The Trail Went Cold - Episode 268 - Ray Gricar

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

April 15, 2005. Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. After taking the day off work and leaving on a road trip, 59-year old Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar fails to return home and is reported missing. The following day, Ray’s abandoned car is discovered 60 miles away in the town of Lewisburg, parked across the street from an antiques mall. Over the course of the next several months, Ray’s county-issued work laptop and its hard drive are discovered in the nearby Susquehanna River, but the hard drive is too damaged to recover any data. A number of different theories are pushed forward, which include Ray disappeared voluntarily, completing suicide by jumping into the river, or becoming the victim of foul play, possibly in connection to the infamous Penn State child sex abuse scandal. However, there is no conclusive evidence pointing to any of these theories and Ray Gricar is never found. After 268 full-length episodes and 32 minisodes, “The Trail Went Cold” has finally reached the milestone of our 300th episode and to commemorate the occasion, we are covering one of our most highly requested cold cases. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Pennsylvania State Police at (814) 355-7545. Download June’s Journey FREE today on the Apple App Store or Google Play. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Gricar https://charleyproject.org/case/ray-frank-gricar http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/05109/490420-85.stm https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/04/the-hunt-for-ray-gricar-15-years-of-clues-theories-and-the-search-for-answers.html “The Serial Killer’s Apprentice: And 12 Other Stories of Cleveland’s Most Intriguing Unsolved Crimes” by Ray Gricar http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/07/utah_detainee_isnt_gricar_but.html https://www.cnn.com/2015/04/15/us/ray-gricar-missing-prosecutor/index.html https://www.pennlive.com/midstate/2015/04/ten_years_later_ray_gricars_di.html https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/education/penn-state/jerry-sandusky/article42806712.html https://www.centredaily.com/news/article42828846.html https://www.wearecentralpa.com/news/podcast-gives-new-insight-on-district-attorney-ray-gricars-disappearance-16-years-later/ https://www.northcentralpa.com/news/crime/no-answers-16-years-later-in-disappearance-of-centre-county-da-psp-says-case-still/article_8e33cc04-72d1-11eb-ab98-f30bcdaa197b.html https://raygricar.com “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon! Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. “The Trail Went Cold” is going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon 2022: Vegas” at Paris & Bally’s in Las Vegas from April 29-May 1, 2022. To get a 10 % discount off a standard badge, please use our specialized promo code, “TRAIL”, by visiting https://www.crimecon.com/. “The Trail Went Cold” is going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon UK” at the Leonardo Royal Hotel & Spa in London on June 11-12, 2022. To get a 10 % discount on the purchase of tickets to the event, please use our specialized promo code, “COLD22”, by visiting https://www.crimecon.co.uk. “The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	We would like to send out a special thanks to the fun and challenging June's Journey game.
0:04.6	Who doesn't love a good mystery? In the Hidden Object Murder Mystery game, June's Journey,
0:09.2	you'll awaken your inner sleuth and step right into a thrilling adventure set in the heart of the roaring 20s.
0:14.8	Find your inner detective.
0:16.2	Download June's Journey Free Today on the Apple App Store or Google Play.
0:20.3	Thank you and enjoy the show. April 15th, 2005.
0:26.0	Belfant, Pennsylvania.
0:28.0	After taking the day off work and leaving on a road trip,
0:31.0	59-year-old Center County District Attorney Ray Greitcar
0:35.0	fails to return home and is reported missing.
0:37.0	The following day, Ray's abandoned cars
0:40.0	discovered 60 miles away in the town of Louisburg
0:42.0	parked across the street from an antique small.
0:45.0	Over the course of the next several months, Ray's County issued work laptop and its hard drive are discovered on separate occasions in a nearby Susquehanna River, but the hard drive is too
0:54.9	damaged to recover any data. A number of theories are pushed forward, including that Ray completed
1:00.4	suicide, disappeared voluntarily or was the victim of foul play but there is no
1:05.2	conclusive evidence to point to any of these theories and no trace of Ray is ever found.
1:10.7	After that the trail went cold. Oh, uh, and for a great, uh,
1:23.4	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail went cold.
1:52.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and while it took me a while to realize it,
1:55.2	this marks a pretty special milestone for the podcast. It is our 268th full-length episode and
2:01.7	when you combine that with the 32 minisodes we released during the first two years as a podcast
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