Psychic makes claim to reward money in Cantu case

San Joaquin Herald via CoCoTimes ^ | 5/1/9 | Mike Martinez - San Joaquin Herald

[SmithL]

TRACY — A Southern California woman is in a dispute with Tracy police over whether her psychic predictions helped them solve the Sandra Cantu murder case.

She thinks she's entitled to at least a portion of the reward money, totaling more than $30,000, but Tracy police say they never used any information provided by any psychics during the investigation.

Dani Pedlow, based in Los Angeles, said she predicted the little girl would be found in a "barranca—" a Spanish word for canyon or ravine — and that she was killed in a church, and the killer was someone in the trailer park the little girl called home.

Pedlow said she helps solve crimes for a living and recently helped find a Las Vegas runaway and described on a New York radio show how police would capture a serial killer.

She was contacted by a local resident who is also one of her clients.

"At the time, I hadn't ever been to Tracy and wasn't even quite sure where it was,'' Pedlow said. "I texted and e-mailed her from Las Vegas. I told her I see a barranca. I talked about a church. I told her I see the church straight across from the park, and I see water, sand and gravel. I had the sense of something being dragged.''

Although there is no park near the Clover Road Baptist Church, which was searched as part of the investigation, behind it is a large, open grassy field.

Melissa Huckaby, 28, of Tracy, has been charged with murdering 8-year-old Sandra Cantu, and with enhancements — kidnapping, lewd or lascivious acts on a child and rape by a foreign object — she could face the death penalty if convicted.

[SmithL]

Psychic Dani Pedlow from Southern California says she provided information to the Tracy Police on the whereabouts of Sandra Cantu and feels she deserves part of the reward money

[SmithL]

I predict she gets nothing but publicity.

[Onerom99]

Probably all she wants. She just got a business boost from this story.

[LtKerst]

We shouldn’t reward satanic mediums.....

[yazoo]

“I told her I see a barranca. I talked about a church. I told her I see the church straight across from the park”

How did that help find the body? When one of these scam artists can take police to a place and say “dig here,” then they can claim reward money.

[American_Centurion]

So what happens to “Reward Money” when the police determine that no one helped solve the case? Where did the “Reward Money” come from in the first place?

[I Buried My Guns]

"...she predicted the little girl would be found in a "barranca—" a Spanish word for canyon or ravine...

Sorry, lady, but here in America we do not have a single barranca. Lots of ravines and canyons, though.

[ottbmare]

Why do you assume her gift is Satanic? It might be from God. After all, she is using it for good, not for evil. And she is not contacting the dead as a medium would try to do.