Imagine the work load for the DA in that particular area. It seems the almost 50,000 students enrolled at Penn State may burden the court's calendar.
The female manager at the Cecil Hotel wasn't bothered by the 80+ deaths that occurred during her employment there.
JJ published a list of multiple occasions that depict Gricar's odd behavior beginning on March 8, 2005. When I first read the incidents, I wondered if Ray may have suffered a stroke or had early onset Dementia.
Mr. Gricar wasn't alert, appeared unfocused and agitated. He stared out the window. He mumbled responses and was uable to answer simple questions adequately. He was sleeping more than usual. I also recall reading he lost his last court trial on a manslaughter charge.
Ray may have had an undiagnosed illness such as Lewy Body Dementia. My sister is in her 50s and has each of those symptoms+. She was placed in an assisted living facility in January due to Lewy Body. It's the brain disease Robin Williams also suffered. Special tests are required for a LBD diagnosis. Ray wouldn't see a Dr when Patty urged him to do so.
It seems whatever was wrong, Ray's condition was deteriorating. Why would this brilliant man need a printed copy of a map of Lewisburg?
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PA - PA - Ray Gricar, 59, Bellefonte, 15 April 2005 - #15
His medical records were opened and gone over carefully. No abnormalities were noted.
I'm really sorry about your sister, but as both an RN and a Behavioral Psychologist, I believe you are projecting symptoms and diseases onto Ray Gricar that didn't exist.
Let me rebut your argument a bit here.
Let's start with work. We are told he'd been a bit withdrawn, but if one of us was making plans to leave everyone behind, we likely would " withdraw" from them emotionally before we actually left them.
He left NO body of work for his successor to have to pick up, rummage through and try to make sense of. He was orderly, meticulously so, and disorganization is one of the first signs of a degeneration of a personality and disordered thinking.
He did not change ANYTHING in his routine. He went to a place he was known to go to shop for small antique toys.
He was not reported to be unshaven, sloppily dressed, with less than groomed hair and a sparkling clean car, which was a very long habit of his. His car was spotless inside and out. His belongings were secured properly. ( The exception is the small ash believed to be cigarette ash, and which we can't source. He could have tracked it on his own shoe from the parking lot. Used the passenger door to place his cell phone inside, for example. It would be slightly easier to place from passenger's side than driver's side ( steering wheel and gear shift).
Lastly, he called Patty to tell her he would not be home at lunch to take Honey,the elderly cocker spaniel, out. That's a VERY CARING and THOUGHTFUL thing to do. As a dog owner and lover of dogs since birth, it means a lot to me that he didn't neglect their dog that day, which was full of decisions and emotions arising from those decisions.
These are not the signs or symptoms of someone with an undiagnosed neurological disorder.
Also, in the video we have of him walking from his parking spot across the parking lot and into the courthouse, he was very normally agile, his gait was perfectly normal, and he was ALERT to the environment, turning at one point to look at a Jeep speeding out of the employee's parking lot.
He had zero problems navigating the stairs, almost sprinting upstairs. This was a man in good health, in my professional opinion.
I think all of us have considered degenerative diseases as a reason to run, or to be confused and disoriented, ( J and I did 3 pages back) but he drove exactly to the place he was known to like in Lewisburg. Obviously, since the map was in his office trash and he was long gone, he didn't need the map himself. He was probably giving the best route, or maybe a particular hotel address to a 3rd party. The unknown helper.
Another thing: IF he needed to print out a map to get to Lewisburg, then why didn't he need to have the map close at hand if he was that impaired?
I'm sorry but the facts we are as certain as we can be of without being there do not fit your suppositions.
Also, the thing about being possibly depressed: The family and Ray's friends were trying VERY HARD at that time to GET his medical records and any Psych Records released to the next of kin. Probable cause is needed to release such documents. Most of us believe at least part of the symptoms of tiredness and possibly illness were manufactured to create PROBABLE CAUSE to have an examination of all his medical records.
I find this to be a smart strategy on their parts, actually. I'd do it if I needed to for my DH, but not for anyone else. ( I have DH's POA and so forth already but this was not true for Ray Gricar).
They looked long and hard for a physical or psychogenic cause for his decision to leave in a most orderly and covert way and NONE was found. NOTHING was out of order, NONE of his work or his personal life had a red arrow over it. He was a very stable man from all accounts of friends and co-workers.
He was a consummate professional and intellectual man up until last known conversation and sighting of Ray F. Gricar.
His name should not be sullied with unsubstantiated rumors that he had the devastating Lewy Body Dementia. It's VERY obvious they are extremely ill. I've studied the disease in Neuroscience. People are paranoid very early on, and do very unusual things before they are able to be diagnosed.
NONE of that applied to the visage and mental acuity of Ray Gricar in April, 2005, or prior. Just no evidence at all that he had a neurodegenerative disease, respectfully.
