Olivier wrote that in June 1987, New Orleans resident Andre Daigle, 27, went missing after a night out with friends. Four days later, Andre’s sister Elise, based in California, went to local psychic Rosemarie Kerr with her brother’s photo.
As reported in the press at the time, Ms Kerr closed her eyes, placed a finger on Andre’s picture and saw visions of his truck thousands of miles away in Louisiana.
“I told Elise she should get someone to that area as quickly as possible,” she said, knowing that the brother had been murdered.
Police found the truck exactly where Ms Kerr had directed, being driven by a man the psychic described. Andre’s killers were caught and confessed to the crime, describing it in the same way Ms Kerr envisioned it.
On the trail of similar cases, Euro Weekly News discovered a five-page US Department of Justice report published in the journal Law and Order in 1993. The document was titled Psychics and Police Work.
The introduction reads, “The usefulness of psychics in police investigations is controversial, but psychics have long been and will undoubtedly continue to be involved in unsolved criminal investigations.”
Recognising that psychics and police detectives “both base their work on intuition to some extent,” the report mentioned that Dorothy Allison of Nutley, New Jersey, “assisted police in more than 4,000 investigations and has received many letters from law enforcement agencies describing how she helped them.”
Ms Nutley passed on in 1999 aged 74 years and eleven months after predicting that she would not live to 75.
The news reporter found a more recent report by America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
In a document issued in 2000 titled Use of Psychics in Law Enforcement, the agency acknowledged that psychics had been helpful to police in many cases, suggesting that “using psychics can be legitimate when traditional methods fail.”
