00:00April 15, 2005. One of Pennsylvania's toughest prosecutors drives off into the countryside
00:07and never comes home. The river would give up a clue so strange, investigators still
00:14cannot explain it. His name was Ray Gricker. For 18 years, he was the district attorney
00:21of Central County, Pennsylvania. Colleagues called him fearless. He had put dangerous
00:27men behind bars. That Friday afternoon, he called his girlfriend and said he was taking
00:34a drive through the back roads. Nothing unusual. Then his phone went silent. And he never returned.
00:42The next day, police found his car parked near a bridge in Lewisburg, 60 miles from home. His
00:50phone was inside. His keys were inside. There was no sign of a struggle and no trace of Ray.
00:58Weeks later, divers pulled his county laptop from the Susquehanna River. The hard drive had been
01:05removed. When the drive itself was found, river water had destroyed it beyond recovery.
01:12Then came the twist nobody saw coming. Nine years earlier, Ray's older brother had also vanished.
01:20His body was later found in an Ohio river. Two brothers, two rivers. Both gone. Search teams combed the air,
01:31the ground, and the riverbed. Dogs, helicopters, sonar boats. They found nothing. It was as if Ray Gricker had
01:41stepped off the face of the earth. Some believe he took his own life. The damaged laptop suggests a man
01:49destroying his own secrets. But he left no note, and his family says that was not the Ray they knew.
01:57Others believe someone silenced him. Payback from the dangerous men he had prosecuted. Investigators
02:05chased that lead hard. They found no evidence. No suspect. Nothing. In 2011, he was declared legally dead.
02:16The case stays open, and the river keeps its secret, because whatever was on that hard drive
02:22is gone forever.
