The night Gricar went missing, they sent a dozen police cars, a swat team, and helicopters with searchlights to the Penn State campus.
He had scheduled an appointment with an ‘informant’ but never showed up and neither did the informant. Details get lost. Information drips out and causes chaos. Misinformation is rampant.
After that, the Penn State angle was NEVER mentioned again.
Perfectly true. The copter chase was *the* news story of the day. After, there was more strangeness going on, in hindsight it looks like Gricar was either bumped off or might be in the protection program. For example, there were numerous anonymous claims of knowledge and as far as I remember they looked like they might be from college folks. There was also a number of anonymous threats against Gricar, in the form of registered domains with the threat as domain-name.
I’ll have look and see if this stuff is in my backups. It should be, but it might have been unlucky and been stored on one of the disks that were fried without a backup. Optimistic, though.