Believe it or not there are actual recorded cases of spirits who helped to solve their own murders. Not only did these spirits speak from beyond the grave, they also provided details that proved beyond a doubt the truth of what really happened. Here are three such true stories.
The Mesa Mystery: When a total of eleven women were reported missing from the streets of Albuquerque, New Mexico in and around 2004, detectives were left without a trail or bodies. The women had simply vanished. Five years later, a woman from a nearby suburb was walking her dog near West Mesa, a dessert area outside of Albuquerque, when the dog found a human bone. The detectives assigned to the case agree that they might never have discovered the burial site of these missing women if a series of ‘coincidences’ had not occurred.
Back in 2003 a sprawling housing development had started to creep across West Mesa. But development came to a halt in 2005 when the housing market sharply declined and the contractors left town. Huge rainstorms flooded the land in 2008, which likely washed some bones free of their shallow graves. A series of aerial photos taken of the Mesa clearly showed tire marks and a number of sites in the same area where the vegetation had been disturbed. Bulldozers were called in and the team began to sift through tons of soil for additional human remains. In all, the team was able to identify most of the missing women and turn their remains over to relatives for proper burial.
It seemed that the victims themselves had moved heaven and earth to help detectives locate their remains in an area the size of 75 football fields! In a strange twist of fate, the only suspect of the Mesa murders was shot and killed before detectives could question him. His shooter had caught the suspect in the process of stuffing his fiancé’s body in the trunk of his car!
The Greenbrier Ghost: When Zona Heaster Shue of Greenbrier, West Virginnia died suddenly in1897, she was buried under a cloud of suspicious circumstances that did not sit well with her mother. Following her burial, Zona’s spirit appeared to her mother and revealed very specific details of how she had died at the hands of her husband of three months. At her mother’s insistence, Zona’s body was exhumed and an autopsy confirmed death by strangulation.
Prosecutors had to convince the court to allow the mothers’ testimony at trial. Her account of Zona’s death was so detailed that the court allowed her testimony and the husband was found guilty of murder. This is the only known case in history where court testimony from a ghost helped to convict a murderer!
The Victim and the Psychic/Medium: When Jacqui Poole was murdered in 1983, her soul would not rest until she found justice. Three days after her murder, Jacqui’s spirit made contact with psychic Christine Holohan, urging her to go to police with details of the murder. Jacqui proceeded to provide a description of her flat in London, England where she was murdered, and intricate details of the attack itself.
When Cristine approached the police with her story, they were skeptical until Detective Tony Batters, the first officer on the scene, was convinced by her accurate description of the victim’s position, clothing and injuries. Christine also gave personal information about the killer, including his age, height, tattoos, type of work, and criminal history. Out of the 130 facts provided by Christine, 120 proved to be accurate, right down to the killer’s nick name ‘Pokie’ (Anthony Ruark).
According to Guy Lyon Playfair and Montague Keen of the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, the Jacqui Poole murder case is the first ever of its kind to be proven beyond all reasonable doubt.
As we move into an age of intuition, what are your thoughts? Will the police come to rely more on psychics/mediums to help solve cases, or do you see the police force of the future receiving training in intuitive awareness, telepathic communication, and remote viewing?
