Water Down Below & The Things We’ll Never Know: Where Did Ray Gricar Go?

Cold Case Murder Mysteries

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🗓️ 9 September 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

On April 15, 2005, Centre County, PA District Attorney Ray Gricar told his girlfriend he was taking a day off to go for a scenic drive and check out some antique stores. But as day turns to night, and night becomes the next morning, Ray never comes home. Soon his car is found abandoned next to a bridge, and it seems as though another person may have been inside. As time passes, we learn somebody disposed of his laptop as well. But the trail ends there. Was Ray murdered? Did he commit suicide? Or leave voluntarily to start a new life? Join host Ryan Kraus for an examination of what lies beneath the surface in this case.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host
0:09.5	Ryan Kraus dragging you into my weird wacky and wonderful world once again as we go down the relentless
0:15.2	rabbit hole that is the disappearance of Ray Grecar.
0:19.3	For those who aren't familiar with the case, Ray was the district attorney of Center County, Pennsylvania, who vanished
0:25.3	without a trace on April 15, 2005, leaving a list of questions in his wake, all of which condensed
0:32.4	to a single curiosity. in his vanishing
0:35.0	vanishing a result of foul play, suicide, or even stranger,
0:41.2	was it voluntary? That's the three-pronged approach we'll take in examining the
0:46.0	evidence because this is a mystery where the puzzle pieces seem to fit regardless.
0:50.6	So let's drag the riverbed and try to unearth the truth hidden below the surface
0:55.0	the clues that are stuck in mud in order to garner greater specificity and clarity.
1:00.4	Let's examine what is not said, what remains unspoken, and dissect that which is
1:06.5	explicit in order to retrieve the other side of the coin, which is the implicit desires
1:12.0	lurking beneath.
1:14.3	But first the basics.
1:16.2	Ray Grecar was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1945, where he graduates from a Catholic school
1:21.4	called Gilmore Academy.
1:23.6	From there he attends the University of Dayton, during which time he secures an internship
1:28.1	with the local prosecutor something that propels his career interests in the direction of attending law school.
1:34.6	After earning a JD from Case Western, he takes a prosecutorial job for Cayahoga County,
1:40.4	specializing in murder in rape cases.
1:43.0	By 1980, however, his life takes an unexpected twist.
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