AlwaysShocked
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Re: Ray's money
The relatively low $100,000 or so (slighly over but not much over, according to one of the original reports) was money that was in a JOINT account with his daughter.
The daughter was later asked if that was all the money Ray had and her reply was words to the effect of "that's personal information".
Being a person of a certain age - and I'm there - a prudent person will put SOME of their money into a joint account with a trusted child. Not ALL of it. The fact that there was $100,000 in a joint account would make me think there was much more somewhere else.
Ray was in relationships with working wives/paramours (what a word!) throughout his life. Combined income had to be fairly high throughout. So it is not like he would have been strapped just supporting the family on his income alone. Granted, he was likely paying for his daughter's college. But even that would not deplete a lifetime of work income.
I think there was more money in other accounts. The daughter would know this, since she was/is the trustee/administrator of his estate.
I wish the family members, friends, and loved ones would sit for an interview at this time and just "put it all out there". Every single thing they know.
Here is an article, written way back when, that has a lot of information about one of the original press conferences given in the case. Given today's perspective, it is quite some read:
http://www.yardbird.com/midnight_ride_another_missing_PA_prosecutor_2.htm
And here we arrived at what is a real problem from the outset of the Ray Gricar missing person investigation. I inquired about the very real possibility that Gricar may have been stalked by a vengeful supplier connected to the "million-and-a-half-dollar" heroin and cocaine ring Gricar had just helped shut down. Gricar's photograph, I pointed out, had been prominently displayed on a press release issued by the office of Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett. This observation, regrettably, made the family flinch. (Gricar had also missed a drug hearing the Monday following his weekend disappearance.) "They're looking into that," Chief Dixon said, addressing the possible connection with the drug case. Then, just as quickly, he amazingly dismissed this line of inquiry as a theory someone somewhere deemed not worthy of exhaustive exploration. Referring to decisions already made somewhere in Attorney General Corbett's office, Dixon said, for some reason "they don't think" the recent, "million-and-a-half-dollar" drug case involving alleged middleman Taji "Verbal" Lee had anything to do with DA Gricar's strange disappearance. Though Chief Dixon has jurisdiction in the missing person case, he was strangely ceding authority in this area to others.
'Everybody in town already knew what Ray looked like.' Gricar (l) pictured in drug bust press release, published on the net two weeks before his vanishing
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As for Gricar's photo on the internet press release, Chief Dixon all but dismissed any possible threat with a scoff, saying the photo was of no real concern because,"everybody in town already knew what Ray looked like." It apparently is not being considered that a heinous crime could have been committed by someone from outside of Happy Valley; say, perhaps, from New York, where billions of dollars in heroin yearly filters in from abroad.
Though Gricar's now-hapless-seeming face was pasted all over the advertisement in the marketplace, the case was being taken to the kitchen and prosecuted, after all, not by Gricar, Chief Dixon said, but by Senior Deputy Attorney General Michael T. Madeira. And so, Dixon concluded, "they" don't think Ray would be a target, and "they" had apparently ruled out a meticulous raking of the transcripts and questioning of those involved in the case for leads and clues to Ray Gricar's disappearance. It's unbelievable and, if he were most people's father, it would be wholly unacceptable. Things like that just didn't happen in Happy Valley, he might as well have said. Well wake up guys and smell the vinegar in the heroin; maybe now they do."
The relatively low $100,000 or so (slighly over but not much over, according to one of the original reports) was money that was in a JOINT account with his daughter.
The daughter was later asked if that was all the money Ray had and her reply was words to the effect of "that's personal information".
Being a person of a certain age - and I'm there - a prudent person will put SOME of their money into a joint account with a trusted child. Not ALL of it. The fact that there was $100,000 in a joint account would make me think there was much more somewhere else.
Ray was in relationships with working wives/paramours (what a word!) throughout his life. Combined income had to be fairly high throughout. So it is not like he would have been strapped just supporting the family on his income alone. Granted, he was likely paying for his daughter's college. But even that would not deplete a lifetime of work income.
I think there was more money in other accounts. The daughter would know this, since she was/is the trustee/administrator of his estate.
I wish the family members, friends, and loved ones would sit for an interview at this time and just "put it all out there". Every single thing they know.
Here is an article, written way back when, that has a lot of information about one of the original press conferences given in the case. Given today's perspective, it is quite some read:
http://www.yardbird.com/midnight_ride_another_missing_PA_prosecutor_2.htm
And here we arrived at what is a real problem from the outset of the Ray Gricar missing person investigation. I inquired about the very real possibility that Gricar may have been stalked by a vengeful supplier connected to the "million-and-a-half-dollar" heroin and cocaine ring Gricar had just helped shut down. Gricar's photograph, I pointed out, had been prominently displayed on a press release issued by the office of Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett. This observation, regrettably, made the family flinch. (Gricar had also missed a drug hearing the Monday following his weekend disappearance.) "They're looking into that," Chief Dixon said, addressing the possible connection with the drug case. Then, just as quickly, he amazingly dismissed this line of inquiry as a theory someone somewhere deemed not worthy of exhaustive exploration. Referring to decisions already made somewhere in Attorney General Corbett's office, Dixon said, for some reason "they don't think" the recent, "million-and-a-half-dollar" drug case involving alleged middleman Taji "Verbal" Lee had anything to do with DA Gricar's strange disappearance. Though Chief Dixon has jurisdiction in the missing person case, he was strangely ceding authority in this area to others.
'Everybody in town already knew what Ray looked like.' Gricar (l) pictured in drug bust press release, published on the net two weeks before his vanishing
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As for Gricar's photo on the internet press release, Chief Dixon all but dismissed any possible threat with a scoff, saying the photo was of no real concern because,"everybody in town already knew what Ray looked like." It apparently is not being considered that a heinous crime could have been committed by someone from outside of Happy Valley; say, perhaps, from New York, where billions of dollars in heroin yearly filters in from abroad.
Though Gricar's now-hapless-seeming face was pasted all over the advertisement in the marketplace, the case was being taken to the kitchen and prosecuted, after all, not by Gricar, Chief Dixon said, but by Senior Deputy Attorney General Michael T. Madeira. And so, Dixon concluded, "they" don't think Ray would be a target, and "they" had apparently ruled out a meticulous raking of the transcripts and questioning of those involved in the case for leads and clues to Ray Gricar's disappearance. It's unbelievable and, if he were most people's father, it would be wholly unacceptable. Things like that just didn't happen in Happy Valley, he might as well have said. Well wake up guys and smell the vinegar in the heroin; maybe now they do."
. Changed every aspect of my life except one-- I continued to wear contact lens. If I had been leaving covertly, chances are that something extremely mundane such as needing new contact lens might have alerted someone IF they were actively looking for me where I went.