{"id":19,"date":"2011-04-15T19:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/100.42.52.148\/~klaaskid\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2012-05-30T04:42:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T04:42:45","slug":"psychic-detectives-other-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/psychic-detectives-other-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychic Detectives & Other Nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"
Psychic detectives<\/strong> are the vanguard of a second wave of predators that also includes tabloid journalists, cheesy defense lawyers and photo-op politicians.\u00a0 They use tabloid newspapers and talk shows to boast about their accomplishments and predict success.\u00a0 They materialize whenever children are kidnapped and circle the cases like vultures on a fresh carcass.<\/span><\/div>\n

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They scan the media for the haunting eyes of desperate parents willing to do anything to recover their children and then they show up on your doorstep, literally or figuratively, to make the pitch.\u00a0 They claim to be on the cutting edge of communications, able to predict future events and reach into heaven and hell with their mind.\u00a0 They hold your hand, massage your psyche and convince you that the only thing separating you from their extraordinary gift is your money.\u00a0 However, some simply require airfare and living expenses, what we call a vacation.\u00a0 They seem to answer the prayer that ends the nightmare, but only if you can afford the ticket.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Frantic parents will do anything and they offer something, which is better than nothing.\u00a0 Few of us posses the resources to underwrite crisis, let alone psychic detectives so they should be reminded that a substantial reward awaits whoever solves the case and returns the stolen child. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Although that strategy eliminates most psychics, some maintain a foothold by appealing to superstitiously vulnerable family members.\u00a0 They make provocative predictions.\u00a0 In California, rolling hills, a road or highway, perhaps a building or a bubbling brook.\u00a0 In Arizona, sand dunes replace rolling hills and cactus substitutes the bubbling brook: In other words, they describe ninety-five percent of the geography of the western United States.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Psychic detectives do not posses supernatural insight, they do not converse with the missing or the dead, they never bring children home.\u00a0 However, their rambling predictions may have filled in enough gaps to pad their resumes and claim the reward. <\/span><\/div>\n

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A few months after Polly was recovered a psychic claimed that she solved Polly\u2019s case on the television program Hard Copy.<\/em>\u00a0 Not only was she using my daughter\u2019s death to promote herself, but she also dismissed all of the wonderful people: police, media, and volunteers who worked so hard and tirelessly to locate my child.\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n

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In truth, that psychic detectives contribution to the case was counter productive.\u00a0 As always seems to be the case with psychic predictions, her interference created distraction.\u00a0 Law enforcement resources are diverted toward useless endeavors as phantom leads disappear into thin air.\u00a0 One cold and dark November evening many of us were lurking around somebody\u2019s property because the psychic said that it held the key to my daughter\u2019s disappearance.\u00a0 With the heightened sense of paranoia that already existed in the community that property owner would have been well within his rights to blow us away on the spot for trespassing.\u00a0 We were very fortunate that night, because although he did angrily confront us, he had absolutely nothing to do with the crime we were investigating.\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n

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In the end, and despite their protests, there is not even one case of a psychic truly assisting or solving a missing child case.\u00a0 It\u2019s just smoke and mirrors.\u00a0 Their references do not support their claims and law enforcement cannot acknowledge their existence.\u00a0 Instead, their wishful thinking collides with your desperate hope and leaves you diminished.\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n

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Unfortunately, the next time a little child is kidnapped and mom and dad reach the end of their emotional string the vague, empty promises of the psychic detective will rebound off the stark walls of the missing child\u2019s bedroom and a photo or toy will be palmed as the negotiations are engaged.\u00a0 It is inevitable: I predict it.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Psychic detectives are the vanguard of a second wave of predators that also includes tabloid journalists, cheesy defense lawyers and photo-op politicians.\u00a0 They use tabloid newspapers and talk shows to boast about their accomplishments and predict success.\u00a0 They materialize whenever children are kidnapped and circle the cases like vultures on a fresh carcass. They scan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[253,35],"tags":[219,464,254],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud","category-psychic","tag-missing-children-2","tag-predator","tag-psychic-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klaaskids.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}