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For Conor Makem, 'the day the music died'
Conor Makem (Courtesy photo)
DOVER, N.H. - For Conor Makem exactly one year ago today will always be the real "day the music died."
That was the day he was arrested on several counts of Invasion of Privacy for taking pictures of women in various stages of undress as they used a second-floor bathroom in Rochester's Merchants Plaza. He was also charged with felony destruction of physical evidence for making unusable the digital equipment used to snap the pictures.
Makem at the time was a part-time reporter for Foster's Daily Democrat and the Rochester Times and worked out of the newspapers' Rochester bureau inside Merchants Plaza a few feet from the women's bathroom where the images were taken. He was fired soon after his initial arrest.
Today, a year later, the world of Conor Makem continues to crumble. The Irish folk music band with which he formerly toured internationally no longer calls him one of their own. The Makem and Spain brothers website makes no mention of his arrest and conviction, only "Conor had taken a temporary leave of absence from touring to deal with a personal issue. That leave has now become permanent."
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ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A newspaper reporter was charged Thursday with hiding a camera in a women's bathroom at the building where he worked.
Rochester police said Conor Makem, 45, of Dover was charged with a felony count of falsifying evidence and 12 misdemeanor counts of invasion of privacy.
A woman discovered the camera on Oct. 7 on the second floor of Merchants' Plaza building, where several businesses are located. She showed it to Makem, who told her it wasn't a camera and then threw it away before police could examine it, police said.
Police later took his laptop, work computer and cell phone.
Makem, who worked part time for the Rochester Times, was held on $10,000 bail and is due back in court Friday. It could not immediately be learned if he had a lawyer.
Rodney Doherty, executive editor of Foster's Daily Democrat, which also publishes the Rochester Times, said the paper will continue to cooperate with police.
Makem was fired.
"We're extremely disappointed in the situation," Doherty said. "It's difficult to understand. We, as you know, in the news business, we read and hear all the time that neighbors and friends are shocked at what went on. We'll just wait and see. There's still a lot of investigation to do."
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