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: {(Continoed From. “Page » Fwith them on DeMars’ regular Erie-Lackawanns } commuter train, They walked inp and down the tracks in heither direction of the ‘Lyndhurst station where + DeMars was first thought to “have Ieft the train, In ad- : dition, the Knights arranged :* for a helicopter to scour the _ Hackensack mesdowlands at tow altitude. -- “The Knights didn’: stop ’ there. They carried the leafiet cl fo the streets of three . boroughs in New York City. : They checked the Bronx, - Brooklyn, Greenwich Village, -z, Chinatown, even the Bowery . for any sign of DeMars at ail. Nutley’s psychic housewife - tried to help the investigation . in her own way. When first _ contacted by DeMars wife . +; Elaine and mother Mrs. Alice ”. DeMars, Mrs. Allison turned ~ her powers over to the matter "” and soon came to the conciu- ' . sion DeMars was dead. = : returned from a day of * friitiess searching, Nutley . Police Sergeant Don Vicaro, : - “uwho has worked with Mrs. . ° Allison on many previous oc- "+ gasions, suddenly asked Mrs. - : Allison, “Where is John : * DeMars?’ Something clicked ! ‘in Dorothy's mind and! suddenly she saw a river, a! -row of tires. an ice pond. an‘ amusement and the number * - 166. “The area smelied fike fish.” she recalled Friday. _ Mes. Marie Marucki, a. - friend of Mrs. Allison's, and ; “ Knight Frank Ventura both ; fe sty a the area described was ‘the Passaic. Fhe psychic’s ‘information hardly came as news to the . Nutley Police. From the out- : set of the investigation, the & | Passaic river seemed 2 logical ! yiplace to look for DeMars, “; Less than a week after his dis- . appearance, Detective ; “Sergeant LeRoy | anDerWende was cut sscuc and Emergency ote ett ae ead whee gee ¥. |The Search fo On January 3), baving just . thought of the Passaic River . “upon hearing the description. ; ?' Despite her past unfamiliarity : -wih specific geographical ; tions, Mrs. Allison also “ph Shine eee, also took a tum on the river at. this early point of the inquiry. “We kept returning to the Passaic in between other keads", Lubertazzi said. The first Police search of the river was conducted assuming DeMers had ordered the train stopped outside Lyndhurst. Police learned the man who got off got right back on again and turned their attention toward a check of the New York City morgue and Chemical Bank accounts so which DeMars might have had access. Chemical Bank told Police a check might take months. Meanwhile, John Mitler, 2 Nutley resident who was on the December 20 afternoon train, told Nutley Police the train had actually stopped on i 2s ce PL oo Fee TE eae Seth ae “Bae ee ir RN ee RE: te : ‘Thursday, March 6, 1975 ° er “3 Sars r Fohn ‘DeMe ars - “be Ripe. the ‘tressle over the Passaic river, The Knights soon found the area which fit the one Mrs. Allison described but could find no body, The place was on the Kearny side of the Passaic near the Two Guys store. The amusement arca turned out to be an archery range while the row of tires was found attached to # nearby cyclone fence used as a backstop for sleigh-riders in the winter. These were located approximately $0 yards away from the riverbank - the bank from which DeMars’ floating body was first spotted. The umber [66 was found on the side of 2 river barge moored three or four miles away near the Erie-Lackawanna railroad trestic. Mrs. Alison didn’ t expect 4a. Tote Ses: oe to -~ * Se : - the kuemscntd ofthis area ~ -untif the 2ist, © ° a — eae oki ne ad Te Ney Sin eae? o- would reves] anything the first time. She had designated February 21 as the day DeMars body would be found and was naturally not surpris- ed that although the Knights | ~ readily found the area she described, they found no body. Bob Herb, a Bergen Coun: ty Police Detective who is . working with the psychic on an unrelated case, and Mrs. Marucki both said they femember Mrs, Allison say- ing the body would be found February 2t. In addition, William Callanan, Director of the Nutley Department of - Consumer Protection told the Sun he met Mrs. Allison by chance and heard her say DeMars wouldn't be found TORE TRE A Ter em