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Mediums at Large
by Patrick Huyghe
FATE :: April 2007

It happens more often than people imagine. Probably several times a week—if not several times a day—a psychic somewhere in the world helps law enforcement crack a crime or locate a missing person. The skeptics can twitter and object all they want, but it ­doesn’t amount to a hill of beans.

Examples abound. At the end of January 2005, for instance, police in Nelson, British Columbia, located the body of a young woman for whom they had been looking for ten months. After using every tool at their disposal—search dogs, helicopters, and infrared heat detectors—the police finally called in a local psychic for help. The psychic, Norm Pratt, steered them away from an abandoned railway line where the woman was last seen and into the nearby woods, where her clothes and her remains were eventually found.

That same month in a courtroom in Mannheim, Germany, a mother explained how she had gotten in touch with mediums in the hopes of finding the killer of her 16-year-old daughter, Susanne Erbe. In a séance, Sigrid Erbe told the court, “Susanne told me her killer was a Croatian man in his mid-20s. They were even able to work out where to look for him. They said he could be found at a garage in Manheim.” The mother insisted that the police, who had spent a year questioning 6,500 men and taking 4,300 saliva probes for DNA testing without coming up with a firm suspect, follow up the lead. They did, and when they confronted a Croat man who worked in a Mannheim garage, he broke down and confessed to the crime.

Just a month earlier, former Miami University professor Charles Capel, an 81-year-old Alzheimer’s patient missing for six months, was found by a hunter who stumbled over his bones. Shortly before the discovery, however, Noreen Renier, who has worked as a psychic detective for more than 20 years and whose cases are regularly featured on Court TV’s Psychic Detectives, had “read” a toothbrush and a pair of shoes belonging to Capel at the request of the police and provided them with a detailed description of the site where Capel would be found. Police detectives admitted that her “instructions to us were right on the button.” It was pure coincidence that the hunter had stumbled across the body before the police were able to search the location.....

Read the rest of this article in the April 2007 issue of FATE

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