On Friday night, Dec. 16, at 10ET/9CT, “Dateline” NBC featured ‘The Case of the Missing D.A.’ The program included an interview with a Pennsylvania medical examiner who offered his theory of how the suspected murder of district attorney Ray Gricar could be linked to the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse investigation at Penn State University.

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Behind the scenes with Lester Holt (NBC “Dateline,” Dec. 15, 2011) — Dateline NBC’s Lester Holt gives a personal behind the scenes preview of the Dateline report ‘The Case of the Missing D.A.’ which aired Friday, December 16, at 10 p.m. / 9 CT (00:33)

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‘The Case of the Missing D.A.’

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Was DA investigating Sandusky murdered? (NBC “Today,” Dec. 16, 2011) — On April 15, 2005 Ray Gricar, the district attorney who was investigating the first known child-sex abuse allegation against Jerry Sandusky, mysteriously vanished. His car was later found abandoned and his laptop fished out of a river. NBC’s Lester Holt reports. (03:45)

Dateline NBC
December 15, 2011

Disturbing news out of Penn State put a cold case back in the spotlight. A decade ago, in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, a tiny town just a few short miles away from the Penn State campus, the accusation that Coach Jerry Sandusky sexually abused a child, first came to the attention of Ray Gricar, the local district attorney.

Then, seven years ago Gricar went missing. Investigators uncovered his laptop but the hard drive was unreadable. The question being asked now is – could there be a link between Gricar’s disappearance and the Sandusky scandal? Lester Holt reports.

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The Case of the Missing D.A., Part 6 (NBC “Dateline,” Dec. 16, 2011) — Pittsburgh forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht offers his theory about a possible link between Ray Gricar’s disappearance and the Sandusky scandal. (08:28)

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