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.
Am I recalling this right? I seem to remember that the ‘informant’ Gricar was supposed to be meeting was a seventeen year old who had called Gricar for help. No name. No gender. But the ‘search’ was broadcast on live TV for at least two hours and centered on a motel near the campus.
This isn’t the first story where initial on-scene news coverage is covered up later to protect someone/something. It would just be interesting to see something in print—if those articles have survived the continual internet scrubbing that seems to go on to protect someone/something....