing D.A.'s brother had committed suicide, and the pleas from the D.A.'s wife put out by the media were along the lines of 'come home, we love you,' as if they feared he disappeared voluntarily and planned to harm himself. They weren't treating this as if he'd been kidnapped by someone with a grudge.

[hershey]

The plea was made by the missing D.A.'s girlfriend.

[yardbird.com]

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, PA, 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.

Read the full story, get real information about Luna, 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