If the DA is dead, then I don't think there is any way that it would be due to this scandal. My theory is that Penn State paid off the police department/DA, and after they dropped the charges, he fled the country.
Here is the official statement from the police chief after the investigation of his disappearance.
""We LITERALLY used every single resource, national and international," Bellefonte, Pa., police chief Shawn Weaver told ABC News today. "This is baffling. He LITERALLY just disappeared off the face of the earth."
Is it possible that they didn't do much investigating because they knew that he fled the country with Penn State funding the whole thing?
It gets deep, and is definitely a stretch, but for him to drop the charges with an admission of guilt from Sandusky, Penn State had to be paying him off in some sense.
The details on all of this will be very interesting.