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Professional burglars target N. Shore: Cops Group called organized began spree in NHP, W.P. BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO A series of burglaries that have taken place throughout the North Shore in the last year were likely conducted by an “organized, professional, meticulous” group of career criminals, said Sean McCarthy, inspector of the Nassau County Police Department’s 3rd Precinct, last Wednesday. McCarthy told a forum of about 200 people at Clinton G. Martin Park that the department is investigating several possible suspects, but said he could not disclose how many
people are being investigated, or detail how police have narrowed their search, due to the ongoing investigation. He said two arrests were made in June and November 2014 that led to brief lulls in the frequency of burglaries, which began in New Hyde Park and Williston Park early last year but picked up again in the Munsey Park and Flower Hill once police increased patrols in the southern portions of the precinct. Since the start of the year, there have been 19 burglaries - 15 in January, three in February and one through March
11 - that McCarthy said fit the pattern of incidents being investigated, through which burglars dressed as utility workers patrol a neighborhood and enter unoccupied homes. “It has slowed down a great deal, but it hasn’t gone away completely,” McCarthy said, attributing the slowdown to heavy snowfall during the winter. “...Sometimes, mother nature is our greatest ally.” The community forum was organized by the Town of North Hempstead and attended by members of the Port Washington Police DepartContinued on Page 57
A film, murder, confession with New Hyde Park roots Durst’s wife Kathleen McCormack raised in NHP PHOTO BY ADAM LIDGETT
Members of the New York Islanders visited children at Cohen Children’s Medical Center last week. See story on Page 3.
BY JA M ES G A L L O W AY The HBO true-crime series “The Jinx” ended Sunday with a quiet, bone-chilling mutter from real-estate scion Robert Durst: “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.” And while that may explain the end of Kathleen McCor-
mack, Durst’s long-missing first wife, her story begins in New Hyde Park. McCormack, a graduate of New Hyde Park Memorial High School, disappeared in 1982 at the age of 29. In 2001, she was declared legally dead. Durst, the son of a billionaire real-estate magnate, has long been suspected in her
disappearance as well as in the execution-style shooting of his close friend Susan Berman. Years later, Durst also admitted to shooting and dismembering a neighbor in Texas, though he was acquitted following a high profile trial in which Durst’s attorneys argued he had shot the neighbor in self defense and Continued on Page 56
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