WMD Psychic claims ghost leaves physical mark

[Sherlock]

An Oregon psychic claimed a ghost attack left a physical mark and she apparently thought she could be of assistance in locating weapons of mass destruction. That's right.

During a critical exam of the claims surrounding TV psychic detective Laurie McQuary some truly odd ball events have recently surfaced. Among these is that a basement dwelling ghost scared both her and her 9-year-old daughter by blinking lights on and off in their own home. In 1997 this claim by McQuary made newspapers when she described her confrontation with the ghost in her basement and its violent response as she stood by a metal furnace.

According to the article published in Oregon’s largest newspaper McQuary became furious after the ghost scared her daughter. In the published article McQuary told the ghost "How dare you pick on a child!" After this outcry McQuary as quoted in the Oregonian article uttered "That moment, I saw it. It was like a fist hit the side of the furnace. It indented."

This may be the first recorded published claim by a TV psychic detective in obtaining a physical imprint response from a ghost. This seems to cross over from the abstract to the time and conditions of the everyday.

But never underestimate the claims of a psychic. We uncovered another gem.

On April 20, 2004 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held a Defense Department operational update briefing. In November 2002 Secretary Rumsfeld had incorrectly stated that UN inspectors found weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq and Rumsfeld continued in early 2004 indicating that WMD might still be found.

In 2009 we know no WMD's were ever found but in April 2004 neither the public nor journalists knew what 2004 or 2005 might hold.

A New York Observer posting dated April 20 2004 showcases a conversation by a reporter who evidently decided on a whim to phone "psychic" Laurie McQuary and ask if McQuary felt she could help Defense Secretary Rumsfeld find the weapons of mass destruction. According to the posting McQuary responded that in fact she could help. Curiously McQuary added "But I think they already know where they're at."

When the journalist responded "Could Mr. Rumsfeld just call you up and get the answers he needed?" her answer was "Indeed. Yes."

Why if she actually sensed where weapons of mass destruction were --- or even might be --- would she wait around for the Secretary of Defense to call? But since there were no weapons to find why didn't McQuary recognize that she couldn't help and say the WMD's didn't exist? And since they didn't exist why did she believe others knew where they already were?

More on this newly updated critique and commentary at http://www.amindformurder.com/OregonPolicePsychic.htm

[Questioninggeller]

Originally Posted by amindformurder

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A New York Observer posting dated April 20 2004 showcases a conversation by a reporter who evidently decided on a whim to phone "psychic" Laurie McQuary and ask if McQuary felt she could help Defense Secretary Rumsfeld find the weapons of mass destruction. According to the posting McQuary responded that in fact she could help. Curiously McQuary added "But I think they already know where they're at."

When the journalist responded "Could Mr. Rumsfeld just call you up and get the answers he needed?" her answer was "Indeed. Yes."
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More on this newly updated critique and commentary at http://www.amindformurder.com/OregonPolicePsychic.htm

And she didn't do much better in 1992:

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Unsolved Mystery Brings Pain
Newlywed Woman From Edmonds Has Been Missing Since March
Seattle Times/nwsource.com
July 17, 1992
By Vanessa Ho

EDMONDS - Two weeks after her wedding, Christy Bell-Fisher disappeared.

The 44-year-old woman left no clue to where she went - or was taken; no sign of a struggle or a suicide note. She left behind her keys, purse, green Volvo, all of her clothes.

The only thing missing from her home was her husband's .38-caliber revolver.

Four months later, Bell-Fisher still hasn't turned up. It is the longest active missing-persons case in Edmonds and detectives believe they are no closer now to solving it than on March 20, the last day Bell-Fisher was seen.
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Her husband, Tom Fisher, thinks she committed suicide or was murdered.
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Bell-Fisher was last seen in an Edmonds grocery store the night of her disappearance. An old roommate saw her and chatted. It was 15 minutes after Fisher reported her missing. But if Bell-Fisher killed herself, as Fisher suspects, police wonder why her body hasn't turned up.
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Police are so frustrated with the case that they've consulted a psychic, a first for the department. Other law-enforcement agencies have consulted psychics on difficult cases, with varying results.

Oregon psychic Laurie McQuary believes Bell-Fisher was strangled and buried in a remote logging area 25 miles north of her house. Two men were involved, she said. But McQuary concedes her psychic vision is not foolproof and she has been wrong in the past.

Based on her advice, Edmonds police searched an area near Granite Falls with bloodhounds. They found nothing.
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Full article from Seattle Times/nwsource.com

and 1997:

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RELATIVES TURN TO PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS, PSYCHIC IN KILLING
The Columbian (Vancouver, WA)
Dec 30, 1997

SEASIDE, Ore. (AP) — Relatives of a couple shot to death on a Seaside beach in July are turning to private investigators and a psychic to solve the case.

Police are seeking two 20-year-old Seaside youths, Bradley Price and Jesse McAllister, in the apparent thrill killing of Frank Nimz and Gabriela Goza last July 14.

Nimz’s father, Frank Nimz Sr., spent $2,500 to hire an investigator to go to Mexico’s Baja Peninsula, where the suspects’ car was found, to search and put up wanted posters in Spanish.
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Denise Randall, who lived with Frank Nimz for seven years, is working with psychic Laurie McQuary of West Linn. "It’s her belief that they are back in this area ... in a three-state radius," Randall said.
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The Columbian (Vancouver, WA)

Laurie McQuary was no help, as the LA Times explained:

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Jesse McAllister, 21, and Bradley Price, 22. Convicted in random 1997 murder of couple waiting for sunrise on Portland, Ore., beach. After more than a year on the run, McAllister arrested in July 1998 while trying to cross border into Brownsville, Texas. Price nabbed days later at Mexico City nightclub. Both serving life sentences in U.S. prisons.
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Nothing psychic about that.

[Sherlock]

Are you from the Northwest and have a prior interest in McQuary?
If you too have been "keeping track" of her claims let me know.
I'm at amindformurder@gmail.com

Of course she may claim from among the three you cite that these were simply among the 13% (her claimed accuracy figure) that either didn't yet resolve themselves or were dislodged from the proper psychic stream.

We all know the currents of psychic vibrations sometimes sink into metaphysical depths were simple human minds cannot understand the fabrics they hold in the clarity stream of the alternative dimensions.

[Questioninggeller]

Are there any other 'psychics' you are following that also need research?

[Questioninggeller]

Another case where she was wrong, Cindy Casteel Mathieu:

Quote:

Hope flickering in woman's disappearance
Relatives, friends of Anaheim mother, missing 7 months, are still searching.
By GREG HARDESTY
The Orange County Register
Tuesday, March 8, 2005

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Cindy Casteel Mathieu is many things to many people, but that last distinction has been tormenting relatives and friends for nearly seven months.

They fear the worst after numerous searches - including a trip to the San Bernardino Mountains where a psychic believes her body might be buried – have turned up nothing.

"Although we're hoping and praying for the best, we're ready to accept the worst," Jason Casteel, ex-husband of the mother of three, told a crowd of supporters last week at a candlelight vigil near Cindy Casteel Mathieu's apartment in west Anaheim.

The missing woman's husband, Donald Gene Mathieu, 42, who has been in trouble with the law before, has been keeping to himself since she disappeared.
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In addition to a psychic, relatives and friends have hired a private investigator.

"I don't think this lady made it," Oregon-based psychic consultant Laurie McQuary told private investigator Kristen Knowles. "I think she's up in the forest area."

McQuary mentioned Lytle Creek, at the eastern end of the San Gabriel Mountains, as a place to look. A couple of dozen people scoured that area Feb. 13 for six hours but found nothing.
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Four years later:

Quote:

Remains of woman missing 4 years found
No cause of death has been established for Cindy Casteel Mathieu, 42, of Anaheim.
By GREG HARDESTY and SERENA MARIA DANIELS
The Orange County Register
Thursday, August 7, 2008

ANAHEIM – Skeletal remains found near Silverado Canyon last September are those of a mother of three who vanished from her apartment nearly four years ago, police said Thursday.

The coroner has not been able to establish a cause of death for Cindy Casteel Mathieu, 42, and police have found no evidence of foul play – although her family continues to suspect her death was not accidental.
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Laurie McQuary was wrong. She claimed the remains were near Lytle Creek, but the remains were found in Silverado Canyon both are in entirely different counties. Saying a likely murdered person's body is in the forrest area is common sense, not psychic. Predicting the exact location would be psychic.

Janet Abaroa:

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Psychic Called In To Help Solve Durham Slaying
ncwanted.com
Posted: Sep 28, 2006
Updated: Sep 28, 2006

DURHAM, N.C. — Durham police asked a woman who claims she is a psychic to help try and solve the murder of a young, pregnant mother.

Janet Abaroa was found stabbed to death in her home more than a year ago. Abaroa's husband, Raven, told police he came home and found his wife's dead body.

The couple's 6-month-old son was found unharmed in a nearby room.

At the urging of Abaroa's family, police are consulting with Laurie McQuary. McQuary lives outside Portland, Ore.
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More on McQuary and Abaroa.

Gene Fish:

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A dying father's wish: What happened to Gene Fish?
The Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO)
July 3, 2006

CAÑON CITY - Since a retired federal agent, Gene Fish, vanished from his home here on June 21, 2004, his parents have spent $80,000 investigating and offered a $10,000 reward for information that helps find him.His friends and family engaged a geology expert to scour satellite images of his 35-acre rural property, searching for a possible grave. They've even consulted a clairvoyant. "I'm totally frustrated," said Gene's...
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He interviewed Laurie McQuary of Lake Oswego, Ore., who works with police on murder cases. She said Gene was shot inside the house, is buried on his property and that his disappearance will be resolved soon. In recent months, Bill and his wife...
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[Questioninggeller]

Another case (1986):

Quote:

PAPER: Canberra Times (Australia)
DATE: December 17, 2006 Sunday. Final Edition Thursday
BYLINE: The Canberra Times
SECTION: A; Pg. 27
LENGTH: 71 words


Psychic Investigations, ABC, 8pm: In March, 1986, police in Portland, Oregon received a phone call from John Burke three days after his wife Alexis had fled their home in the family car. Was the case one of a missing person or murder? Alexis's mother consulted psychic Laurie McQuary who had visions, including that John had strangled Alexis. The cop on the case went on to consult Laurie and she told him more. Believe it or not.

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Laurie McQuary talking about it 18 years later:

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CHANNEL: CNN
SHOW: LARRY KING LIVE
TITLE: Psychics Helping Police Solve Crimes
DATE: April 29, 2004 - 21:00 ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
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GRACE: Well, I'm happy to say that the Efirds' story had a very happy ending. Their son was recovered alive, and the kidnapers are today behind bars for three consecutive life sentences.

I want to quickly take you to Portland, Oregon, and another case regarding so-called psychics. Now, if you're a dyed-in-the-wool cynic like I am, you may not believe this, but take a listen. Laurie McQuary, a family friend and local psychic investigator, are brought in to solve a case with no leads and very little evidence. A family is convinced their daughter has been killed. Her clues leave a skeptical detective amazed at what the psychic finds.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP - COURT TV "PSYCHIC DETECTIVES")

LAURIE MCQUARY, PSYCHIC WHO HELPED FIND KILLER AND VICTIM: The information I normally need in a missing person case is, like, a picture and a birth date. And I use the birth date as merely a focal point. But that's all I need. In fact, I don't want any extraneous information. I find that it kind of clogs the filters, so to speak. ANNOUNCER: When Laurie concentrates on Alexis's (ph) image, she immediately senses that the young mother has been murdered.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Let's go to Portland, Oregon. Standing by is psychic Laurie McQuary and Detective Bob Lee. Welcome to LARRY KING to both of you.

First to you, Bob Lee. Tell me how the case started.

DET. BOB LEE, LAKE OSWEGO, OREGON: One of my uniformed officers took a missing person report from a man by the name of John Burke (ph). His wife had been gone for about three days, and my officer was so incensed that John's reactions just weren't what he expected.

GRACE: Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Detective, a man's wife has been missing for two or three days before he calls it in?

LEE: He only called it...

GRACE: Do you really need a psychic?

LEE: Well, he only called it in because family members made him.

GRACE: Well, that's a good start. So tell me, how does the psychic get into the picture?

LEE: A couple of months after the woman was reported missing, we had gone through about everything we could, and she was contacted by the mother of the missing woman, who -- Laurie told her a bunch of things. And I contacted Laurie by phone and made an appointment to meet with her for lunch, just to find out what she had to say about the case.

GRACE: Well, wait a minute. Detective, when you say you had done everything you could -- you've got a 28-year-old girl, beautiful, who allegedly just walked out on her baby, her home, her husband, and all you have is her car parked about, what, 100 miles away?

LEE: No, actually, it wasn't even that far. It was 12 miles north of Vancouver, which is very close to here, parked at a rest area.

GRACE: Right. Right. Right. I remember that now. Now, there was no DNA, no fingerprints, no anything to go on.

LEE: Well, we didn't have anything as far as the vehicle was concerned because all the fingerprints belonged to John, the husband, and we didn't know whether they belonged to the woman or not simply because we didn't have her fingerprints. But there was nothing to indicate that a crime had even occurred. We just had a vehicle.

GRACE: So how long into the case did you go? How many leads did you follow until you finally contacted psychic Laurie McQuary? LEE: We're talking -- the case itself ran about two-and-a-half or three volumes of paperwork, and we had contacted over 40 people before we met Laurie for the first time.

GRACE: Wow. At the end of their rope, a 28-year-old mother, Alexis, is missing, no leads, no witnesses, no forensics, no DNA. And finally, last resort, the detective seeks out a psychic. Stay with us.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP - COURT TV "PSYCHIC DETECTIVES")

ANNOUNCER: Coming up next, Laurie McQuary has a shocking vision.

MCQUARY: I felt Alexis had been murdered.

ANNOUNCER: Can Laurie's psychic insight put detectives on the right track?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP - COURT TV "PSYCHIC DETECTIVES")

ANNOUNCER: Right off the bat, scenes of a troubled marriage play out.

MCQUARY: ... or she was going to leave. And I think they had this huge fight.

LEE: She said that they argued over the normal things -- you know, finances, John being lazy, John working for his father and not making enough money, over medical bills.

MCQUARY: And I think...

ANNOUNCER: And then Laurie sees a chilling and brutal attack.

MCQUARY: ... with his hands. I just knew the first words that came to me is that she had been strangled. There was never a question in my mind.

ANNOUNCER: Laurie believes that John Burke is a murderer, but she also sees an accomplice, possibly a brother. Detective Lee confirms that Burke has a younger brother named Kelly (ph).

MCQUARY: I could see two people handling this poor woman's body.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GRACE: Welcome back to LARRY KING LIVE. I'm Nancy Grace from Court TV, in for Larry tonight. Thank you for being with us.

Tonight, an intriguing story about a case with no leads. And finally, detectives seek out a psychic. Let's go back to Portland, Oregon, to the psychic, Laurie McQuary. Now, how -- what were your first visions or feelings regarding the case of missing 28-year-old Alexis Burke?

MCQUARY: My first impression is that someone close to her, perhaps her husband, had been involved in this. And I did not feel she was alive.

GRACE: So you see this 28-year-old mother's picture, and you get this thought. You think she's dead. What was your next, I guess, vision of the case? What happened then?

MCQUARY: Right. Well, what I do, Nancy, is I sit down seriously with -- what I do is a profile on the case myself. I sit by myself with the picture and the little bit of facts I have on it. And I immediately felt she was buried. I felt that other people in this family had been involved in her disposal. And I felt certain specifics about where she might be buried. And that's what I shared...

GRACE: I got to tell you something...

MCQUARY: ... with the family.

GRACE: ... Laurie, that really threw me for a loop, is when you told detectives you saw a hand around her throat.

MCQUARY: Yes. Yes.

GRACE: And also, that she was buried underground, near water. So long story short, Detective, what had become of this 28-year-old mom? Just a gorgeous girl!

LEE: She had been strangled. She was buried near water. Of course, the water part -- this is Oregon, so there's a lot of water. But of the 30 things that I documented when I first met Laurie, 28 of them came out to be absolutely true the day we dug up the body. The 29th turned out to be true a couple of years later, when I contacted the suspect in jail.

GRACE: And also, Detective, the fact that Laurie was able to tell you, without knowing any of these people, that there was a co- conspirator that helped bury this body, that was very close to the defendant, and it turned out to be his brother, right?

LEE: That's correct.

GRACE: So what has become of those two?

LEE: John, the husband, actually spent 13 years in the Oregon state penitentiary for her murder. We had made a deal for no prosecution for the younger brother in exchange for him showing us where the body was buried.

GRACE: Detective Lee, had you ever used a psychic in a case before? LEE: Prior to that time, I viewed psychics as little old ladies with a 4-by-8 sheet of plywood in their front yard that says Madame Melba Reads. I'm a left-brain thinker, meaning I'm very good with numbers and computers, and I'm not too far in touch with the right brain, which most psychics are. So no, it had never occurred to me before.

GRACE: Detective Bob Lee, not a happy ending in the fact that Alexis Burke had been murdered by her husband, but at least the victim's family has peace. To the two of you, thank you for being with us.

MCQUARY: Thank you.

GRACE: And when we come back, another hard to believe and incredible story of psychics cracking cases that seem to be unsolvable.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP - COURT TV "PSYCHIC DETECTIVES")

MCQUARY: Psychic work is not an exact science, and if you look at anything that we do in life, is anything perfect?

The police work very, very hard. Sometimes they come up against a stone wall. Sometimes there's a fact perhaps that they didn't pay attention to or they overlooked. I'd like to think maybe I brought them back to that point where they could examine it again.

LEE: Laurie said that the body would be buried where John could keep an eye on it. And that was quite strange because we're talking -- the body was buried 75 yards away from the building where John worked. She described the argument, what had occurred between Alexis and John.

She mentioned the people that should have known about the case, including the older brother, the younger brother. There were just so many things that were tremendously accurate. You know, it boggles the mind.

(END VIDEO CLIP)
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
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Another case (1992):

Quote:

CHANNEL: CNN
DATE: May 30, 2005 Monday
SHOW: NANCY GRACE 8:00 PM EST
TITLE: Psychic Detectives
BYLINE: Nancy Grace
GUESTS: Nancy Weber, Peggy Goble, Lou Masterbone, Vashti Apostol-Hurst, Laurie McQuary, Joe Uribe, Janis Amatuzio
SECTION: NEWS; Domestic
LENGTH: 6323 words
HIGHLIGHT: A look at psychics that help solve crimes.
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GRACE: If you`re like most of us, you may be skeptical about psychics. Well, maybe tonight, you`ll change your mind. And listen, I don`t have a dog in the fight, no skin in the game. So when you hear these stories, they will at least make you stop and wonder.

Joining us now, two new guests. A family friend of a set of victims, Vashti Apostol-Hurst is with us. She was to a point she felt that it was necessary to call on a psychic, Laurie McQuary. Thank you for being with us, ladies. Let me quickly go to Vashti Apostol-Hurst. Tell me what happened.

VASHTI APOSTOL-HURST, HIRED PSYCHIC TO HELP LOCATE PLANE CRASH VICTIMS: Hi. Thank you, Nancy, for addressing this important and critical topic. In the spring of 1992, Lila Fehler (ph) and Alan Hernandez (ph) and their son, Jonathan, experienced the unimaginable tragedy of losing the three -- other three children in the family and Lila`s brother in a plane accident.

GRACE: So the three kids and their uncle?

APOSTOL-HURST: Yes. The uncle had flown in from California to visit the family, and the children had wanted to go up in the plane with him. And when they didn`t return, obviously, the panic started to set in. And they went through ten grueling days with dozens of friends and hundreds of individuals, family and people they didn`t even know, the Flathead Indian tribe, police, helicopters, searchers, hikers desperately trying to find the plane that went down in the treacherous mountains of Saint Ignatius, Montana.

GRACE: So the search ensued. No one could find the plane, the uncle, the three kids. And they just went up basically for a joyride, a sight- seeing trip to have fun with the uncle, who was a pilot, right?

APOSTOL-HURST: That`s right. And in these particular mountains, we were later told that there were downdrafts, and if you weren`t familiar with that, it was -- could be treacherous. And he -- we ended up finding, afterwards, that he got caught in a downdraft and the plane flipped and...

GRACE: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Are you telling me, basically, the whole family was -- they had three kids, and they were all gone?

APOSTOL-HURST: They had four children, and their eldest son, Jonathan, was not there at the time.

GRACE: So after the search ensued, Vashti, did people finally give up on a search?

APOSTOL-HURST: You know, it was -- it was amazing how Lila and Alan and Jonathan survived this. And the local authorities gave up much sooner than they did. And the helicopter that was hired to go up was $500 an hour, so there was a constant need for friends and family, as well as this Indian tribe, who was the first to donate $4,000 to get the helicopters up and actually sent members of their tribe to hike into these mountains and...

GRACE: So money became and issue, and the search was starting to end. What prompted you to seek out a psychic?

APOSTOL-HURST: Laurie McQuary has been doing this for years, and I commend her as being a pioneer in her field because she has brought comfort to hundreds of people who have, you know, tragically lost their loved ones. And we were all desperate to find these children. Of course, initially, there was hope that they would survive. It was in the spring. But there were also fears...

GRACE: So how did you find Laurie McQuary? What prompted you to finally seek out a psychic?

APOSTOL-HURST: Because there was -- no one was having any success. And I knew that this family could not survive putting closure on whatever happened to the children, if they weren`t found, without knowing what happened, and...

GRACE: OK.

APOSTOL-HURST: And so I contacted Laurie.

GRACE: Let me go to Laurie McQuary. She`s joining us out of Portland. Laurie, do you remember getting that call?

LAURIE MCQUARY, PSYCHIC DETECTIVE: Oh, yes, I do.

GRACE: What happened?

MCQUARY: Well, what happened, of course, is that I gotten an immediate impression of where these children and their uncle might be. And being a mother myself, like any of us would, my compassion was at its height and I wanted so badly -- I wished I had lived closer. In fact, I was on my way, at one point, to go up there and physically help search, which I have done in many searches.

GRACE: So you get the phone call, and then what happened?

MCQUARY: Well, I talked to Steven Thomas (ph), who was one of the main searchers. And I had at that point been given a map of the area, and I marked it, told him where I thought that these children and their uncle might be. And as often happens, the people who were given the information said they`d searched that area, they couldn`t possibly be there because it was box canyon. The pilot too experienced to know to fly in there. And I just -- I have to stick to my guns. As most psychics will tell you, when we get our first impression, we know it`s generally right. So they didn`t go search that area immediately because the people who were in charge of the search decided that that area had been covered and there was no point...

GRACE: When you saw -- when you told them the area to go to, Laurie, what prompted you to name that? Did you have a vision? Did you hear a voice? What told to you tell them to go there?

GRACE: No, I see it more just like a replay of a television set in my head.

GRACE: What did you see??

APOSTOL-HURST: It`s a knowing. It`s a feeling. Well, I look at the map. And when I look at a map and I`m looking for a missing person, that area literally jumps out at me. And this was the St. Mary Lake area, and I told him immediately on the phone. I drew it on the map, and I said, This is where they`re at, period. And like I said...

GRACE: What happened...

APOSTOL-HURST: ... even though that had been checked, I said, Go back. You`ve missed them. And they didn`t do it for several days, and when they finally right back, that`s exactly where they found them.

GRACE: Vashti, were you surprised when the family was found? Were they dead or alive?

APOSTOL-HURST: What was amazing was it was -- I got a phone call, and they said, Vashti, they`re calling off the search. And I said, They can`t do that. Let me call Laurie again, and I`ll get right back to you. And I called Laurie, and I said, They`re going to call of the search. That can`t happen, Laurie, where are they?

And it was amazing. The specific instructions she gave me were exactly where the children were found. She said, Vashti, tell them to fly over St. Mary`s Lake. And the pilot -- the father was exhausted. The father and the son had been using this particular helicopter. The father was exhausted. And she said, The father will probably be too tired to go. The son will go with a co-pilot. And as he turns left -- as he turns, he will look left over his shoulder and see the sun gleaming off the wing of the plane.

And that is exactly what happened. He went up. They didn`t want to go up again. They went up. As he turned left, he saw the sun glinting on a Cessna plane. I believe it was white. It was upside-down in the snow. The children and the uncle had died on impact and were still buckled in their seats.

And what was amazing, when some of the Indians, hikers, went back up along with the family members, they said that it was remarkable that the snow was so pristine, that there were no animal tracks around the plane.

GRACE: What an incredible story. As you are hearing from Laurie McQuary and Vashti Apostol-Hurst, the family was found. They died upon impact, but at least some closure was given to the children`s parents. Stay with us.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP - COURT TV "PSYCHIC DETECTIVES")

MCQUARY: A psychic is a person who has the same abilities everybody else has. We all hear, taste, feel, but not very many people pay attention to that intuitive voice inside. My recognition of psychic gift, talent, however you want to put it, came to me pretty dramatically. At 18, I had a horse injury. I fell from a horse and cracked my head open, and I was in a semi-coma for three weeks. Coming out of that coma, I began having dreams about plane crashes that actually occurred three days after I dreamed about them.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP - COURT TV "PSYCHIC DETECTIVES")

NOREEN RENIER, PSYCHIC: I need something to connect me with them, perhaps an item they used to wear or use, a hairbrush, a wallet. And I can sort of play back the film of what happened. But as a police psychic, I want to get information related to the crime, so I`ve programmed my mind, when I touch an object, what I need to see.
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This was discussed in this thread.

I couldn't find any news paper reports on either case at the time. It'll be interesting to see, however, if these facts at the time match up to these promotional claims made years later.

[Sherlock]

Given the number of media reports out there on McQuary of those you have seen or been informed of, what is the number where McQuary actually:

1. Named a specific missing person and then was supported by any public law enforcement agency as assisting in the location of that person?

2. Named a specific missing person and then was indicated in the media as locating the correct location of that person?

How long have you been following her reports --- just now --- or longer?

[Sherlock]

Not at the moment! My personal e-mail is amindformurder@gmail.com -Thanks, John Merrell

[Questioninggeller]

Originally Posted by amindformurder

Given the number of media reports out there on McQuary of those you have seen or been informed of, what is the number where McQuary actually:

1. Named a specific missing person and then was supported by any public law enforcement agency as assisting in the location of that person?

2. Named a specific missing person and then was indicated in the media as locating the correct location of that person?

I'll have to get back to you. This might take some time.

Originally Posted by amindformurder

How long have you been following her reports --- just now --- or longer?

Since you posted this thread and brought her to my attention.

[Questioninggeller]

Some abstracts of other articles to look at:

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Oregonian, The (Portland, OR) - August 28, 1989
INTUITION LEARN TO TRUST YOUR INNER VOICE

Summary: Following your hunches is looked down upon in Western culture, but paying attention to that gut feeling isn't necessarily illogical The applicant sitting before you has great credentials, an impressive bearing yet something tells you not to hire her.You're dining out and have the persistent urge to call home. You become engaged, despite a nagging feeling this person is not for you. You crave a glass of milk but drink a Coke...

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Oregonian, The (Portland, OR) - August 10, 1994
WOMAN PUTS DAD'S DEATH TO REST

Summary: Mary Jane Walker long had been convinced her father, a railroad fireman, died needlessly in an Aug. 6, 1935, train wreck Mary Jane Walker was up early this past Saturday. By 6 a.m. the dog was fed, the car packed and Walker was headed out of Ilwaco toward the backroads of Oregon's Coast Range to take care of some old family business.Fifty-nine years ago last Saturday -- Aug. 6, 1935 -- Walker's father, Alfred F. Walker, a fireman on Southern Pacific...

[Questioninggeller]

She knows "Apostle Paul," a guy who "knew Jesus":

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ST. NICK
How Desperate are Americans for religion?
Enough to believe a Lake Oswego business man is the reincarnation of the Apostle Paul.
Willamette Week
BY BOB YOUNG
Photos: MELISSA GERR


It's a Wednesday noon in Lake Oswego, and I'm sitting across the table from the reincarnation of the Apostle Paul. Between bites of a cheeseburger slathered with French's mustard, St. Paul--who currently inhabits the body of a local businessman--tells me about how he walked down the dusty roads of Bethany with Jesus 2,000 years ago.

The waiters at Stanford's restaurant call him Nick as they refill his lemonade. I'm not sure what to call 61-year-old millionaire Nick Bunick as he explains to me that he's regularly visited by 7-foot-tall angels.
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For a number of other Bunick believers, confirmation comes in the number "444," which Bunick says is a sign from God.

For instance, "Todd" shared this with the "444 Club" on Bunick's Web site: "The day after I read the book...I looked at my check and it said $444. I realized it's time to believe."

Vivian Franck in South Portland, Maine, says that after reading The Messengers, she awoke and glanced at her clock. "And of course," she says, "it was 4:44!"

Even Bunick's editor at Pocket Books (a division of Simon & Schuster) claims to have had a 444 experience. Senior editor Jane Cavolina says she was a skeptic until this summer, when her 14-year-old cat Rocky woke her up on three successive mornings at 4:44.
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It was back in 1977--the year Bunick ran unsuccessfully for Congress with the slogan "Pick Nick"--that he visited a Portland psychic named Duane Berry. Bunick says it was his first encounter with mysticism, and he wasn't quite prepared to believe Berry's revelation. "He told me," Bunick says, "I walked with the Master 2,000 years ago."

Ten years later, another psychic, Laurie McQuary, exclaimed when she met Bunick, "Oh my God, you knew Jesus!" But Bunick remained reticent. The son of immigrant Russian Jews, Bunick grew up just across the Mystic River from Boston, in a poor city that packed 48 liquor-selling establishments into its 1.8 square miles. He got out of the ghetto by winning a football scholarship to the University of Florida (where he wore the number 44), and he kept running--all the way to the West Coast, where he started a business building custom homes, including a riverfront A-frame house for his buddy Bill Walton. Today, from his Kruse Way office in Lake Oswego, Bunick looks out the window at Westlake Village, a 285-acre housing site he developed.
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The most startling is his claim that there will be a "shift in the earth's vibrational plane" that will produce a sort of kinder, gentler apocalypse. As a result of this vibrational shift, spiritually advanced people will wake up one day to find that they have moved to a new dimension where there's no war or hunger, while some of their less-enlightened spouses and children will have been left behind. "Not to be punished," Bunick stresses, but rather to improve their karma.

It won't be that hard to make the cut, he adds. All you have to do is follow the three laws of God: universal love, universal compassion, and walking in truth. That's it. No suffering, no sacrifice, no material loss is required.

"God wants you to enjoy the journey," he explains.

Willamette Week

In 2005, Laurie was mentioned in Randi's commentary: http://www.randi.org/jr/031805x.html