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25 Police and Psychics 25 Police and Psychics Police & Psychics none." "My first reaction was 'No way, there's Police & Psychics Still, victims families hold out hope. no way I'm going to do this again,'" Silver told That one day, whether it be a psychic or police, the Daily News. "But everything else I was Kristin Lowman someone will solve their case and bring their doing was just not going anywhere and we were Kristin Lowman Fox 23 News loved one home. in a financial crunch." Fox 23 News Doug Lyall, Suzanne Lyall's father, says, "Wife Swap" pairs families for a two- "we still want answers. We want to know if week challenge where the wives exchange In an age where tough police work, Suzy can't come to our door, we want to know husbands, kids and houses to find out what it's gathering facts and forensics, can solve crimes, what happened and if we can get it from a like to live someone else's life. pendulums, pictures and psychics can seem a psychic or from someone else, god bless them." For the 100th episode, ABC asked fans little far fetched. But in some cases, families [] to vote for their favorite previously swapped want answers and go looking for help in an family, out of a pool of 24. When the field was unlikely place. Psychic Ann Fisher says, "it is Borderland Residents narrowed to four, producers chose the Silvers, a Borderland Residents like a vision, a feeling, its hard to describe." performing arts family with self-proclaimed Turn To Psychics For Psychics say they can be helpful to a Turn To Psychics For psychic abilities, and the Heenes, storm chasers case, pointing out an unexplored area, or even who spend all their free time breaking Money Help reopening an investigation from murders to Money Help everything down to a science. missing persons. Albany Psychic Ann Fisher The 100th episode airs tonight at 8. considers herself a psychic detective, working "When I watched the first episode we Derek Shore-KFOX News on several high profile cases in the Capital Derek Shore-KFOX News participated in, I was in shock. The appearance Region. Her first work, and one of the biggest in was that my kids were only involved in dance recent decades, convicted serial killers Lemuel EL PASO, Texas -- Local psychic, or as and the other woman's kids were into sports, so Smith. Fisher says with police, she walked the she likes to be called intuitive sensitive, Carol basically my boys were gay somehow because path Lemuel took after his first murder, picking Reeves has been pretty busy lately, but instead they were dancers. It was terrible," said Silver. up clues. Her work, kept secret for a decade. of the normal love and health questions, she is The second time around repaired some Fisher says, "ten years later a friend said to me getting a lot of question about money. of the damage, she said. I never knew you worked on the Lemuel Smith "Most things that are asked are about "Some good came out of it because, case, its on the police books. I said I didn't want jobs, careers, money," Reeves said. "I had a gal after the first time, my youngest son, who was anyone to know." last week just out of the blue everybody in her 10 years old, his shyness kicked in," Silver said. Another case involving a Waterford corporation lost their job, and here's a woman "He became a little too self-conscious after family, Armond LaForest went missing in 1988. with three children that's going ‘now what?’" being told that boys aren't dancers, and it made With a picture, a map, and a pendulum, Fisher People are desperate, she said, and they him very aware that other people think says she was able to retrace LaForest's steps, have nowhere else to turn. They've hit rock differently. This time they gave it back to him." from Cohoes to the Mohawk. bottom and they're in need of important Richard Heene, who had to live by Fisher says, "I told him he went into the questions answered. Silver's rules for a week when she came to live river and he was with this woman, there was a "When am I going to get another job? I in his home, said that he, too, was wary about fight of some kind." applied for a job or several jobs, what looks best the "reswap," but only because he hates to see After a search, police located the car in for me?” Reeves said. himself on camera. the spot where Fisher said it would be, LaForest So Reeves reads their tarot cards, gives "I feel like everything I do is stupid," dead inside. Turns out, the woman driver of the them guidance, and in some cases teaches them said Heene. "But with this opportunity, I got to car left LaForest as the car sank. She went to to move on from a job they were laid off from. redo things in a different way. I just made sure prison and his family had closure. "They mentally take golden scissors, cut that I was going to have more fun." [] In other cases, psychics go looking for the energy cord and sometimes that can just families. Mary Lyall says, "we were hoping that seem like a cable cord almost, so difficult to cut, would be the answer. Psychics would tell us but they do," Reeves said. In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada where she was and we would find her and bring So KFOX asked Reeves to read the People Listen To People Listen To her home." cards of the economy and to tell us what the The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show When Suzanne Lyall went missing more cards said about the future of our country. First The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show with than ten years ago on the UAlbany campus her she drew the wheel of fortune, fortune sounds with parents looked for any lead that would bring good. Rob McConnell Rob McConnell their daughter home, whether it came from a "There are cycles in life, and sometimes on on police investigation or a clairvoyant. you go through very bad cycles, but it does turn AM 580 CFRA Mary Lyall says,"everyday it was around,” Reeves said. AM 580 CFRA another psychic. At the end I think the count Which means it won't be bad forever, was over 75. Everyone had a different scenario, she said. it was a roller coaster for us." "It’s got to start over, the economy has The same in the Jaliek Rainwalker case. got to renew itself," Reeves said. Chief George Bell fielding dozens of calls from But the question is when will it renew, psychics claiming to know Jaliek's and the answer was hard to hear. whereabouts. Chief Bell says, "to the point "It's going to take a minimum of three where I have had them crying in my office. years for this completely to turn around,” They say the body is here, we have to look here, Reeves said. [] we have to do this." Desperate 'Wife' agrees Cambridge-Greenwich along with the Desperate 'Wife' agrees other Capital Region departments FOX23 polled say they do not seek out help from to return visit to 'Swap' to return visit to 'Swap' psychics. But, if one calls with information on a It's the economy, stupid. case, every department says every lead is That's the only reason "Wife Swap" followed up. But more often than not Chief Bell participant Dr. Sheree Silver and her family says, "the only way you're going to solve these agreed to a "reswap" to mark the ABC reality crimes is police work. They have their beliefs show's 100th episode. and I know there are some that have helped They needed a quick buck from the other agencies, but I think the chance is slim to network to help make ends meet.