Ray Gricar

Coffee and Cases Podcast

Cloud10

True Crime

4.7 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On April 15, 2005, Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar of Pennsylvania left work for what seemed like an ordinary day off. He called his girlfriend while driving his red-and-white Mini Cooper, promised to be home later, and then—he was never seen again. His locked car was found the next day near the Susquehanna River, his phone still inside but his laptop mysteriously missing. Did Gricar walk away from his life voluntarily? Was his disappearance tied to one of his high-profile prosecutions—or to secrets someone wanted buried? Or did tragedy strike by accident along the water’s edge? Nearly twenty years later, the case remains one of the most haunting unsolved disappearances in America. If you are interested in bonus content for our show or in getting some Coffee and Cases swag, please consider joining Patreon. There are various levels to fit your needs, all of which can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/coffeeandcases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know, there are some mysteries that don't just gnaw at the edges of your mind.
0:05.4	They sink in deep and refuse to let go.
0:09.1	They leave you with that gnawing question.
0:12.2	How does someone who seems so steady, so rooted in a community, just vanish?
0:19.2	That's our story this week. A man who spent two decades putting criminals behind
0:24.8	bars, a man trusted with justice itself, and yet whose own story has become one of the
0:32.0	coldest, most haunting disappearances in Pennsylvania history. This is the case of Ray Griccar. Welcome to coffee and cases where we like our coffee hot and our cases cold. My name is
1:20.1	Allison Williams. And my name is Maggie Damran. We will be telling stories each week in the hopes
1:25.6	that someone out there with any information concerning the cases will take those tips to law enforcement.
1:30.7	So justice and closure can be brought to these families.
1:33.7	With each case, we encourage you to continue in the conversation on our Facebook page, Coffee in Cases podcast, because, as we all know,
1:41.4	conversation helps to keep the missing person in the public consciousness,
1:45.2	helping keep their memories alive. So sit back, sip your coffee, and listen to what's brewing
1:50.3	this week. Before we get to the day Ray disappeared, we need to understand who he was, not just
1:57.7	the headline district attorney goes missing, but the person, the son, the husband, the brother, the father, the colleague.
2:06.4	Because when a man like this disappears, every detail of his life, every relationship, every choice, suddenly feels like it might hold a clue.
2:21.2	Ray Frank Griccar was born October 9th,
2:29.1	1945 in Cleveland, Ohio, in the city's Collinwood neighborhood. He attended Gilmore Academy,
2:37.2	a private Catholic school in Gates Mills. He loved baseball. He was a diehard Cleveland baseball fan,
2:43.5	and he carried that passion throughout his life. When he went on to the University of Dayton,
2:49.6	Ray's future began to take shape. It was there working as an intern in the prosecutor's office, that he fell in love with the law,
2:52.5	the way justice could be pursued, evidence laid out, arguments made, and fairness ideally
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