TV - Sensing Murder

[sf108]

Did anyone saw this last night? It was on channel 10 sydney time 9:30pm. The show started like a normal unsolved murder case, then started deteriorating in quality when 2 psychics were introduced to shine light on the case. I was surprised at how accurate the info they were giving. The show producers claimed that both were separated, the journalists didn't respond to them, and they weren't allowed to research the case.

hmm...that makes you wonder how were they able to control the psychics researching the case, which was on national tv, before they were called on to the show?

Everyone please write a letter of complaint to channel 10..."seriously"...NOT!

[c4ts]

No, I didn't see it, and since I don't get your cable service (since I live in America), I don't know what channel 10 is.

But if you could find out what the show was called, it would help a lot.

[Loki]

c4ts,

The show is a series called "Sensing Murder". The format is to spend the the first hour or so going over the details of an unsolved murder, then bring in the pyschics to "shed new light" on the murder, then finally summarise by bringing in private investigators to "explore" the new info.

Last nigh't show was about the murder of a young (12 I think) asian girl 13 years ago here in Melbourne. I remember the case very well. She was abducted from her home, and her body was not found until 12 months later, dumped in a paddock about 15 kilometres from her home. She was killed within 3 days of being abducted, but the body was only found by chance a year later. I remeber it because several months after the abduction the girl's mother was on TV saying how she had been to see a psychic who had assured her that the giirl was still alive, and that they wold be reunited. Unfortunately for the mother, that psychic must have been one of the dud ones.

Anyway, supposedly the psychics for the show are chosen from a pool of 100 psychics who are asked to do a reading on 3 already solved murders - and they are told to concentrate on provising information that was not "publicly available". Based on their answers, the show selects the best 2 and gets them to do a reading on the current unsolved murder. The show claims that (a) the psychics are not aware of which "unsolved murder" they will be asked to a reading for; (b) they are filmed for the entire time they are on the show, so they have no chance to do 'research' after discovering which murder the show is covering; (c) no member of the show's staff will answer questions or provide feedback to the pyschics; (d) the two psychics do not ant any time meet during the shows filming.

If you assume the above conditions are true, then they were very good last night. They both agreed on many points, and several bits of info were quite specific - for example, one said " I'm getting the name Templestowe - that's were she lived". Sure enough, that's the suburb she lived in.

Of course, I suspect that the 'security' surrounding the details of the unsolved murder is not quite as tight as the show would like us to believe. And some creative editing really helps accentuate the positives (and eliminate the negatives).

The conclusion of last night's show? The murderer is a military veteran, probably from Vietnam, with a hatred of asians. Probably worked as a medical orderly. Has a limp in the right leg, brown hair, not married. This has been passed on to the police, to see if it "helps".

One thing I thought was quite strange - when the show reached the point of introducing the psychics, the host announced that "PSI has been scientifically proven in thousands of trials around the world". In essence, she said that the existence of psi is no longer a valid question - it has been scientifically proven beyond any doubt - it's just a matter of figuring out how to use it. Seemed a very strong statement long on rhetoric, short on substance.