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True Crime Bullsh**

The NAMUS-45: Ray Gricar

True Crime Bullsh**

Studio BOTH/AND

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A Pennsylvania district attorney goes missing while out on a scenic drive. His car is quickly recovered, but little-to-no evidence and plenty of theories and conjecture convolute a case full of strange coincidences.

Season 6 of True Crime Bullsh** will premiere in March.

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This episode was written and researched by Michelle Tooker.
It was edited, produced, and host by Josh Hallmark. This is a Studio BOTH/AND production: truecrimebullshit.com / bothand.fyi
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. And This is a studio both and production.

0:34.0

Before we start the show, I wanted to share some exciting news.

0:38.0

It's been almost a year since the last season of true crime bullshit.

0:42.0

And now, season six. since the last season of true crime bullshit.

0:43.0

And now, season six begins next month

0:46.6

with our continued investigation into Israel Keys. keys.

0:58.0

On April 15th of 2005, Ray Frank Greichar vanished from Western Pennsylvania, setting off an almost two decades long

1:08.7

mystery.

1:10.8

As you'll hear in this episode, significant questions and conjecture surround Grecar's case,

1:17.0

and this includes speculation that his disappearance is connected to one of the largest scandals in US higher education.

1:26.4

We were able to review select police files from the case thanks to research conducted by Rebecca

1:31.5

Knight,

1:32.5

host of the podcast Final Argument,

1:35.4

the disappearance of Ray Grecar.

1:38.8

Knight's mission with the podcast

1:40.5

is to see a statewide grand jury convene to investigate Ray's presumed murder.

1:46.0

And her podcast debunked some much discussed case details and misinformation.

1:52.4

Fair warning, however, that the show appears to be on a hiatus.

1:59.0

When he vanished, Ray Grecar was a well-respected district attorney of Center County, Pennsylvania, a position that he held since 1985.

2:08.0

The county that Grecar represented includes State College, which is home to the Pennsylvania State University, better known as Penn State. But more on that, later.

2:22.0

Shortly before he disappeared, Grecar had announced that he would not seek re-election,

2:27.0

effectively retiring after a 20-year career, come December of 2005. At the time, Grecar was living with his girlfriend of four years, Patty Fornacola, and their dog Honey.

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