‘Greatest magic trick’: Secrets of Camas safecracker revealed in new book

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Before he started drilling through the 3-ton door of the super-secure music vault at Paisley Park, the estate of the late rock star Prince, Dave McOmie pulled out his cellphone and played a round of Words With Friends with his wife.

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The point of a little recreation at that tense moment wasn’t bravado in front of the cameras, lawyers and federal agents watching McOmie’s every move — not to mention the countless mourning Prince fans outside the estate gates and all around the world. It was just the opposite: McOmie was clearing his head, both of stress and of any casual carelessness that might have accrued after successfully opening upward of 10,000 locked safes and vaults in a decadeslong career.

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