Her name was Doris Stokes, and she was one of the strongest and most popular psychics in Great Britain in the 70s and 80s of the XX century. She gathered more people for her public speeches than our Kashpirovsky. Stokes became famous for the fact that she was more than once involved in the search for criminals.
Doris's most notorious case was the successful search for the Yorkshire Ripper. It raged in England from 1975 to 1981. After the arrest, the maniac was found mentally insane. At that time, 13 young women were on the list of his victims. But over time, this list expanded significantly: behind bars, the criminal came up with a kind of entertainment for himself - he periodically gave investigators information about his other murders.
Now on his account there are 20 women killed by him. Not surprisingly, the Ripper has been recognized as one of Britain's most dangerous criminals. And the maniac continues to shock the public: he writes a book about his crimes. In it, he promises to tell about all the women he sent to the next world.
MANIAC VISIT CARD
And this story began like this. On the morning of October 30, 1975, 9-year-old Sonya McKenn, who lived in the Scott Hall Road area of Leeds (UK), ran to neighbors with the words that her mother had not come home at night.
The neighbors knew that the girl's mother, Vilomena, was a prostitute and often did not come to spend the night, but they also knew that she always warned the children about this. The neighbors got worried and called the police. In the morning, a police outfit found Vilomena's body. The woman did not reach the house less than a hundred meters.
Already the first inspection of the crime scene gave grounds to assume that an obsessed maniac was operating here: a mass of cut wounds were found on Vilomena's body, and the panties and trousers of the deceased lowered to the knees indicated the sexual background of the criminal's actions. Of course, taking into account the specifics of Vilomena's fishery, other versions could not be ruled out, for example, a conflict with a pimp, an attack by a robber or revenge by something an angry client, but all versions seemed unlikely.
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The criminals' confidence that Vilomena was the victim of a sexually motivated killer grew stronger after semen was found on her belongings. All subsequent killings were similar to the first. This was the "calling card" of the Yorkshire Ripper.
HIS FEATURES
Like many other mediums who tried to solve the secret of the terrible criminal, Stokes stated that she had absolutely accurate information about the Yorkshire Ripper. According to Doris, she received it through the astral plane from one of the killer's victims - Jane MacDonald.
So the culprit's name was either Ronnie or Johnny. He was about 5'8 ” tall, frail, combed straight hair to the right, and had a scar on his left cheek. He lived either in Tyneside or Wareside, and his place of residence was somehow connected with the word Berwick or Bewick. The killer was married, but his wife left him. The Ripper's mother died of cancer.
Stokes' revelations did a disservice to Ronnie Metcalfe of Berwick Avenue in Downhill: for some time the police suspected him of committing crimes, but in the end he turned out to be a completely innocent person.
This failure did not force the police to refuse Stokes' services. They invited her to continue searching for the killer. How did she do it? Outwardly, nothing remarkable happened: Doris listened to the astral for a long time, went through the photographs and belongings of the victims, wandered the streets on which crimes were committed.
Then, at some point, she said that the serial killer was a man named Peter. He is a truck driver with an inscription on the side of the cab that begins with the letter "C". The culprit, Doris continued, lives in a large house in Bradford. Stokes then mentioned the welded iron gate, the steps in front of the entrance, and most importantly, the house number: six!
NEWSPAPER'S ARROWS
When the maniac was caught, the press did not fail to release many poisonous arrows at Stokes. The perpetrator was indeed named Peter Sutcliffe, and he worked as a chauffeur for Clark Transport (in English, the word "Clark" begins with the letter "s" - "C"). But Peter is a very common name in England.
In addition, by the time Doris told reporters that the killer was a truck driver, there were more than one suggestions in the press that the Ripper was a long-haul driver. As for the inscription starting with the letter "C", then every day, the newspapers wrote, on the roads there are a considerable number of trucks with the inscription "construction". Just as often, there are cars that bear the names of companies or cities.
The welded gate is again a typical detail for England, as is the large house, of which there are a lot in this part of the country, and in particular, in the area where the police were looking for the Ripper. And only about one revelation did the journalists keep quiet - it concerned the house number. Everyone agreed that it was Stokes' brilliant find.
OH AND IT'S HARD JOB
The matter, of course, is much more complicated than it seems at first glance. As the psychic herself explained, the astral is full of voices, and it is very difficult to hear the right words in this chorus. In addition, a lot depends on the mood, well-being, the attitude of others and a host of other factors. As a result, as the FBI calculated, psychics manage to help in 100 out of 4,000 cases. From a statistical point of view, this is too little. Even so, but when it comes to life and death, the laws of statistics do not apply - after all, human life is priceless.
One way or another, but after many successful cases in the UK, Stokes was invited to the United States. There, in the late 70s - early 80s, she solved several intricate crimes, for which she received thanks from the police in Los Angeles, Baltimore and other major cities in America. As Stokes herself admitted, the spirits of the dead helped her solve the murders. They entered into a mediumistic relationship with Doris and told how it was, or called the name of the killer. But, alas, attacks on it continued overseas.
The journalists used the slightest clue to "bring Doris out into the open." And all due to the fact that the mind of an ordinary person simply refuses to believe in the paranormal. And not only because he does not perceive him, but also for another reason. If we assume that beings from the other world (demons, ghosts, etc.) are able to penetrate into our world and actively act in it, the entire system of ideas collapses. All the usual methods of fighting criminals become unusable. In general, all the experience accumulated by law enforcement agencies over the centuries of work turns out to be meaningless.
But the police officially expressed gratitude to Stokes, and this convinces us that all the malicious attacks against her are hardly worth taking into account. And in what investigation, you say, is everything so smooth? Why do people not demand more from an ordinary investigator than from themselves, and from those with supernatural gifts they expect him to work like a clock? There is no answer, only facts.
Doris Stokes isn't the only one getting bullied while she was doing detective investigations. The same thing happened with almost all psychodetectives, as psychics are called, involved in police work. These are already almost forgotten today stars of parapsychology of the 20th century: British mediums Nella Jones and Zach Martin, American ones - Cindy Balak and Dorothy Ellison. Be that as it may, the services of their kind continue to be resorted to in many countries of the world.
And this is encouraging. Perhaps the time will come when the connection with the souls of the dead will become no less clear than the telephone. And then the villains will have nothing to do in our world, because the killed themselves will begin to talk about their murderers, and they will have nowhere to escape from justice …
Victor POTAPOV