former DA Michael Madeira had this to say - as reported in the CDT (article is no longer avail)
Madeira also revealed that Gricar's girlfriend, Patty Fornicola, had told police in the days after she reported him missing that the prosecutor had discussed buying a program that would clean the county-issue hard drive of his private information. Gricar was retiring at the end of 2005 and spoke to Fornicola of returning a clean computer back to the county, Madeira said. "She remembers Ray looking at it in a store. She believes she saw it at the house, but it wasn't there when police began looking for Ray," Madeira said. "There was no evidence of where it went, whether or not it was ever used."