J. J. in Phila
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Your point about PEF is correct. I could not imagine RFG going to another state for a week or more, on his birthday, and PEF staying in Bellefonte. We don't even have any indication that Freeh and RFG were in the same town at the same time.
The issue with Corbett was his closeness to the Centre County DA at the time, Madera. Madera had been a deputy AG under Corbett and strongly supported him; Madera was a member of the GOP state committee and, as such, had some clout. It was a situation where Madera could have asked Corbett for a favor, or vice versa.
RFG, however, had been critical of Corbett when Corbett was head of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. The position looks good on a resume, but is not a particularity powerful one. He complained that Corbett, then a defense attorney, was representing a client that Gricar was prosecuting. It was not RFG's best moment and it created some animosity.
Corbett didn't take the case, but neither did his appointed successor, Kelly, or his elected successor, Kane. Madera did not send the case to the AG's Office, but neither did the acting DA before him, Smith, or his elected successor, Parks Miller. Parks Miller did send it to the PSP.
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I was astounded by her " theory" that Gricar met up with Freeh in Vermont as they both vacationed.
Your point about PEF is correct. I could not imagine RFG going to another state for a week or more, on his birthday, and PEF staying in Bellefonte. We don't even have any indication that Freeh and RFG were in the same town at the same time.
I wish I'd made a bet that she'd shoot arrows at Tom Corbett, too. I remember when the early sentiment ran so high against Corbett in this case and its discussion. It was hard to shove past Tom Corbett's huge shadow to discuss practical theories related to the case. I wonder now, all these years later, why Corbett was the very early scapegoat and boogeyman. NOT that I want to get anti-Corbett sentiment stirred up again- never would I wish that upon this cleaned up case discussion again.
Barely an intro to the series and BAM, we're already into " Corbett failed to investigate Gricar's disappearance".
Is Corbett the most hated man to come out of PA's executive branch of government in our lifetimes, or was their a direct and focused enmity between Corbett and Gricar specifically? ( I know about the televised press conference where Gricar looks so upset as Corbett is talking but don't recall the specifics of the reason for that occasion's bad atmosphere).
The issue with Corbett was his closeness to the Centre County DA at the time, Madera. Madera had been a deputy AG under Corbett and strongly supported him; Madera was a member of the GOP state committee and, as such, had some clout. It was a situation where Madera could have asked Corbett for a favor, or vice versa.
RFG, however, had been critical of Corbett when Corbett was head of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. The position looks good on a resume, but is not a particularity powerful one. He complained that Corbett, then a defense attorney, was representing a client that Gricar was prosecuting. It was not RFG's best moment and it created some animosity.
Corbett didn't take the case, but neither did his appointed successor, Kelly, or his elected successor, Kane. Madera did not send the case to the AG's Office, but neither did the acting DA before him, Smith, or his elected successor, Parks Miller. Parks Miller did send it to the PSP.
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