Psychic Investigators 1: Sue Evans. Result: the psychic did not solve the crime or assist the police. The crime was solved through normal police procedures.
Psychic Investigators 2: Dr Lauren Thibodeau. Result: the psychic did not solve the crime or assist the police. The crime was solved through normal police procedures.
Psychic Investigators 3: Nancy Weber. Result: the psychic did not solve the crime or assist the police. The crime was solved through normal police procedures.
Psychic Investigators 4: Laurie McQuary. Result: the psychic did not solve the crime or assist the police. The crime was solved through normal police procedures.
Psychic Investigators 5: Mary Pascarella Downey. Result: the psychic did not solve the crime or assist the police. The crime was solved through normal police procedures.
Psychic Investigators 6: Angela McGee. Result: the psychic did not solve the crime or assist the police. The crime was solved through normal police procedures.
Psychic Investigators 7: Mary Ellen Rodrigues. Result: the psychic did not solve the crime or assist the police. The crime was solved through normal police procedures.
Psychic Investigators 8: Bob Cracknell. Result: the psychic did not solve the crime or assist the police. The crime was solved through normal police procedures.
Psychic Investigators 9: Diane Lazarus. Result: the psychic did not solve the crime or assist the police. The crime was solved through normal police procedures.
Psychic Investigators 10: "Dr" Sally Headding. Result: the psychic did not solve the crime or assist the police. The crime was solved through normal police procedures.
Psychic Investigators 11: Christine Holohan. Result: the psychic did not solve the crime or assist the police. The crime was solved through normal police procedures.
Rather than a self-serving promotion of supposedly brilliantly accurate and spookily prescient psychics, EoR would have been more interested in seeing the whole psychic process of solving a crime. Could they really perform when they weren't simply recalling events and claiming their own hits?
Why doesn't the series cover the initial "consultation" with the spirit? Perhaps they could actually give a crime to a psychic to solve. Better yet, a series of psychics. The range of contradictory and vague statements would be very interesting. Or would they all come up with exactly the same clues. More importantly, would the "clues" they come up with be of more use than those revealed in Psychic Investigators?
Perhaps we could actually see all the guesses and statements the psychic makes, and judge for ourselves how many are correct, how many are wrong, how many are so vague or obvious to be worthless, and just how much information is provided to the psychic by the police and family members rather than the other way around? How often does the following scenario, for example, occur:
Psychic: I see a uniform of some sort. Does that mean something to you?
Police Officer: I'm a policeman! How could you have known that? There's no way you could have guessed that!
In this (only slightly fictional) example, the psychic didn't know anything. Many people wear uniforms of various descriptions. Many crimes, strangely, have people in uniforms congregating around them. In this example, a vague guess could easily, thirty years later, be presented as "The psychic knew I was a police officer!" even though that piece of information was given to the psychic by the police officer. If, instead, it meant nothing, the psychic would simply move on, and the wrong guess would be forgotten.
How often did this sort of retrofitting, coldreading, and misremembered conversations occur in Psychic Investigators? We don't know. Simply because, not only was there no investigating by the psychics, there appears to have been no investigating by the producers of this fatuous feature.
Mystery Investigators also provide comments on the individual episodes of this series which are worth reading.
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