Browne wrong again: Dana Chyleen Satterfield

[Questioninggeller]

Article from 1997:

Psychic predicts leads in murder; Victim's spouse seeks help on TV talk show
By CHASE SQUIRES
Herald-Journal (Spartanburg, SC)
Published February 15, 1997

A nationally known psychic taping a television show this week said a bearded construction worker living in Macon, Ga., is responsible for the mysterious 1995 murder of Dana Chyleen Satterfield, a 27-year-old mother of two killed in her Roebuck beauty salon.

Psychic Sylvia Browne, at a taping of the Montel Williams Show on Thursday, said the suspect is a serial killer who murders for fun and takes Polaroid pictures of his victims. He has visited South Carolina often and is involved in carpentry work, she said.
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A witness reported seeing a man jump through the salon's front window and flee. Another witness reported seeing a blue and white Ford Bronco in the area. Satterfield's husband, Mike, appeared with Browne on the show, which focused on unsolved murders and was taped in New York City. Browne, who has been a practicing psychic for more than 40 years and has worked with several police agencies and families of victims, said she was sure of her revelations. "It's a motiveless crime. He kills for enjoyment,'' Browne said. She said she felt sure the Bronco is involved and that it has Georgia license plates. Browne said the suspect is a little older than investigators believe, probably in his 30s, and has a thick scar over his eye and a fuller face than a Sheriff's Office sketch shows. She said he is of Italian descent and has a dark complexion. The murder case has been difficult to solve, Browne said, because the killer has no connection to Satterfield, choosing her on a whim. Browne said she felt the killer watched Satterfield's salon for three hours before striking and had considered attacking a 12-year old girl he saw nearby and a saleswoman who spoke with Satterfield moments before he attacked.
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Montel Williams endorsed Browne's abilities and interviewed a woman whose son had been missing until Browne helped find his murdered body. ``This is the only psychic I've had on the show and is the only one I will have on my show,'' Williams said. The episode is scheduled to air later this month, possibly next week...

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Article from 2006:

Vick gets life in prison
RACHEL E. LEONARD, Staff Writer
Published December 1, 2006
Herald-Journal (Spartanburg, SC)

It was a speedy response to a question that lingered over Spartanburg County for 11 years -- who killed Dana Satterfield?

Jurors answered in 25 minutes: Jonothan Vick.

Now 28, Vick was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for a crime the jury said he committed when he was in high school. He left the courtroom in tears, but not before denying he raped, beat and strangled the 27-year-old mother of two in the bathroom of her beauty salon.

"She did not get justice today," Vick told Circuit Judge Derham Cole. "She will not, as long as I sit behind bars."

Eligible for parole in 20 years
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"Only by his good fortune was he 17 at the time he committed it, or else we would be at the start of the penalty phase," the prosecutor said.
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Officers arrested Vick in October of last year after matching his DNA with semen found on Dana Satterfield's body by a probability of 900 million to one. During four days of court proceedings, the state called 32 witnesses, including Michael Pace, a friend of Vick's in high school.
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Prosecutors credited Pace with getting the investigation under way when he told officers Vick planned to visit Satterfield and have sex with her the night of her murder.
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Vick is also a suspect in the 2002 disappearance of 20-year-old Heather Sellars, his former fiancée, and is the last person believed to have seen her alive.
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High school friend: Vick planned to visit victim
RACHEL E. LEONARD, Staff Writer
Published November 30, 2006
Herald-Journal (Spartanburg, SC)

It took four tries over 10 years, but Michael Pace said investigators finally paid attention in 2005 to his suspicion that his high-school buddy had killed Roebuck hairdresser Dana Satterfield.
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That afternoon, Vick and Pace sat at the snack bar at a bowling alley where Pace worked and talked about the girls passing by. Then, Pace said, Vick "started talking about a lady named Dana and that he was going to ask her out that night."
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Browne/Reality
1) Browne said the killer was in this 30's, in reality he was 17.
2) Browne said a blue and white Bronco was involved. This is true and was known to the police as the "suspect vehicle". Hardly a prediction as this was common knowledge at the time.
3) Browne said this was a serial killer. At the time of Browne's reading (1997) there is no proof this 17 year old killed anyone else. He is a suspect in the death of his fiancée that happened 5 years later (2002). No evidence he is/was a serial killer.
4) Browne said he had "no connection to Satterfield." He attended high school/lived nearby, and knew the hairdresser via his work at a bowling alley.
5) Browne said he killed for "enjoyment" and it was "a motiveless crime." In reality a witness reported the killer knew the woman for months and wanted to ask her out.
6) Browne said the killer "chos[e] her on a whim." Witnesses state otherwise, the killer planned to ask her out.
7) Browne claimed the killer was going to attack a "12-year old girl he saw nearby and a saleswoman." In reality Dana was the target according to witnesses.

 

[headscratcher4]

Browne/Reality
1) Browne said the killer was in this 30's, in reality he was 17.
2) Browne said a blue and white Bronco was involved. This is true and was known to the police as the "suspect vehicle". Hardly a prediction as this was common knowledge at the time.
3) Browne said this was a serial killer. There is no proof this 17 year old killed anyone else, much less was a serial killer.
4) Browne said he had "no connection to Satterfield." He attended high school/lived nearby there, and knew the hairdresser via his work at a bowling alley.
5) Browne said he killed for "enjoyment" and it was "a motiveless crime." In reality a witness reported the killer knew the woman for months and wanted to ask her out.
6) Browne said the killer "chos[e] her on a whim." Witnesses state otherwise, the killer planned to ask her out.
7) Browne claimed the killer was going to attack a "12-year old girl he saw nearby and a saleswoman." In reality Dana was the target according to witnesses.


What's your problem? Other than all of that, she seems pretty dead-on.

 

[Questioninggeller]

Browne/Reality
What's your problem? Other than all of that, she seems pretty dead-on.

Just trying to figure out what she predicted with paranormal powers...

 

[EeneyMinnieMoe]

Great work, QG .

A serial killer who murders for fun and takes Polaroids of his victims? She's seen way too many bad David Fincher movies. What a thing to tell the spouse of a murder victim.

Lemme guess, there's also no evidence a high school student was involved in carpentry, either.

 

[Questioninggeller]

From above:

Psychic predicts leads in murder; Victim's spouse seeks help on TV talk show
By CHASE SQUIRES
Herald-Journal (Spartanburg, SC)
Published February 15, 1997
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Browne said the suspect is a little older than investigators believe, probably in his 30s, and has a thick scar over his eye and a fuller face than a Sheriff's Office sketch shows. She said he is of Italian descent and has a dark complexion.
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You can see a picture of the convicted killer, Jonathan Christian Vick, attached and here.

I don't know if he's Italian, but there is no scar over his eye and he does not have a "dark complexion."

 

[Jackalgirl]

Oh look! Yet another dark-complected perp!

 

[Deus Ex Machina]

Great work, QG .

A serial killer who murders for fun and takes Polaroids of his victims? She's seen way too many bad David Fincher movies. What a thing to tell the spouse of a murder victim.

Lemme guess, there's also no evidence a high school student was involved in carpentry, either.

Oh come on, this is so logical

1) Murderers are stupid
2) Stupid is "as thick as two short planks"
3) Working with lumber makes you a carpenter...

easy...

 

[Questioninggeller]

Great work, QG .

A serial killer who murders for fun and takes Polaroids of his victims? She's seen way too many bad David Fincher movies. What a thing to tell the spouse of a murder victim.

Lemme guess, there's also no evidence a high school student was involved in carpentry, either.

Yeah, that appears to be a miss as well since he was a high schooler working at a bowling alley.

 

[TjW]

Yeah, that appears to be a miss as well since he was a high schooler working at a bowling alley.

Well, there you are, then. The bowling alleys are made of wood. The pins are made of wood. Trees don't grow that shape, so somebody had to make them. That's carpentry. He was involved with carpentry.