Famous Cases
The Nassau County Police have investigated a number of nationally well-known crimes and incidents, including the hunt for The Honeymoon Killers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck in the late 1940s, the Weinberger kidnapping of 1956 (on which the 2002 Robert De Niro film City by the Sea was very loosely based), the crash of Avianca Flight 52 in Cove Neck in 1990, the Joey Buttafuoco/Amy Fisher imbroglio, and the shootings committed aboard a Long Island Rail Road commuter train by Colin Ferguson in 1993. Among the NCPD's few large-scale, high-profile security events have been the 1998 Goodwill Games, which took place largely in Nassau County, and the third 2008 presidential debate, which took place at Hofstra University in Hempstead. Nassau officers also participated in the recovery effort at the World Trade Center site in September 2001.
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