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Martin George
Thursday, May 29, 2014
A freeze on recruiting new PCSOs will be at the centre of Norfolk police's 'plan B' to save £20 million over the next four years.
Norfolk and Suffolk's police forces have been scrambling to find alternative ways of saving money after Suffolk's police and crime commissioner last month scuppered 'plan A', to merge two forces' control rooms.
The proposal to relocate Suffolk's control room to Wymondham was expected to save £1.8 million a year, but Tim Passmore said he was "extremely concerned about the level of risk".
His Norfolk counterpart Stephen Bett, who supported the control room merger plans, warned at the time that any alternative he came up with would "cause a lot of angst for the public", but vowed to protect frontline policing as much as possible.
Now, he has given a preview of what will be included in his 'plan B', which he will present to Norfolk's police and crime panel on July 4.
He said: "I said that if the back office mergers did not go ahead, it could cause us a great deal of problems, and it would mean we would have to find the equivalent of 120 officers and PCSOs together.
"Obviously, we will attempt to save the frontline and I'm pretty reassured we can probably save it as it is for one or two years."
However, he said that because 83pc of the budget paid for people, there would be casualties.
"What we will try to do is to do it by freezing recruitment of PCSOs, and gradually work the numbers down," he added.
He said the freeze on PCSO recruitment was already in place, although the force would continue to recruit police officers "as long as we can".
He said he had already consulted Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary about his ideas, and told them the risk levels as he saw them.
However, he said he had not yet talked to staff representatives.
Asked how he would prevent a fall in numbers from damaging the force's work, he said: "I'm looking to ensure that other public bodies work very much closer with the police, so the police resources are not wasted elsewhere. That is something that is a very high priority."
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Rhombus and others. So you can do the maths yourself. A police officer, before the recent changes, needed to work 30 years to qualify for a full pension. The earliest retirement age was 49 or 48 if you joined as a cadet. Many did retire at 49 and came back as civilian workers doing the very same job they had previously done as a police officer.
Friday, May 30, 2014
norwichAbs you are completely wrong. Retired officers used to live about 7 to 10 years into retirement. My grandfather being one of them. But things have changes and the vast majority of officers are now living into their 80s and I know of some that are in their 90s. So having been able to previously retire around 50 my point is proven. Working conditions are far better now than it was then which unfortunately contributed to many an early death.
Friday, May 30, 2014
I wonder how long the average retired Police Chief lives? Does anyone know offhand if there are any ex Police Chiefs out there who have managed to see all the world cups since 1966 whilst enjoying a comfortable retirement pension? (11 world cups or 12 if they hang on long enough to see this years in Brazil).
Thursday, May 29, 2014
BG, the two ladies shot in Manchester by Dale Creegan never saw their pension. Sgt Peter Scott, ex Mile Cross and Sprowston, passed away at 55 recently after just 3 months of retirement. The attrition rate for officers due to the stress and shifts far outweighs the odd ex officer who fortunately lives to draw a reasonable pension.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Norwich Abs _ I don't foresee a mass exodus from the police. Pc and sergeant on top rate earn basic salaries of £36.5k and £41k respectively and an inspector salaried at £52.8k with very little required in way of academic qualifications. It is still a well paid paid job and the last of those considered as being, "a job for life." Many maybe grumpy (with just cause about paying so much for their pension) but as many a retired officer now lives as long in retirement as their service in the police force. It's still, by comparison with the private sector, a good deal.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Rhombus, police pay has been cut in real terms for some years. John Major created a two-tier pay structure with the abolition of the housing allowance in 1994. Labour got rid of the plain clothes allowance. The coalition put a pay freeze on and Theresa May wracked up police pension contributions to a whopping 14.25%. Should the economy pick up significantly, which we all hope it does, there could be serious recruitment problems and people leaving in the years ahead.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
....."How do you think the police should save money?"....take away the free expensive cars provided for the top Norfolk cops....and their fuel allowances. That would save a few bob.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
John Martin The cost of the old NPA was about 1.3million a year so any improvement on that is surely a bonus. Norfolk police used to bump along at about 1330 officers. Then we had a significant programme of civilianisation. Which meant many functions like custody officers, administration, scenes of crime, prosecutions department were in the main civilianised and officers returned to front line duties. Under the last government the number of civilian staff grew to extraordinary numbers aided by the creation of over 200 PCSOs. The number of police officers also grow to over 1600. No one could accuse the Labour government of keeping the police force short of money; but unfortunately like many things in the public sector they failed to ensure the money was being spent efficiently. The police service in general went off at a tangent and became too involved with "social work," instead of law enforcement. They also came to rely on CCTV too much to do their work for them. Provided there was no legal requirement to carry out a particular function it was ditched under the usual mantra," It will release more officers for front line policing." So what we have ended up with is a force with "specialist units," that are no were near giving value for money and people with a particular responsibility and fewer and fewer all rounded officers capable of dealing with most things. There is no better example of this than to witness the number of officers who turn up to a road accident, each wanting a piece of the action. Resulting in road closures that go on for hours. If Mr Bett applies himself properly to the task in hand, culling some of these squads and jobsworths, stopping police officers patrolling when it is not necessary and getting a grip with self deployment, when a whole host of officers turn up to an incident when one or two will do, we should not notice any difference in policing in Norfolk.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
340.000 of our taxes for a failed attempt at coordinating would now come handy
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Mr Bett's budget challenge is no surprise - he's been talking about it since before he was elected. The trouble is he's ducked big changes needed in how policing and crime reduction is delivered. We need much more than a recruitment freeze to balance the books for a year or so. I think it is only a matter of time before the very sensible idea of regional forces, mooted by Charles Clarke as Labour Home Secretary, comes onto the agenda again; I hope it does.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
John Martin is right, Mr. Bett could share the Constabularies PR team. My contribution here was binned this morning, because I queried the failed cooperation excercise with Suffolk which could have saved us 340K, not so small change, Keith S.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
John Martin - even if you're right its a drop in the ocean compared to the savings required.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Mr Bett has a staff of about fifteen in his office. I should like to ask him three questions. (1) Is he working full-time? (2) Irrespective, can he really justify a full-time deputy? (3) Should he be employing three members of staff in a purely PR role? He could make savings within his own office, and even if those savings merely resulted in two additional police officers out in the streets, they would be worth it.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
What benefit is there to these new Police and Crime Commissioners who were elected on a turnout that hardly supports their democratic validity and are doing no more than the old, boring, but necessarily so,police committee?
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Mr. Bett could dispense with his personal public relation team and use that of Norfolk constabulary. He could do the job without his deputy, another saving, after all he has a team to support him. He has used 340.000 precious pounds on a failed attempt to merge ego's with Suffolk, an expenditure we can't afford, just as his wages.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Save money on buildings or people? Well common sense says the former, but not in Suffolk.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
One method would be to cut the wages by 4% a year for the next four years. That would keep the police at full manpower and not increase any so called 'risk levels'.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
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Family Fun
August 13, 2010 by RV Today Archive · 8 Comments
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our E-mail Digest or RSS Feed. We will then send you the stories that are posted each day in an e-mail digest. We use a service called Feedburner for delivery of these emails. You will receive an e-mail from Feedburner after you subscribe and you must click on that email to activate your subscription. Thanks for visiting and enjoy all the information! RV.Net Blog AdminBy Mary Capo- St. Augustine, FL Shortly after my husband and I were married in 1969 (and blended our five children into a new family), he began regaling me with wonderful tales of "camping." Having been a Girl Scout in my younger years, this wasn't a foreign concept. However, I had trouble picturing myself living in a pup tent and cooking meals for seven people over an open fire. He assured me that camping had come a long way since those days, so we were soon the proud owners of something called a "pop-up." I'll never forget that first outing. It was a typical, humid, Florida July weekend with temperatures in the upper 90s. To introduce me to the new wonders of camping, my husband foolishly chose a campground with sandy, non-shady sites that would never have been featured in Highways magazine. I was miserable! I remember asking my boss the following Monday morning, "What do you think about seven people living in a one-room dwelling with no bathroom, no air conditioning and a block of ice to keep food cool?" He said it sounded like a terrible poverty... Read more
A Camping Engagement
August 12, 2010 by RV Today Archive · 350 Comments
By Kate Hutto- Ocean Pines, MD It was 1966, and the Vietnam War was on. My boyfriend, Larry, had enlisted in the Air Force and was attending the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, while I was attending the University of Arizona in Tucson. In those days, we didn't have cheap airfares or inexpensive phone rates. Larry and I were pretty much stuck with letters. But in the fall, through our letters, we decided to get married the following summer. My parents had recently purchased an International Harvester crew cab truck with a slide-in camper. My mother took pity on us lovers being separated, and since Larry was going to have four days off for Thanksgiving, and I'd be on break, she planned a trip in the new camper to Disneyland in California. In our family, we never took a trip with just a few people—we took the whole family. This trip included my mother, father, three younger sisters and even my elderly grandparents! Larry caught a ride with another serviceman from his base and met us at California's San Clemente State Beach. It was a beautiful setting right on the Pacific Ocean (it's still there!) and the perfect place for me to receive my engagement ring—Larry asked me to marry him on the front seat of the International Harvester. Meanwhile, back in Tucson, my mother had prepared Thanksgiving dinner with all the fixings for nine people, packaged it all in foil and put it in the tiny camper refrigerator and reheated it all in the tiny oven—no microwave... Read more
A Site in the Woods
August 12, 2010 by RV Today Archive · 4 Comments
By James Brand- Stanwood, MI It was 1948 and we'd been married less than a year. I wanted to show my new bride where I'd deer hunted. We had little money and a red 1946 Jeep. Her father had a friend who loaned us a pre-war Kariall Kamper, a precursor to the foldout campers of today. It was sturdily built, the canvas was still good, so we hitched it to the Jeep and, at 45 mph, and we headed for Drummond Island on the eastern end of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. We took the ferry across and sought out an old logging road I had seen while hunting. We set out into the brush and forest, four-wheeling all the way with the trailer bouncing along behind. It was tough going, plowing over briars and saplings and once in a while cutting a tree to get through. The "road" hadn't been used in years, but we forged on until we came to a clearing on the bank of the St. Mary's River. A beautiful sight with sunlight dazzled us from the water. With the deep forest around us, everything was so quiet except for bird songs and the wavelets washing on the beach, we felt like we were a million miles from everywhere. We camped there for maybe two or three days and that experience convinced us that we would do more camping in the future, and we did! For more than 60 years with kids and then by ourselves, we've covered the United States and the world in different types of RVs. Alaska, Canada, Mexico New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. It's been a great adventure all the... Read more
A Trip of a Lifetime
August 12, 2010 by RV Today Archive · 1 Comment
By Ellen Storer- Bluffton, SC My First RV Trip began in 1945 when my brave parents bought a trailer. This adventure started when I was 9 months old. We spent the winter in Florida and spring in Mississippi. Since we seemed to enjoy it, the decision was made to see the country. So, my parents, my grandmother and I, all of 20 months old, headed west. As I came to understand it, the few campgrounds available were very primitive, so water had to be carried, dish water thrown out the door— like tent camping. There were no coach batteries or propane to maintain the refrigerator, so blocks of ice had to be purchased frequently. There were no TV, AC, holding tanks, showers or washer/dryers. I had a special crib my father made, which hung from the ceiling at night and clamped up out of the way during the day. A 1942 Plymouth car pulled the trailer. Two-lane federal highways were the roads of choice, as the interstate highway system hadn't been developed. Stopping at night or for several days at a gas station, some farmers' field or a home driveway was commonplace. Conversations lasted well into the night between my parents and property owners, some of whom even did our laundry, showed my father the best places to buy a bushel of oysters and other local favorites. The four of us spent about two years full-time going to such wonderful places as San Antonio, Phoenix, Tucson, Mexico, the Painted Desert, Santa Monica Beach, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon with a Park Fee of 50 cents a month.... Read more
Living the Dream
August 12, 2010 by RV Today Archive · 13 Comments
By Chris Baur- Houston, TX Back in the 70's most kids my age were interested in sports, hobbies, collecting baseball cards and the like. Not me. For reasons unknown to my family and the scientific community, I became fascinated with all things related to recreational vehicles, sometime around the age of ten. The reason this may seem a bit unusual is that I had never been camping, and was living in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn New York, raised by a single working parent, my mother. Although I had many responsibilities in helping raise my two younger sisters and looking after our house, my favorite pastime was collecting nearly every brochure from every trailer, motorhome and RV accessory manufacturer in the country. I also wrote to every state, requesting their official highway roadmap and campground information on the hope of someday visiting their state. We didn't have much money, so I couldn't join the Good Sam Club, but I was allowed a subscription to Trailer Life magazine and eagerly awaited its arrival every month to read the latest news and product reviews. In fact, hardly a day went by that something related to my dream of RV travel didn't arrive in the mail! I carefully cataloged every bit of it and could quote you the cost, specifications and capacities on any rig, along with the towing and overnight parking regulations in most states east of the Mississippi. I studied each brochure and kept careful notes and drawings in a book. With... Read more
No One Can Take Just One – Camping Trip, That Is!
June 24, 2010 by Centennial Celebration Favorite RV Memory Submission · 2 Comments
"Dear Mom, Wish you were here-REALLY! You would love being up here this time of year. The leaves are turning and the scenery is great! Shawn is seeming to really like being here in the woods and hills. He sure attracts a lot of attention and makes a lot of people smile! Camping in the van is a bit tight but working out just fine. Saw National Bridge and Shenandoah Caverns so far. More tomorrow!" Those are the words I wrote to my mom while my husband, one year old son Shawn, and I were on our first camping trip. We traveled in our one year old Volkswagen Vanagon with camper package. We loved seeing the world from the high-up seats and wide open views through the windows. Little Shawn would point out sights that attracted him along the way. And those fall sights along the Blue Ridge Parkway and through the Great Smokey Mountains National Park were truly worth seeing. I was in photographers heaven (oh, if only there had been digital cameras back in 1984). We stayed at campgrounds along the way, where we discovered we were naturals at building campfires and roasting marshmallows. At one campsite on the edge of a lovely pond with Weeping Willows backed by trees covered with beautiful fall colors, our son discovered he could talk with ducks. From inside the camper, Shawn heard the ducks quacking and when they stopped, he would make a quacking sound that traveled right through the soft sided top of the camper. The ducks would always answer him. Shawn and the ducks "quacked"... Read more
Candle Wax and Electrical Tape
June 24, 2010 by Centennial Celebration Favorite RV Memory Submission · 3 Comments
Once upon a time, forty-two years ago, two wide-eyed baby boomers loaded up their '64 VW camper with one black lab, one wooden canoe (attached with bungee cords), one bottle of Dr. Bronner's All Purpose Soap, five gallons of trail mix, and two fishing poles and left L.A. heading for Canada. No, they weren't draft dodgers, although the Vietnam War was in full swing, just a couple of kids needing to escape the city looking for adventure and whatever came their way. First stop, Oregon, to sit in a friend's wood-stoked redwood sauna, a welcome luxury after many hours on the road straining uphill followed by a dotted line of "real" cars with scowling drivers waiting for the passing lane. We crossed the border listening to Cat Stevens. The warm sun streamed through the split windshield. Views of snowy mountain peaks, pine trees, blue skies (seen through a filter of dead bugs) filled our eyes. Yes, this is what we came for. Even our dog seemed content, her body hogging most of the bench seat. This was home. Setting up camp along the bank of a remote lake we unleashed the canoe to discover a golf ball sized-hole smack in the center of the canoe bottom. The bungee cords had worn straight through. Being ingenious, like most RVers are, we set to work patching it with the only things we had-candle wax and electrical tape. It worked like a charm. So well we never repaired it any other way. Lucky for us the lakes were cold so the wax hardened quickly, and lucky for us they were... Read more
Storm Watching On Oregon Coast
June 24, 2010 by Centennial Celebration Favorite RV Memory Submission · Comments Off
In early 1999, we went with our camper to our favorite spot on the Oregon Coast (Sea and Sand RV Park…near Depoe Bay) to storm watch. We always tried to get a small spot that was parallel to the beach and we did. A thunderstorm came up during the night with winds from the SW over 70 mph and when the lightning struck, there was no time interval. We spent the night holding on, drinking wine, and praying. The next day, the storm was still raging and we decided to escape. As I pulled the camper around facing west, a gust came up that, I thought was going to tip everything over. I pushed against the camper to keep it from doing so….which was a ridiculous move on my part. We left and later learned that the wind storm tipped over 18 wheelers. I, a few days later, suffered a heart attack. Coincidence? Submitted by Gary Hollmer of La Center, WA as a part of the RV Centennial Celebration "Share Your Favorite RV Memory" contest. Do you have a favorite RVing or camping memory you'd like to share? Submit your favorite memory here! Read More →
Troubles and Travail
June 24, 2010 by Centennial Celebration Favorite RV Memory Submission · 1 Comment
Last November my wife and I drove our Minnie Winnie, pulling our canoe, from Iowa to Arkansas for a couple of days floating with a couple of old buddies. The canoeing ended in disaster with our canoe trapped for three days in the river and a Search and Rescue for one of my friends. We found him at midnight unharmed but cold and frightened. But that's another story. The misfortunes began on I-35 in Missouri. An 18-wheeler, with lights flashing, was stopped on the right-hand shoulder. I watched the truck instead of the road and hit a dead deer lying in the left-hand lane. There was a loud bumping as we passed over the body. As nothing seemed damaged we continued on. Forty miles later we stopped for gas. As the tank filled I noticed that the outside rear tire was totally flat. We called Good Sam emergency roadside service. Three hours later we were ready to go, with a new tire. The "old" one (having only 2,500 miles) was ripped from the impact with the deer. Days later, having rescued my canoe I attached it to the Winnebago. We'd driven down a steep, rough, eroded path to a campground right on the river, surrounded by tall bluffs and unbroken forests. As I was cold, tired, and hungry after the canoe rescue we decided to spend the night in the solitude of the wilds. We slept soundly – for a few hours. It became a very dark and very stormy night. At 2:30 a ferocious rain pelted the roof blasting us to full-alert. We worried about that long, steep, muddy road and decided... Read more
First Time Campers
June 24, 2010 by Centennial Celebration Favorite RV Memory Submission · 2 Comments
It was a beautiful spring weekend in1998 and we were camped in a park east os Sarasota, Florida. I had asked several friends to a "cocktail" party at our camp site. The party was spectacular, good food , good drinks (BYOB) and great company. Late in the evening after an excursion to St. Armands Square and a wonderful Spanish dinner, we retuned tio the campground. It had started to sprinkle so most people pulled up stakes and headed for a motel. Since I was in a Roadtrek, snug and dry, I stayed in the campground. As it happened there were tent campers next to me. they set up camp started the grill and settled down to cook steaks. As time went on the rain increased so the tenters retreated to their car where they could keep an eye on their steak. All at once a huge buzzard swooped down and snatched that lucious steak right off the grill! Off he went never to be seen again. Later on that night after the hungry campers had settled down and I was sound asleep, I woke up to a commotion. I looked out and Lo an behold the river had over flowed completely flooding the campground with about two feet of water. The tenters were wading around trying to take down their tent and throw it soggy and dirty into their small car. The language was not fit for polite consumption…to say the least. I'll bet they never went camping again! Submitted by Marge Whitfield of Whidbey Island, WA as a part of the RV Centennial Celebration "Share Your Favorite RV Memory" contest. Do... Read more


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One of my favorite songs…Elton or Indigo both sing it equally fine. I can't help but smile to this part of the song…now that I am here – in the streets where rose trees never grow.
Listen: Mone Lisa and Mad Hatters
"Subway's no way for a good man to go down
Rich man can ride and the hobo he can drown
And I thank the Lord for the people I have found
I thank the Lord for the people I have found…"
PS, if you are at the Sheraton on floor 11, sorry for this song on repeat and me singing louder than social rules permit.
As I so eloquently stated on Facebook earlier – the minute I stepped foot off the plane and threw myself to the wolves of the city, the conference and my own anxieties – I felt like I may vomit on my own freshly pedicured toes. Really, never really felt that before (other than while growing 3 humans at one time.) I noticed women dancing around the airport – some in skinny jeans, others in skirts with Born sandals and some in Bohemian scarves and dangling earrings. They all seemed to know where they were going – in the airport, in the streets of Manhattan and in life, in general. I knew they must be here for the conference and suddenly I felt like the new girl that transferred to public school from years of home school. The girl in me wanted to cry and hide behind my mom. The seasoned mother of 3 wanted to scream "Are you BLOGGERS?!!! WANT TO BE MY FRIEND???!!!"
I did neither.
So, I got to my room, put on red lipstick, my new REALLY good bra and some hoop earrings and took Scott's advice: "walk out there with a purpose." Good advice for my girls, later in life. Good lipstick and walking with purpose = ain't nothing gonna hold you down, oh no.
Let me tell you, NYC doesn't leave much room for feeling sheepish. A few minutes into my solo walk towards Times Square – I couldn't help but feel alive. I was solo, you know, so I found this great cafe with open air windows, plopped my tired bones down and opened up my i-pad and did what any girl from the Midwest would do while in the big city. Order a big ol' glass of wine. And then order a $25 Salmon club sandwich. Makes sense, right? (Rookie mistake – the closer you are to the lights – the "brighter" the bill. Totally worth it to people watch the hot dog cart and cross walk right outside of my window.)
I am ready to call it a night – off for some beauty sleep for the rest of the weekend. If you are at Blogher'12 this weekend (or if you are at home) — let me leave you with this (from a card my dear friend Laura once got me soon after the triplets were born. I think it is very fitting for this weekend of masterminds coming together):
If you're lucky enough to have something that makes you different from everybody else…don't ever change. – Taylor Swift
If you are at Blogher'12 – I am going to Pathfinder Day today??!!! Are you?? Let's say hi?
PS: Below is my photo dump of my precious time with the babies (one on one dates!) before I left, packing, preparing and the 1st day in NYC!


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NEW ROCHELLE, NY -- Paramedics from Transcare, responding to a report of a 70-year old woman in cardiac arrest along with the New Rochelle Fire Department, were forced to retreat due to strong odors from cat waste and flying maggots which engulfed them as they entered the house. The two paramedics remained in the house for several minutes but exited after they determined the woman had expired. Initial reports were that 18 cats were living in the house but this has not yet been confirmed.
The paramedics described an overwhelming stench from cat urine and cat feces, an odor that neighbors have been complaining about for years. The odor could clearly be detected 50 feet outside the house.
After determining the woman had expired, the paramedics moved a man police believed to be the woman's husband outside onto the front porch and called for backup with Hazmat suits. The man appeared to be distraught but otherwise unharmed. He was later moved to a chair in the driveway in front of the house.
Police officers from the General Investigation Unit arrived, donned protective gear and entered the home.
The house is located at 194 Wilmot Road. The property is not located on Wilmot Road proper but a side street near the entrance to the Hutchison River Parkway. The back of the property abuts Lake Isle.
Neighbors said they had sought to intervene for years but the couple refused all help. City officials, the Westchester County SPCA and other agencies were called repeatedly, each offering assistance to the couple, but all offers were refused by Joan Rodenberg, the property owner.
City records show the New Rochelle buildings department was called at least five times in the past 30 months starting on June 4, 2010. There were further inspections on May 18, 2011, July 14, 2011, April 23, 2012. In each of those four cases the conditions and violations were resolved. The last visit by the building department took place on September 24, 2012. The house was inspected and marked for further follow up.
Today, after the New Rochelle Police Department took control of the scene, a New Rochelle building department official was sent to the house. The man was given 24 hours to clean the house.
The paramedics described a horrific scene with cat feces covering the floors and furniture with maggots and flying maggots buzzing everywhere. As they worked in the house, the flying maggots went in their ears, nose and covered their body.
"There was a cat with black legs," said one of the paramedics. "When it moved, the maggots jumped off the cat. His legs were actually white."
The house was described as completely soaked in cat urine. The fumes made breathing difficult.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, meets with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, April, 7, 2013. (AP Photo / Mohamed Torokman)
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Secretary of State John Kerry worked Monday to corral Israeli and Palestinian leaders into a new and ambitious peace process that includes reviving parts of a long-dormant plan embraced by the Arab world a decade ago, officials said.
The 2002 initiative that Kerry wants to revive parts of would have provided Israel recognition throughout the Arab world in exchange for a pullout from territory conquered in 1967.
On his third trip to Jerusalem in the last two weeks, Kerry committed himself to a multi-month peace push that could mean numerous follow-up trips to the region. He met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli and Palestinian officials Monday, a day after sitting down for private one-on-one talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.
"I am intensely focused on this issue and the region because it is vital really to American interests and regional interests to try and advance the peace process and because this festering absence of peace is used by groups everywhere to recruit and encourage extremism," Kerry told reporters.
"Both sides mistrust each other deeply and there are reasons that mistrust has built up," he added. "I am convinced that we can break that down."
Kerry's foremost goal is to restart direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks that have hardly taken place at all over the last 4 1/2 years. And, in a break from previous American-led efforts, he also wants to focus on a modified version of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative.
The initiative was revolutionary when Saudi Arabia introduced it and the 22-member Arab League endorsed it. It offered Israel comprehensive recognition in exchange for withdrawal from the lands it conquered in the 1967 Mideast war.
Although Israel never embraced the plan and the Palestinians oppose any changes to it, the basic parameters seem to be gaining traction as a framework for future talks between the Israelis and Palestinians. Arab League chief Nabil El-Araby and Qatar's prime minister will lead a delegation to Washington this month to discuss the initiative with Kerry, Arab officials said.
Kerry, however, is seeking new conditions to sweeten the deal for Israel, officials said. Arab and Palestinian officials say he has talked about upgraded guarantees for Israel's security and allowances for border adjustments based on mutual agreement.
A senior State Department official would only say Kerry wanted the plan "enhanced." The American official spoke on condition of anonymity because of Kerry's orders not to brief reporters.
Earlier Monday, Kerry told U.S. consulate staff in Jerusalem that he was coming so regularly to the Mideast because he believed peace could be reached. "If we can get on a track where people are working in good faith to address the bottom-line concerns, it is possible to be able to make progress and make peace," he said.
Among the countless peace plans and confidence-building strategies devised for Israel and the Palestinians over the years, the Arab League's initiative was one of the quickest to be dismissed. It was overshadowed by fierce Israeli-Palestinian fighting at the time and Israel has never softened its objections to the 1967 lines, which it sees as indefensible.
There is also a spiritual component. For Israel, returning to its old borders would mean a withdrawal from east Jerusalem, home to the city's holiest Jewish, Muslim and Christian religious sites
Winning Netanyahu's support will be difficult. He sharply clashed with President Barack Obama two years ago when the American president publicly endorsed the 1967 borders as the basis of a two-state solution. While Netanyahu has described the Arab peace initiative as a welcome sign of acceptance, he has refused to accept its take-it-or-leave it conditions.
The Palestinians, too, don't want to make new concessions. They've won a score of diplomatic victories over the last year, including recognition as a non-voting member state of the United Nations and as full members of other multilateral institutions, and feel international support of their cause is growing.
The chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said Kerry has been floating the Arab initiative as a possible way out of the deadlock but that it could not be changed. "Kerry asked us to change a few words in the Arab Peace Initiative but we refused," he told the Voice of Palestine radio station on Sunday.
Abbas left Monday for talks on the plan at an Arab League meeting in Qatar. There, a special committee was holding an "urgent meeting" on the subject, said Mohammed Subeih, the Arab League's undersecretary for Palestinian affairs. Qatar's prime minister chaired it and the foreign ministers of key countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the Palestinians participated.
Israel, whose officials refused to comment on the matter, took control of the West Bank, east Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, Sinai and Golan Heights in the 1967 war. It returned the Sinai to Egypt in 1982 as part of a peace treaty and pulled out of Gaza unilaterally in 2005. Israel annexed the Golan Heights in 1981 and peace talks with Syria over the territory have repeatedly failed.
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Runway Part 3: Many paranormal visions and claims in Noreen Renier's biography A Mind For Murder are simply fantasies and make believe. Like her claims surrounding the airplane crash covered here she often creates wildly delusional stories that witnesses have publicly called "lies" and "fabrications." The cover of a new 2011 book edition authored by Renier even falsely claims she is an "investigator for the FBI." And in March 2011 a federal judge found that she was not a credible witness and misled his court.
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As 2014 unfolds its not difficult to find internet links showcasing actress and self-appointed missing person psychic detective Noreen Renier and her connection with the FBI. What most people don't know --- and certainly Noreen Renier doesn't make clear --- is that she was never involved with the FBI on any official investigation.
In her 2011 paperback The Practical Psychic author Noreen Renier is noted as "the first psychic ever to work with the FBI." And in her just released book titled Médium : Enquetrice pour le FBI author Noreen Renier is falsely identified right on the book cover as an official "investigator for the FBI."
But the FBI seal shown on the book cover has been used without authorization and author Noreen Renier only stood before an informal FBI Training Academy group for a few minutes --- never as an employee. And that invitation came from FBI Special Agent Robert Ressler, a man who apparently believes in supernatural paranormal powers.
As early as 1980 Robert Ressler was supporting the merits of a young and attractive 1970's stage actress and divorcee who was claiming remarkable paranormal talents. Her name was Noreen Renier. As a resident in a nearby Virginia city near the FBI Training Academy, Ressler asked the young Noreen Renier to speak for a few minutes at an informal FBI function in 1981 as his guest.
Three years later, in early February 1984 --- just days after the airplane crash in Massachusetts --- Noreen Renier would according to her own statement, be "sanctioned" by Robert Ressler to help another FBI family find four missing persons aboard the lost plane using her paranormal powers.
Ressler's paranormal interests coupled with his strong personal ties with Noreen Renier --- including his personal recommendations to use Renier's paranormal abilities alongside local and regional missing person law enforcement investigators throughout the U.S. --- helped rapidly propel Noreen Renier's conversion from a stage actress to full-time paranormal "super psychic" investigator. And the letters F B I acted like jet fuel. Noreen Renier exploded on the scene and across the media.
Interestingly in 1985 during court testimony psychic Noreen Renier went off track while being questioned on the stand and admitted she had multiple supernatural entities within her. These she claimed enhanced her ability to communicate with the dead.
Her entities apparently interacted with the deceased and overlapped with past lives and past acquaintances.
One of her paranormal entities she describes as having "a gruff no-nonsense personality" and is apparently both a current and strong former life presence. During court testimony Noreen Renier appeared to slip and mentioned his name as Robert. Coincidence?
Other than her attorney in the court room, Renier's leading male defender offering testimony was . . . Robert Ressler.
As of December 2013 FBI agent Robert Ressler remained a key name on Renier's web site. In the late 1980's according to one Virginia Sheriff "Ressler discussed opening investigative options" by encouraging the use of Renier and "privately pushed" some "off the charts" paranormal investigative methods.
And for Robert Ressler that included repeatedly helping to connect local law enforcement personnel directly to Noreen Renier and her claims to communicate with the dead during paranormal searches for missing persons.
Now 40 years later it's critical to recognize that it has been retired FBI agent Robert Ressler --- who is the same age as Renier --- who has for decades been essentially the key public supporter behind the erroneous claim that Renier "found" the crashed plane.
But even Renier herself has furthered extended her FBI links from Ressler and testified in one court that she was paid directly by an FBI officer for her investigative work. And now her newest book editions attempt to showcase close ties to FBI investigations.
And interestingly as of December 2013 Noreen Renier continues to post on her web site various links to Robert Ressler and his support for her finding the crashed plane. The documents do not show or reference the dates they were written. Apparently this has been done to further confuse current internet readers who might believe they are relatively new.
But the materials and documents are neither fresh nor do they convey the truth. Each was found decades ago by eye-witnesses and law enforcement personnel to be inaccurate and often misleading.
Even at the time many of the claims and comments by others supporting Noreen Renier finding the crashed plane were based on comments made by Renier that were either delusional and/or had deceptive foundations.
In the case of the Gardner Massachusetts plane crash outlined by TV psychic Noreen Renier in her biography A Mind For Murder, she visioned bodies in the wrong places, the carrying of bodies actually sealed within the crashed aircraft, surroundings at the crash site which never existed, survivors who didn't survive, and the stumbling over of bodies that never happened.
Even snowmobiles and mountains that did not exist. Lots of new information, but each a complete fantasy. With the release of her book A Mind For Murder author Noreen Renier targeted the principal investigator of her airplane claims.
Renier wrote that it was the man that investigated her claims of finding the plane --- not herself --- that lied to a judge and jury in court. But that false accusation and other breaches ultimately resulted in a Washington federal court leveling judgments against Noreen Renier in 2006 and 2007.
Renier has repeatedly claimed that she speaks "under the auspices of the Rhine Research Center" and in 2010 cited the Rhine Research Center to her bankruptcy court as one of her employers. Yet the RRC apparently hasn't sought to publicly correct or acknowledge exaggerations in a host of psychic claims made by Noreen Renier, including her claims about the air crash events.
Amazingly in June 2006, the Rhine Research Center posted a 1990 statement from Rod Englert of Forensic Consultants. It reads in part, "In a lot of the cases new information comes forth as a result of Noreen's consultation. She has established a formidable track record for honesty and professionalism."
Rod Englert as a "qualified court expert" actually backed a woman who testified four years earlier that she spoke to the dead and thereby stopped toilets from overflowing.
And in June 2006 William Roll an Advisory Board Member of the Rhine Research Center stated "Noreen has now written a remarkable book, A Mind for Murder, about her work for the police and the FBI. I haven't had much success myself in getting experimental evidence for this ability, but I've done the next best thing by writing reviews of the major work, including Noreen's book."
Before the U.S. federal court granted the first of its federal judgments against police psychic Noreen Renier in 2006, her Tennessee critic John Merrell was asked why it took him 20 years to follow up on this segment of his litigation against Noreen Renier.
Why in particular had Merrell not explored her claims about the aircraft crash in 1986 before six jury members in a southern Oregon county courthouse found him guilty of libel?
"Because she avoided providing the facts before the trial that led me to many of the key players. She clearly didn't want the facts to be investigated before the trial. And for 14 years after 1992 I was under a settlement agreement even as major research personnel remained in a cover-up mode or deep in silence about her fantastic claims." The Washington U.S. federal court noted on November 16, 2006 that the 1992 settlement agreement was "unquestionably breached" by Noreen Renier with the publication of the book A Mind for Murder in May 2005.
Therefore the book's publication allowed Merrell an ability after 14 years to explore and investigate once again. There were more than 20 years of deceptions that would be revealed.
As an example, during a review of the original court deposition taken by Noreen Renier on March 28, 1986 --- two years after the crash but before the courtroom trial --- Merrell's attorney attempted to get some facts about the air crash from Noreen Renier during a deposition.
This included asking Renier to verify where the location was of the crash site, to compare against her psychic claims. To protect himself in the courtroom Merrell was attempting to get additional details about the crash literally hours before the trial from the only source making the claims --- Noreen Renier.
Even in early 1986 --- 24 months after the crash --- Merrell could not find any crash across the United States that matched the claims being made by Renier. In 1984 Renier had been hired by Jessica Herbert to find her brother Arthur Herbert, and Renier had met and worked with Jessica Herbert closely, for pay. They had even met in Noreen's home and been linked together by Robert Ressler according to Renier. This is a partial exchange from Renier's 1986 court deposition about the Massachusetts crash. Remember the location of the crash --- a crash she claims to have seen "immediately" --- was in Massachusetts!
Question: Mrs. Renier, there was a previous article that appeared in the Ashland [Daily] Tidings and it recalled a time or a vision that you had with respect to a downed airplane?
Answer: Yes.
Question: In Virginia?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Is this the case where a wife called you and her husband was an FBI agent, do I have that correct?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Could you tell me first of all what the woman's name is?
Answer: No, but I could find out for you, I don't have it in my head.
So shortly before his trial, Renier gives "Virginia" not Massachusetts in answer to a question. And even while under oath she claimed not to recall Jessica Herbert's name, which would have narrowed down Merrell's search for a specific crash. (And Renier never did honor her offer to "find out for you.")
But by not recalling Jessica Herbert's name --- even while under oath --- we can now see how Renier played her game. Just two years before Noreen Renier had worked on the case closely with Jessica Herbert. She had taken payment from Jessica Herbert and Jessica had spent the day with Renier in Renier's home. But Renier clearly wasn't going to allow the name of Herbert to be known. Not to Merrell or his attorney.
Yet when writing in her book A Mind for Murder twenty years after these activities, Noreen Renier was able to describe her encounter with Jessica Herbert with astounding specificity. Her memory returned!
Noreen Renier writes of her encounter with Jessica Herbert that "She was beautiful --- beauty queen beautiful --- with a perfect oval face and warm, intelligent brown eyes that smiled as she introduced herself. She was expensively dressed in a cream silk blouse and dark slacks, with her jacket draped over her arm. The outfit looked good on her model-thin figure."
Merrell stated in mid 2007 that "I can hear Renier's defenders now. They would like to believe Renier was simply attempting to protect her client. That would be dead wrong however. And it certainly would not be appropriate when you are providing testimony under oath. But more importantly even before Noreen Renier took her deposition she had previously spoken to the press about finding the plane. In fact, a local Oregon newspaper had already run the story of Renier's claim to have found the plane. So there is no reason to believe she was attempting to conceal her involvement or keep the matter private. Indeed I believe it's accurate to assume her sudden memory failure was exactly what it appears --- a deceptive game --- with a memory that returns selectively when she wants."
The original text of Renier's testimony in her court deposition by Noreen Renier was transcribed without punctuation. Here, in these following quotations this web site has added commas and dashes for clarity. A typo ("It" was "I") has also been corrected and key words are also shown in italics. Caught in her stated error by Merrell's attorney, Renier's answers below in this exchange add further concerns:
Question: So when you indicated in this particular article [Ashland (Oregon) Daily Tidings], that it occurred in Virginia that would be in error?
Answer: I probably would maintain that I worked on it in Virginia, and it was misrepresented --- it was in Virginia, I worked on it, I referred to where I worked on the case in Virginia.
Question: So when it says, "The dream belongs to professional psychic Noreen Renier, and she used the image to help authorities to locate a lost aircraft in Virginia..."
Answer: No.
Question: You would have meant in Massachusetts?
Answer: Right.
Question: Could you tell me where in Massachusetts that occurred?
Answer: I have no idea.
Question: Don't know if it was close to Boston, close to the New York border, don't have any idea?
Answer: What you have to realize is when people use me they don't give me information, so I never know anything, I just give them information.
[Advanced to follow-up question]
Question: We already know the state's wrong. What kind of assistance did you give the authorities to help them locate the plane?
Answer: I put myself up like a helicopter or a bird and I saw the road, a little gas station that had barking dogs --- It was really dilapidated and [I] gave them that as a point from up in the air --- I told them how they would go up and they would turn, I also gave them longitudes and latitudes, I believe, if I remember correctly, they told me that I gave them the exact miles --- which I don't know if it is miles where they left to where the plane was or what exactly --- There were quite a few clues that they felt were instrumental in finding, she told me that they were instrumental in finding the plane.
But again, there was no "they" or "them". Renier only passed apparently jumbled and mixed information to Jessica Herbert.
And why is it difficult to believe that psychic Noreen Renier wouldn't know where Gardner was within Massachusetts? Perhaps because she was born just 32 miles from the Gardner crash site (in Turners Falls Massachusetts) and lived near the crash site and at the time of the crash still had relatives in the immediate crash search area --- all items she never admitted in court or during media interviews!
Yet a very confusing trail back to reality was being established. And Renier was about to set the whopper.
And Renier apparently added confusion when she passed on Virginia rather than Massachusetts to a newspaper reporter in Oregon. And even after to admitting it was Massachusetts in her deposition, during a follow-up question Renier was vague, responding, "I believe it was Massachusetts."
Just a few months earlier, prior to Renier filing her lawsuit against Merrell, Renier told Merrell that the plane was in Virginia, Massachusetts or New York.
But as Merrell became increasingly tied up in Renier's litigation rather than investigating Noreen Renier's claims Noreen Renier unveiled her ultimate air crash fantasy before millions.
On July 16, 1990 --- four years after the jury found in favor of Noreen Renier --- Renier was a guest on the Joan Rivers Show. Dramatically, she recounted once again her work in finding the plane. In front of a national television audience, she stated, "When they found the plane the two people in the front --- their necks were broken --- [and] her brother had carried a headless woman and sat this headless woman against a tree and walked several yards away."
"I was absolutely stunned," Merrell reports. "I had lost a lawsuit to Renier and yet she announced before another national audience that the young woman [Carolyn Porter] was headless and was removed from the plane by Arthur Herbert and set against a tree. What was the purpose of announcing this fantasy on national television other than for shock value? Clearly there was no sensitivity to the relatives involved to portray any truth about what actually happened. Now Renier indicated that when they found Arthur Herbert he had walked several yards away and had a broken leg. Even after Noreen Renier heard in the courtroom that the medical examiner had said all four passengers died on impact she now claimed Arthur Herbert carried a headless girl across ice and snow just to set her against a tree! Renier's bizarre fantasy just kept evolving --- but always as an attention-getter with ever wider audiences who didn't know the truth. Not once did she mention the radar tracking, the eye witnesses, the police on site or that the plane had been found by people who didn't even [until 2006] know she existed."
More than a million TV viewers watched psychic Noreen Renier as she sat next to Joan Rivers in 1990. From convincing six jury members in 1986 Renier had skyrocketed to national stardom by 1990.
Jessica Herbert, having never spoken with Merrell, and after testifying on Renier's behalf, stated Renier "really came through" during a difficult period. Apparently she believed (at least in 1986) that her brother lifted a young woman from the airplane in his last moments of life and carried her outside the plane. From the court transcript a statement referenced to Jessica Herbert states "Everybody told me, and Ms. Renier told me, that my brother carried a woman away from the plane who still survived the plane crash, and then walked a few steps and collapsed and died."
Merrell asks, "How could a headless woman have survived? Nothing made sense. The fantasy was becoming so warped it simply had no reality."
But Renier was raising her rates significantly and beginning to bask in an international spotlight.
And on page 189 of her book Renier writes, "I saw the young man lifting something with great effort and carrying it out of the mangled plane. After a few steps he placed it gently on some dark, flat rocks, under a tree."
But Carolyn's body was found inside the fuselage, not on dark, flat rocks under a tree. And Arthur Herbert lifted nothing from the mangled plane nor did he walk a few steps and place anyone or anything on rocks. Readers were fed a fantasy. It never existed. It never took place.
Equally disturbing is that among the 27 pages of testimony Jessica Herbert provided, not once does she mention the names of Carl or Cheryl Wilber, the people who actually found the plane and her brother's body. And as these truths have unfolded Jessica Herbert has sat in Salem Massachusetts in silence, never offering an explanation for why she continues to support a lie. Even as she has watched Merrell twist in the wind due in part to her own testimony.
If Jessica Herbert ever believed that members of the Civil Air Patrol found the plane based on information she herself provided them, she is highly naive. There were no search teams hunting that morning near the crash site. Nor did her brother Arthur ever carry an injured survivor in his last minutes of his life. In hiring Noreen Renier to find the plane, Jessica Herbert instead purchased a fantasy that she in turn re-conveyed to the Oregon jury as fact. While she may not have realized what she was doing, her testimony supported a fantasy the jury apparently took as the truth. According to Merrell two of the six jury members teared up when the heard Arthur Herbert had carried a dying Carolyn Porter in his arms and then collapsed.
Nothing is as it seems to readers of Noreen Renier's book A Mind for Murder. Instead readers are offered fantasy posing as fact, just as the Oregon jury received descriptions of the crash site from police psychic Noreen Renier.
Yet even 20 years later a Renier supporter, retired Professor Robert Van de Castle of the University of Virginia noted, "The author, Noreen Renier. . . won libel damages in court from a critical skeptic [Merrell] who publicly said she was making fraudulent claims. This book [A Mind for Murder] was riveting in the way it held my attention as she traces out how each challenging case unfolded." Professor R.L. Van de Castle, like the Oregon jury and millions of television viewers may have been easily overcome with beliefs rather than examining whether the "challenging" cases were actually portrayed accurately. It's so much easier to ignore the facts and believe a lie.
On the morning of their final day of searching, Cheryl Wilber recalls her father saying that it's terrible that no one was still searching for the plane. Troubled with that thought, they decided to try again on their own. It took approximately 40 minutes after they left a side road to find the crash site.
Once they left the plane it took them approximately another 30 minutes to get back to the side road where they had parked their car --- which protected them from the sub-freezing temperatures. From the time they left their home until the time they found the plane the area was silent and they saw no other search teams. "It was over," recalls Carl. "Folks were tired and cold. The search teams had gone home."
Amazingly for more than 20 years Noreen Renier portrayed herself before millions as being active on site and critically aiding search parties and local authorities. Yet on February 11, 1984 the Gardner News shows a photograph of Carl Wilber directing state police to the crash site. In the article written by Rose Foley which accompanied that photo Carl states "All I kept thinking is what if somebody had survived? Nobody's been in the woods, I know they didn't look. There were no footprints in the woods. I think that's pathetic."
Accompanied by his daughter Cheryl and after about five hours of searching over two days in sub-freezing temperatures they found the plane. But unlike these silent heroes Noreen Renier spent 20 years taking credit and building a fantasy.
Carl Wilber gazed down at a copy of A Mind for Murder handed to him by John Merrell in 2006. After reading the pages where Noreen Renier informs readers about the crash site he simply concluded, "I don't think she got anything right." This comes from the man in a black and white photograph taken on the day the search ended in 1984 as he prepared to take officers to the crash.
But color videotapes taken years later in a New York City television studio and broadcast to millions also show Noreen Renier boldly taking credit for locating the same plane on the same day. But unlike some exaggerations this one also carried over to a courtroom where Renier's fantasy visions helped defeat John Merrell before a 6-member jury.
Jessica Herbert testified that Noreen Renier said, "My brother had tried to help her [Carolyn Porter] out of the plane and he was going to go for help. . . . The woman [Carolyn] was lying between two trees, as though she had been placed there. . . . Noreen said [my brother] had survived, the girl had survived . . . and that he had taken her out of the plane, set her in a safe place and gone for help. Also [Renier] described how he had tried to get down the side of the big hill and sat down because of a broken leg." That testimony by Jessica Herbert helped Renier defeat Merrell in the small county courtroom in Oregon in 1986.
But Carl and Cheryl Wilber found no hill around the plane site. The swamp-like area is perfectly flat for thousands of feet in all directions. Not just hundreds of feet, but thousands.
Yet Renier writes, "Reaching into the unknown . . . I was on the side of a hill." Apparently Renier created the elements of the terrain from her imagination, having no firsthand facts to go on. And Renier's principal source of information --- Jessica Herbert --- did not visit the actual crash site.
Noreen Renier was interviewed for an article written by Karen Mahabir and published by the North Jersey Media Group on February 10, 2004 --- amazingly the interview was exactly 20 years to the day after the plane was found. In describing her general psychic work she stated, "There are a lot of frauds, a lot of charlatans . . . who know all the right things to say. . . . You have to get so many details right, you have to be exact."
And yet it is police psychic Noreen Renier who stated, "Everything I've said is true" and "The woman's brother had walked several feet and died, but they found everything that I described."
And in the Court TV Online transcript [now truTV] Renier states, "I even found a missing airplane for an FBI agent's wife a long time ago. . . .I don't think I could be working with the police for 20 years and have as many successes if I was a fraud. Frauds and charlatans exist in many professions but they seem to flourish in mine because of the average individual's innocence/ignorance about the phenomena."
Cheryl Wilber said in June 2006, "It makes me feel terrible that somebody took advantage of the situation and nobody even bothered to call us. She [Renier] could have at least checked the story. . . . She made up a lot of stuff."
Merrell notes, "Imagine attempting to find the truth from a person like Renier even when she is under oath. It's amazingly difficult to track her comments. Virtually the only specifics that come out are limited to fantasy visions one stumbles over like her stories of dogs and gasoline stations. Yet before network television cameras and in her book Renier it makes it appear she is very specific --- right down to the shape of rocks on the ground."
Apparently over the last 25 years during psychic "download sessions" with some law enforcement personnel the sessions have been extremely informal compared with traditional murder inquiry interviews. Renier has been shown on video recordings portraying paranormal characteristics while drinking red wine. One former Virginia Sheriff described one such psychic session as "sauced ramblings."
But what about the information exchanged back and forth between Noreen Renier and FBI special agent Robert Ressler? Renier notes that the recommendation to use her on the air crash case was "validated by special agent Robert Ressler." In mid August 2006 the opening page of Noreen Renier's web site boldly includes a quotation from Ressler, " ...She helped to locate a plane containing the body of a relative of an FBI agent."
But the same Robert Ressler, when contacted by Merrell in 1985 --- just months before depositions were taken --- passed along erroneous information. In Ressler's testimony (taken in September 1986) he stated, "...I believe it was in Maryland and Merrell indicated that is was in Massachusetts but I thought it was Maryland." So shortly before the trial Ressler was indicating what little information Merrell had about Massachusetts was for the wrong state. Why did Ressler believe it was Maryland?
So it is interesting that the two key people --- psychic Noreen Renier and FBI agent Robert Ressler --- who now 20 years later are shown on various web sites as supporting Renier finding the lost plane, actually testified to the crash location with "I have no idea" (Renier) and "Maryland" (Ressler). Mates in a maze? Both are among the highest proponents found on the internet who have spoken with the media about using police psychics with law enforcement agencies during the past 20 years. And Robert Ressler is the man behind providing Noreen's name to dozens of law enforcement personnel.
Merrell notes, "It is quite evident that FBI officer Robert Ressler is a flat out, full-fledged supporter of Noreen Renier and her police psychic claims. But his first hand knowledge about this air crash case is both flat-out dismal and smells particularly funny. He has certainly reached a point of zero credibility with me by failing to clarify his statements as they appear on Renier's web site and in other media. One must wonder whether Robert Ressler has told the dozens of law enforcement agencies that he linked to Noreen Renier that new facts are now in conflict with his characterization of Renier as 'the best.'"
But perhaps "the best" only refers to Renier's ability to create an air crash fantasy before millions of TV viewers.
A local newspaper article by John Monahan published just days after the air crash stated, "Cricket Frost, 40, of Keene, provided the most detailed explanation so far about the suspected crash of a plane that matched the description of the rented Piper Cherokee Arrow. She and a Winchendon pilot, Ronald Richard, had reported to local and state police that night (January 28, 1984) that they saw a Cherokee Arrow fly over the runway at the Gardner airport at about 60 feet. The plane, she said, banked west about 15 degrees at the end of the runway, and within a minute, at about 7:10 p.m. they heard a loud crash and explosion. She said she heard the engine running steadily right up until the moment they heard the explosion. Then there was silence, she said."
In early June 2008 Cricket Frost (now known as Cricket Johnson) who once worked for the Department of Corrections agreed to add some additional new information to this web site. She has worked for Health and Human Services in New Hampshire the last ten years.
She stated that "Beside myself and Ron [Richard] no one else was at the Gardner airport that evening." And she confirms that the search towards the crash site later taken by Carl and Cheryl Wilbur --- about 2700 feet from the runway --- was one based on directions that she herself had originally provided to police more than a week prior to the plane being found.
Unfortunately when she and Ron Richards first went looking for the plane they did not find it. "I had two of my three sons with me but we were about half a mile too far north of the crash site. There were no other people searching in our area and no prints other than our footprints where we searched. The search teams never searched in our area since they were searching in another area further away where Ron (the pilot at the airport that evening) indicated the plane was heading when it crashed. Ron had gone back to tying his plane down and did not the see the 180 degree turn the plane made seconds before it crashed."
However the facts are that Cricket Frost provided the virtual dead-on directions to the crash site at the time of the crash more than a week before Noreen Renier became involved and without ever speaking to Noreen Renier.
[In fact she never heard of Noreen Renier before December 2007!]
Thus she didn't use Renier's wild fantasy visions of letters, quick sand, numbers, rocks, hunting dogs, hills, mountains, an abandoned Texaco station, big gorges, and or an old lady with no teeth to narrow down the crash site location.
Instead she used authentic facts and observations. And she --- not Noreen Renier --- actually gave information directly to police officials and was on site and involved in searching herself.
Because she was at the airport that evening the events had a major impact on her life and are "the worst thing ever experienced" in her life. In early 2007 she was able to provide almost 2 dozen newspaper articles she saved about the crash and many of those she provided for display to this web site.
Interviewed by Merrell she feels the Gardner crash never got real a completely thorough and open investigation.
"My hair stood up and I knew something wasn't right when things came out about the crash. Not everything made it into the record and people got sick of us [Ron Richards and herself] calling."
Cricket Johnson remembers talking to radio talk show host John Glick at WBZ in Boston just shortly after the crash and also helping search for the plane. "We were very credible witnesses yet we had to call the FAA rather than the local police or state police themselves contacting the FAA and forwarding our report. We never had any dealings with the state police or FBI personnel. We never heard anything from them."
In late July 2007 a federal judge in near-by Boston highlighted a cozy relationship that Boston mobsters enjoyed with FBI agents. Judge Nancy Gertner noted that FBI agents were trying to protect informants when they encouraged a witness to lie, and thereafter withheld evidence proving four men were innocent. That kept four men in prison for decades for a murder they did not commit.
Judge Nancy Gertner ordered the government to pay nearly $102 million in part due to the severe misconduct by FBI agents Dennis Condon and H. Paul Rico, including the withholding of evidence in the murder of Edward "Teddy" Deegan.
Now we know at the same time the FBI was funneling false information to the Massachusetts governor's office and withholding evidence, an FBI agent was tossing out Noreen Renier as a means to locate a missing plane in Massachusetts with drugs aboard. Interesting?
And what is the conclusion from this actual witness who was at the airport and actually heard the crash?
"There is no way she [Noreen Renier] had anything to do with finding the plane. . . there is no way she could have. I don't think about the crash every day but when I do I know from the bottom of my heart that what came out was not the entire story. There wasn't real openness and honesty, it was like a murky cloud covering everything."
Was it a murky cloud partially because some of those involved were more interested in keeping a lid on factual realities while helping to promote or concoct psychic nonsense fore the media?
Interestingly Jessica Herbert completely ignored in her own testimony that Cricket Frost and Ron Richard were at the airport that evening. And it was Jessica Herbert's testimony that claims the plane could not land because landing lights were off and the airport closed.
We know that is wrong since the plane turned off the lights that pilot Ronald Richard had actually turned on while at the airport. But Herbert went further. Rather than citing Cricket Frost's correct statements Herbert instead gave the sense that the airport was abandoned and described reports that the persons who heard the crash were "neighbors" in the area and "they also thought it could have been a car crashing" --- though the reports by both Cricket Frost and Ronald Richard are quite specific to a plane and never mention a car.
Jessica Herbert claimed in her testimony that this report of a car crash came from the Civil Air Patrol. But no one surveyed remembers any reports from anyone who cited the sound of a car crash. And remember Carl and Cheryl Wilber are among the closest neighbors to the crash site. They neither heard the sound of the plane crash nor any other kind of crash. If they didn't hear a crash who did? It appears no one.
Fortunately based on the report by Cricket Frost local residents Carl Wilber and his daughter Cheryl decided again to renew their search. With a compass they used Cricket Frost's description (as noted above) to locate the general area on a survey map. Carl Wilber noted, "That was the way we were going when we spotted deer [tracks] on the ground. Cheryl said let's follow the deer tracks! Because [both of us] know they are curious animals!"
So instead of dramatic psychic visions soaring amid the clouds to locate the crashed plane, the real discovery was a natural pathway in the snow. And the deer tracks were a virtual straight line to the plane. Within 40 minutes, Carl and Cheryl Wilber came upon the crash site within the area originally identified by Cricket Frost.
And just as with Cricket Frost, neither Carl and Cheryl Wilber were assisted in any way or had knowledge of Noreen Renier --- though Renier claims to have located and found the plane.
Mr. Dana Vickery, a Gardner Airport Commissioner at the time of the crash, said he "never heard of any psychic taking credit for finding the plane or involved in any way" until Merrell notified him on June 18, 2006. He also agrees that witnesses indicate the plane had its lights off while flying over an unlighted runway. This doesn't match with Jessica Herbert's concept that an innocent plane with an engine problem needed to land. Why would the plane shut down its own lights?
And when a local pilot on the ground (Ronald Richard) saw the plane approaching for a landing and turned on the runway lights --- which the airborne pilot would be capable of doing himself with his on-board transmitter --- someone in the plane turned them back off and then flew away without lights! What reasons are there to attempt to land at a small unmanned airport at night with both the airplane and runway lights off?
In a Court TV Online transcript covering the chat with guest Noreen Renier (almost 20 years after the crash), Renier states, "It was a missing airplane that I found. I was in Virginia and the plane disappeared somewhere in Massachusetts. I gave my client the longitude and latitude."
Roxie Cuellar, Merrell's attorney in the Oregon trial, knew the jury was swayed by the testimony of Jessica Herbert and FBI Special Agent Robert Ressler --- testimony skillfully edited by Renier's attorney to have the maximum impact. Indeed between Renier's testimony and the support comments from Jessica Herbert it appeared Merrell was attempting to silence someone with amazing psychic powers.
And the six member jury saw before them the image of Jessica Herbert and her tragic loss of her brother Arthur Herbert. And each jury member could not escape Arthur's heroic death scene as he exited the plane with Caroline Porter in his arms. That scene by Renier still filled the small Oregon county courtroom.
And if Massachusetts realtor Jessica Herbert backed up psychic Noreen Renier how could Merrell be right about Renier being a fraud?
Attorney Roxie Cuellar --- Merrell's sister --- told the jury that volunteers "went through snow. They went through a swamp. They went through a heavily wooded area to find that plane. And Ms. Renier has the nerve to sit here on the stand and tell you and I that she, while sitting in a comfortable house in Virginia, found that plane."
But the Jessica Herbert and Noreen Renier combo had made their mark. And the two were aided and supported by Robert Ressler and the letters FBI.
Amazingly, on September 16, 1986, after winning the original Oregon lawsuit, Renier told the Orlando Sentinel, "Truth was my ally." The verdict, she said, proved "that I'm real, that psychics do exist, that everything I've said is true." Now with a November 2006 federal judgment against her has truth changed allies? Would you want an innocent man investigated by this particular police psychic or directing a police force murder search?
For more than 20 years, television reporters and newspapers have repeatedly noted that Renier was vindicated by a jury after being libeled by a skeptic (Merrell). The real events in January and February 1984 in Gardner, Massachusetts, became buried. History was rewritten with each new media inquiry and many readers have gushed on the Internet about this incredible feat. In the last ten years, the Internet has all but erased any remaining tracks outside of the 1984 newspaper articles and photos .
Renier's attorney in her lawsuit against Merrell in 1986 took almost 30 minutes in his closing arguments to the jury. Attorney Lee Werdell of Medford, Oregon, told the jury, "My client thinks she's a good psychic. That doesn't make her guilty of fraud. . . . Ladies and gentlemen, in some ways this case is almost reminiscent of times long ago gone by in the northeastern part of this country. I don't know why, but it reminds me a little bit of the Salem witch hunt. The defendant has appointed himself the guardian of our public morality as it relates to psychics and psychic phenomena and it is his intent to expose them."
It is interesting that 22 years after Lee Werdell cited a 'Salem witch hunt' that a principal participant in this psychic portrayal is Jessica Herbert who has lived in Salem since her original court deposition was taken by Werdell. Was Werdell being a comic with the line? Was he sending a message of his own that the truth was in Massachusetts? In A Mind for Murder Noreen Renier writes, "I must also thank my attorney, Lee Werdell, who tried my libel case against the skeptic brilliantly and saved my reputation. He will always be my hero."
There is one final intriguing note about the crash near the Gardner Municipal Airport that "psychic" Noreen Renier appears to have failed to sense. For the last 22 years, while re-experiencing with the media the "exhilarating feeling" at becoming "the plane" and soaring with a "panoramic view" above Gardner, Noreen Renier has never mentioned the following moment in time.
On September 11, 2001, after flying 50 miles west of Boston, American Airlines flight 11 was hijacked in the sky directly over Gardner at 8:13 in the morning. Thirty-three minutes later, it slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, beginning a day of horror with an impact on billions of people around the globe.
For America's most prominent police psychic --- one who claims to foresee the future and to communicate with the dead, this is another question that readers must ponder. How could Noreen Renier have missed this overlap when she herself became a plane flying in the pathways of space and time? Born in Massachusetts just miles from the crash site why does Noreen Renier need to create psychic fantasy stories?
And having created a psychic fantasy that has now reached internationally to millions through the media, why does Noreen Renier maintain (and continue to embellish) a fictional scene using the deaths of four people? And why haven't truTV and the Biography channel revealed these concerns to the millions of viewers they serve?
Yet the psychic community continues to have faith in Noreen Renier even amid these revelations. In January 2006 psychic Pam Coronado noted on her own web site "Noreen, of Court TV's Psychic Detectives fame, continues to pass clients over to me when she is too busy to read for them herself. I greatly admire her work and I am honored that she has such faith in me. So thank you Noreen and may you continue to shine!" One must wonder why someone would admire a woman who told millions of TV viewers and her own book readers an incredible fantasy lasting more than 20 years.
And in early 2007 investigators also began to wonder about those two other planes that crashed within the same area and within days of one another. Part 4, our final segment, continues.


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