Reality is sometimes more fantastic than the most daring fictions. And the "crazy" theme of successful attraction of magicians, necromancers, psychics to criminal investigations is true.
When the police no one decree
Fast forward to the summer of 1982, in the small town of Waco (Texas, USA). That July could have been truly triumphant for detectives with psychic abilities. But, alas, he did not. Here, in Waco, events developed as follows …
On July 13, 1982, police found the dead bodies of three teenagers aged 13-15 in Speegleville Park. Forensic experts counted on the bodies of two girls and a guy a total of 178 stab wounds.
Immediately after the discovery of the dead children, local clairvoyants Karen Hafstetler and Glenda Thomas offered help to the police, claiming that a certain "ethnic Indian" was involved in the crime. But the servicemen, who did not believe the "volunteers", brought in yet another psychic, John Cutchings, who had already successfully helped them in the search for people several times.
Police carry away bodies from Speckleville Park
Mr. Catchings, unaware of the statements of Karen and Glenda, looked into his magic crystal and confirmed that the detectives should "rummage Waco in search of the Indian." Moreover, after conducting a second clairvoyance session, John described in detail to the cops what happened to the children.
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From his words, it turned out that three adults, having slowed down in the early morning on the track near the boy and his girlfriends, offered to give the guys a lift to the beach. And, indeed, they "planted", and there, on the beach, they abused and stabbed, and then transported the dead bodies of the victims to an abandoned park.
Up until this point, the cops had listened to Cutchings, but when John claimed that the children had been lured into the car by "a beautiful young Indian wife," they considered the psychic's revelations "vulgar fiction." After paying off Catchings, the detectives wrote off the minutes of his testimony to the archive and continued the investigation of the triple murder in the traditional ways.
Now attention! If law enforcement officers had bothered to check the revelations of Hafstetler - Thomas - Catchings, if only for the sake of formality, then the very next day they would have detained the only (!) "Ethnic Indian" who lived in Waco in those days. Having searched his house, they would have found there both the knives with which the victims were stabbed, and their underwear, which the fetishist maniac took "as a keepsake." Of course, the only Indian in the entire state would have had nothing to do but, under the pressure of such evidence, confess to committing an atrocity and betray his accomplices, but …
The police, as we said, reacted very contemptuously to psychic "fiction", and therefore arrested the "ethnic Hindu" Munir Deeb with his wife, as well as a certain David Spence, only two years later.
Arrested Munir Deeb
They were arrested on suspicion of robbing a bank, but getting confessions of rape and murder of three young Waco residents was just a "by-product" of the investigation into a banal robbery.
Immediately, we note: due to the fact that the bastards were not taken in hot pursuit, they, remaining at large, managed not only to encircle the bank, but also to rape and kill two women.
And here's another thing. Receiving the confessionary testimony of the exposed trinity, the cops were retroactively convinced of the astounding accuracy of Cutchings' visions. Until Deeb's wife Melissa lured the children into the car, the terrible July events in the vicinity of Waco developed exactly the way their ridiculed paradetective "saw".
Prediction at the cost of life
A resident of Westminster (California, USA), Tanya Jamie Nelson (aka Phuon Tae Nguyen), was very worried about whether she would succeed in a bank robbery, planned with her boyfriend and another female person.
In order to make sure that the plan developed by her boyfriend will come true with a bang, Tanya turned to the famous fortuneteller Ha Jade Smith. And she "paid off" this clairvoyant … three Colt bullets fired in the face of the unfortunate woman. As Nelson later admitted, she was "aiming at the dirty tongue of the scum."
And the point is not at all that the fortune-teller informed the police about Mrs. Nelson, but that Ha Jade predicted to the potential robber not only the collapse of the entire "event", but also that during it her boyfriend would "flip over" from Tanya to her accomplice …
Nelson-Nguyen could not bear this. And, having wisely abandoned the bank robbery (so as not to lose her lover), she sat down for 101 years. For the murder of a fortune teller.
We are not able to predict how our word will respond
An amazing thing: clairvoyants and fortune-tellers are sometimes really capable of miracles - only they are not able to see their own future.
If the soothsayer Darren Brown knew how his shopping tour to the United Arab Emirates would end, he probably would not have gone to visit the sheikhs, but would have preferred to “stock up” in one of the four European countries whose citizenships he had.
Tanya Jamie Nelson
One way or another, Brown flew to the Emirates and for some reason predicted the results of the state lottery on the national TV channel to a local nodding acquaintance.
The acquaintance, in turn, acted, as subsequent events showed, very recklessly: he informed the “magician-benefactor” of the local religious police, and only then received the prize.
At first, local judges still doubted what to do with a resident of the Old World, who dared to "pagan witchcraft." But when it turned out that the predictions came true, Brown was sentenced to death and carried out.
As for the "informer", he got off easier: the winnings were taken away from him in favor of the state, in addition, he received ten blows with sticks for having resorted to the services of a sorcerer - even if practically involuntarily. According to local laws, if the "informer" deliberately asked for such, he could be executed.
Give a million, give a million
Let us ask ourselves, however, a question: if the predictions of paradetectives and mediums are so accurate, then why the absolute majority of the servants of Themis are prejudiced about the effectiveness of their “astral colleagues”?
And further. If all these Catchings, Rainiers, Lerners, Dubois are so far-sighted, why have none of them still want to receive the million dollars promised by the James Randi Foundation to any paradetechive who can prove their extraordinary talents in the presence of Foundation scientists?
There are at least three answers to these questions. They are like that.
First, revelations and visions of paradetectives are usually spontaneous and cannot be presented on demand.
Secondly, only a small fraction of psychics can actually see the future. Thousands of other clairvoyants, eager to see themselves in the service of the FBI and the police, have dozens of false ones for one accurate divination.
Thirdly, hundreds of their inept, but “ingenious” colleagues in the field of self-promotion interfere with a thoughtful attitude towards several serious paradetectives. Unfortunately, detectives sometimes extend a contemptuous attitude towards these gentlemen to all paradetectives.
Speaking about such fans of publicity, we will mention, perhaps, the most hyped "star" of paradetective investigation, the Dutchman Peter Herkos. This guy is proud to have allegedly “solved 27 murders in 17 countries”.
But, in fact, neither his participation in the search for the famous Boston Strangler, nor the "conversation with dead souls" in the apartment of director Roman Polanski (in which five people were cut out, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate) did not lead to effective detentions.
Serial killer Robert di Salvo was exposed exclusively by police methods in the first case, and in the second - the famous "family" of Charlie Manson. But, thanks to powerful self-promotion, Herkos has long been revered by the simple-minded public precisely as the "true" denouncer of the above criminals.
However, we note: even on the account of this darling of glory, there is at least one loud disclosure. Although not thanks to the "paranormal genius" of Herkos, but just in spite of him.
In 1970, a girl, outraged by a TV show featuring Peter, in which he described a serial killer, "down to the smallest signs" he considered "in the astral", handed over to the police her lover, the sought-after multiple killer John Norman Collins. I passed it to prove that Collins is not in the least like the image that appeared to the "presumptuous magician"!
Victor SINOBIN