A "psychic" consulted by the family of slain John Fiocco "sees" the victim being beaten and stabbed by two thugs on campus at The College of New Jersey.
Joan Durham, the self-proclaimed "seer," told The Trentonian the murder occurred after the drunken victim dropped his cell phone or eyeglasses down the trash chute at his dorm.
She said Fiocco was attacked as he was trying to retrieve the phone or glasses from the Dumpster at the bottom of the chute outside TCNJ?s Wolfe Hall dorm, where he lived on the fourth floor.
"He did not die an accidental death," said Durham, who has been calling herself a "psychic" for 30 years.
Durham, who lives in Gloucester County near the Fiocco home in Mantua, said she is not charging the family for her help.
Authorities know nothing of Durham or her visions of the early morning of March 25, when the TCNJ freshman art major was last seen alive.
Fiocco reportedly returned to the dorm about 3 a.m., following a party off campus in Ewing, and was seen sleeping in a friend?s room on his floor.
Fiocco?s roommate reported him missing 36 hours later. A few days later, Durham said, the Fioccos contacted her.
The Fioccos would not respond to questions about Durham, but family lawyer Glenn Zeitz confirmed her involvement. Zeitz said he had been in contact with Durham but did not hire the psychic, and asked she not comment about the case until after June 3, when the Fiocco?s held a memorial service for their son.
From the beginning, Durham said she thought the young man was dead. Shortly after she was contacted, she said she took a trip to TCNJ with Fiocco?s family and worked with his floor mates to provide the Fioccos with answers.
Durham said her "psychic impressions" tell her that after dropping the phone or glasses down the chute, he walked down the fire staircase to the Dumpster area to retrieve the item, she said.
Once on the ground floor, Durham said she gets the feeling that Fiocco had entered a trash room -- an enclosed area -- by the trash bins and was encountered by two men.
The men wore dark blue or brown jackets with oval-shaped insignias, Durham said, adding that the thugs were connected to the college either through employees or because they frequently made deliveries of some kind to the school.
Durham said the men were either in the middle of a drug transaction whenFiocco walked in on them, or that they were there looking for someone to rob.
Then they stabbed him to death, she said.
"I feel like he was brutalized and then placed in the Dumpster," she said. "These are my psychic impressions and nothing is validated at this point ..This tragic death of a beautiful young man should be brought to light."
Durham, who never charges a fee and said she isn?t speaking now for her ego or publicity, wants people to be aware of their surroundings on a college campus.
She said she hopes security --such as cameras and locks on bathroom doors -- increases at TCNJ because of Fiocco?s baffling death.
"This place is a hot spot for predators," she said.
State police found pints of Fiocco?s blood in the Dumpster at Wolfe Hall. His body was found in a dump in Tullytown, Pa., on April 25.
Investigators, who had placed a fiber optic camera down the chute with negative results, told Fiocco?s parents that his scent was tracked by K-9 dogs to the staircase, Durham said.
Durham, who said she has previously worked with law enforcement to solve deaths and missing persons cases, has received different reactions from police in her 30 years of practice.
"Sometimes, (authorities) want to put bag over my head and bring me in," she said. "I don?t wear a funny costume ..I am accurate in a lot of cases. I don?t solve the cases. If you were going to look at a puzzle and 15 pieces dropped out, I would tell them what part is missing and where they go. I fill in the detail. The rest is up to the detectives."
Source: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?news ... 4551&rfi=6
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