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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. But first
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this crime online news update. I'm Robert
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Wilenski. You don't want a child,
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don't I have him? And if you caught him
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and you don't want him, give him up. Don't
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do it this way, this wrong. Neighbor's
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stunned to learn a father, a former
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Walmart Santa Claus under arrest
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in Georgia after the bodies of his
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two children found buried in his backyard
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of his house. The kids never reported
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missing, gets the
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lord's work. Elwen Crocker Senior,
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now fifty years old, arrested after
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sheriff's deputy He's go to his house in Guiton,
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Georgia, a suburb of Savannah, to
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conduct a welfare check on his fourteen
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year old daughter, Mary Crocker. After
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questioning Crocker, he apparently directs
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deputies to an area of his backyard,
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where investigators find the bodies
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of Mary and her brother Elwyn, who's
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been missing for two years. I've
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been doing this forty one years and
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while ago Alms broke down in tears, you're
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listening to longtime Effingham County
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sheriff Jimmy McDuffie at a news conference,
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just distraught over detectives finding
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the two bodies. Does that mean I just I
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cannot understand how you do children
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with this horrible Now, police getting
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a tip during a nine one one call saying
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Mary Crocker hadn't been seen since October,
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and the tipster telling the nine one one operator
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she believes the girl is dead. More
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now from ABC thirteen. A
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tip is what led investigators to this
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home, one Rosebud Place. They were
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told fourteen year old Mary Crocker was
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missing and believed to be dead. She
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hadn't been since October. Investigators
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questioned everyone inside the home. Deputies
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say the family lied, saying Mary went to
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live with her mother. When deputies returned
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Thursday morning, they discovered Mary buried
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just feet away from her home, and her brother's
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body was found nearby. Elwyn
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Crocker Junior hadn't been seen since
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November twenty sixteen. Authorities
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believe he was killed at that time, only
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discovered now two years later
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after his death, he would have been sixteen.
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Neither of them were reported missing.
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Deputies have charged three in connection,
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the biological father, forty nine
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year old Elwyn Crocker, the stepmother
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thirty three year old Candice Crocker, and
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the step grandmother, fifty year old Kim
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Wright. They say the three are being charged
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with concealing the death of another and
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cruelty to children in the first
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degree. Deputies say the child
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of the stepmother was found alive inside
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the home. He was taken to the hospital
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to be checked out. And a stunning story
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of two raisin burglars who
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make themselves at home. They make a pot
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of coffee, do their laundry, and take
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a shower. After breaking into a
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house and can't ohio, they steal
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expensive stuff. Police say the couple
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hanging out in the house until the homeowner
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comes back, realizes what's going
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down and calls a relative who has
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a gun. The two suspects identified
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as Richard Napelle, thirty eight years
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old and camer Cantwell, twenty,
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who is reportedly homeless. After
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the two allegedly steal jewelry, a
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computer, credit cards, house and
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car keys, they load these items
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into their truck and then go back inside
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and do the laundry, take the shower, and make
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coffee. The homeowner arrives sees the
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truck in her driveway, and she calls a relative
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who lives nearby, who arrives with
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the gun before police get there. The
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male suspect also has crystal
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meth on him when he's arrested. The two
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now charged with burglary, and he's also
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facing an aggravated drug possession
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charge. In other news, a crazy
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story out on Long Island where a couple
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is accused of punching a New York State
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trooper and then throwing soiled
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underwear during a dui arrest.
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Michael Nelson, thirty eight years old, pulled
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over on the Southern State Parkway. Copsy
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he's driving under the influence of alcohol.
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While he's being arrested, police say he
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headbuts the trooper several times
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and hits the officer. His wife, Alexandra
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twenty nine years old, also arrested.
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While these two at the police station, the
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wife reportedly spits at the officers
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throws her shoes and dirty
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underwear at them. She's charged with
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attempted assault, criminal possession of a
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controlled substance, and disorderly
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conduct. The husband charged with driving
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under the influence, assault, criminal
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possession of a controlled substance, resisting
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arrest, and harassment. More now
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from WABC's Sandra Bookman
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a bizarre story on Long Island.
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Police say a couple headbutted a
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state trooper and even through a soiled
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underwear during a dui arrest.
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Stay Troopers say they pulled that couple over this
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morning on the Southern State Parkway. Police
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say Michael Nelson fought the state troopers
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who arrested him, and when they got to the police
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station, officers say his wife
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Alexandra spat at
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the troopers and through her shoes and underwear.
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A couple faces a laundry list
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of charges. Keep up to date
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Stories with Nancy Grace. I
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never once introduced
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a sidekick into court because
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hey, it's not hard evidence. Be
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the defense would cross
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examine those witnesses to h
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E, double L and back. So
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in my world as a felony prosecutor,
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if I can't see it, touch
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it, smell it, hear it,
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it doesn't exist in the world
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of hard evidence. And my job
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was to put hard evidence in front of a jury
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to prove somebody needed to go to
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jail for the rest of their life or
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worse. But then
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everything changed. I
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mean, see Grace, this is Crime Stories.
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Thank you for being with us. What do you think
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about psychics and specifically
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about psychic detectives,
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because today we have an all
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star lineup of some of
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the most well known psychics
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in the world to talk about not
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just does another realm exist,
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but what they have done to help
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solve criminal cases
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with me Noreen Rnare,
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Gil Saint, John Alison Dubois
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and of course death investigator Joseph
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Scott Morgan forensics expert, to weigh
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in on the let's just say the world of here
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and now and Alan Jackie
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Howard, We're all here and again thank you being
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with us. I'll tell you, jos Got
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Morgans, it's you an ideal and harsh
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reality and cold hard facts before I get to our
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ladies, jos Got, Come
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on, if I tried to bring a psychic into
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court, I would be laughed down the courthouse
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hallway right out the front door, and
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I could be looking for a job, I
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don't know, door to
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door, back and cleaner salesperson. I guess I don't
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know what I would be doing with that law degree, because
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there would be enough skeptics to
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ruin a verdict and
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I could never risk that. Yeah,
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Nancy, Yeah, Nancy, I'm a forensic
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scientist, and I concur with much
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of what you had said relative to being able
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to not just qualify,
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but quantify those things. That we see before
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us in the field and in the laboratory,
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that sort of thing. And it's very hard to get
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that exactly, but I'll tell you what changed my mind.
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I'd been out of the court courtroom for a
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year or two and I got um
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drafted by the Larry King staff
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and to be not
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just a guest, but to be Larry's regular
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guest host for about five years. And
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I remember one time Larry had to
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go somewhere. We went live that night
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on Psychic Detectives.
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So I started preparing for the show
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and listen to this Joe Scott
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Morgan, mister nonbeliever. I
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started reading about a Burbank woman
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who had never had a psychic vision in her
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life, and she allegedly has
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a psychic vision. And
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I'm putting that in quoties that leads
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detectives to the body of a murder
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victim. Now this
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is what went down. This woman,
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Etta Louise Smith, out
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of the blue, says that she had
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a vision about
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a body out in the middle
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of like a canyon rural area,
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and I think, as I recall it, that she
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saw white. She
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keeps having the vision and it's so
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overwhelming. She gets
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members of her family to
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go with her and they go driving around
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Joe Scott, they find the body
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of a beautiful young nurse. It
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was two days after the nurse is very highly
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publicized disappearance. As
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I recall it, the
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nurse was coming home from work one
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evening. You know, they have crazy shifts at a hospital.
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She's at a red light and a bunch of
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guys that she didn't know drove up
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beside her and they kidnapped
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her and ended up beating her and dumping
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her body in a rural area above
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lake View Terraces. About
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forty five minutes after,
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she finds the body with her family
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members. They call police and the police
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are there now. She is there
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with two of her children and a niece and
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they find the body and they leave. Police to
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the location in Lopez Canyon, in
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the middle of a canyon, Jefe Scott. Well,
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the police get there and guess
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what they do? They arrest her.
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After hours and hours of interrogation,
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they arrest Eda
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Smith. Nancy, Let's listen to
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what Eda Smith told Oprah Winfrey.
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Well, what really brought it about was I was
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listening to a news broadcast on a radio
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and the night before a girlfriend
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had called me on the phone and asked me if
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I had heard about a nurse who had been kidnapped, and
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you felt what Well, what
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really brought it about was I was listening to a
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news broadcast on a radio, and
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the night before a girlfriend had called me on the
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phone and asked me if I had heard
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about a nurse who had been kidnapped and was missing
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in our area, and I said no, I
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hadn't heard about it. So that day at work.
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The following day, at work, I listened to the radio
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and they said that they had found the ladies vehicle
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on a dead end street and that they were
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making a house to house search for her. And
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as soon as they said a house to house, sir, it
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was as if I heard someone speaking to me
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says, she's not in a house. And as soon as
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that thought registered, I saw exactly where she
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was. It was like there was a picture in front of me.
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WHOA. I didn't know the name of the street,
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but I knew the area, I knew how to get there,
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and I just knew. So what
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did you do? Tell called police? Well,
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this was about three o'clock in the
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afternoon, I was at work. I'd get off work at three
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thirty, and I'm arguing with myself
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all the way home because when I get to a certain
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intersection, I either turn right to go home,
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or I can turn left and I'll be right in front the police department.
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So I'm saying I should stop, and I'm saying
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now I should go home. Well, when I got to
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that intersection, I said, let him think
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I'm nuts. I have to stop. And it's exactly
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what I did. I talked to a homicide
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investigator, told him exactly
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the area. I said, I knew
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that it's on the right hand side going up this
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canyon road, and that there was a
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dirt path going towards
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this person and with a heel behind
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her. He said they had not check that area,
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that they would, and I said, well,
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you know, I have a feeling I will also. Inside
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I wanted to be wrong, but I also
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felt that if I didn't check, I'd never know the
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truth. I'd never know if they checked,
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I'd never know for sure whether
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I was right or wrong, and I wanted to be wrong. I
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was hoping I was really wrong. So you went there
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yourself, or you went there with them? No, I
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went I
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didn't go with them. I went home. I told
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my children why I was late coming home, and
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they wanted to go with me. I told him I was
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going. And I feel
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bad about that now because at the time I wasn't
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thinking properly. I wouldn't have taken
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the children out to look for someone. But
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as he was saying, when you get in, how
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old were your children? Nine? Ten? Yeah?
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I took two children with me, plus a niece
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who was twenty one at the time. And
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you found the body ultimately, yeah, yeah,
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you found the Boddy and and you were saying
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what Charles was saying that what when you
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get close? Because I knew when
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we got in the canyon, I could I could
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feel, I
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could feel the terror. I could feel
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vibrations of something that wasn't
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normal. I felt scared
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myself, you know, I could
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feel it just like he since Jennifer, since
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her you said you felt her absolutely. That is amazing.
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That is amazing. Police later arrested
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you because well, they said I
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knew too much about it not to have been involved,
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because I had described in detail where
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she was up this canyon road on
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the side on the right side, with a dirt path
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going to her and a hill behind her.
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I said, I had to have been there to
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have known that. So long story short,
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Joe Scott. She didn't take kindly,
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as you can imagine, getting arrested after
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hours and hours of interrogation.
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She sued LAPD and
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she got a huge settlement
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from lap Now, when I read
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this story, and I read several more
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like it, and I did
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the Larry King Show that night, and I
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was questioning the cops
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that were on the case, cops Joe Scott,
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police officers, and they're
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like, we don't understand it, but it happened in
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Joe Scott. We did several
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shows like that, and we would have three
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or four cases on each show. And
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I got the opportunity to talk
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to the sidekicks, which I had never done before,
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to question the police officers,
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some of the victims' families, and
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I walked away going, Okay,
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this does not make sense in my head, but
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it happened. I don't It's just like you
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know, the telephone and the TV and the radio
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and the cell phone. I don't know how
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it happens, but I know that it does
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happen. I know when I flicked the lights,
16:49
which light comes on. I don't have to think about
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Wow, how did we harness electricity? How
16:54
do we get it into the room without burning the house down?
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I don't think about that, but I know that
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it happens Joe Scott, and this appen for
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us in investigations. We're so pragmatic
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about everything, and we
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spend we spend so much of our time
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trying to cut through what
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is fact and what is fiction. We are
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lied to a lot, I think, in our field
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trying to get to the truth, and it's
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we're biased in that sense in that
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we assume many times
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that most of the people that we're talking to are
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trying to deceive us in something. Well, I
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hear what you're saying, and that may be true, and I'm
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not saying that's not true. Your point. What
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I'm saying is if I can't understand
17:35
it, if it's not two plus two equals four,
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I'm not putting in front of a jury, bam,
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end of story. If
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I can't prove it at a crime lab or I can't
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see it here it, taste it, touch it, or smell
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it, it's not in my world. Until
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I spoke to Edda with me
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right now, three of the most
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well known psychics literally
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in the World. Norine Raner
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del Saint John Alison Duba
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First to you, Alison
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Duba, tell me how
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you became a psychic. When did you first
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have any psychic vision
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or experience. It started when I was really
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little. I mean I was six years old and I
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went to the first funeral I ever attended,
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and it was my great grandfather's. And I
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came home from his funeral and
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my mom tucked me into bed, and I looked at the foot
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of my bed and he was standing there and he
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actually looked like he had no lines on his face,
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and he looked happy. And he said, tell your mom, I'm
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not in pain anymore and I'm still with her, because
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he had died of intestinal cancer, very painful
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death. So I got out of bed and I told
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my mom, Grandpa's in my room, and he says,
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to tell you, he's not in pain anymore and he's still with
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you, and she told me to go back to
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bed. So it was the seventies. They didn't know what to
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do with kids like me at the time, So that was
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my first experience. You know, I'm looking
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at a photo of you right now, Alison Dublat,
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and I already know you, but I'm just looking
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at you. And when people think
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of mediums or chics, they
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think of some crackpot dressed
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and I guess a gypsy outfit over a fake
19:06
crystal ball in a dark room. Okay, that's
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that's what they think of. It couldn't if
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you guys look up these three ladies, Narin,
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Gayl and Alison, and I don't mean this it's an
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insult. They're normal. They're regular
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people like you and me that have had
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an event in their lives that took
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them down the road of psychic medium.
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So tell me when your next
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vision was or your next I don't know if I call it a vision
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or experience. Alison, you
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know I had experiences through my whole childhood.
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I guess when I was a teenager, when you
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get really turned up because of the hormones and
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all, I moved my bed
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from against the south wall over
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to the east wall. And my friend Barbara, who was spending
19:45
the night that night, was like, would you
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do that for and I said, yeah, voice
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that I've heard my whole life told me to move
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the bed, and I said, so, I moved
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the bed because it has already saved my life once
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before, when I was eleven, and that
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night a truck drift through my bedroom wall, and
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if I hadn't moved the bed, barber and
20:03
I would have been under the truck. So my
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friends always just chalked it up, so, well, that's just
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Allison, you know. So I thought
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everybody could do what I did, they just didn't
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talk about it like wink wink, nod nod.
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But it wasn't until I was interning
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a homicide to be a prosecutor that
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I realized that other people
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didn't necessarily see or hear what I was seeing
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and hearing. And that was news to me. Also
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with me in addition to Alison Dubois at
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Alison Dubois dot com, Noreen
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Ranier, and Gail Saint John
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Norine. If it's not too intrusive
20:36
again, landies, thank you to all three of you
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being with dus Norine. When was your first I
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don't know what else to call it but psychic experience.
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I was all grown up and I was pretty much
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a skeptic. I thought all psychics told
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client people could marrya told our handsome
20:51
man and they stole chickens or something of
20:53
the sort. So I was very surprised
20:55
when I started meditating. I
20:58
didn't believe in psychic phenomena, and I went almost
21:00
immediately into a trance and gave
21:02
a Winnebagel Indian who was at the table
21:05
with my girlfriend, who was also skeptic nun
21:09
information which hold
21:11
on, I've got two skeptics and one is an ex
21:13
nun. You know that just reminds me. Let me tell you,
21:15
Narein, when I was a FED before I became a felony
21:17
prosecutor, I was prosecuting some
21:20
people with the Federal Trade Commission
21:22
in the consumer protection an I trust vision
21:25
and it was a weight loss product, which
21:27
I knew from examining and speaking to
21:29
scientists had nothing in it at all
21:32
that would be at a weight loss. It's something called
21:34
guar g u a R. I've
21:36
never had a chance to work that into a conversation since
21:38
that time, but guar kind of
21:41
expands in your stomach and makes you feel full
21:43
for a minute and then basically no,
21:46
nothing to make you lose weight. Then
21:48
I started sifting through all the letters of complaints
21:50
and I found one letter from a nun
21:53
that swore she lost forty pounds
21:55
usually whatever it was, I don't even remember the name.
21:57
Of it and I took it into my boss's office.
22:00
I was holding I'm like, we're screed
22:02
because this nune says
22:05
this worked, and she used it for six months. And
22:07
let me tell you something. You put this n up on that
22:09
witness stand, it's over. Okay,
22:12
we got to rethink this whole thing. So
22:14
you're telling me you're sitting there with an X nun
22:16
and what happened? And well she was a disbeliever
22:19
and everything too. So we after
22:21
Joe, after the episode, we got rid of Joan
22:23
and did you believe this stuff? I said no, she must
22:25
have done something to us. So we decided to
22:28
meet that night. Her husband worked late.
22:30
She was out of the convent now like ten years
22:32
and had been in the convent for about ten years. And
22:35
we started doing what the books we're talking
22:37
about, we would practice. So
22:39
that's how it began. And then at work, I couldn't
22:41
think. I just wanted to see if
22:43
it worked. And I was in PR and advertising, so
22:45
I could bring clients too high at hotel and show
22:48
them in case they wanted to rende lecture hall
22:50
or something, and I would rush them to lunch and
22:52
say, look, I really don't believe in this, but I'm read
22:54
if you hold a person's rings or watch and you
22:57
put it to your forehead, you can, and so I'd
22:59
be grabbing their want to ring off the practice
23:01
on people I didn't know, and it
23:03
was working. Of course, I got fired, I think
23:06
not a very good psyche got three months later, and
23:08
so that's when I went full time, dressed like a gypsy
23:11
and started in the nightclub. I was still
23:13
trying to prove that
23:15
this really was real, and then science got involved
23:17
Duke University, a lot of testing at
23:20
Ryan Research, and I still
23:22
love testing my mind of what it can do. And
23:24
I do still a lot of work, and I'm working a lot
23:26
now in South Africa of all places.
23:28
Okay, I'm just taking
23:31
all of this in. Gail Saint John
23:33
also with me, in addition to Alison du Bois
23:35
and Mareen Renier. Gail Saint John,
23:38
you and I've spoken many many times, although
23:40
guys on professional
23:42
level, I have not consulted with Gayl Saint John.
23:45
Okay, I'm still clinging to
23:47
the fact that this may not exist, even
23:49
though I know that it has actually
23:51
happened. Gael Saint John,
23:54
I want to hear your
23:56
first so called I don't know what else to call
23:58
it, unless you ladies can enlighten me. Psychic
24:00
experience. Um well, I
24:03
vividly remember I
24:05
was about four years old. My
24:08
mother was outside talking to
24:11
the neighbor. You know, we're talking about
24:13
the nineteen sixties, so
24:15
you can kind of picture how that is. I'm
24:17
two houses down playing with the
24:20
other little girl. We're used to having
24:22
a great time, like you know, real little
24:24
kids are doing and watching
24:26
our mom's talk. And and
24:28
I look up at her house and
24:31
it was on fire. And I'm
24:34
at an age where, you know, comprehension isn't
24:36
the greatest. But so I looked down. I look
24:38
up again, and the house was on fire. Now
24:40
at this point, I'm scared, I'm running
24:43
home. If I'm running back, you know, just quickly
24:45
I glanced again, the house was not on fire. And I'm running
24:47
up to my mom and I'm yelling mom, mom,
24:49
and she's trying to, you know, keep me quiet for
24:51
a minute, and she
24:54
shuffled me into the house. I think she said
24:56
something to neighbor. I think she got hurt. And we get
24:58
into the house and she said, what what
25:01
are you howiring about fire? I said, I
25:03
saw the house on fire. I saw the neighbor's house
25:06
on fire. She said, it's not on fire,
25:08
and I insisted, I saw it, but I know it's gone
25:11
now. She said, you
25:13
like, what exactly did you see? And I said,
25:15
it was burning, there was smoke, I
25:18
saw people there, and then I said, then
25:20
it was all gone. She said, um, she
25:22
said, you know you need to not say
25:25
these things. I'm like, I mean,
25:27
I clean, I can't say these things. And my
25:29
grandmother came out of the other room she goes, ye, we
25:31
don't talk about this. This has been in our family. We
25:33
don't. You don't say these things. I was
25:35
so confused at that point I let it go.
25:38
Three days later their house burned down. And
25:40
then that left me with the strangest
25:43
of feelings that at such a young age, of like what
25:45
if what if they? What if somebody would have And
25:47
thank goodness, nobody got hurt in
25:49
the fire, they all got out, But
25:52
what if what if somebody had
25:54
gotten hurt? And I would have been responsible
25:56
because I knew I could have warned them?
25:59
And I with a guilt for quite some time
26:02
and trying to deal with disability
26:04
and where's that line,
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Stories with Nancy Grace. We
27:28
are speaking with three renowned
27:30
so called psychic detectives Narene
27:33
Ranier, Gail sat John Alison
27:36
Dubois with me death investigator Joe Scott
27:38
Morgan, Alan Duke and Jackie Howard. I
27:40
want to go to Noreen Rnaer.
27:44
Noreen, do you recall a
27:46
particular case that you worked
27:48
on. This case dealt
27:50
with a victim that
27:53
is last named Sullivan that was
27:55
ultimately discovered dead.
27:59
Um. It was a missing person
28:01
case and an
28:04
agent with the Montana Department of Justice.
28:06
The d o J contacted
28:09
you in way back after
28:12
watching you on television. He was skeptical,
28:14
he says, he met you, flew
28:16
to Florida to meet you to see if you were the real
28:18
deal. He says. He
28:21
gave you no information about the unsolved
28:23
case and wanted to find out
28:26
if you could possibly help
28:28
find a Montana State auditor
28:31
Walter Sullivan. Noreene,
28:33
do you recall the Sullivan case
28:35
out of Montana? Oh? Yes, they do.
28:39
I got a phone call from them. They had
28:42
Detective uber Ubi. I had
28:44
seen me on television and I wanted
28:46
to know how I worked. And usually
28:48
the police, because I worked all over the United States, would
28:51
send me something off the victim that wouldn't
28:53
interrupt their crime, like a whew
28:55
or built buckle or something.
28:58
And they didn't want to send the evidence had
29:00
so they flew out and usually
29:02
I do things over the phone, so I was surprised
29:05
to see them with the camera and
29:08
they videotaped the session,
29:10
and they would give me no feedback. Usually
29:13
on the phone, I just asked if it's a homicide
29:15
or a missing person case. I don't ask for their name
29:18
because the skeptics always say that we look
29:20
it up and we know everything about the person. So
29:22
I never know the name of the victim until
29:25
I start the case. So they told me they named the victim,
29:27
and I described him to make sure I was tuned in.
29:30
I forgot I think I was holding something. Of the victims
29:33
did a bunch on him, and they were very bad at
29:35
giving me feedback, and usually I just like
29:37
to know if I'm in the right zone, you
29:40
know, did he have you know, the ball here? However,
29:42
I described him, but they've no feedback whatsoever.
29:45
And then they gave me the projectile
29:47
the bullet that he
29:50
had been shot with, and then I got all sorts
29:52
of new pictures. I saw three men,
29:56
and I remember my head hurting terribly. I
29:58
was outside of a blue building walking
30:00
towards it when these men jumped me and they
30:02
started hitting me, and the one in the head
30:05
hurt me the most. Described
30:08
there was two Mexicans and then the third man. We just
30:11
have an artist. I always worked with an artist when
30:13
we have homicide cases, so it
30:15
helps the police with the elimination of suspects.
30:18
So the artist was drawing the faces I was
30:20
seen. But I remember
30:23
my head hurting so badly. Even after
30:25
I came out of my tramps, I was still
30:27
hurting. After describing
30:30
the three men, the two Mexicans and the one other
30:32
older man, they just
30:35
started asking me questions and then I would
30:37
respond to the questions. How we was killed?
30:40
You know why I was killed. I saw a lot of numbers
30:42
around the victim,
30:45
and he turned out that he was into finance
30:47
a great deal. Don't
30:49
remember everything, but they were just very
30:51
pleased with what I gave them. I
30:54
forgot what else they wanted to know. Oh, I
30:56
had to draw things for them. They they want to know what the
30:58
gun looked like, and I was trying to tell them
31:01
that you had to use two hands on it,
31:03
and they still couldn't understand. So I got a piece
31:05
of paper and a pen and drew it and
31:07
it turned out it was like a K nine. I still
31:09
don't know guns, but it drew it just
31:12
like it it was, so they were
31:14
very happy with all the evidence. Wow.
31:16
I mean I did a lot more, but I can't remember
31:18
everything, and I don't feel that I
31:21
ever solved crumbs. I think that I'm like, I'm
31:24
a tool and if they know how to use me, right,
31:27
and a lot of police don't. If
31:29
they knew how to use me, and I try to write
31:31
how best I work, I'm
31:34
just a tool for them to get more evidence, and
31:36
that's what they bring to court. Wow.
31:38
Back to our skeptic.
31:41
Joseph Scott Morgan, homicide investigator
31:44
and professor forensics at Jacksonville State
31:46
University. Okay, Joe Scott, did you
31:48
hear that? Oh yeah, I heard it. Nancy
31:51
heard it loud and clear, and for
31:53
all I know, it could just be a random shot in the dark.
31:56
So you're gonna have to prove it to me. And I'm
31:58
not buying it. I'm not much. There's too
32:00
much at risk here, There's too much, Joe
32:03
Scott, hold on, you know what, That's what they said
32:06
the first time somebody brought up the idea of fingerprints.
32:08
I'll let you chew on that for a few moments. Alison
32:11
Dubois Gail Saint John Noreen Ranier
32:13
with us. Alison Dubois, you
32:16
also have worked on particular
32:19
criminal cases. Let's
32:21
talk about Jackie Hartman,
32:23
and remember everybody. Alison Dubois
32:26
actually worked at the Miracopa County
32:28
District Attorney's Office in Arizona. In
32:31
fact, one of her task was organizing crime
32:33
scene photos. I want to talk
32:35
to you about a particular case, Jackie
32:37
Hartman, a nineteen year
32:40
old. What do you recall about
32:42
that case, Alison Dubois. Well,
32:45
I was taken to the last place she was
32:47
seeing, which was kind of like a gas station
32:49
convenience store, and the first
32:51
thing that I picked up was that she went willingly.
32:54
So then the next piece
32:56
of information that I wrote down was date
32:58
rate gone wrong. She'd been missing about
33:01
two weeks at this point, I said,
33:03
you can hear helicopters overhead
33:05
where her body is, so they're looking in the right area.
33:08
I said, there's a small barbecue nearby where
33:11
you have like a cook out. Her body was rolled
33:13
down a hill outside the city limits.
33:15
I said the cell phone tower would be how
33:18
they find her, and then I let
33:20
them know that they would find her body in two weeks, which
33:22
they did find her body in exactly
33:25
two weeks. Alison Dubois
33:27
is referring to the case of Jackie
33:29
Hartman, a nineteen year
33:32
old nursing student. Jackie's
33:34
body was found in two thousand
33:36
and seven, within hours
33:39
of the time Dubois said it
33:41
would be found. Jackie Hartman's
33:44
date on the night of her disappearance
33:47
was ultimately convicted
33:49
of killing the young girl,
33:52
Jackie Hartman, nineteen year old nursing
33:54
student. Very interesting
33:57
that she tells police that this
33:59
was that the victim, Jackie,
34:02
went with her killer willingly that
34:04
it was a date rape to find the
34:07
victim through cell phone records, specifically
34:10
that she would be found in two weeks.
34:13
She was found thirteen days
34:16
and twenty something hours from
34:18
the day the moment that Allison
34:21
spoke with police. I mean, it just goes
34:24
on and on and on. It's
34:28
what do you have to say to your
34:30
critics, Alison, Um, you
34:32
know, I half of my friends are cops
34:34
and the county attorneys prosecutors.
34:37
So I'm critical of myself.
34:40
So I know what information they need
34:42
that can actually be helpful and what's
34:45
just fluff. You know that some psychics
34:47
give and they get pulled into the emotional
34:49
state of the victim. I try to go through
34:51
the killer myself instead of
34:53
the victim. But for people who
34:56
don't believe, it's not it really
34:58
doesn't change my life if they don't believe, you
35:00
know, I mean, at the end of the day, we all
35:02
die, and everybody finds out that there's life
35:04
after death and that you know, what we're
35:06
doing to help to help the police
35:08
when they hit a wall. We're just a last
35:11
resort. We don't want to be their first choice
35:14
of weapon. It's a lot of work for us,
35:16
and it takes an emotional toll on us. I've
35:18
never charged to work a case because I've
35:21
been so blessed in life. It's just kind of how I've
35:23
given back. But that's just personally how
35:26
I've approached it. So, you know, as far
35:28
as working cases, there was no monetary
35:30
gain. And I guess one could say, well,
35:32
you got a television show about it about you
35:35
because of it and you did well, and I would
35:37
argue that, well, then you're just proving
35:39
that I'm a psychic, because then I knew I
35:42
was going to become rich off of working
35:44
cases, you know, So they can't have it
35:46
both ways, and usually skeptics like
35:49
to argue it so that no matter
35:51
what we say or what we do, it's never going to
35:53
be enough evidence or impressive
35:56
enough. And so for those people, I don't really I
35:58
don't bother with me. Noreene
36:00
Renare, Gil's Saint John, Alison
36:03
Dubois, Joseph Scott Morgan, death
36:06
investigator and professor of forensics at
36:08
Jacksonville State University, My buddy
36:10
Alan joining me from LA and Jackie
36:12
Howard here in the studio. Joe Scott
36:14
Morgan, you're chopping at the bit way
36:17
in Joe Scott, Yeah, I gotta
36:19
tell you. You know, you mentioned fingerprints a moment
36:21
ago as somebody said, hey, you
36:23
know, you know we can't use these.
36:26
You're right, you can't use them because it can't be
36:29
quantified and it can't be proved. You have to
36:31
be able to replicate this over and over
36:33
and over using the same test. And
36:35
that's how we validate things in forensic science,
36:38
in science in general. You know that as a
36:40
former prosecutor. Now I want
36:42
to speak with Gil Saint John, who is
36:44
a renowned psychic, and she was
36:47
actually drawn to the spot
36:49
where little Kelley Anthony's body
36:51
was found months before
36:54
the body was found and even has video
36:56
to prove it. She came forward to
36:58
say she was not surprised Kelly was found in the
37:00
woods off Suburban Drive, that she
37:03
had been in that area and drawn to that
37:05
area months before.
37:08
Gail Saint John and her search team is so called
37:10
the Body Hunters, went to
37:13
Orlando to search for Kelly, and on their very
37:15
first day out of nowhere,
37:17
she leads them on a blind drive
37:20
to this spot. Gail Saint John, can
37:23
you even explain what's going on
37:25
in your mind when you have this
37:27
sort of experience? You know, I'm not
37:30
sure that there's anything in a sense
37:32
that you could say is totally going on, except
37:35
for it's almost your sort
37:37
of trance like semitrance.
37:40
You're hearing, you're feeling things
37:43
from the other side as well as you're Obviously,
37:46
if you're driving, you have to be very conscious
37:48
and aware of your driving. But it's
37:50
something I've always done, is that blind
37:52
drive. I get to an area and I go to
37:54
where the person was last seen, and then
37:56
I pick up on what happened,
37:59
how I get to their body, and I
38:01
just allow myself
38:04
to drive where
38:06
the feeling gets stronger. If you've
38:08
ever played that hot and cold game when you were a kid.
38:11
Yes, that's what it feels like. Really, I'm
38:13
going left left, Nope, nope, not losing
38:15
the feeling movement, feeling go the other direction, Yep,
38:18
yep, it's getting stronger going this way, and
38:20
you follow. Yeah, what can you tell
38:23
me about Stephen Hoff?
38:26
Stepan Hoff was a
38:29
person that they suspected he
38:32
had left suicide and had left
38:34
a note. They had had searchers
38:36
out several times looking for him.
38:39
He's been missing around eight
38:42
weeks at the time that
38:45
our team was called out. Now, this
38:48
was a team case, so you
38:50
have to tread lightly on this
38:53
because you're going out as a canine handler called
38:55
out by police. Sort of a conflict
38:57
of interest with the two. They
39:00
don't they don't see the psychic and they
39:02
don't know that I'm psychic. They don't have any
39:05
information on this. They're calling us out to
39:07
do a search. They don't even know if he's in
39:09
this area, and it's a very large preserve
39:12
area. And we
39:15
get out there. On that case, I
39:17
run my canine. I got
39:19
some information off of my canine. If people
39:22
don't understand, there's a lot to run a canine. You
39:24
just don't turn your dog loose and go hey, yeah, you
39:27
got to understand scent theory and how it all
39:29
works. He gave me some signs in
39:31
an area that I was told to go
39:33
over into, and I had
39:36
two other backup handlers with me, and
39:40
he kind of told me a story in what
39:42
he was doing, but my feelings
39:45
were overriding
39:47
some of this. Now by this time, the park
39:49
is getting very busy with people walking on
39:52
trails and thinking, okay, let's
39:54
think about logics here. I'm gonna turn a canine
39:56
loose. We've got people walking in
39:59
this area over here and
40:01
they're walking dogs. It's gonna be
40:03
a problem. It's gonna be a problem.
40:06
So what finally happened We turned
40:08
and looked at the two girls with me,
40:10
and they sort of kind of knew that I did
40:12
some psychic stuff. But listen, we're all about knines
40:14
right there. You know that that's that's the bottom
40:17
line. So and I said,
40:19
I'm gonna put my dog up, and said what I
40:22
said, Yeah, I want to put my dog off. I want to walk around
40:24
on foot over here. Okay, So
40:26
we looked at the canine up and I
40:28
went walking around, and I
40:31
knew, you know, I said, I gonna turn
40:33
this on. This has got to happen.
40:35
I gotta, you know, nip this in the bud
40:38
right now. We gotta find this guy. I
40:40
just turned it on. I said, I don't know what to
40:42
you know, I'm not even gonna say anything to my my
40:45
backup handlers. I just turned
40:47
it on, went with my feelings,
40:49
began walking, going in different
40:51
places, and they're running behind me, going, Gael, what's
40:54
going on? What's going what are you doing? What? Slow
40:57
down? I couldn't. I couldn't slow
40:59
down by that poet. It was so strong
41:01
the poll. I just went and kept
41:03
walking him. I can't hold back what
41:06
happened. I walked right up on his
41:08
body, walked right up on him.
41:11
Okay, guys, Narene Wir,
41:13
Gail Saint John, Alison Dubois,
41:16
Alison Dubois, could
41:18
you tell me? You told me your first experience,
41:21
but what was your most powerful psychic experience?
41:24
Um? I heard a voice say, your
41:26
dad's gonna die at sixty seven of a massive
41:29
heart attack. So I sent my dad
41:31
to all the heart specialists trying to
41:34
intervene and save him.
41:37
And he had been a professional ballroom dancer
41:39
for fifty years. He was in good
41:41
shape and he died at sixty seven
41:43
of a massive heart attack. And I
41:46
think that one was probably the most profound because
41:48
it was my father. Wow, you're really
41:50
hitting a nerve. Lost my dad and I
41:53
just miss him so much.
41:57
Narene Er, what was
41:59
your most powerful psychic
42:01
experience? Uh? Mine
42:04
was, of course my police work. For
42:06
the first five years, all I did was homicide
42:08
because I'm really bad with left and
42:10
right and I can get lost in a kmart,
42:13
so I never tried to find people.
42:16
I just told everybody I'm homicide. Well,
42:19
uh, FBI agent's life that
42:21
knew about my work contact me, and
42:23
her brother was missing in an airplane.
42:26
H And at first I want to do it, Okay, say
42:28
no, I don't do that, And then finally actually
42:30
brought me some stuff that he had touched,
42:32
a wallet and a coined thing, and
42:35
I did the case, and I gave launch situde and latitude
42:39
and the initials of the cities, and
42:41
they found in the plane that
42:43
it hadn't it was in a plane, of course, and hadn't
42:45
exploded. And I remember visually seeing
42:48
somebody carrying something in places
42:50
under a tree, uh and then walking
42:53
away and then I opened my eyes
42:55
and said, no, you just want him to be alive. I'm not doing
42:57
this anymore. And when they found the airplane,
43:00
it was a hit. This woman sitting under a tree
43:02
like somebody had carried her there, and her brother
43:04
had walked several yards away. But that
43:06
was my most because I'd never had been into
43:09
missing people and it was a whole whole
43:11
new and I'm really good at it now. Wow,
43:13
Gail Saint John, you told me how
43:16
you initially realized that
43:18
you had this extrasensory perception.
43:21
What was your most profound, your most powerful,
43:24
I guess psychic experience or vision. I
43:26
really got to say. It concerned my
43:29
grandmother. She was
43:31
living with us at the time, and
43:35
two days prior to her passing,
43:38
I was told about it, and it was
43:40
a semi dream state, but I
43:43
was very conscious of what was going on, I
43:45
think because at the time I was I was fourteen
43:47
years old. I really fought it and it
43:50
was painful and I want to ignore
43:52
it. And two days later she passed
43:54
away. And that's very powerful
43:57
and painful, and so
43:59
many things all at the same time with me. Renowned
44:02
psychics, so called psychic detectives
44:05
Narene Rnair, Gil Saint John, Alison
44:08
Dubois and skeptic Joseph
44:10
Scott Morgan. Ladies, thank
44:13
you for sharing with us. You know, Joe
44:15
Scott, I guess you and I will continue
44:18
putting forth hard evidence as we
44:20
call it, but it's very hard to
44:22
put on blinders and try to ignore
44:25
the stories that have been factually
44:28
corroborated from Alison
44:30
Dubois, Gail Saint John, and
44:33
Narene Rner, Nancy
44:36
Grace crime Stories signing up, goodbye
44:38
friend,
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