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Psychics “Helping Police” Are Frauds! 55

'Every psychic offering to

help police find a killer

and bring a family justice

is a fraud'

Our Crime Scene columnist
Professor David Wilson says

every documented case he has
encountered in which a psychic
claims to have offered

information to the police that
resulted in a conviction has

proven to be fraudulent.

From The Daily Record

When I was a student, I perfected a chat-up line
and then developed a whole routine that I could
provided by a psychic or a clairvoyant – despite What is less clear is how an offender can go
read palms – as a way of getting close to some
every high-profile case attracting their attention from indecent exposure – Couzens had exposed
of the girls I took a shine to.
including, most recently, the Madeleine McCann himself prior to Sarah’s murder – to abduction
case, where Portuguese police admitted in 2007 and murder in such a short space of time. There
I couldn’t read palms at all but I had read a book
that they were following up on two dossiers of were also a number of pre and postmortem
that explained some basic information about
“leads” offered by psychics. behaviours he engaged in that imply he was
what the lines of our hands were supposed to
experienced as an offender.
stand for.
As a police spokesman suggested at the time:
“We can’t just put these messages in the bin but In my experience of dealing with violent men,
That knowledge, coupled with “Barnum
must check them all in case it might be from the all of this suggests there will be other cases that
statements” – there was something in what I
kidnapper.” will need to be considered as potentially having
would go on to say that could apply to each and
been committed by Couzens and, if that’s the
everyone one of us – and a reading of the girl’s
That is one issue that rarely gets commented case, it won’t be the last time Dick will have to
body language allowed me to be become quite a
upon. In the same way that the perpetrator will apologise on behalf of the Met. []
proficient “palm reader”.
often insert himself into the story of a murder by
turning up at the crime scene, offering assistance
In fact, I became so successful that I knew I had Host Your Own Radio Show,
to the police, or just being noticeably odd, so too
to stop as, in the end, I realised I was deceiving Streaming TV Show, and/or
psychics and clairvoyants who claim they have
people, being dishonest.
information about a victim have to be Professional Podcast
considered as potential suspects as they have
I thought about my palm reading days this week
inserted themselves into the narrative of the
as I have been working on a case and a number Request information about Hosting your
murder.
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This is not meant to decry those people who
disguise some details here – the bodies are and/or Professional Podcast or distribute,
genuinely want to help during an investigation,
buried. This information is offered with syndicate, promote your existing show to
although every documented case I’ve
confidence and has seemingly emerged through 300 Million on iHeartRadio, Pandora,
encountered of a psychic who claims to have
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offered information to the police that resulted in
claimed by the psychic concerned. 100 podcast outlets.
a conviction has proven to be fraudulent.
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The awful circumstances in which Sarah
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Dame Cressida Dick spoke for many when she
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said that his crimes had “sickened, angered and
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