Friday, April 28, 2006

4/28/06 (PMP) The Bitter End, Part II

......continued from yesterday.

Julie sounded like a pleasant, but yet firm-sounding woman. I wasn't going to be rude to her, but I also wasn't going to give her information freely, and nor was I going to feed into her guesses by giving any reaction whatsoever to anything she said. After all, she claimed to be a psychic who could communicate with the dead and see things the rest of us couldn't. She shouldn't need any validation from me.

I'm going to spell this out for our friends with Christian beliefs. If a person claims to communicate with the dead, and makes clear indication that the dead are not evil spirits, then the dead being communicated with must be in Heaven and/or be of God. Anyone in Heaven is not going to lie or deceive. Therefore, if a spirit lies or provides incorrect information, one of two things is happening:

1) The spirit is evil.
2) The psychic is either under delusions or knows he/she is a fraud.

Beings in Heaven do not lie or deceive, so then who is being deceptive? Ask yourself that question if you are a Christian.

The rest of this tale could be easily summarized in two words: lies and deception. I will however, continue on, because there are other lessons to be learned from the story.

I took some notes as Julie was talking. I used those notes to report anything specific to law enforcement (LE) as I had promised Jane. That way, if was there was an actual lead, they wouldn't have to wait for the tape to follow up on it.

Like all of the other psychics, Julie claimed that Jason was dead. Her story is as follows:

Jason was walking along a 2 lane highway that was not a great distance from home. It was a fairly busy highway. Julie insisted it was Highway 27. That was the first deception. There is no Highway 27 anywhere near our home, period.

A girl who called herself Vanessa was driving down the highway, and accidentally hit Jason. She was scared and had no intention of calling anyone about it because she had just been released from jail, where she had been held on drug charges. She was afraid no one would believe her that it was an accident. She has also started a new job as a stripper at a nearby club, and she didn't want to lose her job. Julie described Vanessa as being fairly short and petite, with stringy dishwater blonde hair.

Julie said that Vanessa pulled Jason down into the ditch and put him in a drainage pipe that was at the bottom of this ditch. There are two major holes in this part of the story. One is that on such a busy highway, as Julie had already described, someone would have witnessed the accident itself, or at least seen Vanessa dragging him down into the ditch. Secondly, Vanessa was not a large person, so it's hard to believe she could have quickly and easily drug Jason into the ditch before someone saw her. I asked Julie about it, and she said that Vanessa had adrenalin flowing, so she was able to accomplish this.

In Julie's story, Jason was still alive at that point. His injuries, if treated, were not fatal. Untreated, however, was a different story. Julie described him as fading in and out of consciousness. She said he did not have the strength to speak, and that he could only move his lips. Vanessa put his body in the drainage pipe, but could not slide him all the way in, so his legs were left protruding. Vanessa then fled the scene of her crime.

Another gaping hole in the story here is that the ditches by public highways here are mowed several times in the summer. His disappearance was on June 13th, so the growing season was in full swing, but had months to go. The ditch would be mowed many more times. If Jason's legs were protruding, as she stated, the mowers would have spotted him. They have to keep the ditches cleaned out as well, so even if one mower missed seeing him, persons cleaning litter from the ditch and the pipe would have discovered him. I verified this fact with my LE. Had Julie altered her story to instead have his body left in a remote location, it could happen that he would not be discovered for years, but on a public highway, this would simply not be possible. (Our ditches are not that deep here.)

Julie then launched into what I'll term as a "deflection". She provides a great amount of detail about things that simply do not matter. For people who are sucked into this type of thing, they would most likely be making strong declarations of belief and awe at Julie's abilities at this point. There were three different times during the reading in which she did this. One must ask themselves how she can "see" all the great detail when it comes to the part of the story that doesn't provide a valid lead or anything of substance, but when it's time to provide helpful data, none is available. The spirits then stop delivering. Psychics will make all sorts of excuses about this. At the end of this reading, Julie would make an excuse for this that was perhaps even more unforgivable than her hideous deception itself.

She then launched into at least a 45-60 minute monologue about how, coincidentally, a police officer came upon the scene after Vanessa left, but when Jason was still alive. According to Julie, the officer stopped to get out of his vehicle and stretch his legs. He was completely unaware that anything unusual had just recently occurred. She described the officer in great detail, and even provided what she thought was his name. Julie spent at least 20 minutes talking about the officer's angel pin, which he wore on his lapel. She told the story about who gave it to him, and why, and how it had so much meaning to him. I wondered why it mattered so much about his pin. It didn't, of course. It was just part of the deceit. Julie wanted to give me the perception that she truly could "see" things. My perception was that I could indeed "see" things, and what I could "see" was right through her made-up story.

And in yet another error for Julie, she was quite firm in that the officer drove a green and white car. In my research, I found green and white LE cars in some areas of the southeast. Julie didn't bother to check and see what colors are common for LE vehicles in this region. They aren't green and white. Even the forestry division does not have green and white cars. (Jane insisted that they must in some effort to validate Julie's story after the fact.) My LE verified that there are no green and white LE cars of any sort in this entire region. He also could not find an officer with the name Julie provided. Julie had indicated these events took place nearby. The story, quite apparently, was only inside her head.

Even so, hearing what she said next took my breath away. No matter how many times I had heard these sorts of stories and that in my heart, I knew they were meaningless; it still causes so much pain. The visual placed in your head by the telling of the hard tale never goes away. Thinking and realizing that my son could have had some awful fate, even though it wasn't this one, is just too much for a mother's heart to have to bear. I shouldn't have to bear it. No one should purposely ask me to bear it. That is, no one who has a heart (and morals) themselves.

To be continued.................



We understand that many people believe that psychics are effective in solving crimes and finding missing people. Please keep in mind that the goal of this series is to help families understand techniques used by persons making these claims and make better decisions about the use of psychics.

Project Jason and its volunteers cannot act as a clearinghouse for persons claiming success in using paranormal means to locate missing persons. We will be unable to respond to emails or other correspondence sent to us from persons making these claims or persons offering information about or referrals to psychics.

We instead invite those persons to present their evidence to the members of the James Randi Education Foundation. They have a forum available for you to discuss your claims. http://forums.randi.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7

Jump to the next story in the series:
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2006/05/5106-pmp-bitter-end-conclusion.html

Thursday, April 27, 2006

4/27/06 (PMP) The Bitter End, Part I

Just when I thought I was safe from offers to use a psychic in the search for my missing son, along came an insistent request from where I least expected it: a family member.

Most of the family knew our position on using psychics, which came into being from our previous experiences and that of other families we assisted in our work with Project Jason.

To summarize, we do not say that it is impossible for a person to truly have psychic abilities, but the evidence points in the opposite direction, regardless of what they claim. There simply is no evidence that using paranormal means ever solved a missing person’s case. On the other hand, there is a multitude of evidence that psychics’ claims are nothing more than their own wishful thinking or even delusions. Psychics should never involve a missing person’s family in their guess generation. If they truly believe they possess valuable information about a missing person, they should notify the law enforcement in charge of the case.

I was shocked when the relative mentioned above called me about a psychic she’d heard about. I will call this relative Jane, so as not to harm family relations. Another relative was also involved, and I will call her Ann.

Jane told me a story about how a friend of Ann’s was a psychic, but she did not know it when they first met. Ann, her friend, and the psychic, Julie, went out to dinner. The story goes that Julie knew something about Ann’s daughter that no one else could have possibly known. Ann told Julie the fact that she had a missing relative, and she asked if Julie ever did readings for missing person’s cases. Julie in fact, claimed to assist her local police in solving numerous cases. She offered to do a reading for Jason for a discount. ($50) Ann called Jane soon after the dinner, to relay the news about Julie’s offer.

Jane called me, and approached the issue carefully. I told her that I was not going to listen to any more of these frauds’ tales. She begged me, telling me that as Jason’s relative, she felt she had to do something to help find him, and that she could not pass up this opportunity. I did everything I could to dissuade her, and reminded her of the great pain these stories, conjured up by psychics, caused. I reminded her that no psychic has ever solved a missing person’s case by use of paranormal means. Jane was quite convinced that Julie was the real thing. I told her to do the reading with Julie, but she insisted it had to be with me. She promised me that she would only ask me this one time.

I only relented to keep relationships intact. I did not want to do this. Ever fiber of my being shouted “NO”! I tried to think of a positive outcome, in that Jane might finally realize that she had been duped, not just by Julie, but by all of the psychics on TV that she was so enamored of. I told Jane there would be no second chances, and that even if the most famous psychic in the world offered a reading after that point, I would not do it. I asked her to think carefully about that, but she wanted to proceed.

Julie and Ann lived in northern Kentucky, near Ohio. All of the communications prior to the reading took place between Ann, Jane, and Julie. Jane asked me for some possessions of Jason’s. I was to ship these to Jane, who would in turn, ship them to Ann. I did not choose Jason’s most favorite things, just in case I was to never receive them back.

I asked Jane if Ann had told Julie Jason’s full name. I told her to be sure to tell Ann NOT to tell Julie anything about Jason, including where we live, or his last name. At first she did not, but then I heard she did later on, in plenty of time for Julie to do case research before the reading. Why she did this, I do not know. I can only assume that Julie asked Ann, and Ann complied. I was not very happy. If Julie was truly psychic, and she only needed a few possessions for the reading, as far as I was concerned, that was all she should get.

The items were sent and received and the date for the reading was set up. It was on a weekday evening. Ann was to meet at Julie’s home and initiate 2 phone calls. I never knew why she could not set up a regular conference call. We had Julie on one phone with me and on another phone with Jane. I would not be able to hear what Jane said.

Ann’s job was to take notes about the reading. As a part of the discounted $50 fee, I would receive the notes Ann took, plus a tape recording of the session.

I hoped that the reading would get over quickly. I had no more time to dwell on my anxieties about it, because just then, the phone rang, startling me.

To be continued…………..

We understand that many people believe that psychics are effective in solving crimes and finding missing people. Please keep in mind that the goal of this series is to help families understand techniques used by persons making these claims and make better decisions about the use of psychics.

Project Jason and its volunteers cannot act as a clearinghouse for persons claiming success in using paranormal means to locate missing persons. We will be unable to respond to emails or other correspondence sent to us from persons making these claims or persons offering information about or referrals to psychics.

We instead invite those persons to present their evidence to the members of the James Randi Education Foundation. They have a forum available for you to discuss your claims. http://forums.randi.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7

Jump to the next story in the series:
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2006/04/42806-pmp-bitter-end-part-ii.html

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

4/19/06 Board Meeting Tonight and Update

Update, 4-21-06: Due to some technical issues on one of our sites which requires my attention, new blog postings are suspended at this time. We hope to be back on Wednesday.


Our board of directors meets this evening, so our regular post is pre-empted to give ample planning time. We have many activities coming up in the next couple of months, so our time together is important.

For those of you who do, please pray that we continue to receive guidance in our decision making process so as to continue to fullfill our mission.

Thank you for your support.

With hope for all of our missing loved ones,
Kelly

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

4/18/06 (PMP) Experts in our Field Speak Out

Colleen Nick has over 10 years of experience in working with families of the missing through the organization she founded, The Morgan Nick Foundation. With her guidance, the MNF has assisted well over 3,000 families of missing persons. They have been instrumental in passing legislation, and have provided over 200,000 photo ID’s for children in Arkansas. Colleen also has intimate knowledge of missing person’s issues. Her daughter, Morgan, was kidnapped at the age of 6, and has been missing for almost 11 years.

“I am not in favor of seeking out psychic assistance. Unfortunately, not being willing to utilize psychics pushes a family into the discussion about doing 'everything possible' to find their missing child, and the gut wrenching guilt that if you don't take this route you have not done everything. The pressure that is exerted to seek out psychics can be overwhelming to parents who are deeply in pain and already racked with guilt over the child being missing.

I believe you can do everything possible to search for a missing loved one without soliciting psychic help. My opinion and experience are that utilizing a psychic is exploitive of the family, is often emotionally damaging, can be financially taxing, and sometimes "psychics" want belongings of the missing loved one (treasures) that are never returned. These types of devastating blows continue to re-victimize a family that is already reeling.

When psychics call in leads on a missing person case the leads should absolutely be followed, just like any other lead. There have been instances in ongoing cases where someone wanted to confess their crime against a victim, and the criminal called the police claiming to have psychic information about the crime.

I believe today that if Morgan were found in a purple minivan with pink polka dots driven by yellow gorillas, we would have a psychic step forward who would claim to have given that information in the past. We have had somewhere over 500 leads from psychics.....

On a personal level, due to my deep faith and my firm conviction in the word of God I have stayed far, far away from psychics.”

My Note: Over 500 psychics,and none have been right. Doesn't that tell you something?

For additional information about the Morgan Nick Foundation, please see: http://www.morgannick.com/


Marc Klaas’ life changed in the blink of an eye when his 12 year-old daughter, Polly, was kidnapped and murdered. In the aftermath, he became dedicated to making a safer life for the nation’s children through education, legislation, and the work of the KlaasKids Foundation. Marc supports us in our efforts to make families and the general public aware of the harm caused by psychics. He gave us permission to reprint this article:

“Psychic Detectives are the vanguard of a second wave of predators that also includes tabloid journalists, cheesy defense lawyers and photo-op politicians. They use tabloid newspapers and talk shows to boast about their accomplishments and predict success. They materialize whenever children are kidnapped and circle the cases like vultures on a fresh carcass.

They scan the media for the haunting eyes of desperate parents willing to do anything to recover their children and then they show up on your doorstep, literally or figuratively, to make the pitch. They claim to be on the cutting edge of communications, able to predict future events and reach into heaven and hell with their mind. They hold your hand, massage your psyche and convince you that the only thing separating you from their extraordinary gift is your money. However, some simply require airfare and living expenses, what we call a vacation. They seem to answer the prayer that ends the nightmare, but only if you can afford the ticket.

Frantic parents will do anything and they offer something, which is better than nothing. Few of us posses the resources to underwrite crisis, let alone psychic detectives so they should be reminded that a substantial reward awaits whoever solves the case and returns the stolen child.

Although that strategy eliminates most psychics, some maintain a foothold by appealing to superstitiously vulnerable family members. They make provocative predictions. In California, rolling hills, a road or highway, perhaps a building or a bubbling brook. In Arizona, sand dunes replace rolling hills and cactus substitutes the bubbling brook: In other words, they describe ninety-five percent of the geography of the western United States.


Psychic detectives do not posses supernatural insight, they do not converse with the missing or the dead, they never bring children home. However, their rambling predictions may have filled in enough gaps to pad their resumes and claim the reward.

A few months after Polly was recovered a psychic claimed that she solved Polly’s case on the television program Hard Copy. Not only was she using my daughter’s death to promote herself, but she also dismissed all of the wonderful people: police, media, and volunteers who worked so hard and tirelessly to locate my child.

In truth, that psychic detectives contribution to the case was counter productive. As always seems to be the case with psychic predictions, her interference created distraction. Law enforcement resources are diverted toward useless endeavors as phantom leads disappear into thin air. One cold and dark November evening many of us were lurking around somebody’s property because the psychic said that it held the key to my daughter’s disappearance. With the heightened sense of paranoia that already existed in the community that property owner would have been well within his rights to blow us away on the spot for trespassing. We were very fortunate that night, because although he did angrily confront us, he had absolutely nothing to do with the crime we were investigating.

In the end, and despite their protests, there is not even one case of a psychic truly assisting or solving a missing child case. It’s just smoke and mirrors. Their references do not support their claims and law enforcement cannot acknowledge their existence. Instead, their wishful thinking collides with your desperate hope and leaves you diminished.

Unfortunately, the next time a little child is kidnapped and mom and dad reach the end of their emotional string the vague, empty promises of the psychic detective will rebound off the stark walls of the missing child’s bedroom and a photo or toy will be palmed as the negotiations are engaged. It is inevitable: I predict it.”

To learn more about the KlaasKids Foundation, go to http://www.klaaskids.org/


We understand that many people believe that psychics are effective in solving crimes and finding missing people. Please keep in mind that the goal of this series is to help families understand techniques used by persons making these claims and make better decisions about the use of psychics.

Project Jason and its volunteers cannot act as a clearinghouse for persons claiming success in using paranormal means to locate missing persons. We will be unable to respond to emails or other correspondence sent to us from persons making these claims or persons offering information about or referrals to psychics.

We instead invite those persons to present their evidence to the members of the James Randi Education Foundation. They have a forum available for you to discuss your claims. http://forums.randi.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7

Jump to the next story in the series:

http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2006/04/42706-pmp-bitter-end-part-i.html

Monday, April 17, 2006

4/17/06 (PMP) Holding Hope in Their Hands

Rebkah Howard, aunt of Tamika Huston, is today’s guest writer.

“My niece, Tamika Antonette Huston, disappeared on May 27, 2004. We learned on August 12, 2005 that she had been callously murdered and buried in the remote woods of upstate South Carolina on the very day she disappeared by a new acquaintance named Christopher Lamont Hampton. We searched for Tamika far and wide for those 13 1/2 months. Our hearts were broken and we considered no means too silly or too unproven in order to try and bring our beloved Tamika back home to us. Internet postings, mass distribution of emails, flyer postings, canine searches, canvassing neighborhoods, local and national media outreach and yes, even psychics.

We did not search out our first encounter with a self-proclaimed psychic. Within weeks of Tamika's disappearance, I appeared on a local radio show that aired in New York City in order to discuss the case and the disproportionate amount of media coverage given to cases involving missing minorities. Within a day or two, I was contacted by a well-meaning woman who wanted to put me in touch with her friend, a man named Jerome Carter. She said Jerome had worked on numerous missing person cases and she was hopeful he could help us find Tamika.

Before I go further, let me first divulge that I am not skeptical by nature of those claiming to have some sort of psychic ability or highly developed "sixth sense". Tamika herself often astounded me, our family and friends with her ability to know certain things about a person she had no reason to know. She had these abilities even as a child but didn't think much about it...it was just her. She didn't try to profit from it as she got older or exploit it...it was just another personality trait that frankly, may have even scared her a little as she got older. I'm told by her best friend that Tamika even predicted her own untimely death years and months before - and even the very week of - her disappearance. She knew she was going to die young. I wish she had told me too.

So, with that background, I picked up the phone in desperation and called Mr. Carter. We spoke for a few minutes and he said he had a strong sense Tamika was still alive. Of course, my heart was overjoyed. I called family - including my sister and Tamika's distraught mother - and told them we must take what Carter is saying with a grain of salt but that I would continue to speak with him in the hopes of determining Tamika's location. Carter told me he would work with us for the bargain basement price of $500 if I could wire him the money via Western Union. I left my office, withdrew the money from an ATM, and headed over to the closest Western Union location I could find. I was also to fax him a photograph of Tamika to the luxury hotel where he was staying at the time. Upon receipt of money and photo, Carter was to call me that night and conduct a "session".

Over the course of about one week, I spoke with Carter three or four times. Each time, his descriptions of Tamika's location and the circumstances surrounding her disappearance became more specific. She had voluntarily attended a party in a town near where she lived but now was being held against her will. She was being drugged. She would appear unrecognizable to us when we finally found her because she had lost so much weight. She was allowed to leave the house once a day with one of her captors. The house had a bird...maybe on the mailbox. A burgundy car in the driveway. Carter named street locations and the town. Worst of all, he promised this whole nightmare would wrap up in about a week with the safe return home of our Tamika.

I sent Tamika's father on wild goose chases for two or three nights to the locations Carter described. I even enlisted the sympathetic investigator working on Tamika's case to follow up on these unconventional clues. I later would express my frustration to Carter who eventually offered to fly to South Carolina and look for Tamika himself - provided I could Western Union him another $500 right away and purchase him a plane ticket. He seemed way too persistent and certainly too anxious. I withdrew and quickly realized I was probably being taken advantage of. I couldn't confirm Carter's claims that he had determined the location of Chandra Levy's remains as he had said. Further, I was warned by a friend who was a producer of a nationally syndicated radio program that Carter had appeared on their program many times. This friend said Carter had led a distraught mother to believe for months that her missing daughter was alive when in fact, she had been dead for some time. That was it for me. I cut off communications with Carter and kept pursuing other means in order to find Tamika.

It would be months later before the issue of psychics came up again. My sister, Tamika's mother, was at her breaking point. Actually, she had probably been broken for months. She asked me if we could look into finding and utilizing a "more reputable" psychic. I told her I would conduct extensive research and try to find the right person. My research led me to Noreen Renier. I was impressed with her resume and the fact that she apparently had lectured at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. At this point, we were willing to try anything - again. Renier prefers to work with law enforcement only which I felt increased her credibility. Surprisingly, the open-minded police investigators working on Tamika's case didn't laugh at my suggestion. Instead, they set up an appointment with Renier (at our family's expense) and drove from South Carolina to the hills of rural Virginia to meet with her. These officers would later describe this experience as probably one of the strangest they've encountered in all their years of law enforcement but I was grateful for their efforts.

Renier described a much different scene than Carter had. Tamika was deceased. She had been killed by a blunt object at the hands of someone she knew. She had been wrapped up and driven around in a vehicle before being disposed of in a remote area, down a dirt and gravel road, near water, near an embankment. Renier said it wasn't far from where Tamika had lived. Unfortunately, these clues were like looking for a needle in a haystack. The police followed up on these clues along with others provided by Renier to no avail. It wasn't until weeks later when they arrested their prime suspect, Hampton, that he led them to Tamika's shallow grave in the woods.

In the end, Renier's clues did little more than to provide us and law enforcement with moments of surprise - after the fact. Unfortunately, what she saw was not specific enough to lead police to the location of Tamika's body. The killer had to do that himself. If I had to do it again, I probably wouldn't enlist her services or the services of another psychic. Good old police work is what solves crimes.”

For more information about Tamika Huston’s story, please see:
http://www.tamikahuston.com/pages/1/index.htm

Various sources for additional information about Noreen Renier:

A case study done by Dr. Gary Posner:
http://www.parascope.com/en/articles/notSoPsychic.htm

A webpage with numerous articles about Renier:
http://members.aol.com/garypos/Renier_list.html



We understand that many people believe that psychics are effective in solving crimes and finding missing people. Please keep in mind that the goal of this series is to help families understand techniques used by persons making these claims and make better decisions about the use of psychics.

Project Jason and its volunteers cannot act as a clearinghouse for persons claiming success in using paranormal means to locate missing persons. We will be unable to respond to emails or other correspondence sent to us from persons making these claims or persons offering information about or referrals to psychics.

We instead invite those persons to present their evidence to the members of the James Randi Education Foundation. They have a forum available for you to discuss your claims. http://forums.randi.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7

Jump to the next story in the series:
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2006/04/41806-pmp-experts-in-our-field-speak.html

Friday, April 14, 2006

4/14/06 (PMP) No Conscience


Today’s guest writer is Luke T., from the James Randi Educational Foundation forum. Luke also authored “But the News Said Psychics are Real”, posted earlier in this series.


No Conscience
By Luke T.


This is a continuation of the story about the disappearance and murder of Lori Ann Leonard. You can read the first part here:
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2006/04/41006-pmp-not-one-knew.html
In this portion, you will be able to read an actual transcript of a conversation between a predator and a victim.

Conscience. According to the dictionary, “The awareness of a moral or ethical aspect to one's conduct together with the urge to prefer right over wrong”.

If you have read this far into the series on predator psychics and still have lingering beliefs in their paranormal abilities, perhaps it would help you to know that not one psychic anywhere in the world predicted the events of September 11, 2001 or the devastating Pacific tsunami of December 2004. Not. One. And that is really all you need to know about psychics, dear reader.

Some psychics will tell you they had dreams or visions presaging 9/11 or the tsunami. Now. After the fact. But no matter what their excuse, just keep that simple fact in mind. Not one predicted those events ahead of time. So the next time you read a psychic prediction of an impending disaster, with the attendant location, scope, and magnitude given (which will turn out to be wrong), just remember that.

Remember the next time you see Sylvia Browne on television making predictions or advising people of the fate of their loved ones that she was on Larry King Live on September 3, 2001. And failed to predict the events which were to occur eight days hence. Not one word.

John Edward was on Larry King Live September 10. The day before 9/11! Again, not a word.

See for yourself:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/03/lkl.00.html
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/10/lkl.00.html


Remember, too, what was said here by the people who have presented their first-hand testimony of their experiences with psychics who preyed on them during a time of unimaginable emotional distress. That all the psychics who gave them the information about their missing loved ones conflicted with each other. One psychic says their loved one was stabbed to death, another says their loved one was strangled, yet another says their loved one is alive. Each psychic painted a vivid picture of horror for them to play in their minds with their missing loved ones experiencing every hell on Earth. Ask yourself what kind of monster it takes to submit someone to that kind of head game in the middle of an already unbearable nightmare. Ask yourself if such people deserve any faith or respect or honored place in our society. These predators are riding in on the coattails of the most vicious of kidnappers and murderers to make victims of the victim’s family and friends. Remember that the next time you are tempted to visit a psychic for advice or consolation.

What of those well-intentioned people who feel they must relay their psychic dreams to a victim’s family, who feel an overwhelming internal pressure to pass this information on? Well, since no psychic dream ever solved a case, is it really a good idea to call a complete stranger who is going insane with fear and grief, and tell them you dreamed their missing loved one is at the bottom of a hole in the woods near a body of water? How ethical is one’s conduct in such a case?

Of the many psychics who victimized Lori Ann Leonard’s family were two, Linda and Tracy, who worked together. Linda and Tracy insisted on speaking to Lori’s sister, Jennifer, in person, to which Jennifer consented. During that conversation, they told Jennifer that Lori was alive and being held captive in a cabin in the woods. Lori’s panicked family and friends insisted the police follow up on this psychic lead. The police relented, and not surprisingly, a search of the cabin was fruitless. That is because Lori was already dead before the two psychics visited Jennifer, and she had never been held in any cabin. However, no one knew this at the time. Obviously, not even the psychics.

Based on the claims of many other psychics, one can’t help but wonder if these two brag to prospective clients that they assisted the police in the case of Lori Ann Leonard’s disappearance. Some assistance, eh?

Linda and Tracy did their best to cover their grievous error about the cabin in the woods and to keep their hooks in. It was then that they engaged Lori’s friend, Dawn, in an online conversation to try to explain themselves, and to give further psychic insights into Lori’s condition and fate.

Before we get into the transcript, you should know what really happened to Lori. Lori was murdered by Shawn Doyle, her ex-boyfriend. He has received a 25-to-life sentence. Lori was found by a local fisherman with a bandana stuffed in her mouth, inside a tool chest at the bottom of Lake Champlain in New York State.

When reading the transcript, you may want to know what Shawn Doyle looks like. If so, a photo of Doyle can be seen here: http://www.hudsonfallspd.com/2doyleshawn.jpg

It is somewhat chilling that he is wearing a bandana in that photo, isn’t it?

In the following transcript, Dawn uses the online name of “fellonia” while Tracy uses the online name “kittiee”. The character “Belle” is another psychic who preyed on the family.

This is a long transcript. All the more a demonstration of just how far off the psychics were. When you consider what actually happened, this transcript completely buries the validity of psychics.

Dawn has told us that at the time of this conversation, she believed in the ability of psychics. After this experience, as with so many psychic predator victims, that is no longer the case. In parentheses in the transcript are Dawn’s comments regarding Tracy’s visions.

fellonia (7:36:22 PM): HI, this is Dawn. Would you rather I call so we can talk about Lori??? My number is xxx- xxxx
fellonia (7:38:06 PM): and yes i was the one on the phone the other day when you came to Jenny's
kittiee342002 (7:39:07 PM): i have to wait till my daughter gets back so i can go to a phone ...mine is off
kittiee342002 (7:39:32 PM): cool ive been tryin to reach her
kittiee342002 (7:39:55 PM): there is more to this thing and i was hopeing it would help

fellonia (7:40:14 PM): I forwarded your letter to Jenny and to investigator Wade. I called him the night you came over. They did look into the cabin as i'm sure you read on the website. They came up empty handed I guess.
kittiee342002 (7:41:14 PM): have they looked in INLET (oh, now she's in Inlet!)
fellonia (7:41:28 PM): I don't know if they looked in Inlet.
kittiee342002 (7:41:37 PM): they need to!
fellonia (7:41:41 PM): I can ask him tomorrow.

fellonia (7:42:40 PM): I have gotten two calls this week about Lori from people that at one time saw visions and now the visions are gone indicating that she had died recently (she died May 4th, that's not recent)
fellonia (7:42:46 PM): are you getting the same thing?
kittiee342002 (7:43:35 PM): there is a boat lauchin INLET and from that boat launch look acrossedthere is a camp need to check it (back to the camp thing again)
kittiee342002 (7:45:09 PM): and i have to say belle said that too that she is gone and that he moved her ...she said she is in a field not alot of trees just tall grass and brush (wrong. She was never moved. She was put in the water immediately)
fellonia (7:46:14 PM): ON the side of the road?

kittiee342002 (7:46:25 PM): i will have to tell you in person what happened to my friend linda ...she doesnt know lori only that i know her and im very upset about her being gone (now all the sudden she has to tell me in person)
kittiee342002 (7:46:46 PM): yea
kittiee342002 (7:47:03 PM): did you guys call belle ?
kittiee342002 (7:47:37 PM): i want to ask you something?
fellonia (7:47:46 PM): I don't know if Jenny did. I think she might have.
fellonia (7:47:51 PM): yes?

kittiee342002 (7:48:13 PM): the person of interestname is shawn right? (oh, great "guess" it was all over the internet and on our web page)
fellonia (7:48:18 PM): yes
fellonia (7:49:14 PM): I posted it on the website last week. Our media wont say his name but it has been all over the news in Hudson Falls
fellonia (7:49:30 PM): I know Shawn very well
kittiee342002 (7:49:36 PM): ok i want to describe him to you from what i have been told by my friend linda -k- tell me if im right
fellonia (7:49:38 PM): I can tell you a lot about him
fellonia (7:49:45 PM): ok

kittiee342002 (7:51:26 PM): he is tall .dark hair kind of short in the back a little long in the front dark eyes musclar has a little scary look to him (all wrong)
fellonia (7:51:40 PM): no
kittiee342002 (7:51:58 PM): ok
kittiee342002 (7:52:09 PM): how close am i
fellonia (7:53:11 PM): I'm 5'4" and he is definitely taller than I am but he isn't huge. Last time I saw him his hair was really short all over but that could have changed. He actually looks like kind of a dork to me
fellonia (7:53:50 PM): He does have tattoos ALL over his arms.
fellonia (7:53:56 PM): wears glasses

kittiee342002 (7:54:04 PM): there are 2 people involved shawn took her there and came back and someone else was with her there (wrong, Shawn acted alone)
fellonia (7:55:12 PM): Just so you know. There is no way that Shawn has been with her since the beginning. They are watching him like a hawk
kittiee342002 (7:55:19 PM): well linda said he was tall med build dark hair ,hair was short but he like had some bangs (see how she changed the subject and the description, but still wrong)fellonia (7:56:00 PM): Shawn is very skinny
kittiee342002 (7:56:17 PM): right but what they said was he took her there and then he came back (wrong)
kittiee342002 (7:56:28 PM): ok

fellonia (7:56:52 PM): Did you read all the info on him we posted on the web site. About how he tried to kill a woman before
kittiee342002 (7:56:57 PM): awww that makes it worse
kittiee342002 (7:57:47 PM): YES why was he out to be able to do this ! i cant beleive he only got probation
fellonia (7:57:48 PM): The girls mother saved her life from him. He was choking her and had her tied up
kittiee342002 (7:58:39 PM): dawn i will tell you what else linda seen -k-
fellonia (7:58:58 PM): ok

kittiee342002 (8:00:33 PM): she said this camp im talking about in INLET she went in there in her vision
kittiee342002 (8:03:39 PM): this house is yellow w/burgundy trim when you walk in there is a small kitchen sheseen an old man with grey hair,tall hefty glasses wearing belted pants shirt tucked in (wrong, Shawn's house is white. No burgundy anything)
kittiee342002 (8:05:17 PM): there was a frail old lady sitting in abrown leather recliner and she tried to say somthing to us but the old man told her to shut up (Shawn's grandmother is dead)fellonia (8:06:39 PM): would that indicate that the people in the cabin were deceased?
fellonia (8:06:59 PM): the old man and woman?

kittiee342002 (8:07:49 PM): the living room was l-blue carpet was d- blue the curtains were green/blue with white scrolls behind the recliner was an attic door with curtain covering them kittiee342002 (8:08:18 PM): nooo i think its his grandparents and there covering for him
fellonia (8:08:30 PM): ok i get it
kittiee342002 (8:08:53 PM): linda said she was scared of the old man and the other man in the attic
kittiee342002 (8:10:11 PM): then linda pulled down the curtains and opened the door ...this is were it get scary
kittiee342002 (8:12:57 PM): when she opened the door she seen atthe top of the stairs a tall guy sweating med build dark hair eyes are glossy dark blue tank top jeans linda sees lori looks like she hanging white blanket around her all in ropes (so now Lori is hanging in an attic? BTW- Shawn has blue eyes)

fellonia (8:14:18 PM): what does she think the guy is doing?
kittiee342002 (8:14:22 PM): there was a struggle and he ran off with her and she cant see where he went with her
fellonia (8:14:37 PM): a struggle with Lori?
kittiee342002 (8:18:58 PM): ohh i forgot this imreading what she wrote from a paper its all out of order cause when she was writing this she waslike rocking and she could breath she said it was soo real..when she walked in the house she seen lori hanging in a blanket and thats when the old lady tried to speak and couldnt and then it went on from there ...now we went back down to the kitchen there was an old porclin sink and lori was standing next to the sink
kittiee342002 (8:19:17 PM): the struggle was with us
kittiee342002 (8:19:25 PM): we tried to get her

kittiee342002 (8:21:59 PM): she walked up to us and said "IM OKREALLY IM OK "the man is standing next to her glaring she was made to say it
fellonia (8:22:59 PM): SHe was standing next to the sink after she was wrapped up in the blanket?
kittiee342002 (8:23:21 PM): and we walked out side the driveway was paved with tall pine edging the driveway
kittiee342002 (8:24:06 PM): yes linda said that she was like saying im ok now because linda said that she has past
fellonia (8:25:08 PM): Does that mean that the man has passed too if he was there glaring at her? (at this point I am totally confused)

kittiee342002 (8:25:46 PM): i wish i could have linda talk to you ...linda was crying when she told me tthis
kittiee342002 (8:25:59 PM): noo the man was glaring at us
kittiee342002 (8:26:31 PM): you know i will ask linda about that
fellonia (8:26:39 PM): ok
kittiee342002 (8:28:06 PM): but linda doesnt even know laurie (she's a psychic and she spelled Lori's name wrong) i asked her what the girl looked like and she said blond hair blue eyes but lori has green very thin pretty (Lori has brown hair when she went missing)

kittiee342002 (8:28:36 PM): did she wear contacts?
kittiee342002 (8:29:25 PM): in the pic i have her eyes are like very green and i didnt know if she wore the color contacts
fellonia (8:29:47 PM): No lori does not have contacts and at the time she went missing she had brown hair.
kittiee342002 (8:31:30 PM): linda had alot of weird colors in her vision and she even said shes not sure what they mean (nice cover)
fellonia (8:31:34 PM): my 13-year-old daughter just said that the one thing she remembers about Shawn is that he had piercing blue eyes.

kittiee342002 (8:32:58 PM): was he from around here i know his family is from up there but did he live here ? how did lori get involved with this guy?
fellonia (8:34:21 PM): She met him on the internet
fellonia (8:34:32 PM): his entire family is from that area
kittiee342002 (8:34:49 PM): i want to go up theere myself and look to see if her vision is true with the camp up thereshe said that the camp is lived in all year round
fellonia (8:36:21 PM): Might not be safe. I wouldn't suggest doing that if I were you.
kittiee342002 (8:38:38 PM): linda seems to think that she is in the area near cascade lake and shallow lake like somewhere in that area (I thought she said before it was Inlet?)

kittiee342002 (8:39:38 PM): i would go to the house .i want to see if everything is like what she said
kittiee342002 (8:39:50 PM): wouldn't^
fellonia (8:41:39 PM): Good. I just wish we could find her. I feel like we are all in limbo and no one really seems to know what to do at this point.
kittiee342002 (8:42:11 PM): what is your number again im gonna go over to lindas and call you there are more details that isnt on the paper ..if you want me too ..she said it was like she was there. if you heard it its different than what i just typed to you there is more to it (more? Really? We never found out)

fellonia (8:42:49 PM): ok. Call me xxx- xxxx
kittiee342002 (8:43:49 PM): i know and im pulling at straws it will lead to her god it hurts me and cant even imagin what you guys are going through
kittiee342002 (8:44:02 PM): hoping^
kittiee342002 (8:45:39 PM): ok ill give you a call in a bit ...will you be up for a little while?fellonia (8:46:02 PM): yeah, I will be up till at least 11
kittiee342002 (8:46:45 PM): i have to see if linda is home if not ill come back and im you -k- thanks for listening i hope something will help
kittiee342002 (8:46:47 PM): ok

fellonia (8:47:30 PM): thank you for contacting us. We appreciate anything you can give us at this point. I am going to call Jenny and let her know I talked to you.
kittiee342002 (8:53:50 PM): ok im going to lindas ill talk to you soon
kittiee342002 (8:54:00 PM): bye bye
fellonia (8:54:06 PM): ok bye (she NEVER called me back and EVERY attempt I made to contact her was ignored. Lori was found 14 days after this discussion.)

In loving memory of Lori Ann Leonard


We understand that many people believe that psychics are effective in solving crimes and finding missing people. Please keep in mind that the goal of this series is to help families understand techniques used by persons making these claims and make better decisions about the use of psychics.

Project Jason and its volunteers cannot act as a clearinghouse for persons claiming success in using paranormal means to locate missing persons. We will be unable to respond to emails or other correspondence sent to us from persons making these claims or persons offering information about or referrals to psychics.

We instead invite those persons to present their evidence to the members of the James Randi Education Foundation. They have a forum available for you to discuss your claims. http://forums.randi.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7

Jump to the next story in the series:
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2006/04/41706-pmp-holding-hope-in-their-hands_17.html

Thursday, April 13, 2006

4/13/06 Two Month Countdown

Today is the 13th, which marks another month since my son Jason disappeared. This year has been more difficult because of the countdown to the 5 year missing date, June 13th.

5 years is much too long to not know where your child is located, and if they are safe, and even alive. 5 years is half of a decade. In this timeframe, so many things can happen in a person's life.

An infant grows to be a child and starts school. A boy grows from a child's body into a man's body. A young man graduates from high school and may even be married with children in a 5 year period.

When Jason first disappeared, and I started to research missing persons on the Internet, I was astonished at the great number of missing persons, and to think that what we see in that research does not even scratch the surface is chilling.

I saw the faces of people who had been missing for years and years. Even if I saw one who had been missing for a year, I told myself "That won't be us. We'll find him." The thought of it "being us" was horrifying. Now it is us.

After Jason had been gone from our lives for about 6 months, I wrote the following piece. I intended for it to be a song, but have no musical skills, and the file sat for all of these years.

It seems like the right time to share it as I navigate through this day, still missing him just as much as I did that first day.

The Missing Song


He was my first born son.
When I held him in my arms,
I thought my love for him would always protect him
from anything that would hurt him.

I thought we would always be together, forever.
The years went by with all of us together,
laughing and living life to the fullest.

Then one day, he was gone from our lives.
Gone without a goodbye,
gone without a warning,
\gone without a trace.

Faces, faces, so many faces.
I look at all of them ,
but it’s never you,
the one I want to see.

Places, places, I look in all of them,
and I never find you,
the one I want to find.

Why couldn’t my love protect you & keep you?
Why can’t my love bring you back to us?

There are so many like him,
gone for a long time.
Hearts are broken daily,
over and over again.

Those lives will never be the same again,
never again until they come home.
Seasons come and seasons go,
and still we cannot find him.

Looking out the window on a frozen Winter day,
I wonder if he’s cold & alone.
When I go to bed each night,
I wonder if he has a pillow to lay his head on.

Faces, faces, so many faces.
I look at all of them ,
but it’s never you,
the one I want to see.

Places, places, I look in all of them,
and I never find you,
the one I want to find.

Why couldn’t my love protect you and keep you?
Why can’t my love bring you back to us?

I know that he loves us and that I love him,
so why would he stay away?
Has someone hurt him
and kept him from coming back to us?

It hurts not to know where he is.
How long will this go on?
Sometimes all I can do is pray that he will come back to us.
Sometimes all I can do is pray for an answer.

Faces, faces, so many faces.
I look at all of them ,
but it’s never you,
the one I want to see.

Places, places, I look in all of them,
and I never find you,
the one I want to find.

Why couldn’t my love protect you and keep you?
Why can’t my love bring you back to us?

Why couldn’t my love protect you and keep you?
Why can’t my love bring you back to us?

I love you.
Please come home.


The Psychics and Missing People series will return on Friday.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

4/11/06 (PMP) Making up the Ending

Doug and Mary Lyall didn’t allow time to stand still when their daughter, Suzy, disappeared in 1998. They took action, not only for their own daughter, but for the countless thousands upon thousands of other missing persons across the country. They founded the nonprofit organization, Center for Hope, ( http://www.hope4themissing.org/ ) and are responsible for the following:

Federal Legislation – Suzanne’s Law

The New York State Campus Safety Act


The Assault and Abduction Free School Zone Bill

A computerized system to report information about missing persons to all toll booths and rest stops on the NYS Thruway

Missing person profiles are displayed in the New York State Income Tax forms

April 6th is proclaimed Missing Person's Day by Governor Pataki


Suzanne's Law passed and signed by President Bush on April 30, 2003, raising the age from 18 to 21 on investigations for missing persons to begin immediately after the report has been filed.

Established a partnership with The Nation's Missing Children Organization and Center for Missing Adults

Collaborated with DCJS to develop the "Investigative Guide for Missing College Students"

Being active in the “cause” doesn’t guarantee immunity from psychics’ offerings. In fact, since we are easier to find than the typical family, we probably hear from them more often. This story, written by Doug Lyall, is just one of several times they were approached by psychics. This one apparently couldn’t get a good ending for her reading, so she decided to make one up and then asked for something outrageous.


“Not long after our daughter Suzanne went missing, we received a call from a woman who identified herself as a psychic. While many people were assuming that Suzanne was a homicide victim, the psychic told us that she was safe and could be found within a short drive from our home. Although we had mixed feelings about psychics, we were not getting results from the police, and decided to meet with her and her mother at their home.

In order to demonstrate her ability she offered to do a reading for us. Most of the information from the reading made little sense, but she did seem to have a direct hit with information about Mary’s brother. Her demonstration was enough to convince us that she might be able to help us find our daughter.

She told us that Suzy had gone willingly with a computer group described as a cult. Suzy went with to group to several locations in the area and eventually ended up in a small town 45 minutes from her campus. She was supposedly brainwashed and not capable of making independent decisions. She was also thought to be pregnant.

On one Sunday, Mary and I followed her to town and after some driving around; the psychic located the house where Suzy was thought to be kept. Not being able to enter the house, the psychic decided to call the state police and have them intervene. The two officers consented to go the house and ask some standard questions. Their report to us indicated that there was nothing suspicious evident. That day was a roller coaster ride, going from believing that we would be taking Suzy home, to the depths of disappointment. We gave our blessing for her to continue looking on her own, but we could no longer be active participants.

As time went on, we heard from her on occasion and a year later she informed us that she was writing a book about Suzy and the psychic investigation that accompanied her disappearance. Her desire was to use real names and events, but to add a fictitious ending.

To her surprise, we did not consent. From that point her attitude and behavior changed dramatically. While she was initially wanting to help out of the goodness of her heart, there was now a demand for money and we received a bill for several thousand dollars. Needless to stay, we did not comply and we haven’t heard from her in over two years.”

To read more about Suzy and the Lyall’s work for the missing, please see:
http://www.truckingboards.com/trucking/upload/showthread.php?t=6949

We understand that many people believe that psychics are effective in solving crimes and finding missing people. Please keep in mind that the goal of this series is to help families understand techniques used by persons making these claims and make better decisions about the use of psychics.

Project Jason and its volunteers cannot act as a clearinghouse for persons claiming success in using paranormal means to locate missing persons. We will be unable to respond to emails or other correspondence sent to us from persons making these claims or persons offering information about or referrals to psychics.

We instead invite those persons to present their evidence to the members of the James Randi Education Foundation. They have a forum available for you to discuss your claims. http://forums.randi.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7

Jump to the next story in the series:
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2006/04/41406-pmp-no-conscience.html

Monday, April 10, 2006

4/10/06 (PMP) Not One Knew

There are many hard and painful lessons to be learned from today’s story. It is the tale of a beautiful young woman who was killed at the hands of a man she knew. They met on the internet, through a dating service, Cupid.com. Although she had decided she did not want a relationship with him, his awful plan for her was put into action.

The author of the story is Dawn Popluhar, who was the best friend of the victim. Dawn never gave up in the fight to find her friend. She was there for the family, supporting them, holding their hands, and acting as a spokesperson. She shared much of it with me along the way, including the discovery of her friend, murdered in an entirely gruesome fashion.

As you can imagine, it was and still is, a surreal thing to go through, not just with Lori’s being missing and then found murdered, but also going through the trial and facing her killer. On top of it, the psychics were there enforce, causing additional stress and not resolving anything.

In the aftermath, Dawn volunteered to help with our Campaign for the Missing in New York state. Even though she has never done anything like this, (trying to pass a law) she succeeded in getting sponsorship for the bill, which is now in progress. It’s called Lori Ann’s Law, named after her friend. Lori has a legacy in her left behind children and in this future law. Perhaps, too, women who know Lori’s story will think twice about meeting with strangers from the internet.

"Mommy was always nice to me and I miss her and I pray to her when I go to sleep," said six year-old Zachary, Lori’s son.

(As a warning to sensitive readers, there are graphic descriptions of violent acts within today’s story.)


“Lori Ann Leonard was 33-years-old and the mother of two little boys, ages five and nine at the time of her disappearance. Lori and I have been best friends for most of our lives. We shared every hope, secret, dream, accomplishment, and sorrow with each other. Lori is someone that everyone liked. Her outgoing bubbly personality lights up a room and people are naturally, uncontrollably attracted to her. Lori is not only incredibly beautiful on the outside; she has a heart of gold. Lori was extremely optimistic and never had a harsh word for anyone unless they did harm to someone she loved. She is forgiving and only sees the good in people. Lori was a hard working, productive member of our community, whose only wish was to be happy.

Lori went missing on May 4th, 2005. After almost three agonizing months of searching, a fisherman found her in a truck toolbox floating on the canal 150 miles away from her home on July 24, 2005. A man named Shawn Doyle had raped her, stuffed a bandanna in her mouth, wrapped her entire head in duck tape except for her eyes, and then bound her hands and feet with duct tape and handcuffs. Her murderer was sentenced to 25 years to life on March 3, 2006.

There is no suitable punishment for what he did. He took away a mother, a sister, a daughter, an aunt, and a friend. Our hearts will be forever empty because of his selfish cowardly act.

The psychics magically appeared as soon as the story that Lori was missing became public knowledge. They gave false hope; their inaccurate readings caused panic and heartbreak, and they bogged down the investigation considerably. The investigator working on Lori's case shared with me that they had what they referred to as a "psychic file." Every time a psychic called in a prediction that "lead" had to be investigated. This took PRECIOUS time away from valid leads. After Lori was found the investigator told me that not ONE "vision" or "prediction" or guess made by a psychic in their "psychic file" was even remotely accurate.

I first knew psychics were investigating the case when I saw one poking around the outside of Lori's house on a day we were doing a ground search of the area. The police had allowed the search, but had given strict orders for everyone to say away from the house because it was a potential crime scene. At the time I was appreciative she was there because I felt that the police weren't doing enough and I unknowingly had faith in her possible abilities.

Some people close to Lori went to psychics, but most of the time they contacted us directly. In the beginning, I welcomed their advice. I was willing to do anything if it meant finding Lori. One of Lori's family members called a psychic named RYA almost immediately after Lori was missing. At the psychics request she gave her some of Lori's jewelry so that she could get "better visions." The psychic's visions had a family member so upset that when we had family meetings she would hysterically cry and yell that we had to listen to the psychic because she "knew the truth about Lori." It was HORRIBLE to witness these episodes in the middle of such emotional times. We all wanted to melt under the table during the outbursts.

No one would ever say a word back to her, mainly because she was so hysterical and you could feel her pain and frustration, but also because we always felt like if we opened up our mouths to object we might cause a war within the family. She had pages and pages of notes, and I read all of them.

It was nonsense. The only thing that woman guessed right was that Lori had been murdered. She demanded that we search an area where Lori's sister lives because the psychic said Lori was definitely there. Can you imagine how horrible it must have been for Lori's sister to be told and believe that Lori could be literally right around the corner from her home?! They did a search and we finally were able to convince local LE to activate the NYS SAR
(search and rescue) team to also search based on the psychic's information. We wasted valuable resources and time. Lori was found nowhere near that area

I did not get the names of all the people who contacted me mainly because they wouldn't give a name. Often I would get anonymous "tips." Of course none of them ever furnished me with a last name, but I think they are all local to this area. We did specific searches based on their information only be frustrated and devastated when we came up with nothing. The most damaging report we received came late one night. Two women named Linda and Tracy,
(You’ll hear more about Linda in a future blog entry.) claiming to have seen visions, insisted upon speaking immediately to Lori's sister in person. They came to her house while I listened on the phone.

These women told us that Lori was alive and was being held in a cabin in the woods. She gave us specific directions to the cabin and even described the surroundings. We would have to rescue her immediately, but if her captor knew we were coming he would kill her. At 10:00 in the evening I called the lead investigator at his home demanding that they start searching immediately. We were hysterical. I never went to sleep that night. I was convinced that Lori was alive and waiting for us to rescue her and wondering why we hadn't reached her yet. You have no idea the trauma this report caused us. As it turned out, Lori was no longer alive at that point, and was never in a cabin.

After Lori was found Tracy approached someone stating that "her visions were right" and that she was so sorry that she was right. She was so far off that she didn't even describe Lori correctly, saying that she had blue eyes and blond hair. Lori had green eyes, and when she was taken from us she had very brown hair. (her natural color)

Several times I went out and searched swamps, woods, and fields based on what two unrelated psychics named Belle and Delores and a few others would tell me. I would race in my car to the exact location where I would find Lori. I was going to save her, or I felt that I would save her family the devastation of finding her themselves. I frantically searched, honestly believing that she was there. I would eventually give up sometimes after searching for hours, feeling completely defeated. Mentally and physically exhausted, I would cry all the way home.

It wasn't always the psychics themselves who contacted us. A friend of my husbands called me up after he had spoken to a disabled woman who has "visions." He wanted me to call the police to see if they would loan him scuba diving equipment because he believed that Lori was in a body of water located right behind her home. His belief in this theory was reinforced after he had the same dream that night. I cannot emphasize enough how many seemingly normal people called or emailed me after they had "dreams" telling them where Lori was.

My own mother was even one of these people. She is a self- proclaimed psychic and would get very frustrated with me when I didn't follow her exact instructions to find Lori. She would remind me all the time that "she knew where Lori was" and if the police would "just search" they would find her. After Lori was found she was quizzing me trying to find some truth in her vision. There was no truth to it, but the truth is that her persistence has irreversibly damaged our relationship.

I received constant emails from people telling us to contact Sylvia Brown or Montel Williams because it was our only hope. They would question me when I would tell them I didn't believe she could help. After a while I just started lying and would say that I had contacted her and was just waiting to hear something back. I didn't want people to think that we weren't doing everything we could, but at this point I had grown tired of all the psychics misinformation and I had learned (although slowly) that they are all predators and seasoned manipulators. I wasn't about to waste the family's money and cause them more heartache.

Even in a seemingly safe environment like the America's Most Wanted forum, these people still found me. One man claimed that Lori was alive and on her way to Canada. A woman told me that Lori was being stalked for a long time and that the stalker had gotten her. When I attempted to ask her probing questions as to how she came to this conclusion she wouldn't respond to me.

I use to watch the psychics on TV with amazement and wonder. Now I watch them with skepticism and disgust. I am an intelligent woman and I always considered myself be a realist, but psychics are very believable and convincing because we WANT to believe them. They prey on the vulnerable and they thrive on our desperation. We hold on to every theory they spew out because we want hope when we feel as if there is no hope left. Consciously we know that it all may be a con, but our hearts tell our brains that this person may be "the one" with the key to finding our loved ones. Psychics are never the key. They led us down misleading paths. The only key can be found with reputable agencies, caring, concerned individuals, law enforcement, and within your own heart.

Every psychic gave the fail-safe guess that Lori was either in the woods, the water, or the weeds. It must be that I'm psychic too because that's where I always thought we would find her if someone took her life. Sadly enough, Lori was found in the water and yes, there were weeds and trees around. You draw your own conclusions.”

You may read more about Lori’s story here: http://www.truckingboards.com/trucking/upload/showthread.php?t=12038

We understand that many people believe that psychics are effective in solving crimes and finding missing people. Please keep in mind that the goal of this series is to help families understand techniques used by persons making these claims and make better decisions about the use of psychics.

Project Jason and its volunteers cannot act as a clearinghouse for persons claiming success in using paranormal means to locate missing persons. We will be unable to respond to emails or other correspondence sent to us from persons making these claims or persons offering information about or referrals to psychics.

We instead invite those persons to present their evidence to the members of the James Randi Education Foundation. They have a forum available for you to discuss your claims. http://forums.randi.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7

Jump to the next story in the series:
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2006/04/41106-pmp-making-up-ending.html

Sunday, April 09, 2006

4/9/06 Was Lost and Now Found

Last night, at about 1:30am, I was just about ready to turn off the computer and head to bed, when I heard the new email notification chime. The subject of the email said: "Urgent, Call Me". The email was from Claudia Perez' grandfather Joaquin. I picked up the phone and called him, hoping it was not bad news.

Joaquin told me that about an hour or so prior to my call that someone had walked through his front door, someone he had not seen in a long time. That someone was his granddaughter, Claudia! She had come home, and she was safe and healthy!

Of course, he couldn't believe his eyes when he saw her. He hoped that he wasn't dreaming. He said he now has his miracle, and she's right there in his arms again.

Claudia had been missing since 10/5/04. We told you her story back in November. You can read about her grandfather's search for her here:

http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2005/11/111305-te-amo-claudia-part-i.html
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2005/11/111405-te-amo-claudia-part-ii.html
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2005/11/111705-te-amo-claudia-conclusion.html

When, or as appropriate, we'll share the story of their reunion.

Welcome home, Claudia!

Friday, April 07, 2006

4/7/06 (PMP) The Amazing Mom Who Knows Things

Today’s guest writer is James Randi Educational Foundation forum member, Meg Mullett, known as “meg” on the forum. Meg is a typical mom, but her children don’t think so.


“My 14 yr old daughter thinks I am psychic. She really does. She believes it 100%. I have freaked her out enough times that she tells her friends things like "No, I *can't* lie to her. She *knows* things."

The truth of the matter is that I, like most people who call themselves "psychic", am actually just a pretty good study of people. I quickly found my mother's lost keys the other day. My daughter saw me think about it for a second, then walk straight to the bathroom and find them behind the toilet. She thinks that was astounding. I know it’s because my mother has a bladder the size of a baby pea, and that she often rushes franticly into the house from a car trip, on a beeline for the bathroom. It doesn't take superpowers to figure out she probably had them in her pocket when she ran for the toilet, and they fell out when she dropped her pants. She's hard of hearing, so she wouldn't hear them when they fell.

In general, I'm pretty good at finding lost things for the people I know and love. Not because I have an amazing gift, but because I am observant.

Sometimes, when the phone rings, I say "That will be Mary. I'll take it." My daughter picks up the phone or looks on the caller ID and sees it is indeed Mary, and she is properly amazed at my powers. I know it's because either Mary and I talked earlier today and we set a time to call each other again, or because we often call each other right after certain television programs to talk about what happened. She's also the only person that ever calls me after 9pm. My daughter logically knows all these things, but she doesn't put them together. She assumes when I say "that will be Mary" that I'm using my super-magic-mom powers.

I've caught my daughter attempting to lie a number of times throughout her life. The truth of the matter is that my daughter is a *terrible* liar. Her voice gets a kind of whiny tone, her eyes get shifty, and her hands twitch when she lies. It doesn't take psychic powers to see it and look her deeply in the eyes and say "Now tell me what REALLY happened.." and watch her crumble. It is easier to do it now that she thinks I am psychic than it was when she was little. Now, she already believes that I *know* things, so she's already set up thinking that she won't get away with lying to me, so she's even more nervous and obvious about it when she does it. Don't get me wrong - she's really a great kid, and for the most part is very honest. She's a typical teenager, though, and occasionally does stuff she knows she shouldn't do, and then tries to fib about it.

She and a friend walked into the house once, and I asked "When did you start smoking?" to the friend. They were shocked. They thought they were amazingly sneaky and no one could have possibly known that the friend had smoked. This, too, was proof of my magical abilities.
"See??? I TOLD you she would know!" The truth, of course, is that I could smell it on her and saw a rectangular cigarette pack shape in her pocket.

Mostly, I use my powers for good. When my step-son was an older teenager, back when I was a bit "woo", meaning back when I thought there really might be something to this psychic stuff, I would sometimes do tarot readings for him and his friends. I would say things like "You be verrrrry careful this next year! There's baby energy around you. One of them later told me "Your reading was SOO TRUE! Two girls in my school got pregnant last year. Definitely a lot of baby energy around. I'm glad you warned me. I've been very careful." I made up the same kind of stuff about drugs.

I have never taken money for my "gift". I use my powers to do good. Does that mean I'm not a liar, a fake or a fraud? NO. I AM a liar, I AM a fake and I AM a fraud. No question about it whatsoever. I TRICKED my kids, and I did it for power over them. It doesn't matter that I did it to get them to do the right thing. It's still a TRICK.

Someday my daughter will figure out the truth, just like my step-son did. James Randi's excellent book "Flim-Flam" is in our living room right now. All my daughter has to do is pick it up. We watched his "Secrets of the Psychics" video just last week. All she has to do is put two and two together. She knows I like to frequent the James Randi Educational Foundation internet discussion boards (
http://forums.randi.org/). All she has to do is go there and start reading. There is a whole section of bookmarks on our computer devoted to debunking psychics, how to do cold reading, exactly how they do it, all sorts of skeptical stuff. All she has to do is look. All she has to do is ask me "How did you know that?" and I will tell her the truth.

Until she asks, though, she will always be tricked. Until she quits "just believing" and starts looking, she won't find out the truth.

So this article is for those of you who think psychics are for real, especially if they don't charge money, or they do it to help people. I'm telling you straight up that I, a known psychic (just ask my daughter) am a complete and total fake. Even though I've never charged money, and even though I use my powers for good, I am a fake. A big fat liar liar pants on fire fakearooney bend your spooney.

Every single "psychic detective" in the world is just exactly as powerful and magical as me, The Amazing Mom Who Knows Things. In this, we are exactly the same.

We are fakes. We are liars. We are frauds.

But here is how we are different. And this is important. When I hear about a family in the horribly tragic circumstance of having one of their loved ones missing, I DON'T think, "Hmm. I wonder if I can use them to get my name in the paper.." or "I wonder if I can exploit them to make a little money.." "I wonder if I can get a free trip to wherever they are out of this.."

I DON'T think it's a good idea to deflect the family's attention away from putting up fliers, questioning people that might have seen something, getting all possible information to law enforcement and/or search parties, in other words, the people and activities that really have chance of actually finding the loved one.

I DON'T think it's a good idea to deflect attention away the family's activities of just being there for each other, talking to each other, supporting each other in this time of crisis.

I DON'T think it's a good idea to steal their attention, their money, or their time away from all those good activities in order to send them on a total wild goose chase, searching random places just because I get a goofy brain flash of "the number 4, or "near trees", or "I see a yellow house".

I DON'T think it's a good idea to make up horrible graphic stories about their loved one's death, and possibly cause these people to give up hope and start grieving for someone that may still be alive.

I DON'T think it's a good idea to make up more fantasies about how the loved one is alive and being held hostage somewhere, in pain, causing untold grief, stress, pain and heartache to these families.

I DON'T think it's a good idea to impose my dreams, my fantasies, or even my opinions on the family at all.

Let's make no bones about this; when I play psychic for my kid, I do it to get something. I do it to get her to stay honest, or to alter her behavior in some way, to keep her on the straight and narrow. When these "psychic detectives" play psychic, they're doing it to get something, too. They do it to get attention. They do it to feed their own ego. They do it to feel special. And the worst scumbags of them all do it to make money.

Whether they really believe they have this "gift" or not really doesn't matter. What matters is that these people are indeed the lowest form of predator. They seek out people in a stressful, tragic situation, and then exploit the situation for their own self-gratification. These people are the lowest of the low.

If I sound angry here, it's because I AM. I am angry that these liars are permitted to steal money, publicity and attention from victims of a tragedy. I am angry that "psychic tips" waste untold thousands, maybe even millions of our tax dollars because our police and other law enforcement officers have to follow up all tips, no matter how assinine they are. I am angry that newspaper and television stories "report" that a psychic is working on such-and-such a case, encouraging a misguided public to be further snookered by this chicanery. I am angry that television stations broadcast programs about psychics that are nothing more than masterful pieces of lies, misdirection and editing. I am angry that talk show hosts bring psychics onto their programs, encouraging them to hoodwink the American public every week.

These people are liars, fakes and frauds who are preying like vultures on the victims of tragedy.

I hope, after reading this blog series, that if a psychic contacts you offering their version of "help", that you feel empowered to not only say "No", but "@#$! NO!" to their offer. These people have no help to offer. No psychic has *ever* found a missing person. The only thing they've ever found is how to get money or publicity from grieving people.

I am as real a psychic as you'll ever meet. And I'm telling it to you straight.

We psychics, every last one of us, are liars, fakes and frauds.”

Let’s consider that it is certainly possible that some psychics got their start from encouragement from friends and family members, just as Meg’s children think she is psychic and regularly voice that opinion to her. A person could easily take that to heart and start to believe it, not realizing that they are simply being observant.



We understand that many people believe that psychics are effective in solving crimes and finding missing people. Please keep in mind that the goal of this series is to help families understand techniques used by persons making these claims and make better decisions about the use of psychics.

Project Jason and its volunteers cannot act as a clearinghouse for persons claiming success in using paranormal means to locate missing persons. We will be unable to respond to emails or other correspondence sent to us from persons making these claims or persons offering information about or referrals to psychics.

We instead invite those persons to present their evidence to the members of the James Randi Education Foundation. They have a forum available for you to discuss your claims. http://forums.randi.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7

Jump to the next story in the series:
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2006/04/41006-pmp-not-one-knew.html

Thursday, April 06, 2006

4/6/06 (PMP) Contradictions, Not Answers

Today’s guest writer is Louise Kinslow, mother of missing teen Sarah Kinslow.

“The first "psychic" (I'll call her Linda) approached my husband, John, and I in our driveway as we were getting ready to leave. She told us that she had been having dreams about Sarah for quite some time, and that Sarah kept telling her that she wanted to be found. Linda said that she didn't know who Sarah was until recently when she saw her flyer in a store window. She said that she sensed the fragrance of Honeysuckle and asked if Sarah wore Honeysuckle cologne. She told us of a place where she kept seeing in her dreams and believed that we would find her there. We went over there, and found nothing.

Linda once called me around 11:30 p.m. to tell me about a dream she had just had about Sarah that awakened her. She suggested that we should look in manholes, because she thought that Sarah had been put in a manhole somewhere on a certain highway between our town and another close-by town. By this time she had decided that Sarah was somewhere near where honeysuckles would grow in the spring. No, we did NOT go look in manholes!

In 2005, after about the third airing of our segment on the Montel Williams show, I received a phone call from a woman (Robin) whom I believe was from Wisconsin or maybe Minnesota. She told us that she had seen the show, and that she felt compelled to call us about Sarah, and that she may help to resolve our case for us. She said that she had gained her psychic abilities after one of her sons had committed suicide a few years ago. She told me that there is no charge for her "readings" that she records on cassette tapes. She cited a case she had worked on and helped to resolve it. I told her that I agreed for her to make the tapes from her "readings" and would listen to them shortly after we had received them.

The tapes arrived about 1½ - 2 weeks later. As I sat down to listen to them, I knew almost from the very beginning that it was a sham. There were 5 two-sided tapes to listen to. The longer I listened, the more I knew that none of these things were true and felt the presence of evil in her 'readings' and in her voice.

In the end, she had Sarah being killed (within a couple of weeks after she disappeared) by a cult that a deputy sheriff was involved with, and her body was supposedly buried in a barn that was in a very remote area where no noise from her screams could be heard.

In the conclusion of the tape, she offered to allow us to fly herself and her (surviving) son to Texas (of course, all expenses paid by us) to help us find the area where all these things happened. Of course, I never did contact her, but trashed the tapes. She is out the cost of the tapes and of the postage. I guess she figured 'nothing ventured, nothing gained'.

The fact is, though, that I have a video that shows Sarah and another person from after about 5 weeks since she had left home. This is how I cling to hope that she is alive.

I have never contacted a psychic about Sarah, and don't feel compelled to do so. A woman where I work claims psychic abilities and has told me some things that she believes to be true about Sarah. However, she had contradicted herself at least once. I have prayed that if this is not of God, that she would not bring this up to me again. She doesn't bring it up. I have asked her one of two quick things (as a test) since she first brought it up, but she never brings it up on her own.

I could be wrong, but it seems to me that most of the resolutions that psychics have to our missing loved one, usually are bad ones.

Anybody besides me notice that the 'psychic' on Montel looks evil and contradicts what the Bible says?”

Yes, Louise, we noticed.

To learn more about Sarah Kinslow, please see
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2006/03/3106-looking-for-sarah-part-i.html

We understand that many people believe that psychics are effective in solving crimes and finding missing people. Please keep in mind that the goal of this series is to help families understand techniques used by persons making these claims and make better decisions about the use of psychics.

Project Jason and its volunteers cannot act as a clearinghouse for persons claiming success in using paranormal means to locate missing persons. We will be unable to respond to emails or other correspondence sent to us from persons making these claims or persons offering information about or referrals to psychics.

We instead invite those persons to present their evidence to the members of the James Randi Education Foundation. They have a forum available for you to discuss your claims. http://forums.randi.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7

Jump to the next story in the series:
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2006/04/4706-pmp-amazing-mom-who-knows-things.html

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

4/5/06 (PMP) The Psychic Editor?

Today's guest writer has chosen to remain anonymous. We respect this family's wishes.

"When I had the opportunity to receive national television coverage for my missing loved one on a show featuring a well known psychic, I jumped at it. I was more excited about the national coverage than the prospect of listening to what a psychic had to say but I was willing to listen. I was thinking, “What if we do hear something that could help?”

After being prepped off stage that psychologists would be available if we needed support, the taping commenced. A short tape rolled for the audience describing our family’s missing loved one and documenting the reactions of the family members left behind. We then listened intently and answered questions from the host and the psychic about our missing loved one.

Not knowing what to think about what we were being told, we took all the information in, hoping that it would pan out to a new lead and possibly help find our missing loved one. After the show, we were quickly ushered into a waiting limo only to wonder about what we just heard and how the show would turn out.

On the ride back home, excited about prospect that our loved one was alive and possibly nearby, we made meticulous notes on exactly what the psychic told us about our missing loved one. After making these notes, we looked down at the notes, and we were thinking that they looked quite similar to the content of the web site for our missing loved one. The hopes created by the psychic’s words moments earlier were already starting to diminish.

The notes also told of our loved one being picked up by a truck from ABC Trucking Company and to look in XYZ City for our loved one. We didn’t know what to make of the information, nor were we willing to wait until the show aired in a few months, so we forwarded the information to our investigator, who investigated ABC trucking online, spoke to LE in XYZ City, and inquired in XYZ City’s area hospitals for our missing loved one.

When the showed aired on television a few months later, to our amazement, the psychic's vision changed.

The psychic now stated that our loved one was picked up by XYZ Trucking Company, a completely different trucking company. Also, after referring to our original notes made in the limo, we realized that the entire flow of the conversation from the psychic was different. We can only assume that the clip was retaped and the psychic must have forgot what they said originally.

Either way, the experience only further reinforced what our disillusioned family already believed. That is, if psychics were for real, they would be on LE's (Law Enforcement’s) payroll, not going around giving families false hope and wasting their time."

We understand that many people believe that psychics are effective in solving crimes and finding missing people. Please keep in mind that the goal of this series is to help families understand techniques used by persons making these claims and make better decisions about the use of psychics.

Project Jason and its volunteers cannot act as a clearinghouse for persons claiming success in using paranormal means to locate missing persons. We will be unable to respond to emails or other correspondence sent to us from persons making these claims or persons offering information about or referrals to psychics.

We instead invite those persons to present their evidence to the members of the James Randi Education Foundation. They have a forum available for you to discuss your claims. http://forums.randi.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7

Jump to the next story in the series:
http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2006/04/4606-pmp-contradictions-not-answers.html

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

4/4/06 (PMP) Sylvia and Friends, Part III

Amanda Berry was a lovely teenage girl who disappeared from Cleveland, OH in April of 2003. She left her part-time job and was never seen again. Her mother, Louwana Miller, had a very difficult time dealing with Amanda’s disappearance. She suffered from several physical maladies after that, including a bout with cancer of the brain.

Days after we returned from filming a missing adults segment of the Montel Williams Show in NYC in November of 2004, I was informed that Sylvia Browne was going to be filming a show. I wondered who her victim might be, as I was also told that at least one of the guests would be a family member of a missing person.

It wasn’t long before I found out. It was, in fact, one of the cases we worked on, Amanda Berry. I was very concerned because I knew how sick Louwana was. I spoke to her friend and advocate, Terry, who shared with me that Louwana was a big Sylvia fan, and that nothing would dissuade her from making that trip. Cleveland’s WKYC reporter, friend and advocate for Louwana, Bill Safos, went along and was granted a brief interview with Sylvia after the show. He also had tried to convince Louwana not to go, but she would not hear of it. I feared the worst would happen at the show. I was right.

As typical, Browne told the grieving mother that her daughter was dead. Louwana was so overcome with emotion from the revelation that she bolted from her seat, and ran up the aisle where the audience was seated. I’m not sure that she ever recovered from the events of that day.

In his interview with Browne, Bill Safos asked: “Are you ever wrong?” “Only God is right all the time but of course I’m wrong,” Browne responded. “But after 50 years of doing this work, I’d better be more right than wrong. I always say I hope I’m wrong. When it comes to this, I hope I’m wrong.”

Well, Sylvia, just in case you weren’t aware, your track record in missing person’s cases is rather dismal, and in fact, there are no known successes. That would make you 100% wrong.

For fans of Browne, what does this tell you? On her website, she indicates she will not work missing persons’ cases. In the case of a personal friend of mine, missing Ryan Katcher, his mom, Linda, was told by Browne that he was dead. She gave some indicators as to his body’s location. Authorities checked out Browne’s claims, but still no Ryan.

It's much safer for her to pretend to be able to speak to the dead than it is to claim to know the whereabouts of a missing person. After all, we can't verify the claim about a conversation with the dead, can we? We can, however, know that a lead on a missing person did not solve the case.

Louwana’s health continued to deteriorate throughout the year. She was hospitalized at the end of December and passed away in early M arch. She was only 44 years old. It was said she died of heart failure, but I would say, rather, that it was a broken heart.

In a newspaper report in the Beacon Journal, a Cleveland area crime victim advocate named Art McCoy said that Louwana Miller changed after the show. “From that point, Ms. Miller was never the same," McKoy said.

…..And Amanda Berry is still missing.

In yet another meaningless statement coming from her lips, Browne proclaimed on national TV that she would take the James Randi Educational Foundation’s (JREF) One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge. Later on, she demanded proof that the money existed. JREF officials sent her the paperwork proving the money exists in the form of immediately negotiable bonds, but she refused to sign for the documents.

This link to JREF houses several links about Browne and her agreement to take the test, including a video. There is also a link to a story that reveals that she incorrectly guessed the Virginia miners as being alive, when it had been announced they were not. More information about the challenge can also be found on this page.

http://www.randi.org/sylvia/index.html

Other links about Browne:

Browne invents information about working with the NJ police:
http://skepdic.com/psychdet.html

Transcripts of Browne in regards to the Challenge and another discrepancy:
http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/browne.html

Various beliefs held by Browne:
http://www.skepticreport.com/psychics/sylviabrowne.htm

Browne in legal trouble:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_6_28/ai_n6361823

A Skeptic proves Sylvia wrong time after time:
http://stopsylviabrowne.com


We understand that many people believe that psychics are effective in solving crimes and finding missing people. Please keep in mind that the goal of this series is to help families understand techniques used by persons making these claims and make better decisions about the use of psychics.

Project Jason and its volunteers cannot act as a clearinghouse for persons claiming success in using paranormal means to locate missing persons. We will be unable to respond to emails or other correspondence sent to us from persons making these claims or persons offering information about or referrals to psychics.

We instead invite those persons to present their evidence to the members of the James Randi Education Foundation. They have a forum available for you to discuss your claims. http://forums.randi.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7

The Missing People Podcast, which features a dramatized audio production of Psychics and Missing People. http://www.lumospub.com/programs.html

Jump to the next story in the series:

http://voice4themissing.blogspot.com/2006/04/4506-pmp-psychic-editor.html





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