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Eager to join everyone(in the media)'s search for the truth about Stacy Peterson, a celebrity mentalist has offered to lend his thought-reading abilities to the case.
The Amazing Kreskin, said he was interested in being involved just before delivering this knee-slapper: "This case is crying out for a breakthrough, and I don't have to be a thought reader to say that." At 73, the relatively dapper Kreskin is best known for a weekly TV program in the 70s and spots on radio and TV shows. His website boasts that he knows what we're thinking right now, which begs the question - why doesn't he know what Drew Peterson is thinking right now?
Regardless of who does and doesn't know Kreskin or what the hell a "mentalist" is, Illinois State Police say they aren't interested. Perhaps they would change their tune if he joined forces with other low-level celebrity mutants, like that lady who's always on Montel and John Edward from Crossing Over who used to guess letters in people's names [Ed. note: And is the biggest douche in the universe].
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Finally, a police agency that has the brains to realize that psychics & mentalists are as phony as a three dollar bill!
"Kreskin has acknowledged that he has no paranormal powers, though he's undoubtedly a master of interpreting subtle, almost subliminal cues from people." From Wikipedia.
For an expose of him,
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I disagree. I think that the best tactic would be to have this Kreskiin guy follow Peterson around and stare at him....like he's on to him.
I think that this would eventually start freaking Peterson out and then maybe he'll trip up, make a mistake or something and maybe lead to some kind of breakthrough on the case.
It can't hurt. I would think the police dept. would take any kind of help they could get at this point. They shouldn't be thumbing their noses up at anything.
Or The Amazing Kreskin could be there to actually interpret subtle, subliminal cues, but that is something any good detective has already mastered. So, I think Kreskin is there for Orwellian shock-and-awe effect. Also, he is a "mentalist", not a "psychic".
But yea - to agree with the point above - the law enforcement agency should just stand the 73 year-old up on the front lawn with his hand on his forehead. From there he could crawl around underneath Drew Peterson's psychological skin, simply by his mere presence.
But I hope this is not some sort of indication that investigators are getting desperate.
This whole story has been one circus act after another, with media performers like band leader Greta Susterin conducting her lawyer panel, and Dr. Michael Baden's exhume-the-ex-wife trick.
But haven't other cops killed their wives? This sort of case seems very rare media-wise.
I like it. Have Kreskin stare at Peterson! Remember when Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter would have those grueling stare-downs. I would love to see a Kreskin-Peterson match.