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FORENSIC PSYCHIC DEBBIE MALONE

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Psychic Debbie Malone, worked on a murder with us where we had a (male) suspect who committed suicide. Since then the inquest has finished and the coroner has confirmed our findings that the man who committed suicide also committed the murder. We took Debbie up to the murder scene and used her because we couldn’t talk to the suspect.

I had seen Sensing Murder on television and so I contacted her. We didn’t tell her about the murder or anything and she gave her time for free. I gave her some of the deceased jewellery and she told us a fair bit about the victim’s life. A lot of the stuff she did tell us was pretty spot-on with the young victim’s lifestyle – that she was a prostitute and a drug addict and the types of drugs that she preferred. So she did come up with a lot of things about the victim.

We asked her to give us a description of where the body was found. She gave us 50-50 (accuracy) on the location and gave some directions how to get there. We put her in a car and we started driving and we got to a certain location and she said yeah, this is right. So we turned off to the right and she said you’re going the wrong way. You’ve got to go straight ahead. She said you brought me this way, but they came a different way with Maria. She said there are Norfolk pines and was talking about water and indeed there were Norfolk pines right near where Maria was found. So she was pretty spot on.

Then we took her to where the body was found and she told us how the body was lying and she was pretty spot on there too. We suspected Maria was murdered in a cabin. We took Debbie in there without telling her anything and she said this is where it happened. What I didn’t tell her was that they had re-done the cabin interior and moved all the rooms around so it was nothing like when we found the body. She said the murder weapon was disposed of here but I can’t work it out. It was dropped down a kitchen pipe but she didn’t realise the kitchen sink had since been moved.

She took us to another area and said there’s something about right here, this is where he got a blanket. And it was where the old blanket cupboard was and we suspected he got a blanket to wrap the body in. She also said whoever did this used to live here before moving to Queensland shortly after. And he did. He moved to Queensland within three weeks and then committed suicide a few weeks later. We didn’t tell her all that. She brought all that up straight out of nowhere.

How did it feel when you realised how accurate Debbie was?
Very scary, very scary (laughs) especially when she said Maria still spends time with you. I’m so skeptical of psychics but there were a lot of things that I couldn’t put my finger on. I don’t know if she’s a good researcher…I’m not sure...but a lot of things (she got right) like the suspect going to Queensland. Unless she had access to the police files no-one would have known that. It was never in a story or anything.

So there was information she came up with that she couldn’t have known?
The bit about him going to Queensland she couldn’t have known. It was only stored on our police computer. It had never been released to anyone. I don’t think she would have had access to anyone who could have got the documentsShe didn’t give us anything that we didn’t have but then again there was no way we could confirm what we did have. We couldn’t talk to the suspect so we thought that (bringing Debbie in) might be one avenue…just for our own peace of mind. We thought if she could come up with anything that gelled with what we had (it would be good) and she did. She actually came up very good.

Psychics’ evidence is inadmissible in court though?
Yeah it wasn’t used at all in the coroner’s inquest. The NSW police, their official line is that they don’t accept psychics but I know they have been used a lot. Their evidence is inadmissible. All you can do is pick up on what they give you. Then you have to find fact with what they tell you