He disappeared for investigating it to begin with. It wasn’t his dropping it that got him killed, it was pursuing it to begin with. JoPa needs to be in the criminal part of these charges too
I posted around the clock on the Penn State story for about three weeks beginning on November 4th or 5th, starting with the Grand Jury presentment. Personally, I don't think the Penn State case had anything to do with Ray Gricar's disappearance unless he committed suicide.
Consider the timeline. Gricar elected not to prosecute in 2008. He didn't go missing until April 15, 2005. He went missing two weeks after announcing the biggest drug bust in Centre County, PA history. His home computer had a record of internet searches on how to destroy hard drives.
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Gricar was the Centre County, PA, District Attorney in 1998. In early May 1998, Gricar began an investigation of Sandusky that included the State College (i.e., 'real') Police, the university police, and Pennsylvania's child protection agency.
His decision not to investigate came in 2008 and his famous report came in late April or early May 1999. And Paterno told Sandusky in May 1999 that he would not succeed Paterno.
Gricar didn't go missing until April 15, 2005.
This was the case with the two phone calls between Sandusky and the mother of Victim #6 in the Grand Jury presentment. Why didn't Gricar prosecute?
Remember that Victim #6 is the only victim in the presentment who was not subjected to molestation by Sandusky. Nothing oral, anal, or manual, giving or receiving.
On one of the boy's first nights with Sandusky, Sandusky told the boy they need to take showers. He told the boy he was "going to squeeze his guts out," bear-hugged the boy, and held him under the shower head and shampooed his hair.
The boy's mom noticed his wet hair when the boy got home and she asked him about it. The boy told the mom the story; she called the university police. Investigators were only able to find one other boy ("B.K."), who had also be subjected solely to nude showering. In the phone calls, Sandusky said he didn't know if his genitals had touched the boy during showering, but said he didn't think so.
What was Gricar going to prosecute - particularly against the second most powerful man in the Penn State football program, who at that time had no other claims or charges leveled against him? A boy said Sandusky showered with him? No wonder Gricar didn't bring charges.
However, Gricar's nephew said that Gricar had a sour taste in his mouth for Penn State football for the rest of his life, feeling as if he had been sandbagged.
But nothing connects 1998 with a disappearance seven years later that I can see.