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Interview with Tony Gricar
FOX News Channel - Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Show: FOX ON THE RECORD WITH GRETA VAN SUSTEREN
Author: Greta Van Susteren
TONY GRICAR , NEPHEW OF MISSING D.A.: Hi, Greta.
VAN SUSTEREN: Tony, any information? I mean we’ve been out there. We’ve looked around. We’ve followed the pressers (ph). We’ve followed the news accounts. Do you have any new information tonight about your uncle?
GRICAR : No, not anything different than what you’re probably aware of at this point.
VAN SUSTEREN: In terms of the laptop computer that’s missing do you know if that’s a work-related laptop or a personal one?
GRICAR : It is. It’s a work-related laptop that he has available for his use at home. He did have a work laptop as well or I’m sorry a work desktop computer but it was an occasional use laptop from what I gather.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right and that has not been accounted for, is that right? Nobody has found it at home. It wasn’t in the car. And it’s not at work.
GRICAR : That’s correct.
VAN SUSTEREN: Are the police, do they want to see the contents of it? Is there a focus on that laptop?
GRICAR : I think at this point it’s more of, you know, trying to help to get a better picture of the situation. I don’t think, I haven’t heard anything yet at least of the laptop being any key point as far as any files or things like that go.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right. Ray was not a smoker, right?
GRICAR : No, nobody in the family is big fans of smoking and he loves his car and nobody would smoke in the car.
VAN SUSTEREN: So, you would find it bizarre if someone were a passenger and lit up a cigarette that Ray would let that happen in his car?
GRICAR : To me that’s more bizarre than the laptop missing actually.
VAN SUSTEREN: Do you know how much ashes, could it be some just, you know, traces of ashes tracked into his car by a passenger? Could it have happened weeks before?
GRICAR : It could but, you know, he also takes good care of his car. I know when they did fingerprinting there wasn’t much that turned up. So, he kept a clean car much like everything else related to him.
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Interview With Darrel Zaccagni
FOX News Channel - Thursday, April 13, 2006
Show: FOX ON THE RECORD WITH GRETA VAN SUSTEREN
Author: Greta Van Susteren
VAN SUSTEREN: On April 15, 2005, District Attorney Ray Gricar called his girlfriend to say he was taking a drive. His car was found the next day but he has not been seen since. A year later are police any closer to solving this bizarre disappearance?
Joining us on the phone from Pennsylvania is Officer Darrel Zaccagni of the Bellefonte Police Department, welcome sir.
DARREL ZACCAGNI, BELLEFONTE, PENNSYLVANIA POLICE DEPARTMENT (by telephone): Thank you, ma’am, how are you today?
VAN SUSTEREN: Very well. I understand that you were — that some cigarette butts were found outside the car that Ray Gricar was driving on the 15th of April and those are now being sent for DNA testing?
ZACCAGNI: Yes, ma’am.
VAN SUSTEREN: Any reason why a year has gone by for this DNA testing and it hasn’t been done?
ZACCAGNI: No, it was just — it was a lead that we were following up on and we had to explore the situation a little bit more. There’s nothing substantial. There’s nothing to do so it’s — it’s a long shot for us in the fact that hopefully once we get the DNA run if we would come back and find DNA from off those cigarette butts that we could match up to an individual that has had previous contact with Mr. Gricar , it would be a direction to go to start to interview that person and say, OK, what were you doing there with Mr. Gricar ? What was happening?
VAN SUSTEREN: All right, so cigarette butts found outside the passenger side or driver’s side of the car?
ZACCAGNI: I believe we recovered one from each side of the vehicle.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right and when you opened — and when someone opened the car, the car was sealed pretty tightly, the smell of cigarettes inside the car and neither Mr. Gricar nor his girlfriend to whom the car belongs smokes is that right?
ZACCAGNI: Correct. Initially after the car was opened up for the forensic examination there was an odor of tobacco, cigarette smoke within the car but shortly after the door opened it dissipated and then we did recover some very minute amounts of cigarette ash on the floor.
VAN SUSTEREN: You know we only have about 30 seconds left and I don’t mean to, you know, poke this at you but it’s really hard for me to understand why everyone has waited a year for this. I mean this man’s — this is a D.A. He’s been missing. The clues were there, the cigarette smoke. Any thought why anyone didn’t do anything sooner?
ZACCAGNI: Well because we’re still — we’re still handling this investigation as a missing person. There’s nothing to indicate that there’s anything else here but a missing person at this time.
However, if we would discover a body at some point and it would turn out to be some sort of foul play, we’ve at least established some DNA off these cigarettes to go back and talk to somebody. We’ve established DNA for Mr. Gricar for identification purposes. And it’s just another lead that we’re following up on.
Secret service???
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Vanished DA leaves mystery by the river // Gricar left behind few clues, many theories
Patriot-News, The (Harrisburg, PA) - Monday, April 16, 2007
Author: FORD TURNER, Of The Patriot-News
EXCERPT
Not everyone is convinced the case has been handled appropriately.
The district attorney in neighboring Clinton County, Ted McKnight, said he believes Gricar was the victim of foul play. The case, he said, should have been handled accordingly, meaning it would belong to the district attorney’s office in Union County — the county where Street of Shops is located — and not to the police department in the borough where Gricar lived.
“They aren’t the people who ought to be involved. I have been saying that from day one,” said McKnight, a district attorney for 22 years. “It shouldn’t be the hometown people.”
Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico said he believes the local police and Centre County district attorney’s office had done everything they could.
“To have a colleague basically disappear from the face of this Earth is troubling. ... No resources should go to waste in a case like this,” Marsico said.
Speculation abounds
Patty Fornicola, Gricar ‘s girlfriend, lives in the house she shared with him for more than three years. She said she is still disappointed when she arrives home each day and he is not there.
Fornicola underwent a lie-detector test, administered by the U.S. Secret Service, that established her willingness to do anything to help with the search.
Wonder if they were the same brand?
I agree with GVS....why wasnt DNA done on the butts?
My BF and I have been saying from the beginning that this is BIG BIG BIG!!!!! One look at the Grand Jury Report and you know there are just unfreakinbelievablely gargantuan layers of a cover up that has been happening for decades......