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Good photo of the area where his car was found.

You are right--this is no time to go wading in the Susquehanna. A couple of weeks ago, it was raging out of its banks. It's a little calmer now, with the 2 week drought.

Lewisburg is a low-crime town. Very quiet, except for the occasional Bucknell beer riot.

Since Ray told the girlfriend where his destination was, I don't think he tried to pull a disappearing act. It would be very out of character for him.

He was not carjacked; no signs of foul play in the auto.

Amnesia? Sometimes it happens.

Maybe some FReeper reading this will spot Ray Gricar somewhere in the PA-NY-NJ area.

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

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