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Last night the tv tabloid show Inside Edition interviewed Portland, Oregon clairvoyant Laurie McQuary. It was wonderful to watch Ms. McQuary reaction. I hope the video interview will be available for viewing soon. But you can read about it.

John and JoAnn Lowitzer have been searching for their 17-year-old daughter Alexandria (Ali) since she vanished in April, 2010.

But when the case made national news, the Houston parents say they became inundated with calls from so-called psychic detectives. They say some even showed up at their front door promising their psychic visions could help bring their daughter home.

http://www.insideedition.com/news/5...ctives-who-claim-to-find-missing-persons.aspx
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In a related matter of scamming Inside Edition also ran a story on the
Power Bracelet this one has video. Dr. Steve Novella is interviewed.
http://www.insideedition.com/videos/842/inside-edition-investigates-power-bracelets.aspx

I'm surprised that such a show has taken a hard and critical look at both of these.
 
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Thanks for the link.

The video is available from the link above. It is a fairly good report and has an interview with Marc Klaas, FBI statement and the exchange with McQuary was very interesting (my emphasis):

Investigates Psychic Detectives Who Claim to Find Missing Persons
INSIDE EDITION
3/2/2011


John and JoAnn Lowitzer have been searching for their 17-year-old daughter Alexandria (Ali) since she vanished in April, 2010.

But when the case made national news, the Houston parents say they became inundated with calls from so-called psychic detectives. They say some even showed up at their front door promising their psychic visions could help bring their daughter home.

"He guaranteed me that he'd find Ali in three days. I mean what parent wouldn't be excited to hear that you were going to have your daughter home in three days?" said JoAnn.

Mark Klaas, whose daughter Polly was abducted and killed more than 20 years ago, warns families to avoid psychics, saying they prey on the desperate and send police on one wild goose chase after another.

"They descend like vultures," he told INSIDE EDITION. "Never in the history of the world has a psychic solved a missing child case. Never."
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But what McQuary didn't know was that the photograph our producer gave her was actually a snapshot of INSIDE EDITION's Chief Investigative Correspondent Lisa Guerrero as a child.

"I don't believe she's alive. I'm sorry. I believe that it was a violent passing," McQuary said.

McQuary's "sixth sense" told her the girl in the photograph was brutally murdered and sexually assaulted.
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"Laurie, I'm going to show you something. Does this girl look familiar to you?" asked Guerrero, holding up the picture INSIDE EDITION's producer showed McQuary the day before.

"Yes she does. I worked this case," confirmed McQuary.

"This is a girl who you said was beaten and killed," Guerrero said. "This little girl is me and you told somebody that she is dead."

"Wait a minute, you didn't disappear?" McQuary asked.

"I'm right here," Guerrero said.

"Well, that's interesting, isn't it," said McQuary.

"How do you explain being completely wrong?" Guerrero asked.

"I can't explain it. I can't explain it. Okay, you know what dear, I think we're done," said McQuary, and then stood up to go.
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Altogether, ten different psychics told our producer that the girl in the photo of Lisa Guerrero had been murdered. The FBI tells INSIDE EDITION they are "not aware of any criminal investigation that has been resolved as a direct result of information provided from a psychic."
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Full: INSIDE EDITION
 
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Says it all. I don't know how anyone can believe info can come from a photo in the first place, it isnt a part of anyone, but this just shows the guesswork involved once and for all.
 
I saw this when it aired the other day. It was worth waiting through all the Charlie Sheen ******** to get to Ms. Guerrero's exposure of this malicious, depraved fraud. And she's also spread the word on those bogus Power Bracelets. I used to avoid Inside Edition like the plague because tabloid TV stories about the travails of celebrities hosted by some perky Barbie Doll make me reach for the remote faster than a striking cobra. But I had read online that this was going to be a takedown, so I had to check it out. I'm glad I did. Lisa Guerrero is becoming one of my favorite on-air skeptics. :-)
 
I'm not able to watch INSIDE EDITION on TV....after seeing it here, I'm definitely interested in seeing more by Ms.Guerrero..that was a beautiful expose of the "psychic".It proved beyond a reasonable doubt that she was nothing more than a fraud......Well done Ms.Guerrero !:D
 
Wow, what a piece of work she is. I enjoyed how her face froze and she got that deer-in-headlights look when Lisa pulled out the photo and said, "this is me". Her thought bubble probably read, "Oh, ****!"

Kudos to Inside Edition for taking a gamble on an expose story such as this one. Let's face it, they'd probably have run the story a different way (Evil skeptics try to destroy a sweet old lady's livelihood!!) if they thought they'd get better ratings, but maybe someone with enough influence to make these decisions decided to let this run and see how it went.

I'll assume that the skeptical point of view has gone fully mainstream when Oprah does a story like this one, though :)
 
Wow. That was great. I'm so used to the usual uncritical view - "We sat down with this psychic, who started receiving inexplicable visions when she was just a child, to find out how a sixth sense can lead to amazing discoveries!" - that the Inside Edition footage felt like bizarro world.

I've written a little thank you email to Inside Edition (http://www.insideedition.com/about-ie-contact.aspx) thanking them for taking the road less traveled and actually looking out for the vulnerable.
 
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Wow. That was great. I'm so used to the usual uncritical view - "We sat down with this psychic, who started receiving inexplicable visions when she was just a child, to find out how a sixth sense can lead to amazing discoveries!" - that the Inside Edition footage felt like bizarro world.

I've written a little thank you email to Inside Edition (http://www.insideedition.com/about-ie-contact.aspx) thanking them for taking the road less traveled and actually looking out for the vulnerable.
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And while we are thanking them we should also thank them for their exposé on the Power Balance bracelet. Just popped off an email thanking and urging them too do more.
 
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Many have now viewed the video at http://www.insideedition.com/news/5...ctives-who-claim-to-find-missing-persons.aspx

This absolutely is one of the top --- if not the top --- investigative report by an independent TV production team in years. Both the JREF and CSI should be sending strong kudos for the production. And those connected with Missing Children and Missing Person organizations and/or investigations are certainly smiling. It must have keyed a great deal of national interest as the G&P Inquiry Group web site http://www.gpinquirygroup.com/gpinquirygroup/OregonPolicePsychic.htm which has critcally covered Ms. McQuary has exploded with views. That's a good sign of interest and the Inside Edition team should be HIGHLY congratulated.
 
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We had a similar expose on Australian national TV a few years ago.
A well known Australian psychic Deb Webber was exposed in a similar way.
She denied vehemently that she was a fraud.
Her fans were not convinced of her fraud.
They made numerous explanations for the unfortunate episode.
She still has thousands of adoring gullible believers.
 
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Wow, that was great. I, too, am going to send off an e-mail thanking them for exposing this bottom-feeding fraudster.
 
wombatwal said:
We had a similar expose on Australian national TV a few years ago.
A well known Australian psychic Deb Webber was exposed in a similar way.
She denied vehemently that she was a fraud.
Her fans were not convinced of her fraud.
They made numerous explanations for the unfortunate episode.
She still has thousands of adoring gullible believers.
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Yup. We have a number of parasites here in NZ who had their own Sensing Murder BS show.
And they were caught out but sadly, those who believe, believe in spite of evidence and fact ..
 
Psychic Laurie McQuary has a history of claims that may be excessively heavy baggage compared with others in allowing a career recovery.


As far back as March 1985 she sent out a resume which listed her only education above high-school as some work at the 2-year Napa Junior College in California, then a two-year institute. That resume listed no specified degree or major.


She listed no 4-year program or Bachelors degree. Yet less than sixty days later in early May 1985 Laurie McQuary told reporter Carla Thompson with the Oregonian [Portland Oregon] newspaper that she had a bachelor’s degree in nursing and a doctorate in psychology!


It appears that her Bachelor and/or the PhD degree --- if as specified they exist at all --- were never received from U.S. accredited institutions she attended within the United States. Why after failing to put either of these two degrees on your resume would you suddenly claim both less than 60 days later?


By 1997 the same newspaper reported that McQuary claimed supernatural and paranormal events in her basement --- as well as in other buildings across Portland --- but one claim by a basement dwelling ghost in her home was very unique. She claimed it scared both her and her 9-year-old daughter by blinking lights on and off in their own home. And then in a confrontation between McQuary and the supernatural being it gave a violent response as she stood by her metal furnace.


According to McQuary --- but never apparently verified by anyone else --- she became furious when the ghost scared her daughter. In the published article McQuary told the ghost "How dare you pick on a child!"
And then after that outcry, McQuary is quoted in the newspaper as saying “That moment, I saw it. It was like a fist hit the side of the furnace. It indented."


There are other equally disturbing claims across her more than 3 decades of ‘watch me, see me’ press stories, including assisting in the location of 27 murder victims. Or is that now 28?

She certainly once again drew out her map --- as she has done before --- on the Inside Edition video and once again pointed to a spot where a body would be found. Less than two years ago she also pointed out to television cameras where a missing girl would be found using her map. That victim was found well outside McQuary’s area --- an area estimated at over 340 million square feet and about 28 million times the size of the body.


Even in an area as large as this the body was found elsewhere --- miles away and in a different county than McQuary indicated.

Now once again in this latest Inside Edition video she also hedges the location with her “It may even be a mile or two from there.” Well even with that clause this newest claim is about equally large as in 2009. But now we have no body, no murder, no event.

While we regularly hear of psychics being wrong in targeting the body location, once again this claim by Laurie McQuary is rather unique. She not only targeted a body location but did so for someone who sat less than three feet in front of her. I don’t recall that ever happening before!

How many times have you heard a psychic describe a murder location with no one missing, dead, or murdered? And with the apparent victim sitting before you?

Remember McQuary is one of the select global psychics offered by Victor Zammit as a “gifted medium” and he previously noted “All of Laurie's predictions proved to be accurate.” This makes the fourth global psychic selected by Victor Zammit to come tumbling down, but it’s hardly surprising.

Yes, Laurie McQuary and her followers surround themselves with claims --- but this one is yet another knot in a string of psychic catastrophes that plague the paranormal community. And the last credible paranormal intuitive standing is?
 
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George152 said:
Yup. We have a number of parasites here in NZ who had their own Sensing Murder BS show.
And they were caught out but sadly, those who believe, believe in spite of evidence and fact ..
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I was one of the sceptics on the SM forum.
Sadly they were not caught out, unless I missed something.
A smoking gun we could not get.
 
Link to watch Inside Edition on psychic detective sting

Here's the link to the 4 minute video aired March 2, 2011 by Inside Edition covering essentially a "sting" with Portland Oregon psychic detective Laurie McQuary. McQuary is a leading psychic who has claimed paranormal assistance in locating 27 murder victims. . . . . . er make that 28?

http://www.insideedition.com/news/5...ctives-who-claim-to-find-missing-persons.aspx
 
Excellent!
Kudos to "Inside Edition" for some actual investigative reporting. Hopefully this type of courage will be contagious.
 
wombatwal said:
I was one of the sceptics on the SM forum.
Sadly they were not caught out, unless I missed something.
A smoking gun we could not get.
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It was sufficient for a 'believer' I know to change her mind so there must be others out there who came to their senses.
 
Psychic Laurie McQuary: Bouncing through time

Bouncing forward and backward in time. That’s Laurie McQuary.

A week after the March 2, 2011 ‘Inside Edition’ “sting” broadcast of psychic detective Laurie McQuary aired her web site remains untouched.

She still claims “a high rate of accuracy” --- one she’s estimated as high as 87% --- and she’s still soliciting clients for a past October 2009 event.

Given her claimed ability to move through time --- she offers past life regression services --- perhaps she's simply shifted her relative position in time to before October 2009. That way her accuracy rate remains the same and the ‘Inside Edition’ broadcast is yet 17 months away.

Of course she still claims to have been voted Portland’s best by a local weekly newspaper ---Willamette Week--- even though multiple personnel at Willamette Week don’t recall such a vote or award. But that may suggest that the award must be something happening in the future.

So where are the rest of us in relation to Laurie McQuary?
 
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