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This series presents information based in part on theory and conjecture.

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The producer's purpose is to suggest some possible explanations, but not necessarily

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the only ones to the mysteries we will examine.

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He touches an object belonging to a victim of a crime.

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He claims that suddenly he is transported beyond time and space.

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A crime is reenacted before his eyes.

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He says he's reliving a moment in the past, in a place he's never seen before, with people

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he does not know.

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It has been a trance, but when it ends, psychic Peter Herko seems to have hard information.

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The name of the killer, the manner in which the victim died, and the time of death.

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There were actually three people involved.

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He calls himself a psychic detective.

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Chief Detective Robert Lowry has been with the fluorescent police department in St. Louis

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for 23 years.

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For Lowry and detectives like him, the routine of case work follows the long-established

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techniques of following leads, gathering evidence, and questioning witnesses.

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Two years ago, Bob Lowry broke with tradition in his effort to solve a kidnap case.

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The manager of a local store was reported missing, and after three weeks of investigation,

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Lowry could find no reason for his disappearance and no clues to his whereabouts.

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He was persuaded to try a new and strikingly unconventional investigative tool.

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We conducted a very extensive investigation.

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We exhausted all leads, and it was brought to my attention by a member of the television

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news media that we could possibly call in a psychic.

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My reaction to it at first, of course, is that I'm a police officer, and police officers

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deal with fact, and I wasn't too receptive to this idea.

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But I agreed to it after the family members indicated their desire.

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The results were remarkable.

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The psychic accurately pinpointed the location of the victim and led the police to the site.

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This information, relayed by psychic means, enabled the police to solve the case.

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Extrasensory perception is the power of the mind to reach across time and space in a way

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that seems impossible, to know a thought when it has not been spoken, to see an event that

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has happened in a distant place.

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This acknowledges that it exists, but don't understand how it works.

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Some believe it can be harnessed for practical use, and one way may be in the fight against

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crime.

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There are psychic detectives all over the country.

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The most well-known is Peter Herkos, based in Los Angeles.

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Herkos first visits the scene of a crime to get what he calls psychic impressions.

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He handles personal possessions in an attempt to identify with the victim.

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Pictures of the crime take shape in his mind.

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To date, he has worked on over 800 criminal cases.

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In Chicago, psychic Irene Hughes has received commendations from police for her efforts

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in helping them solve no less than 15 murder cases.

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In St. Louis, Bevy Yeagers is earning a reputation as a psychic detective.

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Okay, we're going to be working on the Franzette case again tonight.

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And there are a couple of you here who haven't really done too much on this, and I'm going

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to try to fill you in just a little bit.

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We have gotten into this case so...

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May the 25th, I think, is the day that we were called in on it, and we were working on

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it.

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Bevy is a housewife and mother of six.

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Her attitude about ESP is unique in that she believes everybody has the potential for it.

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Six years ago, she founded a psychic rescue squad for the purpose of locating missing

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persons.

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Those of the squad hold down normal nine to five jobs and meet in the evenings for case

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work.

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They have proved themselves so effective that they have qualified as licensed private detectives.

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A private detective agency is in itself kind of mysterious to the public, I suppose, and

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a private detective agency composed of psychics would be doubly so or more.

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We've had quite a job to do, as a matter of fact, in getting people to understand that

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we're not a bunch of mysterious cougs running around in robes, calling down forces from

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the planet Mars to solve cases.

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At this particular time, there are about 18 of us in the Metropolitan St. Louis area,

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and there are approximately 25 more around the country that have been trained by me.

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Each member of the squad brings his own specialty to the art of solving crime.

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People like Phyllis Degendorf, a graduate student of nearby George Washington University,

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she claims that by meditating, she can relive the moment of the crime.

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I tune in very quickly to pain.

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I start getting feelings whenever I'm holding an object.

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Then it will develop into mental pictures.

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I still don't pick up death.

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Does a chart say death?

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It says death, and I just don't.

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Did they ever find out what cult or what semi-religious Indian group was associated with this case?

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Judith Krause uses a technique called psychometry.

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Okay, I've started at two times.

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A housewife and mother, she claims that by holding an object belonging to the victim,

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she can identify with his experience.

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I learn to note down all my feelings when I am holding something that belonged to a victim,

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because a lot of times those will be a clue.

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They feel it may be even...

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Judith and her husband Bob have been members of the squad for two years.

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Oh, this kind of thing, the national star is looking into that and they're going to let us know, yes.

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Bob Krause feels his unique skill is the ability to pinpoint the location of a crime.

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Bob is a music teacher at a local high school.

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He says that he has learned how to overcome the barriers of time and space,

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and actually project himself to the scene of a crime.

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I feel if any of my forte would be in visualizing an area where something might have taken place.

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Who'd like to start with the mayor?

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Jim Mueller, how about you?

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Okay, that's the Acapulco area.

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Jim Mueller was the first to join Bevy Yeager.

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His special aptitude is locating kidnap victims.

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During the day, Jim is a social worker for the city of St. Louis.

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A psychic will sometimes, in addition to having mental impressions,

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may have body feelings of pain or distress that could reflect symptoms of the injured person.

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Has anyone aware yet of any particular wounds or abrasions or anything on the body or where they're located?

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Almost any police force will tell you when they can't come up with the answer.

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They don't mind where the answer comes from.

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And if it comes from us, fine. We are at least a licensed, reputable group of people.

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We're not just, you know, some odd kook out on the street.

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Trying to pick up purely from the picture of the woman herself.

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18 specialists.

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Each uses a unique psychic skill to unravel a crime.

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At present, the squad is concentrating on the case of a travel agent who disappeared while vacationing in Mexico.

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And then they told us they thought they had it.

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Bevy envisions that in the near future,

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psychics will work with law enforcement on a broad and practical scale.

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Her dream may not be so far-fetched.

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In only a few short years, Bevy herself has emerged from obscurity to become a detective with a solid reputation.

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It all began in 1971.

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Bevy's work in crime detection was triggered by the baffling case of a missing housewife.

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I think we ought to get down there if we can.

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Well, that's good.

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Fine.

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Let's go.

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Bevy would take up the search with her psychic sensitivity.

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In 1971, the St. Louis police were baffled by the case of a missing woman named Sally Lucas.

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Known by her friends as a loving wife and devoted mother,

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she vanished from her comfortable suburban home without a trace.

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Every year, close to 80,000 people disappear seemingly without motive.

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Sally Lucas, who was a member of the police, was a member of the police.

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She disappeared from her home in the year seemingly without motive.

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Sally Lucas was a classic example.

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Mrs. Lucas had last been seen leaving the town and country shopping center with an arm full of packages.

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Detectives spent frustrating hours piecing together her last day.

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They suspected foul play.

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Police had scoured St. Louis but could find no clues to her whereabouts.

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Three weeks from the day that Sally Lucas disappeared,

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Bevy Yeager has contacted the St. Louis Globe Democrat,

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one of the city's leading newspapers.

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She had a hunch.

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Bill Fustel, the city editor, remembers her call well.

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So, police were dead in.

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There had been no evidence turned up.

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I'm not sure psychics are always accurate,

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but I do think that there is something to this.

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She touched some garments and a powder puff of the missing woman.

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And she said at that time that she described the woman whom she did not previously know.

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She described her fairly accurately, shard hair,

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shard of stature, didn't smoke much.

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And she said she got a picture of some policeman bending over the car near a large body of water.

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The next day her car, Mrs. Lucas' car, was found on the Gulf of Mexico.

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I called Lieutenant Kariakis and I said I want to do something unusual if we can do it.

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And he said what? And I said I want to bring this psychic out and let her sit in this car

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and see what kind of impressions she obtained.

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Lieutenant Kariakis has been with the St. Louis police for 18 years.

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A veteran detective was taken aback that Fustel wanted to bring a psychic into the case.

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Well, my real feeling was that he's got to be kidding or he's putting me on just a little bit.

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I really didn't think he was honestly serious at the time, but he was.

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But Mrs. Jaeger asked if she could sit in the car.

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I kind of shot back and I thought, boy, this is really going to be something.

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I'll be surprised if anything comes out of this.

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Psyche exclaimed to be able to receive vivid impressions through the sense of touch.

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Sitting behind the wheel of the Lucas car, as Bevy demonstrated for us,

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a whole series of visual images flooded through her mind.

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She appeared to be lost in a deep trance.

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She sat in the car with a pad and a pen for about 10 minutes.

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And she wrote down many things on that paper.

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And at one point, about six minutes into the time she was in the car,

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she got a terrible look of agony on her face, a pain.

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She began to sweat very heavily.

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The car gave off strong psychic vibrations.

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At first, the disconnected pictures that Bevy said flashed through her mind made no sense at all.

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My notes were full of letter C's and things like that.

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Harses' heads.

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There was also a small bridge, not a large bridge.

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And there was some pillar-type mailboxes, the kind you find out in the country.

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I was leaning forward to either put the key in the lock or pull it out of.

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And as I did that, I was struck a very, very severe blow on the right side of the head.

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When I was out of the car, they handed me her car keys.

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And at that time, it broke me up completely.

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I couldn't go on with it at all because I then realized from holding her keys that

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she had not been dead when she was taken out of the car and flung into the ditch.

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She was still alive.

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I think one of her first comments was that she felt an intense pain to the right side of her head.

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And then the other impression was water and a bridge and an airport.

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And then one of the last impressions was that of a hearse or something to do with a hearse.

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The clarity of Bevy's vision compelled her to personally take up the search.

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She reasoned that the best place to begin was the locale that most closely matched her psychic impressions.

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Bevy began to search the 10 square mile area of Babler State Park, just northwest of St. Louis.

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She was accompanied by her husband Ray and psychic student Jim Mueller.

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At first, the idea of penetrating such a vast and wild tract of land seemed hopeless.

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Hey Ray. Hey Jim, come here a minute.

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I feel some kind of pull out in that direction.

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Not right here but like way over what's down there. Can we get there from here?

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Yes, yes, roundabout but we can get there.

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Well, okay, well I think that's right. Let's go.

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An inexplicable force inside Bevy's body seemed to pull her in a definite direction.

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She had no idea what she would discover in the thick underbrush of Babler State Park.

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As Bevy, Ray and Jim followed the psychic trail, they began to notice significant clues that corroborated the

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mental images Bevy had received in Sally Lucas Carr.

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A small airport called the Spirit of St. Louis was less than two miles away.

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The Babler riding stables.

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Then the road sign, Wild Horse Creek intersecting Highway C.

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Could this have been the sea that kept appearing in Bevy's notes?

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A row of pillar mailboxes confirmed that she was heading in the right direction.

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And then the final clue, one that came chillingly close to her psychic vision.

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Now there's a bridge up ahead. Maybe that's the place we ought to stop.

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But the creek looks like it's crossing the road. Just pull on past the bridge.

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Maybe, maybe we ought to look this place over here.

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My notes were full of letter C's and things like that.

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Horse's head. There was also a small bridge.

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And there was some pillar type meal boxes, the kind you find out in the country.

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So finally we stopped the car and we got out and we decided that this area looked so right we might

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as well just look a little closer.

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The terrain just looked right. It felt right.

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We started to tramp around a little bit. I can't explain that exactly but there was a feeling

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in the body somewhere that there was something and it was not far.

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It was almost as if my body was a magnetic needle and it was seeking.

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It was honing in on a certain direction.

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The date was September 4th, 1971. They searched until the light became too dim to see any longer.

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Bevy was sure she was within a hair's breadth of finding the body and planned to return to the site the next morning.

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But the following day a torrential rainstorm hit St. Louis and prevented Bevy from continuing her search.

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Two days later, Mrs. Lucas' body was washed out of a gully in Wild Horse Creek.

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The body was less than 150 feet from where Bevy Yeagers had been searching.

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Well, it was all about a day or two after we had found the body and had processed the scene and everything like that.

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And it came to me right then. I said, my God, everything she told us on that day in the car before we found Mrs. Lucas came true.

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The horse, which was Wild Horse Creek Road, the airport, which is close by, the water in the bridge.

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And also, on the right side of her head, the skull was crushed. And these were not things she could have known any way.

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I have no way of accounting for it in any way. It was just the total mystery to me how she could be that accurate.

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What inexplicable force was it that compelled Bevy to search the ravines of Wild Horse Creek?

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Sandy Franzak is an American girl from our city who was with a group of travel agents going down to Archipelago.

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Bevy and the psychic rescue squad are continuing their case work on a national level.

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They feel they are moving closer to solving the case of the missing travel agent.

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Yes, in their search of the beach that they feel is Sandy's, but it hasn't been 100% identified by her roommate as having been what she had on when she left.

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It is not inconceivable that the role of the psychic detective could have major consequences for law enforcement in the United States.

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If the technique of using ESP to pinpoint crime and ferret out criminals can be developed on a broad and practical scale,

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it may become a deterrent to anyone contemplating a criminal act.

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This it seems may not be beyond the power of the mind.

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Coming up next, after an agent is left for dead, the case takes a new and murderous turn on FBI The Untold Stories.

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Then they got the wrong guy, but it takes Dr. Samuel Shepard 12 years to prove he did not kill his wife.

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