Authorities in Canada rarely — if ever — use psychics in missing-person cases, but one local practitioner says she wants to change that mindset.
“People shun it because they don’t understand it,” said Patricia Monna, a psychic in Calgary.
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“I wish (the police) would open up and see things differently,” she said. “Why aren’t they taking our help?”
Investigators are quick to point out help from a psychic isn’t the kind of evidence that stands up in court. A psychic may say someone’s body is hidden in a house, for example, but getting a warrant to search it requires tangible evidence that will be accepted by a judge: witness statements, surveillance photos, DNA samples.
It's difficult to fathom how, in 2012, some people can still believe such nonsense. It is very hard to take seriously anybody claiming to be a psychic or anybody who believes in the supernatural abilities of psychics. Will this type of hogwash ever go away?
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"We discovered that the work of the psychics was not just ludicrous and laughable. it was sinister and evil....None of it ever led anywhere except to despair and disappointment, misery and confusion." --John Tate, father of Genette Tate who disappeared in 1978
"These guys don't solve cases, and the media consistently gets it wrong," says Michael Corn, an investigative producer for "Inside Edition" who produced a story last May debunking psychic detectives. Moreover, the FBI and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children maintain that to their knowledge, psychic detectives have never helped solve a single missing-person case.
"Zero. They go on TV and I see how things go and what they claim but no, zero," says FBI agent Chris Whitcomb. "
in other news, the Pope wants to know why he isn't consulted on missing persons cases too. Clearly he could just ask the invisible man in the sky where to look.
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to bad they don't dedicate themselves to ending my 27 yr streak of not correctly selecting the winning numbers for lotto 6/49........anywyas, everyone knows that only suspended police officers who are out to avenge themselves can solve the crime, only if they are wearing shoes that are noisey........
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It really makes me think do these people genuinely think they are psychic, which I think most of them do, or are they that cold and devious that they are aware of the scam they are perpetrating.
Watch out, Locke, you're going to bring out the "no community in Calgary is better or worse than any other community in Calgary" crowd.
i just figure that if you want to experiment with amateur crime fighters and want to send them somewhere under-prepared and ill-equipped while they pretend to talk to dead people, why not start with the Lawn?
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Calgary Psychics Offer to Help Solve Crimes
