2010 Psychic Insiders Investigative Report:

Not all, but more than 17,000 global psychics are now secretly in a "contractual partnership" with one of five multi-billion dollar media corporations servicing the paranormal community. These companies control and manage "the psychic message" and ask their psychic clients to hype unrealistically high fees across more than 12,000 psychic web sites. The companies also operate and manage TV psychic detective shows, psychic magazines, psychic trade and public relations firms, and create pre-written scripts used in an estimated 76% of all telephone psychic readings. And TV viewers watch hired actors and actresses "solve" many crime and missing person cases that corporations create which never actually existed as paranormal solved mysteries. An estimated 92% of American and British metropolitan psychics are now using pre-written "psychic reading" scripts created by psychic management firms. Are there any authentic paranormal psychics? Seven psychic whistle-blowers reveal 'behind-the-scenes' 2010 paranormal practices.

As all psychic fees in 2010 plummet around the globe the psychic community is largely driven and managed by five huge corporations operating thousands of what appear to be "personalized" local psychic web sites. These "hidden" multi-media corporations own and manage writers and production studios, internet design centers, web sites, magazines, and satellite and internet radio companies.

Here is the report that one Atlanta writer called "an explosion triggered by insiders working in a trade controlled by billion-dollar companies and decades of naive participants." Included are reports from whistle-blowers about public deceptions, internet psychic reading fees that offer profits "far better than drugs", and TV police psychic detectives who have been paid thousands of dollars by media conglomerates to act out crime and missing person TV fantasies and/or follow fantasized TV series re-enactments. Facts show that a variety of actors and actresses have portrayed both paranormal psychic detectives and also 'officers' --- yet many of these scripted portrayals never existed in real life!

A four-year "under cover" investigation showed some TV psychic detectives actually created death scenes and psychic missing person case events that never happened. Last month a major TV psychic was questioned and stated "These stories of TV psychic deceptions are coming from women resentful of the money a few of us make proving our skills on TV or by providing telephone readings. I've proved I'm real. The money I make proves I'm real. These psychic women coming forward never had my skills. They are envious at how much greater my psychic skills are. As jealous community want'abees they don't perform well. I haven't seen most of them on TV or in magazines. You have to prove you are real and they can't match my psychic performance.They aren't psychic whistle-blowers --- they are psychic dead beats. They are falsely accusing other psychics. Psychic fees are high for a reason."

Yet now seven major psychic insiders say TV psychics and internet psychic corporations "running charades" are raking in billions (with a 'B') of profits worldwide through TV advertising and cable syndication fees, grocery store magazine and delivery sales, internet psychic readings, and other services which fool the public. What is the truth behind these two different psychic community positions?

A G&PIG overview and commentary with more than 350,000 views

Why have 2010 psychic fees dropped more than 68% since 2006? What do psychics cost now and why are TV psychic detective missing person and reading fees dropping to all time lows?

Since early 2010 all of the global top 12 paranormal psychic detectives have reduced their psychic fees typically to about $50 per hour --- down from as much as $1200 per hour between 2004 and 2006 --- and less than half of what they charged as recently as a year ago. Today more than 93 out of every 100 psychic readings offered are actually from pre-written scripts or based on suggested answers created by one of five multi-million dollar international businesses. Each of these five global multimedia conglomerates contracts with local psychics and now manages over 2500 different "personal home town look" psychic web sites.

The local psychic you believe is independent is very likely still owned locally by the psychic but has now adopted a corporate designed web site to look "independent", various psychic products for sale, targeted client lists, credit card and Pay Pal payment services, and indexing for fee costs.

Most explosive however according to psychic whistle-blowers is that almost all "local" psychics now silently "partner" with one of these global business firms who provide pre-scripted readings that are used to maximize time and avoid specifics during client meetings. Any "customized" psychic readings have disappeared to maximize profits and keep on schedule.

There are now few successful remaining "independent" psychics. A 2007-2010 study showed the majority of still independent psychics are struggling and less than 4% pass even the lowest performance levels in HFOCA certified tests and almost 65% have filed one of more bankruptcies in the past 10 years. Insider whistle-blowers indicate the few "real" practicing psychics left are either having to fool the public with their own non-specific readings just to stay in business and legally safe --- or --- they are simply delusional about their own psychic abilities.

With more than 25,000 psychic practitioners worldwide providing more than 2 million psychic readings each year there are simply a few accurate predictions that randomly occur. But the HFOCA tests show very few rise above the level of random chance, and when they do none stay there long.

However even if there are "real" psychics still practicing, global psychic fees (including general psychic reading fees and all psychic detective service fees) have nose-dived downward since 2005.

The entire paranormal community is now in a super cost battle for the last few customers. Even the "best" and most popular regional psychics have actually seen 60-80% fall-off of in their client base. Indeed, new 2010 surveys and business income reports show dramatic "over the cliff" drop-off rates in clients both in North America and eastern Europe. For a non-commercial report covering typical 2010 global psychic fees and matching accuracy performance surveys across thousands of psychics/intuitive's see http://www.gpinquirygroup.com/gpinquirygroup/psychicfees.html

"Psychic fees in 2010 above $35 in the U.S. and less in Canada and western Europe for a full hour psychic reading are now pretty much reserved only for the most gullible or emotional clients" stated one of seven psychic whistle-blowers, the former "top ranked psychic" Kathy Fleinwall. 

Former psychic Destiny Circle told a British judge after agreeing to participate in a 2009 public awareness campaign that the latest scam is to post that you've dropped your psychic fees from 500 to 300 pounds and then tell the client you are so interested in helping you will drop your fee to 150.

"The reality is that you only hoped to get 45 pounds an hour all along but you've screwed them right off the bat" stated Circle. One Detective chief inspector in 2004 called Great Britain's psychic Destiny Circle --- before she was caught making up claims --- "among the best psychic's for finding missing persons in the world."

"If I fooled a Chief Inspector --- and I fooled several --- its easy to fool the public" said Ms. Circle in 2009.

Former Canadian psychic Kim Rowe agrees. "I made more than $350,000 a year as a psychic up until 2006 though clients thought I was broke. After the market tanked because of undercover stings by researchers and critics it got tough to find wealthy clients even with the agency who was behind me. I still counsel in a non-psychic manner but the system is now entirely delusional women and con artists. Nobody and I mean nobody has any real psychic ability beyond an occasional lucky guess or a prediction that is prompted first by a question, not silence. A real paranormal psychic will absolutely never ask a question and never know you beforehand --- not even your name --- but I had to ask some seemingly routine questions to be able to have something to guess about. Without those I had nothing to go on because I wasn't a psychic even though my clients thought I was."

Is every psychic a fraud or are some real?

In mid May 2010 a number of internet postings appeared to showcase several psychics who predicted the BP oil flow disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.  However a careful review shows these "psychic predictions" were released after the collapse of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform and then back-dated to give the appearance of intuitive forecasting.

This temporary burst of amazing psychic forecasting following disasters, missing person cases, and an assortment of crimes is far from unusual.  But upon inspection they simply don't pan out --- though some media jump on these psychic promos before carefully checking them out.

For more than 20 years retired FBI Special Agent Robert Ressler would often draw excitement and media stories as the FBI behavioral profiler who coined the phrase 'serial killer'. Ressler also praised "psychic detective" Noreen Renier to southeastern police agencies for assistance on local crime and missing person investigations.

Robert Ressler --- who was the same age as the then recently divorced Noreen Renier ---even arranged for the then 43-year old Renier to speak at an FBI function --- setting off a news story that began in U.S. News and World Report.  Yet even years earlier Noreen Renier had already publicly claimed to have powers of speaking with the dead, and she claimed in newspapers that she used dangling pendulums over maps to locate missing persons!

During a July 22, 2004 Court TV on-line interview Noreen Renier referenced her work for a woman on a double homicide in Albany, New York.   Renier claimed “I put her son in jail.” 

She further emphasized that "I've worked on over 450 cases. . . when the police hire me, that's usually 70 percent of the time. . . I've put people in jail." 

She has also begun offering comments to the media about suspects such as her statement following psychic visions in the Laci Peterson case when she stated ". . . all my instincts, my intuition, give me no doubt that he did it."

Yet not a single state or federal law enforcement agency has supported Noreen Renier's claims about putting people behind bars using her paranormal 'Super Psychic' powers.

Until several years ago Renier regularly charged up to $1000 to take a case and provided typically 60-90 minutes of non-productive "psychic ramblings" according to a Virginia sheriff. However, like others with fewer clients, she began to heavily reduce her psychic reading fees beginning in 2008.

Ressler's FBI colleague and 25-year FBI veteran and negotiator, Clint Van Zandt more recently criticized the notion of psychic detectives stating "What happens many times is that professed psychics allow themselves the benefit of 20/20 hindsight. After the case is solved, they make their previously vague predictions somehow fit the crime and the criminal."

And how accurate and helpful are TV series like 'Psychic Detectives' and 'Psychic Investigators'?

In 2010 federal subpoena information provided to one critic showed several TV production companies paid thousands of dollars in payments to "psychics" who repeatedly failed to show any paranormal abilities during testing.

Not surprisingly the psychics had agreed the testing was fair and impartial beforehand but had harsh words after they repeatedly failed to show any paranormal success.

Of 47 tested TV psychics, 47 failed to show any psychic abilities even 0.005% above random chance. More than half actually scored worse than chance!

It's no wonder psychic fees have collapsed in 2010 to new lows --- the public is becoming smarter about people claiming delusional Super Powers.

Typically TV production companies paid at least $5000 for a few minutes of broadcasted video during psychic case reenactments. Apparently real psychic ability and investigative accuracy was less a concern than the entertainment value showcased.

Repeatedly several producers stated it wasn't their responsibility to uncover the truth or discover if a psychic was bogus or not --- that job was left for the public to discover on their own.

Family members hiring psychic detectives to locate missing persons are a "gold mine" for psychics due to the free media attention they receive.

Psychic detectives and missing person psychic investigators are smart about media, but fail to help --- except in recreated TV shows where actors often substitute for police and scripts are more fantasy than real.

TV forensic psychic Carla Baron (click here) has garnished multiple critics for her highly exaggerated claims, and Oregon missing person TV psychic detective Laurie McQuary hyped KVAL-TV News 13 (Eugene, Oregon) news reporters with her involvement in finding more than two dozen bodies of murder victims.

Unfortunately for McQuary that claim has absolutely no State Police agency support.

Both self-identified "psychics" Noreen Renier (click here) and Phoenix area psychic Sunny Dawn Johnston refer to using pendulums over maps to locate missing persons.

Johnston hypes her "certified medium" status and being a "medical intuitive" as if such credentials had credibility or might be sanctioned from accredited medical research facilities.  She also has worked with the Find Me missing person search group --- though their work continues to showcase no documented results in finding those lost using psychic paranormal abilities.  None.

Sadly KPHO-TV News failed to examine both local and national psychic deceptions and instead never questioned many of the bogus accuracy claims connecting paranormal methods to locating missing persons.

Sunny Johnston is just one among dozens of psychic detectives including Sylvia Browne who offer no accredited institute documentation to prove their paranormal abilities.   And like all of the top 20 missing person psychic detectives Sunny Dawn Johnston has never provided any public state or federal law enforcement agency statement which supports her paranormal abilities much less even her "certified medium" contact assistance covering the recovery of an officially listed missing person case over the past 20 years.  Not a single state or federal agency.

Not a single state agency commendation exists for paranormal assistance during a missing person case --- much less actually leading a police officer directly to someone alive.   Not even to one dead victim across all 50 states.

But now several "insiders" in the paranormal community have begun to acknowledge decades of psychic deceptions, and an explosive insight into their work with police.   

They admit that missing person psychics who use pendulums to locate the lost showcases just how delusional or desperate many in their psychic community have become to snag media reporters and the public.

And until recently the crazier their claims the more local TV cameras came since small town reporters and TV producers have become lazy (and negligent) in producing objective psychic news stories.

According to these whistle blowers the beginning interactions of many psychic detectives working alongside police are a far different story than what the media or psychics themselves have related.

And the beginnings behind the coupling of psychic detectives working with police have often been more wild and outrageous than movie fiction!

The years 1975 through 1995 were "the forensic Dark Ages when attractive and mostly southern female psychic handlers turned local investigators into putty" noted a retired sheriff.

He recalled that "TV police psychics love attention.   They crave being seen with supernatural Wonder Woman abilities.   . . .But they are now detested by law enforcement. . .    During their [initially] welcome shenanigans many an investigative eye [by police officers] was not where it should have been."

Unsolved crime and missing person psychic detectives arrived by the dozens across a number of small town and county sheriff departments between 1975 and 1985.

Law enforcement officers rarely saw a male psychic but recall that by 1978 they were constantly being approached by dozens of 25 to 35 year old female psychic investigators, almost all single or divorced.

Thirty five years ago a long string of unsolved crime and missing person psychic detectives appeared including Sylvia Browne, Kim Rowe, Noreen Renier, Carla Baron, Pam Coronado, Kathy Fleinwall, Laurie McQuary, Nancy Weber, Annette Martin, Barb Larsen, Jodie Green, Linda Jones, and Sally Headding.

This assortment of names included some who later admitted to being fakes and more than a few with severe paranormal claim and credibility problems. Some of these psychics have dropped their psychic fees by up to 94%!

Most however were defended in the 1980's by a very select group of "researchers" --- many with their own psychic and mystical beliefs --- who sought proof of paranormal powers.

Many of these researchers rather easily swallowed fantastic psychic tales as mysterious truth even when there was no solid evidence to do so.

And apparently most openly dated their own test subjects and these 25-year "psychic ties" have remained.

Over the past 15 years many of the claims offered by these "behavioral researchers" have disappeared as thousands of police psychics were tested more properly and reliably.

Thousands of tests revealed absolutely no psychic accuracy beyond chance and no paranormal abilities.

Not a single psychic investigator tested by an accredited institution such as Harvard University, Texas A&M University, or Cornell University has managed to score anything near what would be deemed a "paranormal ability".

Most refuse to be tested at all by accredited labs or government research institutes.

So there are no "certified" psychics or mediums --- at least not ones accepted and endorsed from credible institutions.

Professional looking "psychic medium certifications" are available from $79 to $699 to anyone depending on how impressive you want your "certified diploma" to be.

For $399 and up you get a selection of wall plaques with various impressive sounding institutions (none of which actually exist beyond taking a 2-minute "everyone passes" questionnaire to graduate) from a choice of countries and in various wood and metallic frames.

Previously Oregon psychic Laurie McQuary attempted to locate missing child Luke Tredway of Portland but though she received substantial media attention she was unable to publicly and positively discern who murdered the child.

The mission of the Klass Kids Foundation is to stop crimes against children and insiders among the psychic community are afraid the foundation is killing their golden goose.

The Klass Kids Foundation noted "Psychic Detectives are the vanguard of a second wave of predators that also includes tabloid journalists, cheesy defense lawyers and photo-op politicians. They use tabloid newspapers and talk shows to boast about their accomplishments and predict success. They materialize whenever children are kidnapped and circle the cases like vultures on a fresh carcass."

Indeed both the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children maintain that psychics have never solved a single missing person's case.   And no psychic has ever led a law enforcement officer by the hand toward a lost and frightened child before the child died of cold or starvation.

And the claim of the Federal Bureau of Investigation using psychics for criminal investigative work is simply a self-delusion claim.

A number of female psychics like to pretend the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, or other agency secretly supports their paranormal abilities --- much like the strange organizations behind comic characters.

Delusions come easy to those who believe or create the con of being someone with Super Natural powers --- including talking to the dead.

Virtually all TV reruns of the best police psychic cases refer to these originally hyped 1970's or 1980's quasi-research psychic studies.

Even the FBI and CIA sunk their teeth into examining psychic investigators and using behavioral profiling --- areas described by critics as "cold readings" masquerading as science and "forensic ventures of the highly naive."

Apparently the FBI never found or validated an authentic psychic but rather stumbled over several of the world's worst psychic police detectives and con artists.

Indeed paranormal research never registered well on a credible research meter as psychic hypnotic dream states, and telepathic psychic sexual arousal testing were among key efforts between 1965 and 1990.

Insiders admit that being paid for psychic sexual testing was about as good as it gets --- and they prolonged the studies for almost four years --- as researchers became "personally" involved with several "psychic detectives" and paranormal claimants.

One former researcher noted that "1% of the documentation was an honest pile of crap and the other 99% was a drug, dream, or sexually induced pile of crap.  Amazingly a few even received doctorates for what is now very clearly years of creating very distinctive piles of academic crap."

The national media have overlooked these realities and let slide psychic claims of "locating a dozen victims" through psychic visions, or in the case of Laurie McQuary and others "dozens" of located bodies.

Isn't it strange reporters have been willing to let such claims slide without the backing of a single police agency for even a single body found directly by a psychic first-hand?

Today some psychic want a-be can smile on camera and regurgitate some ancient "proof" supporting psychic or ESP abilities.

Many psychics defend themselves by using the phrase --- "so what's the worse than can happen?"

Yet their proof and substance behind their claims doesn't exist as many are instantly created before TV cameras --- and few people can check a claim made 'on-the-fly' unless it's a later re-play you can stop, rewind, and analyze.

And that's partially what this web site is all about.

We've checked thirty years of videotapes, TV studio recordings, digital imaging, thousands of pages of documentation and transcripts, and listened to hundreds of hours of audio recordings.  Millions in Investigative funding has now exposed the realities of the paranormal community --- and paranormal community insiders admit the awareness in their deceptions has risen quickly since 2007.

"The last three years about two-thirds of the con artists in the psychic community have been caught by critics and many of the remaining psychics are already under investigation" noted former "psychic" Jodie Green. Green ended her own career after many of her "incredible" psychic claims were discovered to have been falsified by a New York reporter. Green before dying recently worked at a "super store" stocking shelves and helped investigators uncover other psychic detectives across the country "who made millions fooling TV reporters for decades. They are stupid, stupid, stupid and never check the claims."

Many self-appointed forensic crime psychics and "psychic detectives" started their "psychic police careers" by climbing aboard a motorcycle and then starting up conversations with local police.

Other police psychics flooded police detectives with phone calls and office stop-by's.

Many "psychic police investigators" sought out local newspaper reporters and radio DJ's and claimed they were "tuned in" with new clues about locally unsolved crimes.

Dressing to attract an audience they were described as a "whoosh and whip" as they hit small towns and often modeled themselves after one of the ABC-TV Charlie's Angels.

Many displayed matching outfits to the Charlie's Angles right down to wearing similar knock-off shoes.

In their psychic visions murder weapons were hidden everywhere and a variety of cars were concealed in brush after being ditched over cliffs.

In the 1970's some faked psychic detective crime visions were of Russian corruption and espionage, and in the 1980's it was Chinese spies and Columbian drug lords.

Many TV police psychics claimed they distinctly saw the bodies of homicide victims, but their visions on the actual location where the bodies could be found were never clear within even tens of thousands of square feet.

They repeatedly were as lost as anyone else.

One psychic stated "Police psychics don't claim to be specific. Police solve the cases but we provide the forensic insight to stimulate new pathways."

Exactly what kind of stimulation is the question as many TV psychics from 1975 to 1995 were less like Nancy Drew and more CatWoman as they tossed out visions that actually misdirected investigators.

The majority of "psychic detectives" claim they have powerful supernatural entities within themselves capable of contacting the dead for clues as to how persons were murdered or lost.

Some female forensic psychics who started in the 1970's claim during their trances they make contact with the dead using telepathic and metaphysical powers and sense the presence of suspects who rape and kill.

In front of law enforcement personnel several psychics have screamed they were being stabbed in the head with hammers while others have wept that they were being buried alive or burned.

Many have offered visionary clues and tossed out random numbers "to help resolve" a crime.

"A black snake with 7 white rings!  Yes!   There's been a big snake near the body" shouted one psychic actress.

"It was truly bizarre to witness the first time" recalls one police officer, adding "You didn't know whether to laugh at their third-grade acting performances or immediately cart them off to the funny farm.  But thirty seconds later they were putting on lipstick, tossing down a Rum & Coke and acting as if nothing had happened."

Mini skirts and tight sweaters never seemed to hinder the forensic entertainment though.

And many TV psychic detectives offered up a host of additional supernatural powers from levitation, telepathy with the dead, medical healing, X-ray vision, and sustained sexual endurance.

For some law enforcement agencies psychic detectives were an forensic alternative worth sampling.

One former Tennessee "psychic bombshell" told a county sheriff that she knew where to find the murder weapon and discover the bodies of the murder victims and could draw the fingerprints of the suspect.  And though she failed at all three and was caught faking a claim she was invited back to try again.

There were even traveling police psychics dressed as cowgirls who sang.   Another started her psychic career always showing up near a crime scene in shorts and roller skates.

Many psychic detectives began as part-time actresses who turned their fourth-rate acting into a full-time psychic missing person career.   According to "psychic" Barb Larson who turned informer on the paranormal community after "fooling dozens of gullible police for years and watching everyone else do the same" about "99.99999% of the missing person psychics during the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's learned everything they knew about being a psychic from acting or from each other."

"Among the former actresses turned psychics I never met any real psychics.  Most of us were heavily into drugs and faked everything down to our bonds in bed.  We lived in a game.  We kept the police and papers interested in us with our tight belt outfits and murder visions that we'd spin and re-spin and spin-spin-spin.   Nobody believed each other because everybody knew the others were a joke.  Some tried to keep up the gig and be the last one standing" noted Larson in 2001.

In an age of disco and cheap red wines the arrival in town by female intuitive's who were both charming and anxious to please was a welcome diversion from the ordinary.

Repeatedly cases in which they interacted were already solved by other means when something seemed to pan out about one or more of their visions.   In fact recalling and finding new match-ups between psychic visions and a particular case often continued for weeks, months or years after a case was closed --- there was always something later could be found to connect with a vision that had never been accurately documented to begin with.

This seemed to indicate that lots of early guessing and vague documentation --- particularly vague guesses like "the body will be found near a tree with dark bark" --- produced just random match-ups.

One retired officer recalls that several police psychics would tell one version of a vision to one officer and another version to yet another officer --- sometimes even at two different police agencies. 

They banked that one version or the other might result in a match later and they could claim a psychic "hit" in accuracy.

Since TV police psychics rarely wrote down their visions and few officers could keep track of their abundant changes, the early years of psychic and police interaction from 1975-1988 had a casual party atmosphere.

And those good times rolled for a dozen years.

A Texas journalist who encountered several police psychic detectives in the 1980's recalls that "those I met were complete fruitcakes but every one of them would get intoxicated with police personnel so often that they became tagged by police as 'toxic dish' psychics."

Over several years a few forensic TV police psychic 'toxic dish' participants became tagged with backroom nicknames like Psychic Smoke, Disco Vision, Knock'em Dead, Mountain Girl, Southern Hurricane, Motorbike Mama and RollingThunder.

Indeed for a variety of reasons psychics --- female police psychics in particular --- were a rage among small town and rural county detective hotspots across the country.

However this adventurous 'toxic dish' live style and/or the lack of psychic success helped split segments of the female psychic detective community and segments of law enforcement agencies.

Non-participants began taking a "thumbs down" approach to psychic detectives while others defended a "we'll consider any option" to solve a case.

But by 1990 the party atmosphere was changing.

The "we'll consider any option" approach became an embarrassing but defensive cover-up by some and new questions were being raised about paying psychics thousand dollar fees from local public funds.

Or allowing them to offer "free" services but get lots of media exposure standing alongside police.

That free TV exposure and media attention often was worth thousands in helping stimulate new paying citizens for readings about lost love, their futures, or missing jewelry.

But it's worth remembering that during these years extensively trained forensic and crime investigators didn't exist across hundreds of local law enforcement agencies.   And no one was the tracking the success rate of police psychics --- except the psychics themselves who were stunning the media with exaggerated tales of success.

Specialists in mitochondrial DNA and trained forensic science personnel were rare even among State Police agencies before 1990.   Most county offices lacked even a bare bones forensic lab.

And an examination of local police psychic "download sessions" between some law enforcement personnel and female psychics shows many conducted prior to 2000 were extremely informal compared with modern inquiry procedures.

Virginia psychic Noreen Renier as an example has been shown on old police video recordings alongside investigators while drinking red wine.   One former Virginia Sheriff described one such psychic session with her as listening to "sauced ramblings."

These kind of events further discouraged anyone who had actually allowed psychics into investigations to be critical about any psychic claims before TV cameras.

By 1995 many in law enforcement just hoped it would all go away.

Amazingly FBI agent and behavioral profiler Robert Ressler was among those who encouraged small agencies throughout Tennessee, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida to seek out forensic psychic assistance from Noreen Renier.

And there is much more to his long support efforts behind Renier --- click here for a critical biography on Noreen Renier.

From 1975 to 1995 seeking a female psychic to assist on a missing person, criminal or rape case was often sanctioned in minutes --- often among a complete detective force of just two or three men.

Often it was spur of the moment.

Psychic Kathy Fleinwall admitted to asking police officers to come to her home or hotel so she could "more properly showcase her psychic visions."

"She always had the cold beers ready for the officer who won the toss to drive her home. . .   . . . and those officers stayed loyal to her claims until well after they retired --- especially the ones who were married at the time" recalled a retired Utah officer.

Yet by 1992 these first and second generation New Age psychic detectives had peaked and there were few younger replacements --- and those few sought private clients able to pay more.

Fewer mini-skirts and singing cowgirl police psychics were showing up at the smaller police agencies.

As small town sheriffs and township investigators retired the community murder and serious crime investigations were delegated to larger State forensic labs.

The fun and games of securing pendulums, incense, warm oils and bottles of wine began to disappear.

And after hours parties which were described by one southern officer as where "the real psychic vibrations began" also came to a halt.

But explaining away the payments made to police psychics and some of the interplay which occurred during and after psychics arrived in town became a touchy subject.

While there were psychics who lacked stories themselves and acted conservatively, by 1995 some of the wilder stories and recollections about the national female psychic community had evolved both within a collection of "good old boy" national law enforcement members and within a segment of their associated female psychics.

Events went down in history as having been "useful preliminary inquiries" with some offering "new insight into amazing matches" --- though it wasn't always clear whether these matches were about claims and facts or match ups between officers and psychic companions.

But this beginning atmosphere --- lax and undocumented --- surrounding psychics alongside small town law enforcement is important to recognize.

It also helps to explain why none of the top psychics ever disclose a full listing of the actual police agencies and personnel who purchase and sanction their work.

There are always a few token agencies which are spoken but rarely a specific sanctioning name or the full payment and approval history.

What would be virtually impossible to cover up today --- public law enforcement funds paid to TV psychic consultants claiming supernatural paranormal abilities --- was far easier to accomplish years ago.

Today aging police psychic detectives have been humbled --- both those who partied along with various police department personnel and those who did not.

For a critical examination of Sylvia Browne and her claims one investigator has posted an overview at http://stopsylvia.com/home/

Psychic missing person investigators and psychic detectives have lost credibility as sophisticated data centers track and showcase their repeated psychic missing person search failures --- offering either spews of non-specific and random nouns or delusional fantasies.

Since 1995 virtually all law enforcement agencies require full public disclosure for tax audits, legal and justice compliance, and normal budget regulations of all payments paid to investigative consultants.

It's another reason psychic detectives seem to only highlight their work from 1970 to1990 --- any law enforcement agency cited after that is far easier checked by the media, the public, psychic critics, and --- the IRS.

It's just a lot more difficult to create exaggerated psychic work tied to police these days --- even the psychic TV shows seem fixated on vague re-created cases from the 1980's with aging and "retired" officers.

The internet --- and public information web sites such as this --- have only hastened the final drum roll for police psychic detectives.

Our recent and continued examinations of psychic investigator Pam Coronado have been conducted over the past several months and her "astonishingly accurate" claims include disturbing vagueness and over-the-top paranormal and astrology nonsense.

We have closed our review on police psychic Jodie G. Green --- who noted her years as a 'Toxic Dish' --- and died after being convicted for tax evasion and fraud.

Meanwhile the on-going studies of forensic psychic detective Nancy Weber have found her claims as a "medical intuitive" a pathetic portrayal of psychic obfuscation.

Nancy Weber as a self-described medical psychic cites several alleged benefits of some "therapeutic oils" which include technical standards which she incorrectly --- and carelessly --- relates to product performance and safety.

Psychic Barb Larson's prior claims about "therapeutic oils" also failed to note their safe product applications and uses and that some physicians and critics have further concerns.

And it's Barb Larson who admitted "everyone left in the psychic detective community is either delusional and crazy as hell or paranoid and on the take."

But psychic hype often travels in time cycles and ignorance never gets fully squashed.

Today psychic-involved missing person organizations like Find Me in the Phoenix area promote claims that "psychic information should be recognized as an additional investigative tool in your arsenal, with the sole purpose of providing leads to assist the investigator with information that may not be discovered otherwise."

They claim a history of success "validates" their process.  In fact more than 30 years of publicly available and concisely documented psychic results show otherwise.

Unsubstantiated paranormal abilities and psychic intuitive visions are of no help --- beyond building a business enterprise or soliciting media attention --- in solving crimes or locating missing persons.

And the answer to "what's the worse that can happen" by using psychics is simple.   Misdirected time and funds running down false leads as a young child dies.   Not to mention public deception to help promote falsehoods.

Psychics who "donate" some time for paranormal criminal and missing person investigations shouldn't be praised for doing so for "free" as a welcome community effort.   The Phoenix KPHO-TV News 5 team produced a December 2009 news story which failed as objective news and badly misled its viewers as outlined in the first insert box at the top of this page.  KPHO-TV News producers seem to have a history pushing paranormal claims to the public without foundation and entirely by-passing any critical investigations unlike other Phoenix area stations.

Sunny Dawn Johnston's web site notes that she received her “certified medium” education from 2000 to 2001 in part under Dr. Doreen Virtue, PhD.    But more likely she is a "certified medium" practitioner under a program run by self-described psychic Doreen Virtue, a woman likely lacking an actual accredited PhD degree.

Indeed psychic spiritualist Virtue seemingly hands out these psychic certifications for talking to the dead with what is apparently an unaccredited PhD based on applications relevant to contacting spirits.   Not exactly the kind of PhD degree one normally picks up from a state university or major accredited college.   Doreen Virtue certainly hasn't made it clear on her web site how her PhD diploma is substantially different than diplomas offered in Halloween stores at $39.95 without the optional $24 lighted frame.   Many PhD wall plaques can be purchased on-line and available in just 72 hours with express shipping at $17.95.   Maybe a total doctorate degree for $81.90 plus batteries so you too can splash 'PhD' behind your name and award 'certified medium' parchments?

And of course one can only wonder how New Age spiritualist and psychic Doreen Virtue tests and certifies her clients as psychic mediums across the country.  Does Doreen Virtue communicate with her dead spiritual contacts to see if they have already been contacted by her clients seeking certification?

If interested in the "testing" behind this psychic Voo-doo marketing --- oops --- "certified medium" diploma program, including what it means and its endorsement policy, view this link to a Doreen Virtue web site.   You will be returned here by simply hitting your back key. http://www.angeltherapy.com/atp.php.

Police psychics get enormous rewards from the media attention --- attention they themselves often solicit --- from new clients who see them in the "news" and link psychic credibility with TV "news" broadcasts.  Such clients may then pay up to $1200 per hour for psychic readings about love life, future hopes, discussions with deceased relatives, and worldly fears.

"Doctor" Doreen Virtue has sold more than 20 books and reportedly lives in a $10 million-dollar home.

Psychic Sylvia Browne's earnings per year have been estimated as high as $4 million dollars.

Psychics don't need to pay for inventory.   The can create unlimited visions at will.  And who can challenge a "certified" psychic about what someone said when they are saying these tidbits from the dead?

The paranormal industry was estimated to be larger than a $4.7 billion-dollar business trade in 2009.

A sizeable group of "psychic investigators" earn from $850,000 to more than $4 million per year --- with much of their income coming from telephone and one-on-one intuitive readings, hypnotherapy, past life regressions, aura readings, book sales, and psychic sensing visions.

Some do so as entertainers while others falsely position themselves as having paranormal super powers.

Missing person intuitive's and psychic investigators are rarely stupid.   They know a local TV reporter somewhere will fall for a quick and easy "entertainment" story and rarely has the journalistic integrity to check the facts or contact a researcher who has documented an actual history of local psychic results.

But today the real story is that the use of trained dogs offers less cost per case, far reduced and limited legal liabilities, virtually no overturned convictions, and a documented history of solving crimes and obtaining actual court convictions --- about 572,000 to 1 over missing person psychic detectives.

Compared with the top ten psychic detectives over the past 30 years police dogs hold an approximate 85,000 to 1 chance of finding a missing person alive over the psychics and a 640,000 to 1 chance of finding a missing person dead or alive more than a year before these psychics --- even on cases up to 30 years old!

Today credibility issues --- from exaggeration to deception --- overwhelm the paranormal community and have helped drive North American views of this web site to well over 340,000 and our global viewers to skyrocket.