Hunt for missing girl reaches a new level
Article by Karen Williams
Sunday 20th May 2007, 17:47
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Police hunting the whereabouts of missing 4 year old Madeleine McCann have started using a wider range of resources including a ?TRV? ? Technical Remote Viewers, a psychic investigator.
As well as engaging the services of some of the worlds best known police ESP advisors, several ?Cracker? style police psychologists and investigators have also joined the hunt.
Madeleine McCann vanished from her ground floor apartment almost three weeks ago as her parents left her unattended while they dined at a nearby restaurant. The search for the missing girl has been extensive throughout the time that she has been missing and police are no clearer to knowing where she may have been taken to until now.
The use of psychic investigators have been used many times before. Some in famous cases such as the Yorkshire ripper, the disappearance of teenager Milly Dowler and another missing girl in the US by the name of Leah Freeman.
Police say that often these resources can be used as a last resort but also because information from TRV?s can sometimes bring in leads that can help to solve some of the most serious of cases.
However there are many sceptics that say that remote viewers are merely elaborate hoaxers that have no more ability than the man on the street and that they simply hinder the real investigation by throwing up false leads.
There was no mistaking one famous case in the United States when a remote viewer helped solve the case of missing girl also named Maddie in 1999.
Maddie Rae Clifton disappeared in Jacksonville, Florida in 1999 and two PSI TECH viewers, Ed Dames and Ingo Swann both of CIA US intelligence performed initial probes and after only forty-five minutes were able to determine that the child was no longer alive.
They also ascertained that the missing girl was submerged in water, trapped beneath a metal grate or grid. The following day, she was found underneath a neighbor's waterbed. She had been murdered.
Technical Remote Viewers have not been used in this latest case of missing 4 year old Madeleine McCann to date because Portuguese Police said that they had enough positive leads to follow up and that they were confident that the child would be found in relative quick time.
However, several psychic readers have come forward and have suggested that the child was driven out of Portugal and into Spain on the evening that she went missing.
One psychic viewer suggested that Maddie was still alive and living somewhere near to a farm in Southern Spain. They suggested that there were goats and a dog nearby and that there was a child at the location who was being cared for and who was safe but unhappy to be away from her parents.
Police say that the remote viewer was uncertain and that she was receiving a vision of a child from a distant past or whether it was a recent vision. Also the child appeared to be much older than Madeleine.
A team of special officers in Southern Spain were alerted to the allegations and were dispatched to seek out such locations. Apparently, they are continuing to search all remote areas of Southern Spain as well as contacting known criminals living in and working in farms across Southern Spain and Portugal.
?Finding the exact location of a target presents its own unique set of difficulty? says Mr Dames. ?Most times we are dealing with homogenous terrain and typical types of buildings and vehicles: waterways, bridges, lakes, holes in the ground. We have to find out which vehicle, which waterway, which building, which city or town.?
?We employ advanced techniques to pin point unique geography and significant features. This is the hardest part of our operation. This is the point where patience and experience is essential for success. This is where most mistakes are made due to lack of thoroughness or rush to judgment.?
?When the data reveals a particular city, the search then begins to be narrowed, where in the city? If the data points to train tracks and water, which train tracks? Which body of water? Working from the general to the specific, the search continues until a precise site is pinpointed.?
In the case of missing girl Madeleine McCann, Police are open to all suggestions but are treating each with appropriate levels of skepticism. ?There have been a lot of claims about what has happened to Maddie ever since the reward money was raised to ?2.5million? said one police officer. ?We have to be very careful that we don?t lose sight of the things we already know when following up some of these new claims?.
Meanwhile, in Pliai Da Luz, the hunt for Madeleine McCann continues and Kate and Gerry McCann have vowed to stay in Portugal until the whereabouts of their child is determined and she is returned safely.
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