their Manhattan apartment by telephone later that evening. Durst later admitted he just went home and went to bed. "That's what I told police," Durst later stated. "I was hoping that would just make everything go away." After McCormack had left Najamy's house, the two women were supposed to meet at a pub called The Lion's Gate in Manhattan. When she failed to appear, Najamy became concerned and repeatedly called the police for several days. Later that week, Durst reported his wife missing. Both a doorman and the building superintendent at the couple's apartment on Riverside Drive claimed to have seen McCormack there on February 1, the day after she was last indisputably seen, but the doorman also said that he had seen her only from behind and from half a block away, and thus could not be certain that it was her. A private investigator, hired by Durst's own criminal lawyer, later reported that the doorman said he had not seen McCormack arrive at all, and may not have been working the night she disappeared. Only three weeks after Durst reported McCormack missing, the superintendent at the Riverside Drive apartment found her possessions in the building's trash compactor. McCormack had been treated at the Bronx's Jacobi Medical Center for facial bruises three weeks before her disappearance. She told a friend that Durst beat her, but did not press charges over the incident. McCormack asked Durst for a $250,000 divorce settlement. Instead, he cancelled his wife's credit card, removed her name from a joint bank account and refused to pay her medical school tuition. When McCormack disappeared, Durst had been dating Prudence Farrow for three years and was living in a separate apartment. Durst initially offered $100,000 for his wife's return, then reduced the reward to $15,000. When one of McCormack's friends and her sister found out that she had been reported missing, they broke into her cottage, hoping to find her. Instead, they found the cottage ransacked, McCormack's mail left unopened, and her belongings in the trash. Investigation and aftermath After McCormack's disappearance, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) said that Durst had claimed to have last spoken to her when she called him from the Riverside Drive apartment. Durst claimed that the last time he had seen her was at Katonah station, where she was planning to board a 9:15pm train to Manhattan. He also claimed that