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Still More Bullshit: NZ Psychics Bat Zero. Again.

New Zealand police have confirmed acting on information provided by a couple of charlatans psychics from the now-defunct Sensing Murder show in relation to a 35 year-old mystery.

Aparantly the husband of Lesley Calvert, who had been living under a cloud of suspicion for the last 33 years since the body of his wife was found on their remote farm, contacted the producers of the show to 'clear his name'.

Well, I guess there's no fool like an old (and desperate) fool and the frauds psychics had given police a description of the offender who still lived in the area, his occupation, and even what vehicle he was driving.

Open Case Files

This week is turning out to be a fairly hectic one. I've got a number of cases I'm working outside the routine (bread and butter) work I do as an agent for several out-of-town companies.

Case A: Surveillance on a sex offender who may be breaching his parole conditions.

Case B: Background investigation into a possible fraudster who is also threatening to kill family of victim if she ends her relationship.

Case C: Further work on Mrs Crusoe's case.

And if that wasn't enough to keep me occupied, which it is, even my 'routine' cases are anything but. A simple field visit regarding payment defaults has now also turned into a fraud investigation as many details provided in credit application have since turned out to be entirely false.

A Fool and Other People's Money

A recent case started out innocently, if not dully, enough: make a field call to an address to speak with the customer of a client who had not made a number of payments and had also not responded to attempts at communication.

Fairly routine so far. Except that I had a feeling that the name (let's call him Porter) and the address sounded familiar...

Well, once I arrived at the address I realised I had been here before on behalf of another client some months previously, and there was in fact no such person by the name Porter ever having lived there. Aha! False details given... now we're going somewhere more interesting.