body was never found. Brothers Arthur and Nazimoodeen Hosein were convicted of her murder—the first case in British history of a murder conviction without a body. In 1978, the Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Police hired Croiset to investigate the disappearance of Genette Tate, but he provided no information of value. Croiset died in Utrecht in 1980, aged 71. Evaluation Croiset claimed he helped to solve the case of an assault of a girl in Wierden, the Netherlands. The Chief of Police of Wierden stated however, that the information by Croiset was inaccurate and his communications were not used in the case. He was investigated under controlled conditions by The Belgian Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Phenomena Reputed to be Paranormal and they did not find any evidence of psychic ability. The skeptic James Lett has written: The Dutch parapsychologist has written Croiset had genuine psychic powers due to the information he had given in police cases. However it was discovered that much of Tenhaeff's data was fraudulent. See also Con artist Confidence trick Fortune telling fraud Houdini's debunking of psychics and mediums Ann O'Delia Diss Debar Televangelist Peter Popoff exposed by James Randi Bob Nygaard References External links Boekbinder, Gerard (1909–1980) Dutch language entry in scholarly biographical dictionary 1909 births 1980 deaths Dutch Jews Dutch psychics Parapsychologists People from Laren, North Holland Spiritualists