Missing Port Jefferson Man Found Dead Upstate

By Timothy Bolger Posted on April 24, 2014

A 47-year-old Port Jefferson man was found dead in upstate New York a day after he was reported missing this week, Suffolk County police said.

Daniel Schechter was reported missing from his Cooper Court home on Tuesday and found dead on Slide Mountain in Shandaken on Wednesday, police said.

He had turned off his cell phone in the area of Woodstock several hours after he went missing, police had said when they issued a missing persons alert.

Authorities had said he was believed to be suicidal, but Suffolk police said New York State Police are now investigating.

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Timothy Bolger

Timothy Bolger is the Editor in Chief of the Long Island Press who’s been working to uncover unreported stories since shortly after it launched in 2003. When he’s not editing, getting hassled by The Man or fielding cold calls to the newsroom, he covers crime, general interest and political news in addition to reporting longer, sometimes investigative features. He won’t be happy until everyone is as pissed off as he is about how screwed up Lawn Guyland is.