Psychic or psycho?

Psychic, Allison Dubois, has solved the murder of Tori Stafford.

“It was amazing — Tori had been missing about three weeks, and I was standing, facing her school, noticing things like the senior’s building next to the school and it was at that moment ... that I told the police officer she had met someone whom she had met before, through her mother, and that she had been lured to her death.”

The bright blue eyes of the sweet-faced child kept staring at her from police posters.

Allison Dubois, the inspiration for the award-winning Medium TV series — came face to face with the image of Tori Stafford, the Woodstock girl who had gone missing and was at the centre of an intense police search.

Everyone in the southwestern Ontario town was hoping the eight-year-old who disappeared three weeks earlier on April 8, 2009 was still alive, and you don't have to be a psychic to understad the fact that the odds of that were pretty remote odds. Hope is good, but blind faith is lunacy.

Dubois claimed that two people were involved, including a woman who had been used as the lure. If she is a psychic, why doesn't she identify the murderers, or is she just full of guesswork?

According to Dubois, Tori was victim of a sex crime. If that is the case and she is responsible for identifying another psycho-squad like Hamolka and Bernardo, who are their other victims?

This psychic sounds more like a psycho because she appears to be delusional to the point of no return. Listen to her: “It was amazing — Tori had been missing about three weeks, and I was standing, facing her school, noticing things like the senior’s building next to the school and it was at that moment ... that I told the police officer she had met someone whom she had met before, through her mother, and that she had been lured to her death.”

Disturbingly, it is very clear to me that those who rely on psychics to solve their crimes for them should be in business of making made-for-tv movies.

According to Allison Dubois, "I tell people not to second guess themselves so much. Be willing to be wrong as you learn how to read signsetc. better, how to interpret the otherside. We're human, allow yourself to grow,if you place too many restraints on yourself you can't grow because you're too restricted."

I refuse to second guess the fact that Allison Dubois is absolutely delusional.

Allison Dubois thinks that her psychic powers are reliable enough to send people to death row, but former FBI profiler, behavioral science expert and MSNBC analyst Clint Van Zandt, sets the record straight: "If psychics were truly successful and if their results were not simply the consequence of trickery (at worse [sic]) or good interviewing skills (at best), then why don't law enforcement agencies have psychic detective squads, a real X-Files Unit, or other ways to integrate these paranormal investigative capabilities?"