A search resumed today for a missing 73-year-old Palmerston North man after a psychic helped police find his personal items on the bank of the Manawatu River.
Sergeant Bill Nicholson said a local woman, who did not want to be named, contacted police on Friday night and described a location to police.
James Alexander, an Alzheimer's sufferer, has been missing more than a week.
The area the psychic described was familiar to police, who launched a search late on Friday.
On Saturday morning the psychic accompanied Land Search and Rescue and police on another search. Mr Alexander's personal items were found on the banks of the Manawatu River shortly after 11am. They found a hat, a shoe, a watch, a lighter and a pair of glasses.
"The thing about it that really got me was that she had never been to this area but she was describing to me an area that was familiar to me because back in February we had a search for another Alzheimer's patient who had gone missing from a different rest home," Mr Nicholson said on Radio New Zealand.
"Some things she said prompted me to take it further. If I hadn't been involved in that search in February, then I might have just passed it off. But it was worth a crack and it paid off."
Mr Nicholson said Mr Alexander was most likely to be in the river, which has been high, but was now dropping.
The dive squad was due in the area today. There was a log jam about 150m down from where Mr Alexander was believed to have entered the river.
Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3719861a11,00.html
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