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PAUL BANNISTER
Dutch psychic,Warner Tholen has amazed and
14ounded police and civilians alike with his uncanny
dides to find inissing bodies and lost articles -
id ever predict the future.
Arnong his successes, Th6len has: pinpointed f or police
which bodies of rnissing people would be
exact spots Lit
ind. Ile has also:
* Located urgently needed
ter at an African mission
@jn an aerial photo.
* Documented the procise
.jury of an astronaut at
lashdown.
"Tholen has found iiiany
ssing people and has lielped
,! police in a great "WilY
ses," revealed I Irof. W.H.C.
found the vehicle (and the miss-
ing man's body) in the water.
"Tholen really has incredible
power. Ile's been called in by
police many times."
In another case, police found
the body of a missing 20-year-
old man in water near Lolystad
in the Netherlands - where
Tholen told them it would be.
At his home near Utrecht, the
psychic produced a letter from
the local police acknowledging,
"Without Tholon's help we
would never have solved this
case. We would not have found
the body,"
One ol the most astonishing
ses of the 66-year-old
Succes
came when a mis-
psychic!
siouary pri6st, Rev, Nicholas
Borst, appealed to him for help
in finding desperately needed
water near his Catholie mission
in Tanzania, Africa.
"Ile sent me an acrial pho.
tograph of the mission and the
land around it," Tholen said. "I
concentrated on the photograph
and pinpointed the exact spot."
A letter of thanks that Father
@Borst wrote to Tholen tells how
.oliaeff, 84, a	
ycholof"y pro-	
sor at Uni-	
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.@sses Occurred
hen th,@ Dutch PSYCHIC
'Ito Police kit Warner Tholcri
,wthoorn asked him to liell)
a missing man. "Tholen
[d us to look in a particular
,pot at the Beukesgraefit Ca-
iaf," recz,iied Police InSpoCtOr
lendrick Schut.
"There were the tracks of a
car leadirig into the water, We
ent for the river punceand they
water was found at 75 feet and
at 112 feet - the exact depths
the psychic had predicted,
In 1969, Prof. John Beloff of
the department of psychology,
at the University of Edinburgh
in Scotland, recorded Tholen's
prediction that the youngest of
the Apollo astronauts would be
slightly wounded on the right
side of his head when landing,
and that they would not land in
dicir target region.
On splashdu,,A@n, Nov. 24,1969,
Al Bean, youj)gest of t e astro-
nauts, received a blow Over Is
right eye when he bumped into
a loose movie camera, and the
capsule landed two miles off
target - just as Tholen had pre-
dicted.
III Tholen's favorite case, he
located plans for 800-year-old
Coevorden Castle, after a futile
four-iiation search.
of the Provenck Muscurn 01
Drenthe in the Nu,lierlandF.
"Look for a fair-sized b,ai,(-
ing to the soutlicas,,, There, you
will find a large carved, wooden
chest painted red, green an(I
white. III it you% i,l find a draw-
ing of the tower," When T)r
Janssen went to 1 farn)
three miles southe.,A of his w\ i
home, the farnier lia tided h;,n,
drawing of the tower.
"The farmer told me that un
til two years before, they ll:it
been kept in a chest exactly likt
the one Tholen had described,'
said Dr. Janssen.
WHERE BODY WAS FOUND: Inspector Hendrick Schut Tholen advised Dr. Corneille
shows wherugcl,,,icLir"red Janssen, architect and director
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L.A. ,volice If esearc!"Ung Psychics'
By Mark Jones
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES - How could it be,
a police detective wondered, that a
housewife apparently with psychic
capabilities could help put together
the drawin-, of a man who a week
later would be the prime suspect in
a triple murder?
How was it, thought a deputy dis-
trict attorney recently, that a second
local psychic could reenact a two-year-
old murder after touching the killer's
fingerprint card?
And how was it possible, the FBI
wondered last month, that yet a third
Los Angeles psychic knew so much
about a $500,000 kidnaping in Las
Veaas' when, in fact, the crime was
i i@
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t ii .11 progress?
Are any or all of these three cases
examples of clairvoyance or coincid-
erice? Did each of the psychics "see"
through time and distance or were
@,.they just lucky? Answers are not
easy to come by -when the topic is as
elusive as parapsychology.
But while psychics have been cas-
ually involved for years in criminal
investigations - the most recent local
case resulted in the arrest of a murd-
er suspect earlier this month by police
in South Gate near Los Angeles
there have been few experiments to
determine their reliability. in crime
cases.
Until now.
Members of the Los Angeles Police
Department admitted recently that
for the past eight months they've been
conducting serious research into psy-
chic phenomena. The latest' study,
which began in October,'involves near-
ly four dozen specially selected Los
Angeles psychics, homicide investi-
gators and "ordinary" citizens.
The man leading what may be the
first announced police-psychic study
in the country is Dr. Martin Reiser,
director of the LAPD's behavioral
sciences department.
"So far it hasn't been demonstrat-
ed to my satisfaction that so-called re-
putable psychics can solve' crimes,"
he said, "and yet the homicide division
and I do want to make a serious re-
evaluation of paranormal phenomena.
-"In other words," he said, "I-want
to find out once and for all whether
the hundreds of ti-ps volunteered by
psychics are all screwy or indeed
whether some of them have merit."
Reiser said that late last month
the police department, with the aid
of clinical researchers at UCLA and
Los Angeles City College, gathered
four separate teams of psychics, homi-
cide detectives and citizens.
He said that during the next few
months each of them would be in-
dividually tested for their abilities to
perceive-or to "see"-crimes describ-
ed inside 12 sealed envelopes contain-
ing items of evidence pertaining to a
different crime.
"We're trying to be as unbiased as
possible," Reiser said. "And if it looks
as though investigative information
supplied by psychics not only is fea-
sible but has utility, then we'll use it.
That's the nature of a police oraaniza-
tion, isn't it?"
@ Despite the psychologises guarded
optimism, there was through it all a
bedrock of pessimism laid down by
the results of Reiser's -first police-
psychic study last May.
In that smaller experiment a dozen
Los Angeles psychics were tested in
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PSYCHIC, Froni G1
Psychic
1101, Police-Researching
e@idence-to "see" the killer together
with his victims in a psychic vision
one afternoon in October.
Sims said that the psychic and a
police artist produced the drawing
of a man who later was identified by
the mother of one of the victims as
having been with her boy shortly be-
fore his death.
Under questioning, Sims 'said, the
man-a family acquaintance with a
.record of sex offenses---4old police
where they could find the body of one
of three victims. And with that, and
other evidence, the 33-year-old unem-
ployed truck driver, Harold Ray Mem-
ro, was arrested and charged with
murder.
In nearby Downey and Torrance a
Dutch-born psychic named Jan Steers
figured in some of the most curious
police-psychic cases in Southern Cali-
fornia in the early 1970s.
The small, quiet, middle-aged psy-
chic, who has since returned to Hol-
land, is said by police officers to have
disclosed secret information about at
least two unsolved murders and-
over the telephone-was able to pin-
p6int the location of a dying police-
-in within minutes of his nearfatal
mc
injury.
One of the officers who worked
with the psychic in 1973 was'Torrance
police detective Ray Gross. One day
recently Gross recalled the first time
he met the psychic.
"It was the strangest 'thing," he
said. "I was staying late at the sta-
tion one night when this man called
me and began rattling off some stuff
about the Rolling Hills Theater mur-
der (in which four persons were slain
in 1972).
"The guy Insisted that if r would
return' to the scene of the crime, I
would find a set of the killer's finger-
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much the same fashion as those in the
current study.
One psychic, he said, astonished
everyone by managing to "see" a
crime involving a church while hold-
ing one of the test envelopes (the con-
tents of which described the murder
of a church official).
In another example, five of the in-
dividually tested psychics "visualized"
a crime in which a car was especially
important (the case described in the
test envelope concerned a murder
associated with an auto theft).
In spite of the infrequent surprises,
though, Reiser spelled out his disap-
pointment in a 14-page research paper
entitled "An Evaluation of the Use
of Psychics in the Investigation of
Major Crimes," to be published in
March by the Journal of Police Science
and Administration.
In it Reiser concluded, Over-
211, little, if any, information was eli-
cited from the 12 psychic partici.
pants that would provide material
helpful in the investigation of the
major crimes in question."
'For years the stereotype of psychics,
in the words of Los Angeles psychic
Kebrina Kinkade, on the whole has
been "a buPch of nuts and kooks who
came out of the woodwork when a big
case broke."
And it followed, she said, that if
police had brought a psychic in on a
particularly baffling case they cringed
at the thought of admitting it in pub-
lie for fear of censure.
That may be changing. Parapsy-
chology is the subject of clinical 're-
search at recognized universities, and
there is a growing public belief that
some individuals may be Onvested
with the ability to "see" through time
and distance.
South Gate police detective Wil-
liam Sims said his department had ex-
hausted what was felt to be every
lead in the sex murders of three
young boys between 1976 and Septem- '
ber 1978. Then, through an interme- -
diary, Sims and a second officer soli-
cited the aid of a local (and unident;
fied) woman psychic in her 40s.
The detective told the Los Angeles
Times he Js still "spooked" at the way
the psychic had been able-without
a single clue or revealing item of
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Psychics' Crime
Solving
PSYCHIC, rrom. G3	,
murder-and helieve me, he was con
prints on the right door Jamb, exactly	rect'all the way down the line-I got
4yz Inches up irom the floor.
.	white as a sheet," the officer said. "I
7 "Well," said . the detective,
my	mean, there was just no way this man
sergeant and I figured what the heck.	could have known what we found at
The guy was pretty insistent and, any.	the murder scene unless he was truly
i way, by that time we hadn't any really	psychic."
solid leads in the case."	The officer, who through his assoc,1-
So the next day the detective re-	ation.with Steers came to be humor-
turned to the theater, where he found	ously known by his fellow investiga-
a set of prints overlooked in the ori-	tors as "detective of the kook squad"
ginal investigation and where the	(someone even put a miniature crystal
psylicie said they'd be.	ball on his desk one day), said also
Well, almost. They weren't 41/2	that the psychic's predictions about
	the killer all checked out down to the
-Welles up from the floor, Gross said.	

"They were 41/4 inches." The finger-	
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32-cal pistol hidden in his blood-
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-pr nts la er matched those of a sus-	stained boots the day of his eventual

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@	arrest.
hcn the psychic volunteered to	The case never went to trial,
e6m@6 to the station to share his in-	though because the suspect hanged
formation, Gross thought, "By this	himself in the Torrance jail. ,
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time I figured that when the guy ar-	"I don't think you can say that
-Viyed I was going to throw him in the	psychics are a panacea in solving
clink because he knew as much about	crimes," the Torrance detective says.
,the murder as I did." As it happened,	"But they can be an invaluable inves-
however, the psychic had an unshak-	tigating tool. I mean, you get the right
able @libl. And more.	investigator working in tune with the
' "When Steers began to tell the	right psyehid and a department could
sergeant and myself about how the	settle a lot more of their unsolved
victims were laid out the night of the	cases."
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