One evening in March of 1974, an investigator in Salt Lake City, Utah, sat across an interrogation

table from a man who claimed he had psychic powers.

Now, the investigator had naturally been quite skeptical of this man in his powers, but the man

began giving him a bunch of very specific visions about the case the investigator was trying to solve.

And in fact, some of the information he was revealing was enough to make the investigator wonder,

could this man actually be a psychic?

Or was he the killer?

But before we get into today's story,

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Okay, let's get into today's story. On March 11, 1974,

22-year-old Barbara Rocky sat at a desk in her bedroom in Provo, Utah, writing furiously.

And as she was writing, eventually she paused for a minute to reread

what she had written, but she wasn't quite happy yet, so she added a few more lines. The letter

she was writing was for her roommates, and she knew it had to be perfect, because Barbara was saying

goodbye. So Barbara was a junior at Brigham Young University, or BYU, which was a very religious school

where most students were practicing Mormons, but not Barbara. She had chosen to go to

BYU because of religion, but really just because she was fascinated by it and thought going

to a school structured around faith would be very interesting. But when she actually got there,

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