SENSING MURDER

Psychic murder mystery solvers are just another bunch of scammers

The Sensing Murder television program on the partially solved Lorraine Wilson and Wendy Evans case in Australia screened on New Zealand television last night. It is one of Australia’s most famous cases and has been the subject of movies, books, an inquest and numerous television documentaries since the girls went missing in 1972.

Psychics in prison

Wilson and Evans, aged 20 and 18, were hitch-hiking from Brisbane to Dubbo when they disappeared. Their remains were found in bush near Toowoomba two years later.

When the program was produced in 2006, all of the above and much more was widely known throughout Australia. But the program claimed that two Australian psychics that they engaged to ‘solve’ the case had no prior knowledge of it, even though the psychics had appeared in other Sensing Murder programs, and must have had a continuing interest in unsolved Australian murders. This was dishonest trickery on the part of the producers and the psychics.

Everything that the psychics ‘revealed’ was already known to police and the wider public. They failed to provide any new leads for police to investigate. They gave vague descriptions of the offenders, but failed to identify them or provide an address where they could be apprehended. One of their major ‘revelations’ was that one of the offenders had since died. But it was already known to police and the public that a prime suspect had died in a car crash in the 1980’s.

So why do so many people believe anything that psychics claim to ‘see’ or ‘feel’? It is partly that for some people any explanation is better than no explanation, and good news is more palatable than bad news. When there is no news of an arrest, news of what could have happened, even if misleading or false, can be seen as good news. It can bring hope where there is no hope.

While people believe in psychics and mediums, call them what you will, psychics will continue to profit from false hopes, wasted police time, and torment for the families of victims. Psychics don’t have a very good record of solving murders. They don’t have a record at all. That’s right. Not one murder, anywhere in the world, has ever been solved by a psychic in spite of their frequent claims.

Here is a good assessment of the world of psychics: http://www.sillybeliefs.com/murder.html

But many people believe these con-artists and will readily cite their own psychic experiences. But generally, they only remember when the psychic got it right from a little educated guess work, and tend to forget all the things that the psychic was absolutely wrong with. Suggesting to believers that psychics have no special powers and are either con-artists or self-delusional, is like telling a child there is no Santa Claus. They refuse to accept the reality.

If psychics were genuine they would see the dangers of conning unfortunate people out of their hard-earned savings. They would see that they could end up facing fraud charges. Because many psychics have been convicted and imprisoned for receiving payment for false predictions and other claims. Why didn’t they see that coming?

One of the world’s most infamous psychic scammers is Rose Marks. Here is a link to her Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Marks She’s currently in prison, where many other psychics should be.