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Psychics on hot seat after false claim that Cleveland kidnapping victim was dead
Police departments across the country routinely get tips from self-professed mediums, particularly in high-profile cases. The claims don’t always pan out, as was the case with psychic Sylvia Browne. Another psychic says, ‘I don’t claim to solve the crimes. Police do. I give information.'
In 2004, self-proclaimed psychic Sylvia Browne had a heartbreaking message for the mother of Amanda Berry, one of the three Cleveland kidnapping victims.
“She’s not alive, honey,” Browne told mom Louwanna Miller on “The Montel Williams Show.”
Miller, who died two years later, would never know that Berry was in fact alive — she and two other women were discovered Monday after police say they were held captive in a home for about a decade.
Browne was blasted on social media for her dead-wrong declaration, with some calling her a “filthy, exploitative, greedy liar.” She didn’t return a call for comment Wednesday.
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10-05-2013, 11:50 PM
Can 'psychics' be sued or sent to jail?
