Posted on 06/07/2011 6:39:21 PM PDT by avg_freeper
Authorities converged on a residential property near the Liberty County town of Hardin on Tuesday night after the sheriff’s office received a phone tip from a self-professed psychic that 25 to 30 dismembered bodies were buried there.
By 8 p.m., Liberty County Judge Craig McNair said that no bodies were found inside the house. Cadaver dogs were inside and found nothing.
A preliminary search by law enforcement officers earlier in the day found evidence of what they believed was blood, but no sign of anything else, leading them to suggest the call may have been a hoax.
A search warrant was obtained and a quick look around revealed nothing out of order. A state law enforcement source confirmed that DPS officials had obtained the warrant and entered the residence, after making a fruitless search of the property.
A foul stench emanating from the house was found to be coming from piles of rotting garbage. And the blood found at the residence was related to an earlier incident, the source told the Houston Chronicle.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
“DPS officials had obtained the warrant”
On the basis of a freaking “psychic” report?
That’s why you should just sit back for a couple of days to see what happens with news stories; which is just that - stories.
Kinda odd that they would react that way to a psychic tip unless the psychic has been right more than a few times in the past.
Something is very wrong here.
I think they got the warrant based on the blood on the porch.
An earlier report indicated that there was blood at the sight and a rotten smell.
>On the basis of a freaking “psychic” report?
That was the basis of the TV show “Medium” where the psychic worked at the DA’s office.
then the MAD TV spoof...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoEdFi4il_k
;)
Did the Stasi ever need more?
That’s why you should just sit back for a couple of days to see what happens with news stories; which is just that - stories.
Did the Stasi ever need more?
Yeah, a lot of move along, nothing really really really to see here!
Or just a prank. Guess we need a second psychic to pick up where the first one left off.
Why did the police consider the “psychic” reliable?
Once before a judge would accept a certain dog’s ability to follow a scent, he made it follow another scent through a concert site
where 30,000 people had been. When the dog passed that test, he was willing to accept that it had the ability to follow a scent.
On what basis did the police think this psychic had any ability? Was the psychic rich from sports betting (wins every time)? Was the psychic rich from playing the stock market and commodities futures?
Why did the police think the psychic had any ability?
We seem to be stuttering...
How did this get picked up as a national news story in the first place?
Even to merely question people, there must be “reasonable suspicion”, with specific reasons which can be articulated. Hunches, notions, forebodings, visions etc. will not do it. To go further requires probable cause . . .
The narrative here does not make sense. None.
This nut case should have to reimburse law enforcement for the expense that her hallucination caused. It was probably a bid for publicity since there aren’t many customers for fortune tellers with the bad economy.
Just reiterating for those who don’t get it the first time.
Sounds like there was a phoned-in tip, to which somebody responded and found blood on the porch and a foul smell coming from inside.
That sounds good enough to go back and get a warrant, to me. That the tip came from a “psychic” doesn’t really make much difference it seems, based on those facts.
So..it’s not Bush’s fault?
ps - then too, null and void is kinda repetitious don’t you think?
Just a sample of what you get to see in google real time:
Two members of the Phelps clan indicating how happy they were about the topic ...It's a good way of tracking breaking news but at the same time it feels like you're plugging directly into the paranoia addled psyche of the predominate leftist hive mind.One twitter feed from someone who "just knew" that something like this would happen in Texas and that she figured the graves would be full of minorities.
Another from someone who indicated that there were probably mass graves around Sarah Palin's house.
It's really creepy in a "Being John Malcovich" kind of way. </shudder>
“without form and void” was taken...
See post 19.
From what I heard here in Austin at 6:16, KLBJ-AM, was the psychic ‘received’ the location, notified the local sheriffs AND three media outlets. The police went to the first location, nothing. Then had had reason to go to an adjacent property, and that’s when the the story was deemed bogus.
Oh great. Now the satanic Phelps are involved.
A foul stench emanating from the house was found to be coming from piles of rotting garbage. And the blood found at the residence was related to an earlier incident
Actually, I'm psychic too and knew you were going to post that, but:
Still Bush's fault!
as if we need that BS again
this stuff aways brings out the crazys
LOL
I don’t see the police doing any wrong here. If they didn’t check this place out and there had been a mass grave, everyone would have been yelling they were lazy. So, there is a tip of a grave, containing children and they find blood. They also smell something rotting. Sounds like a warrant to find out if there were bodies is reasonable.
LOL - Greetings!
Oh my.
I think we could find it in ourselves to forgive her.
That’s actually Jennifer Love Hewitt from the Ghost Whisperer. (Not that I am complaining...)
Mark Levin, who should know better, reported this today and launched into a brief rant about border security. Five minutes later he must’ve gotten new information that it was totally unsubstantiated and dutifully reported that too.
Arrest her ass and charge her the costs of the investigation. No way this was not a deliberate attempt to bring down a ration of hell on the people living there.
There was a recent Supreme Court decision that found that if officers “think” that evidence is being destroyed, that they have in fact, a “search warrant”.
This is essentially a extension of “no knock” warrants, and does not bode well for freedom.
Never saw that coming.
“That’s actually Jennifer Love Hewitt from the Ghost Whisperer.”
Wow. Who knew she was a psychic? I mean, except for other psychics...
Shows me what I know about pop culture...
:>(
lol.
or maybe a desperate act to get Weiner pushed to the background?
There’s a reason newspaper articles are called stories. That’s what they are most of the time. Stories. A reporter is nothing more that a storyteller when it comes right down to it. He has a limited number of facts to work with, and from those facts he must weave a tale that will hold the reader. Some of the facts the reporter has are accurate; some are not. But either way, the facts are not the story. The story lies in the inferences, the color, and the spin. These are what reports are paid for, and their job – their sacred oath – is to make the news pop. It has to sing. It has to thrill. Without all that, it isn’t really news to anyone.
ever see the movie Idiocracy? I think we are living it.
That is scary.
You know....I can see (through my psychic ability) a future movie here. Some idiot will make three correct predictions for grandma....and then thinks he has the “power”...and spends an entire day predicting twenty different things. In the end...the last one will be the only one that’s correct with someone going off to jail...the psychic himself.
As for the cops involved in this...you have to imagine the next time they get a phone call like this....they won’t do much of anything.
Can’t believe the Sheriff and the Judge were STUPID enough to fall for this.
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