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In article <1993Jan12.142916.19590@stsci.edu>, kimball@stsci.edu (Timothy Kimball) writes...
>Ray Rosch (rosch@cpdw.enet.dec.com) wrote:
>: 
>: ...the murder of Laura Houghteling of Bethesda, MD....
>: It was reported by the local TV media - WBZ-TV, Boston - that the Police in
>: Bethesda, MD used a Psychic in their investigation.  The Psychic led Police to
>: a bloody pillow case a mile or so from the victems house...
>: 
>: This _seems_ to be a case where a Psychic found evidence to a crime which was
>: confirmed by the Police. I say _seems_ as it's either an extrodinary coinci-
>: dence or the media has mis-reported the facts of the case.
>:
> 
>Or maybe the police ought to be questioning the psychic?

This has happened on at least two occasions--someone has come forth
with alleged psychic impressions regarding a murder case which proved
correct, only to be charged with the crime.  Etta Louise Smith, a 39-year-old
employee of Lockheed, did this in 1980 regarding the Melanie Uribe murder
and was held for four days before being released, without being charged
with anything.  Three men, with no connection to Smith, were later
arrested for the crime.  Smith sued the LAPD for false arrest and won $24,184.
   A second case in 1980 involved Steve Linscott, a 26-year-old Bible student,
who dreamed he saw a man beating someone to death with a blunt instrument,
which he reported to the police.  The evening of his dream, a nursing
student named Karen Phillips was beaten to death less than half a block
away.  Linscott was arrested and convicted of her murder on the basis
of some hairs found at Phillips' house, but a retrial was ordered in 1987
when an appeals court ruled that prosecutors had distorted the physical
evidence.  I don't know the outcome of that case for certain, but I
believe I've read somewhere recently that DNA testing cleared Linscott.
(This should be taken with a grain of salt.)

Jim Lippard              Lippard@CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
Dept. of Philosophy      Lippard@ARIZVMS.BITNET
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721