Psychic Detective Helps Solve Cases
By Kim Quintero
A psychic consultant in Lake Oswego, Oregon says she’s helped find the bodies of 27 murder victims in 26 years.
Psychic detectives might sound a little far fetched, but law enforcement agencies all across Oregon are using these people to help crack some notorious cases.
“We all have it. It’s different degrees. Pay attention to your dreams. Pay attention to just feelings,” said Psychic Detective Laurie McQuary.
McQuary has a knack for listening to her gut. As a psychic consultant in Lake Oswego, she said she’s helped find the bodies of 27 murder victims in 26 years.
Image: Psychic Detective Laurie McQuary
“I’ve worked with a lot of detectives, some of them aren’t comfortable talking about it. Some of them don’t even want their department to know about it,” said McQuary.
McQuary used to lead a normal life, but the former nurse started having nightmares and visions after a fall from a horse forced her into a coma for three weeks.
“Started to have precognitive dreams of plane crashes, and I had no idea what it was about because they’d happen about three days after I’d dream them. I thought I was nuts,” said McQuary.
Word spread, and McQuary opened her business. Then in 1986 her first case came out of Clackamas County where a young woman was murdered by her own husband.
“I was so nervous because you know what these cops are like - they’re impassive,” said McQuary. “You can sit there and tell them every nuance about the victim, 50 pages worth and then they’ll go ‘yup, that’s right, but where’s the body?’”
Lake Oswego Police Detective Bob Lee was working that case.
“After about two months, you’ve pretty much done whatever can be done from a police department’s standpoint. The woman had simply disappeared,”
Lee met with McQuary and she gave him a list of what she sensed about the murder.
“Some of the stuff was fairly generic. You know, like you would pretty much if you described one case, you described them all sort of thing. But some of it was very very specific, like the younger brother being involved in the burial of the body,” said Lee.
Lee and McQuary later married.
McQuary said she got involved in Brooke Wilberger’s case, after getting a call from one of Wilberger’s teachers. The psychic took notes and passed her thoughts on paper back to the teacher who then gave them to the Corvallis Police Department.
“I said don’t even tell police who it’s from. If they’re going to wig out and think it’s a psychic, don’t. Just say somebody was just thinking these thoughts and give it to them just to be taken seriously,” said McQuary.
McQuary also said she thinks Wilberger’s body is in the Crabtree area.
“Right there. And I felt she was off the road, like it was a logging tree road, which we have many of those, but I think she’s off about 150 feet to the right of a road,” said McQuary.
KVAL News called Corvallis Police, told Lt. Tim Bruer what McQuary sensed and asked if searchers ever looked in that area.
He would not confirm where searches had been.
“Frankly, we never waste our time on psychics. We’ve had hundreds of psychic tips from the very beginning. We don’t use them because it takes away time from our legitimate resources,* said Bruer.
“I can not change people’s opinions if they have a mind set to that. I think if they ever bothered to look at my web page, if they would take the whole picture of how long I’ve been doing this, and for how many years I’ve done it for nothing, for gratis,” said McQuary.
McQuary believes each of us have an intuition, a gut feeling, that we just don’t listen to.
When Dianne Downs shot her three children over 20 years ago, and lied to detectives about a strange man doing it…
“I thought, that’s bull-honey! There was no bushy-haired stranger. The next day, I had people calling my office, clients, going ‘that lady’s lying.’ I mean, these are people who are bank tellers or whatever else in life, and they are certainly not exercising that ability - but they were,” said McQuary.
The Lane County Sheriff’s Office hired two psychics to examine the 2005 murders of campers Stevan Haugen and Jeanette Bauman near Oakridge. That case remains unsolved.
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amindformurder on Saturday, December 13, 2008Laurie McQuary previously stated that she has “close to 85%” correct psychic ability, but this too over her 25-year career seems to be an exaggerated claim. When her historical record is examined there appear to be no dramatic or consequential scientific studies or endorsements relating to her correct psychic ability.
Do psychics avoid posting this material because they feel that a “dome of silence” must protect the public’s ability to comprehend by themselves? We’ve got federal laws requiring a Nutrition Fact label on Campbell’s Chicken Noodle soup. Isn’t it time that a station like KVAL-TV demand a Fact Label when someone claims to have assisted on finding 27 bodies before broadcast?
McQuary’s public case claims and historical foresight claims appear within normal random chance levels and near ‘flip of the coin’ guessing, with about equal hits and misses. The average person on the street would --- at least until she agrees to do more elaborate testing to show otherwise --- would do about the same in psychic forecasting as McQuary.
Yet McQuary apparently provides no publicly distributed analysis or documentation for this remarkable figure of near 85% --- among the highest claimed in the United States.
In 1985 McQuary attempted to locate missing child Luke Tredway of Portland but though she received substantial media attention she was unable to publicly and positively discern who murdered the child. Publicly on the record she failed to psychically determine or help determine by paranormal means how the murder happened and the exact location of the missing child. That case was resolved only when the murderer confessed shortly before his execution. There was no public evidence of anything “close to 85%” correct psychic ability in resolving the criminal activity throughout the extended years of the Tredway case.
When previously asked to be tested without charge by professionals for her claimed psychic abilities McQuary said “It makes no difference to me. Frankly I’m not coming from a position where I have to prove anything.”
This rather arrogant public dismissal is badly out of touch with a far better educated 2008-2009 public which demands proofs over flaired pant leg psychic era claims. McQuary has claimed that psychic “vibrations are very confusing” and “as far as testing me with cards or colors, there are some very empirical kinds of studies psychics do not do well on.”
Instead what America’s psychics apparently do well is prompting TV reports by “news” reporters who inadequately use a internet search engine to actually investigate unfounded and undocumented paranormal claims. See http://www.amindformurder.com/OregonPolicePsychic.htm for complete commentary
Dee on Monday, December 22, 2008Where are all these kind of psychics when they were looking for Caylee and Maddie (the one in Europe)? How come there is not really anything but stories of these psychics told by themselves? Don’t get me wrong. I do believe in some psychics. But I still need proof when somebody tells me stories like that.
Surveillance on Wednesday, August 12, 2009I wish someone would have the b@lls to ask them just how the peoples donated money is being spent searching for Madeleine. Thousands of people have put genuine donations in the pot to find this little girl, and deserve to know where it’s going.If I had been given that much money, anything would be worth a try.
julianna on Wednesday, August 12, 2009They had one on the other night on court tv channel and they went to Aruba to find out about Natalie the sweet girl that disappeared last yr i think. they had found places that no one except a few knew about, Some people don;t like psychics like the first guy who answered your question; but to believe you have to have an open mind and lots of folks don;t; but lots of us do,,, I hope they do find Maddie or at least find the body so her parents can get some closer.
Breanne Lauree on Tuesday, September 01, 2009I do believe in some psychics.But i still need proof when somebody tells me stories like that.
amindformurder on Wednesday, September 23, 2009September 22, 2009 Update: As noted above national TV psychic investigator Laurie McQuary indicated in November 2008 that Brooke Wilberger would be found in the Crabtree area miles located east of the Oregon State University campus and in Linn County. But on Monday, September 21, 2009 Benton County law enforcement officials were led by Joel Courtney, who plead guilty to murdering Brooke Wilberger, to her body buried on a coastal mountain in western Benton County. The site is miles west from the Interstate 5 freeway and McQuary’s vision which lies miles further east in Linn County. Off by miles such bogus psychic visions never assisted and medium missteps can have only cause further delays in resolving such cases. It’s no wonder Liutentant Tim Bruer notes they never waste time on psychics. With Benton County officials now confirming that 19-year-old Brooke Wilberger was found miles from McQuary’s visions her paranormal psychic claims before the media have dropped further in credibility --- a level she has previously indicated exists somewhere alongside her “87% accuracy”.
caroline veilleux on Sunday, February 14, 2010Bonjour Madame Mcquary
mon nom est Caroline Veilleux J’habite à Trois-Rivières au Québec city.i ont quelque chose à vous demander cet été, il sera de 3 ans depuis une petite fille près de notre maison a été kidnapted et sa familly est toujours à la recherche ici especialy son grand-père qu’il n’a jamais s’arrêtait, il alomast travaille nuit et jour pour trouver Cédrika Provencher, vous pouvez trouver ses provencher.com.i Cedrika site que votre documentaire sur Discovery Chanel celui que vous avez obtenu votre i proposition de mariage était haletante et j’ai eu pock Chichen et à la fin j’ai pleuré Il a été ..... im out of words.well je serais heureux si vous le feriez pour cette somrthing Familly parce qu’ils Nedd à connaître la vérité et je pense que vous sont-ils le dernier espoir car 3 ans c’est long pour une famille de ont été étonnant est que cette petite fille chaque soir avant d’aller au lit nous pensons à elle et, chaque matin, nous pensons à elle et si on.she n’est pas liée à nous, mais depuis qu’elle dissapered elle est tout le monde petite fille que nous voulons savoir ce qui s’est passé parce que maintenant IMA mère de 4 enfants et nous regardons nos enfants de très près et nous ne pouvons pas continuer comme that.thank vous je suis très souhaitez-vous si vous pouvez me write back parce que cet événement de Cedrika Provencher obtenu STRAIGTH à mon cœur.
