Where is roy gricar

He immediately went back to check his files on the plane maintenance orders and recommendations. But they, along with his computer, were gone. Roy went to tell the top commanding officer at the base, but not one of the officers would speak with him about the crash.

He then stopped to think and decided it would be unsafe if he went higher up in the military or even to the local police. What do you think I should do? I feel my life is in danger.

I was stunned. I never heard from Roy again. A year after that dinner, one of my classmates, Bill Crookson, called to tell me that Roy Gricar was dead.

It had been called a suicide. Apparently he had leapt from a bridge over the Greater Miami River near his home in Dayton. My thoughts ranged from shock and disbelief to shock and belief.

I wondered aloud about my conversation with him a few months earlier. Our family wants peace now. I remained an ocean away in London but continued to brood about what really might have happened and why Roy had told me his story. Nine years later, in , another classmate of mine, Charles Murray, called.

It included the report that former District Attorney Ray Gricar, by this time pronounced legally dead as no remains or whereabouts could be found, had had sufficient evidence to prosecute Sandusky many years back but had failed to do so.

His computer and hard drive had washed up on the shore of the Susquehanna River months later too badly damaged for information to be retrievable.

I figure that my classmate Roy Gricar must have told his brother about the Wright Patterson Base issue. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. Ad Choices.

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Subscribe today. Before leaving he told his wife he was going out to buy lunch, but never returned. A week later, his body was discovered in the river and the cause of death was ruled a suicide.

Investigators learned that Gricar had previously purchased software to wipe the laptop. It was initially believed that he may have wanted to erase his county-issued laptop computer upon his retirement. Two FBI labs and a data recovery company concluded that the hard drive was too damaged for data to be recovered. On July 25, , Ray Gricar was declared legally dead by the Centre County President Judge at the request of a petition filed by his daughter.

Over the years, hundreds of sightings of him have been reported across the country, ranging from Arizona to North Carolina, but none of them have been confirmed. His case remains unsolved. Physical Description: Caucasian male with graying brown hair with green eyes. If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Ray Gricar please contact the Bellefonte Police Department , or call the Pennsylvania State police tip line at Email Address.

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