I've been reading a lot today. Went back and read a whole lot of the original articles, the anniversary articles, etc.
A couple of things:
1.) The female assistant DA (Arnold?) says that Ray was absolutely not himself and she thought something was greatly bothering him for at least a week prior to his disappearance. Yet the male assistant DA (White?) supposedly said he seemed perfectly normal during that time.
Yet the Bellefonte Police investigator never interviewed Ray's male friends. I mean a year and two years later, his friends said they still had never even been interviewed. Strange?
2.) The Bellefonte Police Dept. (hereafter the BPD) at the time had only one Detective. He was NOT assigned to be the lead investigator on the case. Rather a departmental Officer was assigned as lead. Strange?
3.) Numerous attempts by Ray's friends (the most vocal of whom was the District Attorney of another county) and family members to have the investigation transferred to the State Attorney General's office were rebuffed by then Attorney General and now Governor Corbett.
Fact: Corbett, as Attorney General, had a Drug Task Force office in - wait for it - State College, PA. According to the friend who was a fellow DA (Buehler?) Gricar would sometimes need to meet with Corbett at that office. Also according to the same DA friend Gricar and Corbett "were not friends".
Could this in fact be some huge, awful pedophile/child
ring? Two weeks ago I would have said no way. But it is now two weeks later.
I say let the chips fall where they may. I hope the media stays on this and wrings every single horrendous perpetrator out into the open. And I wish that every single victim would come forward and talk to that Lawyer who is handling the cases for the currently known victims. That's how the victims outed the pedophile priests, and that's how these victims can take back their lives.
Last but not least: Regarding the computer. Ray's girlfriend told police early on that he had talked about purchasing a program called "Window Washer" in order to clean the hard drive of a computer to be returned to the county. She said they had been using a county owned laptop at home to surf the net and he wanted to clean the hard drive. Police found the empty box for the program, which he had purchased in 2004. And, they purchased their own laptop.
That is a really good and prudent idea to clean the hard drive before returning a computer in that circumstance. Or before donating a computer to charity. Or giving it to anyone.
An alternate explanation for the searches found about crashing a hard drive and what water will do to a hard drive: I knocked a full glass of wine onto the keyboard of my laptop (don't ask) once. I turned it off and upside down, dried it, etc. Nothing. The next thing I did was go onto the old desktop and google search "water on keyboard" "water in laptop" "crashed hard drive", etc.
Don't know if this would fit into any scenario, but I just wanted to throw that in.
