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Psychic Interviewed about Holly Bobo Involvement
May 13, 2011 02:45 AM EDT by Chelsea Hoffman Since Holly Bobo disappeared in mid-April, investigators and volunteer searchers have exhausted plenty of avenues in turning up clues. This includes the Bobo family's alleged request for help to psychic profiler, Carla Baron. Sure, it seems like hocus-pocus to some locals and non-locals alike, but consider this: Would you turn down help from someone who has more than a decade of experience in criminology and missing persons cases, after a month of no clues?  It doesn't seem like a very hard scenario in which to make a decision, does it? Apparently, some people think it's a preposterous idea. It doesn't help when a lot of people don't have an understanding of criminal parapsychology and individuals like Carla Baron. You might find yourself asking, "Has there ever been a case in which a psychic has helped solve a crime?" In short: Kind of. The United States has a sort of nonchalant relationship with parapsychologists, but still acknowledge the effectiveness of ESP for character profiling and finding dead bodies. With this said, in an investigative sense, law enforcement officials often exhaust any and all leads before consulting a psychic. In fact, let's get this out of the way and quickly: In extensive investigations, psychics are usually consulted unofficially. This is something that isn't common knowledge, but reading various reports by crime experts reveals just how common ESP help is in criminology.  In an earlier article, it was mentioned that the family of Holly Bobo sought the help from a psychic profiler by the name of Carla Baron. This is completely true—so true that the media jumped all over the story immediately. Unfortunately, people in the media can be biased; this is something that is just universal and it's unavoidable. During the interview with Baron, some important factors were completely disregarded. To be honest, it painted a sort of misconstrued picture of what Carla Baron and people like her are trying to achieve for those in need of clues and closure. Jason Miles, an anchor for Action News 5 in Memphis, interviewed Carla Baron after the story broke earlier that the Bobo family had contacted her. His interview was revealing enough as they discussed that Baron had an immediate connection upon seeing Holly's face. She explained that a close family friend reached out to her via email asking for her assistance, to which she obliged. This information is shared publicly on Baron's blog. However, one thing that stands out with Jason Miles's interview with Carla, is that his commentary had a sort of twisted take on her services. He stresses that Carla Baron charges a fee for her psychic services before he mentions that she has done jobs "pro bono" in the past, but then immediately finishes his segment by stating that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation wouldn't comment on the story. He failed to mention that Carla was going to assist the Bobo family completely free of charge. Not only has she done pro bono work in the past, she was more than willing to assist the family in finding Holly Bobo free-of-charge. This, again, can be clearly read on her blog—from which Jason Miles found out about Baron in the first place!  To take an opinionated stance for a moment, it seems that a small amount of bias was used whilst interviewing this well-known profiler. Nobody is asking anybody to believe in ESP or psychic phenomena, but alluding to the opposite of fact is one thing that doesn't jive well for many people, especially those who wish for Holly Bobo to come home or for her abductor to be brought to justice. So think about the opening question of this piece a second time. Would you turn down the help of Carla Baron, if all else seemed to be failing in the search for one of your loved ones? It's easy to be skeptical when you're not in the face of extreme, dire desperation. It's easy to say "I don't believe" when you're safe at home with those you love close to you. But, put yourselves into the shoes of Karen and Dana Bobo for just a second and ask yourself that question. Carla Baron feels that there may be fear of what she has to say, but closure is more important, in some humble opinions. Psychic Interviewed about Holly Bobo Involvement | Gather |
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Parents of Holly Bobo Sought Help from a Psychic
(Updated: May 12, 2011 12:15 PM EDT) by Chelsea Hoffman With Holly Bobo missing for over a month now, not only are people around the nation nervous about the girl's condition, but her parents are apparently desperate as well. It's been shared by a world-renowned psychic that the family of Holly Bobo has contacted her for her assistance. 
However, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation apparently doesn't want the help of this renowned clairvoyant. Why is that? Pretty strange, isn't it? The TBI has been so tight-lipped about the young college student's disappearance that the rumor mill is absolutely out of control--and so-called locals of Parsons are partially to blame for this from the looks of many discussion boards and blogs. According to the blog of psychic Carla Baron, the family of Holly Bobo contacted her in particular over this case. In her post titled, "Holly Bobo, A Prominent Psychic, & a Mother's Primal Fear," Carla describes a chain of events that are both confusing and aggravating to say the least. For those of you who may be a bit hesitant to believe this to be an actual source from someone who is trusted, be aware that Carla Baron is a world-famous psychic profiler who has been featured on a number of investigative shows on TruTv and others. She's been involved in a myriad of missing persons cases, helping find out details and solving crimes. 
Anyway, after a series of discussions with the Bobo family, Carla Baron documents bits and pieces of the discussions with family members and friends of the family members. This one came in today, from a supposed family friend, putting an end to Baron's potential aide in the Bobo case: "I just spoke with them again, and they are not going to do it at this time ... Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity for your service.. TBI has advised them not to. I'm sorry for your inconvenience." Why would the TBI advise the Bobo family to turn down help from a world-renowned psychic profiler? This doesn't make sense because the family has released to the news that they want any help that people can offer them to lead to finding their missing daughter. Hopefully this means they are actually onto what is going on and will be solving this case, since they don't want the help of national, renowned experts! Parents of Holly Bobo Sought Help from a Psychic | Gather |
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Thursday, June 7, 2007 Intuitive Substantiation 
A commercial airliner breaks through the clouds and begins to drop altitude as it approaches a strip of land born of volcanic rock and jutting upward from the azure waters of the Caribbean. The landscape more closely resembles the desert southwest than what one might envision as a tropical paradise. Jagged rocks, scrub brush and shifting sands dominate the canvas, but the painting is framed by sugar white beaches and wind-sculpted Divi Divi trees. What mysteries does this island hold so close to its center? Aboard the flight a passenger peers from the window as the jet begins to circle the island and prepares for landing. She closes her eyes for a moment and carefully thinks through her itinerary. Suddenly, the landing gear lowers and the rubber of the tires sing as it touches the runway. The passenger disembarks and stops momentarily. She turns her face toward the prevailing wind and lets her eyes drift across the horizon as her long blonde hair dances against a stark blue sky. Even in February the temperatures on the island are moderate, but she feels a chill run over her skin then her hands tremble so very slightly. 
Like many before her Carla Baron is drawn to Aruba by a feeling, a vision, an unexplainable sense that keeps telling her what happened to Natalee Holloway. Carla is a psychic profiler featured on Court TV's Haunting Evidence and she wants to stand on the island, breath in the air and fine tune the feelings that consume her. Does she succeed where others have failed?You will have to turn the channel to Court TV on June 20th to learn the answers to those questions. However, reliable sources have told me that she did indeed have a psychic experience while standing in the sands of Aruba near the hotel area and she will name names on her television broadcast. She also thinks she knows where Natalee Holloway is now. This was not the first time a psychic has come forth with a vision, a story, a location or a hundred other things. Most did nothing to move the investigation forward and over two years later there are still no certain answers. Just speculation piled upon more speculation. Maybe Carla Baron's efforts will stir a memory, or encourage some frightened person to come forward with the truth. As desperation grows so does the ability to be accepting of things considered unconventional by most. Do I believe in psychic profiling? I'm not sure. From the dawn of time there have been those that walk amongst us with a super sensitivity to their surroundings. Those sensitivities can manifest themselves in many ways. A select group of those people have been able to harness those energies and use them in a positive way. Personally, I have always been somewhat skeptical of psychic phenomenon, but I am not so closed minded that I do not recognize the fact that many unexplained things have happened during my life time.  The island of Aruba has seen many sunsets since Natalee Holloway walked away from a local nightclub never to be seen again. Her disappearance gripped the imaginations, desperations and frustrations of people around the world. The case has caused such scrutiny that the whole tourist based economy of Aruba swirled like Palm fronds caught in a hurricane. Yet, not a trace of Natalee has been found and the answers seem to be lost in a pile of redacted declarations. So, I am willing to take a look at alternative approaches to the investigation and will tune into Haunting Evidence on June 20, 2007. Posted by EasyWriter Connecting the Dots |
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By Christy Pruitt Reporter March 1, 2006 (Ocilla, GA) -- After four months of investigations with still no answers, the family of Tara Grinstead is now taking a different route while continuing to question what happened to the local missing teacher. Renowned psychic profiler, Carla Baron, has agreed to take on the case. "Anita, Tara's sister, invited me to help the family in the investigation, and I have had a preliminary evaluation with the family," said Baron. "I identify with Tara herself on many different levels and this case just spoke to me. It is something I feel I need to do." Anita herself has had a reading from Baron, confirming her extensive, unexplainable knowledge. "She knew of things that no one should have known about, and I am confident that she will provide us with some direction," she said. Baron is in the midst of filming a new series entitled "Haunting Evidence" on the Court TV television station. The Grinstead case will be filmed March 21-22 and is the sixth episode to be filed in the series, which is scheduled to air the first week of June. "Tara has been involved in many pageants and I represented the state of Pennsylvania in the Miss America pageant at one time. Her talent is singing, as is mine too," Baron recalled. "She is a Scorpio like myself, and I just feel that I have to help in seeing what has happened here." According to Baron, who is not accepting any money for her work on the Grinstead case, she is not interested in the fame and fortune that comes form possessing such unusual talents. She has taken a number of cases that no one would have ever heard about simply because the family did not have the resources to help them. "Most of these people do not have the money for this, and I have been very fortunate in the fact that I do not need the money. I receive many emails and telephone calls a day asking for my help with a prolific number of missing persons and homicide cases, but I do not take them all. Some may have too many time constraints," Baron explained. "Not all cases hold something personal for me; however, there has to be a certain indicator to make the case stand out for me to take it on." Baron uses cards and visualizes pertinent information that can be utilized in these cases. "I work like a laser and go straight to what matters. I am not concerned with rumors, gossip and extraneous information. I am only interested in solving the answer to this puzzle," she said. Baron indicated that she is just a small part of the overall picture in the Grinstead investigation. "I am just a small part of this investigation. It takes all of us working together - the volunteers, community, family, and law enforcement - to find the answers we need to uncover what has happened to Tara," she said. Baron has been involved in cases with numerous law enforcement and federal agencies. She is also known for her work on MTV's "Fear," the Biography Channel's "Dead Famous," and another Court TV series, "Psychic Detectives." Court TV's "Haunting Evidence" is produced by Departure Films. There is a $100,000 reward for the safe return of Grinstead and another $100,000 for the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for her disappearance. Editor's Note: Reporter Christy Pruitt will shadow Baron as Baron tapes the Grinstead episode for "Haunting Evidence," and will provide exclusive coverage for the local newspaper. |
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Police investigating the disappearance of Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar are scouting nearby Milton for possible locations that could match recent descriptions given by psychic detective Carla Baron. Bellefonte police officer Darrel Zaccagni said Baron's description of a tan or brown vehicle following a Mini Cooper like the one Gricar drove along Route 192 on April 15 - the day he vanished - meshes with earlier, unreleased witness reports to state police in Milton. Bellefonte, (PRWEB) June 6, 2005 -- Police investigating the disappearance of Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar are scouting nearby Milton for possible locations that could match recent descriptions given by psychic detective Carla Baron. Bellefonte police officer Darrel Zaccagni said Baron's description of a tan or brown vehicle following a Mini Cooper like the one Gricar drove along Route 192 on April 15 - the day he vanished - meshes with earlier, unreleased witness reports to state police in Milton. Baron also has told investigators that at some point during Gricar's drive, the opportunity presented itself and a move was made to get Gricar into the tailing tan car. Baron believes someone leaned into the passenger side window of the Mini Cooper while smoking a cigarette to coerce Gricar from his car. State police reports of witness accounts also note a similar scene, Zaccagni said. They describe someone leaning in to talk to the driver before the car pulls away abruptly. "The little things have come back to be verified," he said. Zaccagni said other details, such as the cigarette ash on the floor and the search dogs circling as if Gricar got into a vehicle, were pre-reported, but he gives Baron the benefit of the doubt considering the other unreported details she's provided. In the scenario Baron has presented to investigators, a car followed Gricar, not just that Friday when he unexpectedly took the day off, but for days or weeks before. Baron, official psychic spokeswoman for Court TV set to star in a new series called "Haunting Evidence," said Gricar, once coerced out of his car, climbed into the backseat of the tan car, where another man waited. From there, the car traveled only five or 10 minutes, using a highway, before ending up at a location connected with freight - either a warehouse or other facility with large bay doors. Route 15 runs between Lewisburg and Milton, and is less than 10 miles. Baron also provided investigators with details of the neighborhood where she believes Gricar was taken because "he stumbled onto something." She didn't rule out drug trafficking, and said Gricar's work interfered with the kidnapper's business arrangements, one she suggested has gone on for years. Zaccagni said for now Gricar still is being considered a missing person, but he did say a short list of suspects has been compiled in the event it becomes a homicide. Zaccagni did not name anyone police might scrutinize. For now, the case grows colder with each day Gricar remains missing. "There's absolutely no evidence," he said of Gricar's vanishing. Police essentially have ruled out two theories that touch on mental illness, he said. Either Gricar checked himself into a mental health facility to seek treatment, or the prosecutor experienced a psychotic episode and is wandering somewhere - both scenarios have fallen to the bottom of the list of possibilities. Reports of Gricar sightings in Wilkes-Barre also have not panned out. Zaccagni said the most recent sighting of Gricar comes out of Michigan, and like other leads, officers are following up, even though there is a strong likelihood it will turn out to be yet another red herring. "We'll check it out," Zaccagni said. "Carla Baron may very well provide us with the missing pieces to this mysterious case." Mirror Staff Writer Greg Bock can be reached at (814)946-7446. |
 enissley@centredaily.com By Erin L. Nissley Posted on Fri, May. 13, 2005 While talking to Bellefonte police officer Darrel Zaccagni and Barbara Gray, the former wife of missing District Attorney Ray Gricar, psychic Carla Baron said she has "seen" or sensed several things that might be clues as to what happened to the district attorney. Baron said she "saw" someone smoking a cigarette and possibly leaning into a car. Zaccagni notes that cigarette ashes were found on the front passenger side floor of the red-and-white Mini Cooper Gricar was driving. Gricar did not smoke, and his girlfriend, Patty Fornicola, said he did not allow anyone to smoke in the vehicle. Baron also gave police a description of a car that she said might have been following Gricar at some point. A few days later, Zaccagni was reading a report from another agency that described a similar car that was mentioned during the investigation into Gricar's disappearance. Baron, who resides in Los Angeles, did similar work on Ferguson Township's investigation into the disappearance of Penn State student Cindy Song. Baron has made several television appearances to talk about the Cindy Song case, including on Court TV's 'Psychic Detectives." In terms of what may have happened to Gricar, Baron said she thinks he was murdered. She said she believes he had ample warning but ignored it. "He stumbled upon information that, unknowingly, was much bigger than other investigations he'd been involved in," she said. She added that she thinks there was more than one person involved, and they may have been upset about an investigation Gricar was mounting. Zaccagni said much of the information Baron has provided about her impressions of Gricar's personality has been accurate, and that he's gotten approval from the chief to check into a few things that Baron has mentioned. "The police department is on board with Carla," he said. |
Bennett J. LoudonStaff writer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ William Henry, who would now be 36, disappeared in July 1998, just as he was expected to move from San Diego back to the Rochester area. In a two-hour reading conducted by telephone on Aug. 9, Carla Baron told Henry's parents, Judy and Keith Henry of Walworth, that their son is "not living in a home." "He's living on the streets, but not dirty. He's very clean, does day work," Keith Henry said Baron told them. Baron, whose work has been featured on ABC Primetime, told the Henrys their son "had a couple of times picked up the phone (to call them) and dialed and then hung up." "He's afraid of being judged and criticized," she told them. William James Henry graduated from Wayne Central High School in Ontario, Wayne County, in 1986. He moved to the San Diego area in January 1998. On July 19, 1998, he told a roommate and relatives that he was moving back home. The car was unlocked and Henry's wallet, containing identification and an automatic teller machine card, was on the seat. The day before his car was found, police had asked Henry to leave Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., because he was telling customers that the rides were going to crash, his father said. "They did a test on him, and they said there was no drugs, no alcohol, no nothing, so they just let him go," he said. Baron said Henry was suffering from trauma related to a breakup with a fiancee in 1991 and a girlfriend shortly before he moved to California. "I said it was mainly because of the psychological trauma he was in a suicidal mode that day, and that was the psychological trigger that caused him to step into this other zone that he stepped into," Baron said. The Henrys have faith in Baron's visions because she told them things she would not have known without some sort of extra-sensory perception, they believe. For example, Baron had a vision of Henry, an avid fisherman, fishing off a pier. And she discussed the two failed relationships before his parents mentioned them. The Henrys say they just want to make sure their son is OK. "I know you can't force somebody to do something they don't want to do. The point is, it would be more of a comfort feeling just to say, 'Yes, we've talked to him, and yes, we know that he's OK, at least in the world he's in,'" Keith Henry said. Laguna Beach Police Detective Paul Litchenberg said there have been no developments in the case since the initial investigation. "If he was living among the transient population, which here in Laguna is very small, we would have known about it years ago," Litchenberg said. But he is willing to hear what Baron may have to offer. "If I get something good, I'm going to go out of town and do it. I'm not restricted here to this jurisdiction only," Litchenberg said. Copyright 2003 Gannett Rochester Newspapers |
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By: James Lozada ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As she left for work more than three months ago, Marisol Hernandez told her mother if she didn't return, she might be dead. The only sign since then of the mother of three was her abandoned car. "This is something we would have never imagined. That something like this could happen to us. We always see it on TV, but just never expected it to happen to us," said Gabby Reyes, Marisol's sister. After the family saw nationally-known psychic Carla Baron on TV recently, they contacted Baron, who performed a psychic reading on Sunday. Baron works on missing persons cases for law enforcement agencies. Before the reading, the family was not convinced. "Skeptical, but she gave me information that only I and my family knew," Reyes said. During the two-hour telephone session, Reyes took five-pages of notes she later turned over to homicide investigators. Police said they don't go out looking for psychics to help, but homicide detectives have talked to Baron in this case. The police, the family or Baron have not given specifics about the reading. Detectives, however, reportedly are looking into leads - including suspicious people and places. "It doesn't matter if they got it in their sleep or whether or not it was a psychic that got it, it doesn't matter, as long as we can get that information and put some closure to a case," said Sgt. Gabe Trevino, SAPD Spokesman. "I'm hoping she would still be found alive, but what we really need is just some closure to all of this," Reyes added. Detectives say they're working daily on the case and the family plans more readings with Baron. www.news9sanantonio.com |
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Web Posted: 04/26/2004 02:04 PM CDT Vincent T. Davis San Antonio Express-News ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On April 15, the case of Gaby Reyes' missing sister took an unusual twist. Reyes has been full of doubt, hope and despair at various times since the disappearance of her sister Marisol "Mari" Hernandez on Jan. 16. April 15, the sinking feeling in Reyes' stomach subsided for a bit as she watched an ABC "Prime Time" segment featuring nationally known psychic Carla Baron. Reyes called the psychic Sunday afternoon and talked to her about her missing sister. "I can say some things were pretty accurate," she said of Baron's revelations about the case. "She said some things that weren't public knowledge." Baron, in Los Angeles, Calif., spoke with Reyes by phone for about two hours. Reyes said she first contacted the psychic by e-mail after hearing of her track record in helping investigators solve cold cases. The young woman sought her mother's approval, sending the e-mail once she had her mother's blessing. This is the second time the family has consulted a psychic about the case. San Antonio Police spokesman Gabe Trevino said the department understands the family's feelings of loss and that police are checking leads to find their loved one. "We never solicit psychics," Trevino said. "But any information valuable to the investigation, we'll follow. We'll continue to work with the family on anything pertaining to the case." Hernandez, 32, was last seen in January when she dropped off her daughter at a child care center in the 2600 block of Castroville Road. She told her mother if she didn't return it was because she had been killed. Her green Ford Mustang was found at West Commerce Street and Gen. McMullen Drive three days after she disappeared. Reyes reported those facts and other information to the psychic, whom she doubted would respond to her message, and worried that Baron's assistants would hold up her e-mail. Baron, who calls herself a "psychic profiler," said she agreed to work with Reyes because she had ease about her. "I always see something," Baron told a reporter over the weekend. "It's like a mother talking to a daughter 3,000 miles away. I hear things beyond the norm." Featured on Court TV's "Psychic Detectives," Baron is currently working on 13 missing person cases. To date, she has worked on 150 cases. Baron said she doesn't charge family members for her readings on official cases. Immediately after her conversation with Baron, Reyes forwarded her information to Police Department detectives investigating the case. Baron said what she does isn't an exact science. She called her ability "remote viewing," because she doesn't have to physically be at the location of the case. She said she focuses on the cases while "reading" on the phone. The psychic said she uses tarot cards to establish a certain rhythm with her hands. But Baron said that without investigators her readings don't amount to much. "They have to be able to take the pieces I derive and put them together," Baron said. "It has to be a collaborative effort." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- vtdavis@express-news.net |
 Thursday, April 15, 2004 By Kathleen Haughney Collegian Staff Writer While the case of missing student Cindy Song has been in Penn State news since her November 2001 disappearance, the case remains unsolved. The Song case, along with two other cases, will be highlighted at 10 tonight during ABC's Primetime Thursday. All three cases include supernatural elements. Song disappeared after returning home from Players Nite Club, 112 W. College Ave., on Halloween night in 2001. Friends and co-workers became worried after not hearing from her the following day and alerted police of the disappearance, which evolved into an investigation that continues today. The disappearance also garnered extensive media coverage because of the Song family's efforts to find their daughter and the use of a psychic by the police. The majority of the interviewing and filming for the ABC special was done last October. ABC spokesman Adam Pockriss said producers began researching missing-person cases and learned that victims' parents often contacted psychics in hopes of finding additional clues. "This is one of the few cases where police were openly talking," he said. Carla Baron, the psychic profiler who has worked on notable cases, including the Elizabeth Smart case, became involved with the Song case in August 2002. Though Baron has been working on several other cases recently, she remains highly involved with the Song case, keeping in close contact with Detective Brian Sprinkle of the Ferguson Township Police Department. "He and I are on top of this the whole time," she said. Baron has also kept in touch with Song's friend Youngjoo Kim and keeps a Polaroid picture of Song, although it is currently in the possession of ABC studios. "Cindy was the first case where I got emotionally involved," Baron said. Since Song's disappearance, the case has been featured on TV shows Without a Trace, Psychic Detectives and Unsolved Mysteries. Additionally, the Pennsylvania State Police held a press conference on Oct. 29, 2002, asking for help in the case. Despite the attention, there is still criticism that the case has not received the same amount of attention as other notable cases, such as Elizabeth Smart's, because of Song's Korean heritage. "Some get in the press more than others," Baron said. "She's just as American as all of them to me." Tysen Kendig, Penn State spokesman, said the university has been doing anything it can to keep Song's name in the news and in people's memories. "Cindy Song is still missing, so I think any program or publicity aimed at solving the case and locating her should be viewed as a positive," he said. "Anything that keeps this case fresh in people's minds is a good thing." Last October, new evidence pointed investigators to Hugo Selenski's Wilkes-Barre property, where five bodies were found buried. One of the bodies was originally thought to be Song's, but that was not the case. Baron said at this point in the investigation, authorities need to start eliminating suspects and explanations. However, she said that there is a large amount of information to filter through. "There's information sharing that has to go on," she said. "We hope that each faction will deliver their part of the puzzle, including me." |
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BY GARY E. LINDSLEY, Staff Writer Saturday April 10, 2004 HAVERHILL, NH - Maura Murray's family has enlisted the help of a nationally known psychic profiler to help them find her. Murray, a 21-year-old University of Massachusetts at Amherst nursing student from Hanson, Mass., has not been seen since she was involved in a one-car accident in Haverhill, N.H. Feb. 9. Carla Baron of Los Angeles, Calif., has come up with a theory about what happened to Murray the night her car failed to negotiate a sharp left-hand curve after driving by The Weathered Barn. Baron, along with Maura's father, Fred, want to reserve some of the information so New Hampshire State Police can have a chance to act on it. She believes Maura was picked up by someone passing through the area where the accident occurred. "I believe she is no longer with us," Baron said. She has told Maura's father she believes Maura met with foul play. Baron, a psychic profiler who helped lead police to finding the body of a man who had committed suicide in a cornfield in the Midwest, has provided Fred Murray with a description of the person who picked her up as well as the type of vehicle. She has also told him in what kind of an area Maura can be found. "I have been in touch with Maura," Baron said. Maura met with foul play the same night as the accident, she said. What really concerns Murray, is what else Baron has told her. She has told him there is another woman who can be found near Maura who has fallen victim to the same person. And, Baron also told him there have been others. Murray does not want too many details released right away to the public until the state police have had time to analyze the information and search possible locations. Baron has been able to obtain somewhat of a description about the man as well as where she can possibly be found by talking twice with Maura's father via the telephone for a total of about 2 ½ hours. "It's called remote viewing," she said, referring to how she obtained the information about what happened to Maura by talking to her father. Murray said he spoke with Lt. John Scarinza and others from New Hampshire State Police Troop F Friday. "I gave them my theory that someone picked her up," he said. He asked them, again, to bring in the FBI and make a direct appeal to the public for any information they may have in helping find his daughter. "I asked him if he would accept help from a nationally known psychic," Murray said. He said Scarinza mentioned they had been contacted by other psychics. "They said they would accept help from a psychic," he said. Murray is hoping state police and Baron talk soon. Baron has appeared in episodes of "Psychic Detectives" on Court TV and will be seen in a segment of ABC's "Primetime" at 10 p.m. Thursday. Anyone with information about Murray should contact New Hampshire State Police at 603-271-3636. The Caledonian-Record Online News |
Psychic Aids in Amanda Tusing Murder Investigation Jonesboro, AR -- Melissa Simas reports March 30, 2004 -- Posted 9:00 p.m. CST Jonesboro, AR -- It took 4 days back in June of 2000 to find the body of 20 year-old Amanda Tusing in the St. Francis River. Now almost 4 years later investigators continue to search for a suspect. Back in February, K-8 News reported that the Craighead County Sheriff's Department had enlisted the help of Psychic Carla Baron from California to help crack this case. Susan Tusing had suggested using Baron's abilities. "My work is only as good as good police work," said Baron. For the past few months, investigators have been looking into leads provided by Baron. "Now we're honing in on various details to this skeletal solution that I had found psychically," said Baron. Craighead County Sheriff Jack McCann says they've interviewed several people, and so far nothing has materialized. But their involvement with Carla Baron is not over. Investigators are still following one specific tip. "One day this week we'll be interviewing at least two people over this," said Sheriff McCann. A few months ago Baron told K-8 News she knew the first name of Mandy's killer. Today she tells us investigators may have found that person. "I do believe that this is the person that I was seeing and I was discussing with them, because there have been a number of instances where this individual has eluded the questioning at hand," said Baron. "We don't want to call him a suspect, but he is a person of interest," said McCann. The longevity of this case doesn't just frustrate investigators. In a phone interview, Susan Tusing told us she thinks of this case on a daily basis. And so does Carla Baron. "They want to make sure that they have an entire case built up so that there is no way this falls through the cracks," said Baron. "She has provided a new direction, I'll say that. It may go somewhere, it may not," said McCann. |
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Wednesday, March 17, 2004 By KELLEY WALKER PERRY kwperry@shelbynews.com Editor’s note: This article is based on interviews with Lloyd Israel of Fairland and Carla Baron, a nationally known psychic who has been asked to assist law enforcement, from federal to local agencies, in many criminal cases. Baron has her own national syndicated radio program and has been on television — most recently as part of a Court TV special, “Psychic Detectives,” which premiered last February. There has not yet been a positive identification of human remains found last week by authorities. Skepticism will always exist. It takes more courage to believe. Lloyd Israel reported his son, Trevor Israel, missing on Aug. 12, 2003. Until March 10, he held onto the hope that he would see him again. That hope was fueled by a father’s love for his child — and by five psychics who offered the idea that Trevor was alive and well and working someplace down south. Only one woman told him what he already knew in his heart to be true: Trevor had committed suicide. Around the time of Trevor’s disappearance, search teams looked in fields and wooded areas near the pull-off in a cornfield located on County Road 600 West, south of Boggstown Road, where his abandoned blue 1992 Saturn was found. Even with the help of special search dogs from the State Emergency Management Association, they didn’t find anything. The search was called off due to lack of information and impending bad weather. In early September, Lloyd Israel called renowned psychic Carla Baron in Los Angeles for help. Baron has been asked to assist in providing closure in many unfortunate events, ranging from missing persons to arson. “It’s not something that you ask to do; it’s just something I’m able to do,” she said. “It’s not like you choose to do this.” Baron, a former concert pianist and opera singer, is no crystal-ball gazer. She claims to be clairaudient, meaning she can perceive sounds or words from sources broadcasting from a spiritual or ethereal realm. During a taped telephone reading dated Sept. 7, she can be heard talking to someone she says is Trevor Israel. He walked her through the events as they had taken place, she said — from his overwhelming feelings of anxiety, inadequacy and hopelessness, to driving to the field near Boggstown and rushing into the corn, the leaves scratching his sleeves as he ran past. “Trevor felt overwhelmed with failure, with life. He was consumed by a feeling of inadequacy. He had no real relationships, no friends, to fall back on,” she said. He chose the serene cornfield near Boggstown as a place where he could end his life in peace and solitude. “It’s a private thing when you commit suicide. It’s between you and God. For the most part, it’s a very private experience,” Baron said. Trevor took the handgun — a .357 Magnum — in his right hand, pointed it at his head and ended his life at age 25. Yet, it was very difficult for Trevor to admit there was a suicide, Baron said. “Souls of those who have taken their own lives have a difficult recovery period. Suicides have a hard time accepting what they’ve done to themselves. The recovery is a very long time in coming,” she added. Baron depicted the details of the area where the body would later be found — up a slight incline in a cornfield, with a wire fence and a telephone pole nearby. During the reading, she talks to Trevor about the search dogs — “and he’s wondering why you missed him,” she tells Lloyd. “He says, ‘My dad will find me’,” she adds. Lloyd told investigators what Baron had said, and urged them to look again. They didn’t find Trevor during that search, either. “At the time, I was kind of glad they didn’t find him,” he said. He consulted five other psychics. They all separately told him the same thing: that Trevor had gone off with someone, was working down south, and was doing fine. They said he would contact his father around Christmastime. So Israel sat by the phone, and heartbreakingly checked and rechecked the mail, but he never heard anything. “I wanted to believe what the others were saying,” Israel said. “I was hoping that he would contact me.” But when a body is meant to be found, it will be, Baron said. Investigators resumed their search last week and found human remains about a half-mile up the road on County Road 600 West — exactly as Baron had described it for Israel. It doesn’t always work out that way. “This isn’t an exact science. Psychics don’t solve cases. They assist in providing the unknown, the missing piece of the puzzle,” she said. “I read what you already know, on another level — you just can’t unlock it.” Israel went to the site for the first time on Sunday. A neon-orange stake marks the spot where the body was found, not far from where Trevor had parked his car. Although Israel is unable to make the arrangements until the body has been identified and released, the Israel family is already planning a simple cremation and a private ceremony. Israel has purchased the urn; his son’s ashes will be placed in a vault at Forest Lawn Cemetery. “She was the only one who was really accurate,” he said, of Baron. “I’m afraid it is him. I was hoping he just left, like the other ones said.” Believing Baron — that she did, in fact, communicate on some level with Trevor — has taken a great deal of effort for a former skeptic like Lloyd. “You will always have skeptics,” Baron said. “But it’s much harder to believe. It takes a lot more courage to believe.” It has been even more difficult for Israel to come to terms with this fact: Believing in Baron’s abilities means the end of hope for his son. “I just take it one day at a time. 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New Developments in the Amanda Tusing Case February 04, 2004 Hollywood based psychic Carla Baron is consulting with the Tusing family and investigators about the mystery surrounding 20 year old Amanda Tusing's death 3 years ago. "We're going to check out what she told us, because there is a possibility she could be right," said Craighead County Sheriff Jack McCann. In recent weeks, an undisclosed woman in the community has come forward, telling investigators she line danced with Amanda at the Eagles Lodge in Jonesboro on the night she disappeared. Amanda's fiance Matt Ervin never corroborated that information. He's told investigators that he and Mandy had dinner at Dixie Cafe and later stopped at a grocery store before going to his apartment. One of Amanda's school teachers spotted them at Dixie Cafe. "We feel comfortable about where she was during those hours," said McCann. But as for the possibility that the two were spotted at the Eagle's Lodge, that information is being looked into. "There's a certain energy or quality of that energy when I'm speaking of an individual or looking into that file so to speak that didn't match up with Mandy's energy," said Baron. Doug Mathis with the Eagles Lodge doesn't think Mandy was there that night either. "Her name would have been in the book," said Mathis. "The woman that came forward, her name is in the book, Amanda Tusing or Matt Ervin's is not," said McCann. Psychic Carla Baron has also offered information about the possible murderer. "I believe that this was not random, that this was a person she had interacted with before. I get a sense of the dynamic between these two individuals," said Baron. Baron says she also knows the first name of the possible suspect. This information has been given to Sheriff McCann, and based on this knowledge he believes the murderer could still be in Northeast Arkansas. "We're looking at all the interviews, checking out the names, and seeing their physical descriptions to see if we can get a match with someone we've already talked to," said McCann. |
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Wednesday, February 04, 2004 By Stephen Hankins The Craighead County Sheriff's Department is revisiting some areas of the investigation into the 2000 death of a 20-year-old Dell woman, The Sun has learned. In addition to a previously unreleased timeline that began when Amanda R. "Mandy" Tusing called her fiancé in Jonesboro from her Dell home on the evening of her disappearance, criminal investigator Gary Etter also proffered information about eyewitness accounts that placed the young woman in two locations simultaneously. In addition, both Sheriff Jack McCann and Etter said they may be searching for a woman that Hollywood-based psychic Carla Baron, who has consulted with Etter and Tusing's mother, Susan Tusing, called "the spitting image of Mandy -- her absolute twin," which could explain the sightings. Etter confirmed Monday that a number of people came forward to offer information surrounding Mandy Tusing's disappearance on a stormy Wednesday night -- June 14, 2000. On the day of her disappearance, the petite young woman called her fiancé, Matthew Ervin, then 21, from her Dell home at approximately 6 p.m., Etter said. Ervin, an Arkansas State University graduate, told investigators nearly four years ago that he met Mandy about 7:15 p.m. at his Jonesboro apartment. Mandy Tusing took Ervin, formerly of Gosnell and who made a living selling insurance, to dinner at the Dixie Cafe, 2406 South Caraway Road. There, Etter said, Ervin and Mandy were seen by a schoolteacher who knew both of them and the teacher's wife. "There was no doubt about that," Etter said. "We spoke with the teacher and his wife. They confirmed the day was Wednesday and that it was about 8-ish when Mandy showed them her engagement ring." The fact that Mandy ate dinner between the time she drove her black 1992 Grand Am to Jonesboro and the time she died has never been in question, police said. At approximately the same time Ervin said he and Mandy Tusing were ordering dinner in south Jonesboro, a Greene County woman claimed she line-danced with Mandy on the east side of town. The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, told a Jonesboro Sun reporter recently that she and a date were at the Eagles Lodge social room, 305 North Airport Road, when she saw a woman she swore was Mandy Tusing learning dance steps. The private club featured line dancing lessons from 7-9 p.m. that rainy Wednesday evening, the woman said. She said she remembered Mandy because "there were only three of us who did not know the dance," and that she (the young woman she called Mandy) and another young woman, whom she said seemed to be a friend of Mandy's, all learned the steps together. Etter Tuesday retrieved the signature book that listed guests and members who signed in to the social room on June 14, 2000. Although the Greene County resident's name is there, neither Mandy Tusing's nor Matt Ervin's signatures appeared in the book, Etter said. Ervin told police the couple had eaten dinner, driven past Indian Mall, Hastings Books, Music and Video, and made a purchase at Kroger, all in that same 7-9 p.m. window. From the Kroger store, Ervin said, he and Tusing made their way back to Ervin's South Church Street apartment, where they watched television. Ervin told police that because of the storm, he pleaded with Mandy to stay with him that night, rather than drive the hour from Jonesboro to Dell in the rain, Etter said. However, the young woman refused, the detective continued. She had a 1 a.m. curfew at her home in Dell, and besides, she looked forward to attending a class at Mississippi County Community College the following day, Etter said. Also, Mandy had landed a job with veterinarian "Rock" Cato at his Blytheville clinic, and looked forward to becoming a vet herself, Etter said. Ervin told police that he kissed Mandy Tusing goodbye at his door about 11:30 p.m., and reminded her to call him once she made it home. But the call never came. Etter said Ervin told police that he called the Tusing home at 1:20 a.m. June 15 and received no response. He told police that he called again 20 minutes later, the investigator said. This time, Susan Tusing, Mandy's mother, answered and told him Mandy was not at home, Etter added. Ervin told police that he drove from Jonesboro east toward Dell while Mandy's father, Ed, and Mandy's twin brother, Andy, drove west from Dell toward Jonesboro. Ervin told police he found Mandy's Grand Am -- with its doors locked, keys in the ignition, its windshield wipers in mid-swipe, her purse and mobile telephone inside -- on the right side of the road, parallel to Arkansas 18, near a home just one mile west of Monette, Etter said. The detective added that Ervin drove to Monette, where he called Ed Tusing and relayed the news of the vehicle's discovery on his mobile phone. Etter said Ervin remained out most of the night and into the morning of June 15, searching along with McCann, investigators from the county's Eastern District sheriff's sub-station, Arkansas State Police investigators and scores of residents who formed search parties. Sightings of Mandy Tusing were fielded by McCann and investigators during the days following her disappearance, Etter said. None of the reported sightings could be confirmed, he added. The young woman's body, still clothed in the same attire she wore when she was last seen by Ervin, was discovered the following Sunday, June 18, as it floated in the water of Big Bay Ditch -- nearly 14 miles west of the location where her fiancé found her Grand Am. A preliminary autopsy report indicated her death was consistent with drowning. Police consider her death a homicide. McCann has chased leads in Mandy Tusing's death in southern Missouri, Fort Smith, Texarkana, Monette and Florida. So far, little, if anything, has panned out, Etter said. The California psychic, who Etter said had "surprised" police with her observations, has in recent weeks offered Susan Tusing and the Sheriff's Department a psychological profile, physical description and at least one initial of the man's name who she considers to be Mandy Tusing's murderer. She has also said the alleged murderer has killed before, although it is not in his nature, and that she could describe the alleged perpetrator to a sketch artist and feel secure that image would mirror the killer. Baron said Friday that a woman "who is the spitting image of Mandy -- her twin" may be the person reported seen at locations in Arkansas and Missouri around the time of Mandy Tusing's death. She said the idea of a young woman who strongly resembled Mandy Tusing could be muddying the police probe and added that, as a variable in the investigation equation, a "twin" was, for her, a first. Police are still looking for that woman and as of Tuesday may have developed her name. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright © 2004, Jonesboro Sun |
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Sunday, January 11, 2004 Editor's note: This is the final installment of a series of articles about the investigation into the death of a Dell woman in June 2000. By Stephen Hankins A three-hour telephone session with a West Coast psychic provided Susan Tusing of Dell with a sense of well-being, and law enforcement with bits of information that may ultimately help in the investigation into her 20-year-old daughter's death. Craighead County Sheriff's Department criminal investigator Gary Etter noted psychic Carla Baron of Los Angeles said Amanda R. "Mandy" Tusing was murdered in 2000, and provided him with vivid details about a male perpetrator. The psychic even offered to Etter what the sheriff's department never garnered from the FBI -- a complete physical description, psychological profile and personal history of the alleged killer. Tusing said some of Baron's remarks during their session resulted in tears. Others chilled her, she told The Sun. One brought both. "Here I am at home in Dell," Tusing said. "She is in California. "(Baron) asked me if there was a blue book close to where I was sitting. There was." The book, "God's Little Book of Promises for Mothers" was purchased about a year after her only daughter was found dead in Big Bay Ditch, Tusing said. "The book has different sections," Susan Tusing said. "Sections on conflict, grief, that kind of thing." Once it was determined that the blue book was within Tusing's reach, Baron said she told the mother to "open it randomly to a page, quickly, without looking, and to place her finger" somewhere on that page. "That was a message from the daughter to her mother," Baron said. "It was so beautiful, so poignant at the moment that Susan broke out in tears." Baron said she communicates non-verbally with the souls of those who have died, "like how a mother and daughter will communicate without speaking, just through another dimension." Also, she said she asks these souls "in a very kind way" if they would like to communicate with her. The psychic said she received emphatic, positive responses. "Yes," Baron said. "Indeed she wanted me to help. Very much so." "It was a message that actually applied right at the moment," Baron continued. "In this case, this is her daughter saying there may have been a grander scheme to all this." The message was a New Testament Bible verse, Tusing confirmed Friday -- 1st Thessalonians 5:15. "It read 'See that no one repays another with evil for evil; but always seek after that which is good for one another and for all people,'" Tusing said. "I had to think about it a little bit. "You know, we think about if we find who it is and we go to court, we hope he gets the death penalty," she added. "That was my first thought. Then I thought it was Mandy saying 'Don't let this tear you down.'" Baron said the message had to do more with leaving bitterness behind than with punishment for Mandy's killer. "This is her saying, 'Don't let this crime, this thing that happened, consume you,'" Baron said. "Don't let it consume you and change the goodness that you are all about." Tusing said Friday that she felt an overwhelming sense of well being since speaking with Baron, and that she was happy, not surprised, with Etter's willingness to work with the psychic. "I'm feeling good about it," Tusing said. "My family has been very supportive. "They are behind me 100 percent," she added. "Whatever it takes to find her killer, we're ready to do it. I'm excited about this. I think it was the time to do it." Baron said she felt this was a "destiny time." "She's trying to bring this into the national spotlight," Tusing said ... That's how strongly she feels about this -- about her work." Baron explained that her job was not necessarily to solve mysteries, but rather "to help in giving pieces of the puzzle -- helping put this thing right. "We're not here to solve the cases," Baron said. "Psychics are only as good as enlightened detectives and family. "It's a group effort between all these factions." The psychic added that once she is asked to help with an investigation, she finds it difficult to forget. "It gnaws at me," Baron said. "I'm not afraid to be wrong. "But pretty much on a regular basis, I'm dead on, or I wouldn't bother," she added. "Mandy was the unwilling object of someone's affections. This happened to her not because of something that she projected. She was at the wrong place at the wrong time. She was nice to the wrong person." The mother was more hopeful. The fact that she was able to contact Baron by entering the psychic's name on an Internet search engine offered relief to a woman who has gone for nearly four years with few answers to questions that surround her daughter's death, she said. The consolation that came with that relief produced new hope that some of those questions will be answered. "I hope we find out who killed her," Susan Tusing said. "I hope we solve this." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright © 2004, Jonesboro Sun |
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Story Date: Saturday, January 10, 2004 Editor's note: This is the second of a series of articles about the investigation into the death of a Dell woman in June 2000. By Stephen Hankins Susan Tusing said her family is prepared to do what it takes to discover who killed her 20-year-old daughter, Amanda, more than three years ago. So, one day while she was reading over her daughter's Internet Web site, she found herself at other Web locations that included information about psychics and how some had aided in police investigations. "I actually was at another psychic's site when I first learned about Carla Baron," Tusing said. "The more sites I visited, the more mentioned Carla." One of the stories Tusing read concerned the disappearance of a Penn State coed from South Korea named Cindy Song. The young woman had vanished after Halloween night parties in 2001. Ferguson Township Police Department Detective Brian Sprinkle worked the leads and had accepted Baron's help in the investigation. "She's the only psychic I ever worked with," Sprinkle told The Sun. "She didn't solve my case for me, honestly. "But she is in California, and we're here in Pennsylvania," the detective added. "She described a scene for me, depicting a park with some park benches, a pavilion and trees. Amongst these trees was a carving on a tree. From her home in California to here -- 3,000 miles away -- we actually found what she was talking about." The carving was Japanese slang for a nickname Baron had from halfway across America given to the missing woman -- song bird. "Is (Baron) credible?" the detective asked. "Yes. I think she's very credible. "Has she helped with the case?" he continued. "She's provided a lot of information. A lot of details regarding suspects, crime scene, body dump, that kind of thing. My whole take on this is she is a third party looking in the box, giving a different perspective." This week, Craighead County Sheriff's Department Criminal Investigator Gary Etter and Tusing both consulted with Baron about circumstances surrounding Amanda Tusing's death. "I really had no idea where to turn," Tusing told The Sun. "I considered a psychic before." "It was a passing thing that I thought of occasionally," she added. "People are skeptical of psychics. I was, too, to an extent. "I was to a point where I had to do something. I was willing to give this a shot. "I had to try something that I said at one time I would not do. I think anybody who has lost a child like that and there is nothing left to really go with -- no more leads, they're drying up -- I think that's the next thing you look at. The question became, 'should I or shouldn't I?' I emailed Carla Baron, just for information." Tusing said she wanted to know about Baron's methods and received a response the following night. "We talked at great length about working with detectives and my concerns about that," Tusing said. "I talked to Gary Etter about working with her. "He was cautious," she added. "He told me he had worked with another psychic before, and it wasn't always pleasant. He told me he would check in to it, talk with Sheriff (Jack) McCann, and they would discuss it. I told him we would leave it up to them." Etter said the psychic told him details pertinent to Amanda Tusing's death that surprised him -- bits of information Baron should not have known. "I think she's worked on some high-profile cases," Etter said. "She is very different than the psychic I worked with on a different murder case." The 3-hour session with Baron resulted in the psychic providing her with a description of a man who had been seen by several of Tusing's friends after Amanda's disappearance, but prior to her body being discovered floating in the waters of Big Bay Ditch, Tusing said. "By the time I went to bed after the session I was a wreck," Tusing said. "But I felt good about it. I really did. "My friends did not talk about who they had seen," Tusing said. "Not even among each other, because of the situation." On the Net: Amanda Tusing tribute site: hometown.aol.com/lorikoteles/index.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright © 2004, Jonesboro Sun |
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Story Date: 1/9/2004 9:30:57 AM Editor's note: This is the first of a series of articles about the investigation into the death of a Dell woman in June 2000. By Stephen Hankins A well-known West Coast psychic has consulted with the Craighead County Sheriff's Department in the agency's investigation into the 2000 death of a 20-year-old Dell woman, The Sun has learned. Sheriff Jack McCann Thursday confirmed that Carla Baron, a Los Angeles psychic who claims to have assisted police in a number of investigations nationwide, talked at length with both criminal investigator Gary Etter and with Susan Tusing, mother of Amanda R. Tusing, whose body was found floating in the rain-swollen Big Bay Ditch. Susan Tusing requested Baron's assistance, and was offered her help free of charge, the sheriff said. "We are going to check out what (Baron) had to say," McCann said. "Etter talked to her at length and she gave us her thoughts." Etter said Thursday that Baron had told him "some things that surprised me that she should not have known," that relate directly to the investigation. Baron said Thursday that Amanda Tusing was murdered and she offered Etter a complete physical description of the killer, as well as a psychological profile and personal history of the man. "The perpetrator -- that was something that came up the strongest," Baron said. "It's not the boyfriend. "I think I can make that statement," she added. "It's definitely not him." Tusing began her drive from her fiance's Jonesboro apartment through heavy rains to her Dell home at approximately 11:30 p.m. on June 14, 2000, police said. When she had not arrived there by 1:30 a.m., the fiance telephoned her parents. He located her 1992 Pontiac Grand Am -- with its key in the ignition and her wallet inside -- approximately 90 minutes later on Arkansas 18 west of Monette. The vehicle was found about 14 miles by road from where a Lester couple located her body floating in the water four days later. Baron said she was "very secure" about her physical profile of the man. "I could give the description to a sketch artist right now and feel confident in the outcome," Baron said. "It very much matches what has been seen, visibly, by others. "Certain things were distinctive about him." McCann said he was willing to consider an artist's rendering of the suspect as part of his department's investigation. "If she says that, you can bet your butt we'll do it," McCann said. In addition, Baron said one of the most perplexing pieces of the puzzle -- the "why Amanda?" question -- was, for her, solved. "I could tell why this happened," she said. "I knew it was a 2-lane highway and I believe I can see he came from the opposite direction than Amanda came." Also, Baron said the murder "was not a random" event. "Amanda had no idea whatsoever," Baron explained. "It was unfortunate and not random. "She was targeted by someone who had seen her," she continued. "It was not the next person driving down the road. It was a trap that was laid for her. That came up a zillion times. I can't say the nature or why. That would be obstructing the investigation." Baron did confirm a few things law enforcement already knew, Etter said. "(The perpetrator) was familiar with the area," Baron said. "That's why he was there. I honestly believe the way her car was perfectly positioned along the roadside was (done by the killer) -- all done very quickly. "It's kind of odd that the person I'm seeing has been spotted by other people and I described him down to the last little detail," she added. "I don't think it's the first time this person has done it. There is still hard evidence to find, and I think this person is around town. "He confessed, in his own way, to a female who he trusts who is guarding this information. He is somewhat remorseful, because this kind of behavior is not in his basic personality makeup. He just snapped. People will be surprised when they find out who it is." Susan Tusing said Wednesday that she was comfortable with the decision to consult Baron because Tusing has no doubts that sheriff's investigators "have left no stone unturned" in their efforts to find her daughter's killer, and that Etter and McCann have always "gone the extra mile" regarding the investigation. "Our family could not have asked for a better detective than Gary Etter, or for a more thorough investigation," Tusing said. "This is something we thought long and hard about doing." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright © 2004, Jonesboro Sun |
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By LINDA BARRON- Blytheville Courier News January 9, 2004 Los Angeles-based psychic Carla Baron has been contacted and commissioned to assist in the unsolved 2000 murder of 20-year-old Amanda Tusing of Dell. Baron said she likes to refer to herself as an investigative psychic, and she does not get involved with official cases for money. "I don't charge anything for helping in solving these cases," she said. According to reports, Tusing, who had been visiting her fiance in Jonesboro, began her drive home in stormy weather about 11:30 p.m. June 14, 2000 At about 1:30 a.m. June 15 the fiance called Tusing's parents because she had not yet arrived home and then went out to look for her, according to reports. Reports indicate the fiance located Tusing's vehicle about an hour and a half later on Highway 18 west of Monette with the keys still in the ignition and her wallet still in the car. According to reports, Tusing's body was located four days later floating in the Big Bay Ditch, about 14 miles from where her car was found. Autopsy revealed Tusing died by drowning, but that she also suffered a blow to the back of her head. After all leads were followed and expired and Tusing's parents, Edwin and Susan, and the Craighead County Sheriff's Department had exhausted all efforts, including the exhumation of the body to search for more evidence, Susan Tusing said she looked into the idea of contacting a psychic. "I was a little reluctant at first because there were a couple of psychics from out of state who called with information that turned out to be totally wrong," Tusing said, "but we had nothing else to go on, so I asked my husband and Gary Etter (a Craighead County Sheriff's Department investigator) for their thoughts, and they said 'why not, let's try it.'" Tusing went on to say that while searching for the right person, she found Baron's Web site, read about the cases she had helped with, including the Elizabeth Smart case, and decided to contact her. "I sent an e-mail last Friday (Jan. 2) to Carla, and she responded, so we had a telephone conversation for an initial consultation visit, then on Monday we did a reading for about three hours after we consulted Mr. Etter in a three-way call," Tusing said. "Then Carla called Mr. Etter and talked to him for about an hour with the same information she had given to me." Baron said that before she actually takes on an official case like this one she always asks the soul of the departed one for permission to do so, and that she felt like "Mandy wanted me to do this." According to Susan Tusing, during the three-hour reading, Baron gave a detailed description of the man who was responsible for killing Amanda Tusing, along with a complete psychological profile and personal history of the man. "As for what I see, the fiance did not commit the murder, and it was not random," Baron said. "The fiance does not fit the description of the killer." The description of the killer Baron gave to Tusing and Etter matched closely with the description of a person seen at random by others who thought the person was insignificant, according to Tusing. Etter confirmed that with Baron's description a composite of the killer is something the Sheriff's Department is working on right now, trying to locate the proper person to accomplish the task. "We are in great hopes that the information Carla gave us will lead to the apprehension and arrest of Mandy's killer," Susan Tusing said. "So far I have been really impressed with the heartfelt professionalism Carla has shown to us and what seems to be sincerity in her efforts to help us." According to Tusing, one of the first things Baron said to her was that Amanda was trying to tell her mother something and that she (Tusing) should go over and pick up a blue book. "So I found a blue book that I purchased titled "God's Little Book of Promises for Mothers." Tusing said Baron told her to open the book to any page and read the first thing she saw. "What I read was a scripture from I Thes. 5:15 (NASV) which read, 'See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek after that which is good for one another and for all people.'" According to Baron, the little blue book incident took place while a conversation about capital punishment was taking place. "Mandy's unsolved murder story never made the big-time news, but we are in hopes that with Carla's help we can get it further out to those other than the people in local areas who might be able to help us find the killer," Susan Tusing said. The details of the conversation and the descriptions given to police are not being revealed to the press due to the possibility that it could impede an ongoing investigation. "Just as soon as we know more, we will let the public know more and as soon as we get this composite finished, it too will be released," Etter said. Tusing said, "If anyone criticizes me for contacting a psychic or for any of the actions following the consultation and reading, all I have to say to them is walk a mile in my shoes before you say anything about what I'm doing. I'm going to do everything within my power, no matter how it looks or seems to others, to find the person responsible for taking my little girl from me." |
