I was preparing a piece I was going to call, "In Defense of Joe Pa." Hell, I was thinking of writing an entire book. My first take on the Freeh report, the independant investigation of the PSU scandal, was that it was a smear piece. As a writer it's easy to see that the author of the Freeh report was trying to sway the reader's opinion using inflamatory langauge and biased conclusions. A truly un-biased writer would never have used the wording the author of the Freeh report used. It was a hit piece. The story outlined in the report was bought and paid for by the university to hang responsibility around the cold dead neck of Joe Paterno. Why not? There's nothing you can do to hurt him now. The notion that the victim's will be able to sue the Paterno estate is completly flawed. The level of involvment and culpability nessacary to win a civil judgment against the Paterno estate will never be reached. The victims would have to prove that Joe knew his actions would lead directly to them being abused. Let me note here, I am all for the victims. I hope they get the monetary compensation they deserve. The only thing that is unsettling to me is that other child abuse victims are not able to sue their attackers with such financial benefit. In that sense, they are fortunate that they can transform this horrible thing that happened to them into a financial windfall-deserved windfall. Most victims of child abuse cannot recieve this compensation because their attackers are not of the means PSU is.
I wanted to point out that the 1998 incident was THOUROUGHLY investigated. There was absoloutley zero attempt by Joe Pa', the university, Curley, Schultz, or Spanier to influence or obstruct the police investigation. The cover up the Freeh report speaks elludes to simply isn't there. What is there are detectives hiding in the victim's house, so as to listen to conversations between Jerry sandunsky and the vic's mother. The police actually imloyed this technique twice. The police pursued the matter right into the wieght room of PSU. I wanted to point out how after the D.A. of Centre county failed to bring charges against J.S., PSU banned J.S. from bringing his guests onto university property in 2001. However, I have run into a problem, Actually, I have came across information that scrambles my brain like an egg. When I read it I felt like I had been witness to an event that rock's ones sense of the universe to the core. Maybe you won't be, but I was. I kept coming back to one question. Who was the D.A. who decided to not file charges against J.S. in 1998, and why did he decide that?
His name, the D.A. who wouldn't bring charges, is Ray Gricar. He's been missing since April 15th, 2005. Yea, let me repeat that. RAY GRICAR, D.A. OF CENTRE COUNTY PA, HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE 2005. He's not simply missing, he's missing under very, very, strange circumstances. Ray Gricar's car was found close to a bridge where his brother took his own life. While Ray was never found his laptop was. Minus the hard drive of course. They did find the hard drive two months later. The forensic tech's that were able to extract information from the hard drive of a computer aboard the space shuttle discovery, were unable to extract anything from Ray's. Granted it had spent a couple months in the river, they could find nothing. What investigators did find were internet searches on Gricar's home computer titled, "How to fry a hard drive."
I wanted nothing more than to believe that the myth of Joe Pa was true. A straight shooter who would have beat the living $#!T out of a child molester. But the revalation that the principle investigator into the 1998 incident is missing is the straw that breaks the camel's back. There is a saying that breathes truth every time it's said. If it walk's like a duck and talk's like a duck, it's a duck. If it looks like a conspiracy to conceal, smells like it, talk's, walk's, and shit's like a conspiracy, well................
