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Here’s an old news article I located about the Phoenix area ‘Find Me’ group which resembles others across the country --- putting psychics together with police dogs, retired police, private investigators --- to seek missing persons. Last week’s KPHO-TV story (December 12, 2009) now places the number of international psychics involved just with ‘Find Me’ at 60.
That’s up from the 24 in this article. Similar groups are popping up across the U.S. in the last few months as my 12-13-2009 JREF forum posting notes. Several seem to be “created” by the same group out of New York which promotes franchised “certified psychics” and the selling of services.
It’s unclear whether one or more psychics involved in ‘Find Me’ are part of this program. Sunny Dawn Johnston claims in childhood she slept amid a ghost home and now uses pendulums held over maps to locate missing persons. Her Phoenix area business client base appears to be doing very well indeed. Perhaps no one has challenged the credibility of her claims and their results before.
Psychics promoting ''Find Me'' book
Alison Stanton
Special for The Republic
Jun. 12, 2007 08:19 AM
Two years ago, Sunny Dawn Johnston walked by the television while her husband was watching the news.
Johnston, 36, who has worked as a psychic and spiritual healer for years, said she caught a glimpse of a woman who was being reporting as missing.
"That night, I dreamt about her and what happened to her, and for two weeks this went on," the Glendale resident said. "I would get more information and then the news would catch up with me, and I was obsessed with it because I didn't have an outlet for it."
After several unsuccessful attempts to tell police what she knew, Johnston said, a colleague told her about a group called "Find Me," a not-for-profit organization of about 24 psychics, retired law enforcement personnel and canine search and rescue members who work together to find missing people.
Johnston joined the group just over a year and half ago and since then has worked on about 35 missing-persons cases. So far, she said, the group has solved seven.
Mesa author and group member Dan Baldwin recently wrote a book about the group called FIND ME: How a Unique Group of Psychics, Retired Law Enforcement Officers and Canine Search and Rescue Volunteers From Around the World Have Banded Together to Find Missing People. Johnston contributed to the book, which was published in February.
On Thursday, she and some of the other members of the group will attend a book signing at the Foothills Branch Library in Glendale.
Johnston explained the way the group works.
"A member of law enforcement or a family member contacts Kelly Snyder, the leader of the group who is also a retired member of law enforcement. He gets all of the details and then sends us the person's name, time of birth and date of birth. Sometimes we get a photo, and sometimes not," she said, adding that no one is allowed to look anything up.
"Then we fill out a form, like what a law enforcement officer would follow, and we focus on things like vehicles, suspect information and where the body would be. We don't ever know what anyone else gets. But most of the time, the majority of us get the same basic thing, like 'the person is in water.' "
Baldwin said he wrote the book as a way to encourage others to form similar groups and to show that what they are doing really works.
"Being a member of Find Me has been the most frustrating, heartbreaking and rewarding experience of my life," he said.
Johnston said that it is a relief to have an outlet for the information she often perceives about missing people.
"It is rewarding when you give families closure," she said.
That’s up from the 24 in this article. Similar groups are popping up across the U.S. in the last few months as my 12-13-2009 JREF forum posting notes. Several seem to be “created” by the same group out of New York which promotes franchised “certified psychics” and the selling of services.
It’s unclear whether one or more psychics involved in ‘Find Me’ are part of this program. Sunny Dawn Johnston claims in childhood she slept amid a ghost home and now uses pendulums held over maps to locate missing persons. Her Phoenix area business client base appears to be doing very well indeed. Perhaps no one has challenged the credibility of her claims and their results before.
Psychics promoting ''Find Me'' book
Alison Stanton
Special for The Republic
Jun. 12, 2007 08:19 AM
Two years ago, Sunny Dawn Johnston walked by the television while her husband was watching the news.
Johnston, 36, who has worked as a psychic and spiritual healer for years, said she caught a glimpse of a woman who was being reporting as missing.
"That night, I dreamt about her and what happened to her, and for two weeks this went on," the Glendale resident said. "I would get more information and then the news would catch up with me, and I was obsessed with it because I didn't have an outlet for it."
After several unsuccessful attempts to tell police what she knew, Johnston said, a colleague told her about a group called "Find Me," a not-for-profit organization of about 24 psychics, retired law enforcement personnel and canine search and rescue members who work together to find missing people.
Johnston joined the group just over a year and half ago and since then has worked on about 35 missing-persons cases. So far, she said, the group has solved seven.
Mesa author and group member Dan Baldwin recently wrote a book about the group called FIND ME: How a Unique Group of Psychics, Retired Law Enforcement Officers and Canine Search and Rescue Volunteers From Around the World Have Banded Together to Find Missing People. Johnston contributed to the book, which was published in February.
On Thursday, she and some of the other members of the group will attend a book signing at the Foothills Branch Library in Glendale.
Johnston explained the way the group works.
"A member of law enforcement or a family member contacts Kelly Snyder, the leader of the group who is also a retired member of law enforcement. He gets all of the details and then sends us the person's name, time of birth and date of birth. Sometimes we get a photo, and sometimes not," she said, adding that no one is allowed to look anything up.
"Then we fill out a form, like what a law enforcement officer would follow, and we focus on things like vehicles, suspect information and where the body would be. We don't ever know what anyone else gets. But most of the time, the majority of us get the same basic thing, like 'the person is in water.' "
Baldwin said he wrote the book as a way to encourage others to form similar groups and to show that what they are doing really works.
"Being a member of Find Me has been the most frustrating, heartbreaking and rewarding experience of my life," he said.
Johnston said that it is a relief to have an outlet for the information she often perceives about missing people.
"It is rewarding when you give families closure," she said.
