Hello, you spectacular people. Welcome to a phantasmal crime. This is episode number 52.

True crime can be strangely fascinating.

This true crime is odd, macab, and haunted.

I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows.

Welcome to fantastical crime.

Sometimes traditional methods of murder investigation fail, and law enforcement seeks unconventional

ways to solve a crime. One of those unorthodox ways is asking psychics for guidance.

And there have been crimes that have been solved with the help of psychics. The Jack the Ripper case was never solved, but a psychic was brought in to try to help.

Most people have probably never heard this piece of the mysterious case.

But this psychic just may have solved the crime.

Nancy Grace hosted a show in 2005 featuring psychic detectives.

There were two cases highlighted. The first was about a former paratrooper named Dennis Prado,

and he had gone missing. Police couldn't find him, and a sergeant named Ferdinando,

Rilly Basquess, decided to use a psychic detective named Annette Martin to find Prado after the police were unable to find him.

This was an older guy, he had some health issues.

Martin gave the sergeant specific details about the case. No one could know.

And he handed her a map of a park where they thought Prado had gone missing. This park was 2,000 square miles, and Martin circled an area less than two blocks in size where Prado's body could be found.

And she was right. Nancy Gray said, so Annette Martin, psychic detective, you not only pinpointed in a 2,000 square mile area of the location of Mr. Prado, but you accurately,

it seems as if you relived his cause of death. Martin replied, that's very true, Nancy. I did relive it.

And like I'd said earlier, it's like being in a movie. And so the whole process was really

very sad for me to see that he had died of natural causes. But I was happy that something,

no one had murdered him. And I was very happy about that. The second case was about Rose Swartwood,

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