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| Bsptss |
 Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:49 am |
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She told them boy was dead
Crystal ball fails psychic in Mo. kidnap
BY CHRISTINA BOYLE
DAILY NEWS WRITER
Sylvia Browne
Montel Williams' psychic pal Sylvia Browne told the family of missing
Shawn Hornbeck he was dead shortly after the Missouri boy vanished -
and later allegedly offered to help locate his body for $700 per half
hour.
The popular TV clairvoyant appeared on the "Montel Williams Show" in
February 2003, four months after Shawn disappeared, and told Pam and
Craig Akers she believed their son was "no longer with us."
She also advised that his body could be found in a wooded area 20 miles
from their Richwoods, Mo., home, near two large jagged boulders.
Shawn, now 15, was found alive and well last Friday, living just miles
away with a man now charged with snatching the boy when he was 11.
Browne's "vision" of his death caused search teams to redirect their
efforts and drew dozens of calls from the public who believed they
lived near the woods matching Browne's descriptions.
The family also claims the psychic then tried to cash in, which Browne
vigorously denies.
"She called Pam and Craig about one month after the show and pretty
much offered her services to continue their discussion for a fee," said
Wayne Evans, a spokesman for the Shawn Hornbeck Foundation.
"Pam was that desperate that if she had had $700 in her bank account
she would have put it on the table. We are talking about a mother who
would have sold her soul to have her boy back."
"Everybody was angry," he added. "Sylvia Browne's name was never
brought up again until Shawn was found. He's home now, and that's all
that matters."
Browne, a regular guest on the "Montel" show, apologized for her
misfire, exposed first by StopSylviaBrowne.com, a blog dedicated to
tracking the psychic's every blunder.
"I'm terribly sorry that this happened," she told the Daily News. "But
I think my body of work stands by itself. I've broken case after case."
"I think it's just cruel to jump on this one case in which I was
wrong," she added defensively. "I've said thousands of times I'm not
God."
She also denied ever offering her services to Shawn's family for cash.
"There's never been a case that I've ever charged for a missing child,"
Browne said. "I would never do that. Never, never."
A spokeswoman for Williams said the talk show host was taping more
shows and unavailable for comment. Browne was his only guest on
yesterday's show.
Michael Devlin, the 300-pound pizza parlor manager charged with
kidnapping Shawn four years ago and a second boy just last week, is to
be arraigned today in Missouri courtroom.
He is also under investigation for the disappearance of another boy,
Charles Arlin Henderson, 16 years ago. |
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| Jeannie Wilson |
| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:33 pm |
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"Bsptss" <Barbara.PTS@gmail.com> wrote here for all to
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She told them boy was dead
I've always thought she was a nut job |
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| Blupencl |
| Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:59 pm |
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I think she's entertaining but I can hardly bear to watch her on TV. She
has those HORRIBLE fingernails and she just picks at herself the whole
time she's on. It drives me NUTS.
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