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TV Crime Psychic Noreen Renier: A Mind for Murder or Exaggeration?

This regularly updated site is approaching 200,000 views since its beginnings on February 26, 2006.   The odds are extremely good that Noreen Renier would prefer that the public, her lecture attendees, and the media never discover this web site.   Fortunately the founder of this site was awarded a Washington federal court judgment against Renier and the supporters of this site stand on a firm and very credible foundation.

Here we explore the concerns behind former Court TV and FBI sanctioned psychic Noreen Renier and many of her incredible "super psychic" visions.   Once considered to be among the top five police psychic detectives in the world Noreen Renier has acquired major critics and recent eye-witnesses have called her a liar.

Whether you found this site after viewing a TV psychic show or reading about police psychics, crime psychics, psychic detectives, pseudo psychics, psychic investigators, or psychics working with the FBI --- you will be amazed at the facts presented.

Noreen Renier has stated "Skepticism is healthy - everyone should have it.  What annoys me is when people try to debunk me without listening to the facts."

So here inquiring minds (academic, law enforcement, eye-witnesses, and special investigators) examine the facts as provided in testimony, photographs, and Renier's own audio and video statements --- as well as the documented statements from media and in Renier's own books.

This web site took its name from the original 2005 edition of the book titled A Mind for Murder by Noreen Renier and co-author Naomi Lucks which is shown on the right, with the newest 2008 edition on the left. 

Recently in comparing the 2005 edition with the May 2008 edition of the same book it's clear Renier's visions and claims often flip and flop.   Between these two books she changes references on cases such as the names of police departments, descriptions of characters, geographic locations as seen in her visions, and even the names of key characters!

The Burrville Police department noted in the first edition has now become the Hampton Police department.   A woman she called Sally now suddenly has become a Cindy.   A man she first described in 2005 as big and strong with longish black hair with a white stripe becomes in 2008 a thinned faced man with a scar and brown hair.   Another person had shoulder length brown hair and has now become a blonde with shorter hair.

When discussing murder victims killed by John Wayne Gacy she first visioned "Rob" in 2005 though there were three Roberts among those killed.  But rather than indicating which of the three Roberts she was referring to in her new book, Renier instead changes "Rob" to "Jim" in 2008 even though none of the victims were named Jim.

And major claims about how she located a crashed plane have changed dramatically.

Shocking realizations?  Only if you had purchased both book editions and had the two different versions side-by-side and compared page-by-page and word-by-word.   We suspect that Noreen Renier counted on that being very unlikely.   But since you have found this web site --- one that pays attention to these kind of "psychic" inconsistencies --- your payoff is the ability to examine the truth first hand.

Lectures she claims she gave at a major western University in both book editions apparently never took place.   And certainly her claims of being an "adjunct faculty member" with "teaching appointments" from other major colleges are bold and twisted exaggerations which are clarified in Renier's twenty-five year biography also on this web site.

And in 2006, 2007 and 2008 multiple witnesses have stepped forward to indicate case claims by Noreen Renier are "lies" and nonsense.   Recently her claims of undergoing testing at research facilities for 5 years have been challenged as "sensational fabrications" by a key critic.   These concerns and a series of events she described before millions of TV viewers which never actually occurred are examined in detail here.

On this web site you can listen and hear Renier change one psychic story even after she had already revised the same fantasy twice before!

On March 31, 2008 a United States Bankruptcy Court granted Noreen Renier her second Chapter 7 bankruptcy within 10 years, but this time a U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee continues to oversee assets, including royalties from the new 2008 edition of Renier's book A Mind For Murder.

And as of May 25, 2008 both the Bankruptcy Court and the Trustee have acknowledged receiving claims against Renier by her major arch critic.

John Merrell's submitted claims total $55,039.02 against Renier as of June 2, 2008 with an additional monthly interest charge granted by the Washington federal court near $400.

Merrell is a skeptic writer whom a Washington U.S. District court judge in April 2007 ordered Renier to pay nearly $40,000 after first issuing a federal court judgment order against her in late 2006.    As Renier's 2008 assets are liquidated, Merrell will now receive the largest share of payments and his critical comments about Renier are examined here.

Yet while her bankruptcies and now debts to a major critic have drawn attention, far more disturbing are new revelations about Noreen Renier's pseudo psychic claims.  

Explored here are fabrications and "lies" that this web site publicly showcased nearly two years ago yet still remain in the latest 2008 editions of A Mind for Murder --- a book re-edited and now credited solely to Noreen Renier.

"Psychic detective Noreen Renier has showcased astonishing exaggerations in materials she provided to newspaper journalists.  According to her own court testimony some exaggerations were created by her publicist for promotional materials.   Other fabrications are those Renier passed along to media with errors that Renier admitted she never corrected.   But most disturbing are the falsehoods Noreen Renier conveyed as true in her own book and even before a jury.   She even invented fantastic fantasies in front of millions of TV viewers and portrayed them as the truth."

Noreen Renier labeled critic Merrell who made that comment "a fraud" and her web site until mid January 2008 called him both "vicious" and "vindictive."

Indeed Renier recently posted a commentary about winning an Oregon county libel lawsuit against Merrell more than 22 years ago, but it fails to disclose that litigation continued in seven courts across five states.

And amazingly Noreen Renier fails to inform her readers that all of the recent Washington federal decisions in late 2006 and during 2007 were rulings against her.   Instead she posted a commentary by her attorney who handled only the county lawsuit more than two decades ago.

According to public records this same attorney since that time was initially charged with two counts of hindering prosecution by allegedly destroying evidence.

In fact the man admitted he tossed a revolver into the Applegate public reservoir in southern Oregon --- a questionable action for anyone conscious of metallic content in the environment --- but an extraordinary item for the attorney Renier states "saved my reputation" to have hidden beneath a public water source.

When it comes to fantastic claims made by or on behalf of Noreen Renier it pays to take a closer look.

Should you wish to immediately read a summary of Noreen Renier's background and claims simply click on her background segment shown at the extreme bottom of this page.

A case extensively explored here involves Renier's psychic visions about an air crash near Gardner Massachusetts.   Witnesses say Renier lied about finding the plane.

Renier claims incredible psychic foresight and not just the ability to talk with the dead through multiple entities she calls Robert and Sing, but to actually re-live final moments alive by the dead as they were killed.   She even has claimed to psychically see through the clothing of the living to examine body parts!

Noreen Renier's most notable claim to fame is that she is the only psychic to have ever lectured at the FBI.   Here we explore that tie to the FBI alongside her association with former FBI officer Robert Ressler.  

Renier has also appeared on dozens of talk and entertainment shows including the Larry King show, Good Morning America, the Nancy Grace show, Geraldo, and America's Most Wanted.   She has appeared regularly on the Court TV series Psychic Detectives and now in 2008 on the Psychic Investigators series on the Biography Channel.

Renier continues to claim she was "instrumental" in locating the crashed airplane and saw in her visions an emotional and heroic event between a male and female couple aboard the plane.

Noreen Renier testified before a jury and also sat before millions of TV viewers while speaking about this deadly plane crash near Gardner Massachusetts.   Here we interview those who have concluded the crashed plane wasn't found by Renier --- not even indirectly with her assistance --- but instead by the father and daughter team of Carl and Cheryl Wilber.   They are pictured together in the black and white photo among those that change at the top of this web page, as well as elsewhere on this web site.

Her use of being "instrumental" in her psychic abilities has come up before, including a case in Staunton Virginia where she claimed to news reporters that she had foreseen a direct link to a rape suspect.   She claimed her psychic foresight had allowed her to see even prior to his arrest that the rapist would be the driver of a cement truck.

In her revised 2008 edition of A Mind For Murder she claims she described to police that "the rapist is driving a truck with something on it that goes round and round."

When the rapist was arrested it turned out he had indeed driven a cement truck.   This amazing psychic link has been widely credited to Renier and obviously even in her latest book she continues to use it.

But is it true?  What did Renier specifically say prior to his arrest about a cement truck?

Asked about the case by an attorney representing John Merrell in 1985 senior officials acknowledged Renier's claim was not true.  Prior to the arrest there was no mention by Renier of a truck or something on a truck going round and round.   Nothing.

Instead an investigation revealed she actually created the link after the use of a cement truck was established and her only "pre-vision" was a paper filled with circles she had drawn.

These circles she insisted were not a dozen zeros, or the letter "O" repeated, or even what they appeared to be by someone who saw them as simply scribbles made by a woman who had consumed too much red wine.

Instead Renier insisted her circles showcased her visions of a truck "going round and round."   Almost 30 years after creating this unfounded link Renier actually expanded the claim in her new 2008 book.  How many years does it take before exaggerations become glorified deceptions?

Thousands of readers and dozens of newspapers and TV reporters were never told this claim is fantasized fiction.

Critic John Merrell also raises concerns about her psychic abilities --- if any --- in fingering a guilty suspect from one who is innocent.   And many of Renier's TV viewers find these issues troubling indeed.

While other psychics such as Carla Baron (click here) have garnished media attention, major psychics Sylvia Brown, Zak Martin and John Edward (unlike Noreen Renier) have not testified to such an extensive array of claims under oath.

Now 71 years old, it was common from 1985 until 1998 for Noreen Renier to mention the work of law enforcement personnel in solving cases and bringing criminals to justice.   However over the past few years Renier has begun taking credit for some knock-out punches herself.

During a July 22, 2004 Court TV on-line interview Noreen Renier referenced her work for a woman on a double homicide in Albany, New York.   Renier claimed “I put her son in jail.” 

She further emphasized that "I've worked on over 450 cases. . . when the police hire me, that's usually 70 percent of the time. . . I've put people in jail."   She has also begun offering comments to the media about suspects such as her statement following psychic visions in the Laci Peterson case when she stated ". . . all my instincts, my intuition, give me no doubt that he did it."

Has she fairly portrayed herself as a participant in putting people in jail?   And how is she motivated?

Renier has long stated she charges for her work --- even to police working on rape cases and murder --- and her fees have climbed from $45 for a 45-minute phone conversation to far higher as her TV fame has spread.   Renier told the Lynchburg News & Advance in 2005 that "I've got more work than I can handle."   Indeed she bumped her fees to $250, then $450, then $600, and now to a cool $1000.

"I actually raised the price to discourage people" stated Renier.

How long might $1000 get you with Renier on the telephone?

As posted in December 2007 on Renier's own blog, she stated "I'm older now, so I can't last more than an hour per session."

According to her 2007 bankruptcy filing (she previously declared a Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Florida in 1999), Renier paid attorney and former TV producer Shelley Hall with the Seattle law firm Stokes Lawrence just $1000 leaving unpaid bills of $26,214.  That equates to a payment rate near $8.20 per hour for her Seattle attorney while Renier's own psychic charges to clients are $8.33 to $16.66 per minute or approximately 60 to 120 times more.   Yet as we showcase here Renier's record for accuracy and truth is pathetic.

Noreen Renier stated that she proved "I was a real psychic and had done the things I claimed I did."

Yet while Renier spoke of her presence at the air crash scene, facts reveal she was never actually at the site except in her own fantasy visions.   She falsely portrayed a crash scene of real people that she never knew or met.   In 2007 this prompted a family member of one of the killed passengers to label Noreen Renier's crash portrayal "a monstrous lie."

Even a witness to the actual plane crash stated "There is no way she had anything to do with finding the plane. . . there is no way she could have."

Here profiled in four segments are why many psychic claims by Renier moved forward based on testimony by the sister of the heroic young man in Renier's psychic visions.    Jessica Herbert of Salem Massachusetts hired Renier to locate the crashed airplane and find her brother Arthur.  In so doing Jessica apparently grabbed onto Renier's vision of her brother Arthur as a hero.   That heroic fantasy has been presented as factual --- but based on witnesses and a state medical examiner it's absolutely unfounded.   Yet in the background lending support to Renier's efforts are FBI officers and here we also explore why.

The airplane crash has a very different flavor than as a flight to a birthday and friends that Jessica Herbert described during her testimony.   In truth her brother Arthur was one of four passengers flying above rugged Massachusetts terrain.   The plane was flying at night and without a flight plan and during freezing weather.  

Jessica Herbert testified that she believed the plane was "going to the Gardner airport for help but the airport was closed and there was no lights there and they couldn't land."   But the facts are quite different and both Herbert and Renier are aware of these facts.   In fact the plane was seen skimming over the unmanned Gardner Massachusetts airport and the pilot actually turned off the airport ground lighting using a transmitter aboard the plane.   The lights of the single runway airport were actually already on and the runway clear when lighting was shut down by the plane itself.   This unusual sequence of events has been described by one police officer as "a drug drop gone wrong."   

Interestingly the plane had all of its own lighting off as well --- even though it was dark with snow flurries.   And the pilot of the aircraft was flying under an alias and stored behind him was a large heavy satchel which according to witnesses was quickly removed from the crash scene by two law enforcement agents.   Are statements true that the contents in the satchel were far more valuable than the plane itself?

In late July 2007 a federal judge in 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.   Was such injustice so common in the Boston area that an air crash incident just miles away was swept aside and not given a second look?

In 1986 a six-member jury thousands of miles away in Oregon apparently bought the fantasy that psychic Noreen Renier found the Massachusetts plane as authentic and found Merrell guilty of libel.   Here too we highlight some of the bold lies fed to the jury --- many of which took more than 20 years to be uncovered.

Adding crucial support for Renier during three days of testimony was Jessica Herbert's testimony as well as testimony from two FBI agents --- Robert Ressler and also Jessica Herbert's ex-husband Mark Babyak.   Ressler is the former director of the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program --- the man who coined the phrase 'serial killer.'   And Robert Ressler is a supporter in using the paranormal and psychic powers of Noreen Renier --- events we explore here together with his testimony.

Among dozens of examples of the differences between some claims and the facts are these:

1. In the Charlottesville Daily Progress on April 25, 2004 Noreen Renier stated, "I can find an airplane thousands of miles away, but I can get lost in my own house."   FACT: While her quote sounds good about getting lost in her own house --- a quote she has used repeatedly with media --- for the last six years her home has been a 1680 square foot cabin with approximately half of that area being a single room basement.   The remaining small main floor is laid out so that the front doorway or kitchen/living room are immediately visible from any doorway. 

While the quote reflects her ability for comic spin it is not accurate.   More importantly, the crashed plane was less than 470 miles away from her Charlottesville area home and it was found by two people entirely independent of Noreen Renier who remain troubled that Renier claims to have located the same plane.

These same witnesses point to a string of false claims by Renier surrounding the crash which she portrayed as true.   Events Renier spoke about simply didn't happen.   And entire environments and incidents she writes about are fiction.   Some are actually the reverse of what occurred.

Its curious too that some of Renier's psychic visions in her testimony and in her 2005 edition of A Mind for Murder are remarkably close to aircraft scenes in both a Nancy Drew and a Hardy Boys mystery story.   In any case, many of her psychic visions during flight are bold fantasies which she portrayed as fact.

2.  Jessica Herbert testified that Noreen Renier "was recommended by an FBI agent who had taken a course that she had given at Quantico on E.S.P. and thought she was very impressive and as far as he knew reputable, and she had been doing this course for a number of years there."

FACT: That FBI agent and profiler was Robert Ressler, a man who is credited with creating the term 'serial killer'.   And the man who told Merrell the plane crashed in another state than where it was actually found.   Why?

3.  Noreen Renier noted "When they found the plane the two people in the front --- their necks were broken and [Arthur Herbert] had carried a headless woman and sat this headless woman against a tree and walked several yards away."   Jessica Herbert testified Renier told her that her brother "had left the plane and set the girl in a hard place with trees above her and she was laying on the rocks underneath the trees. . . and he went down this hill to look for help [and] had to sit down because the pain in his leg was bad."  But oddly Herbert further testified that according to Renier's vision the young woman was alive --- not headless. 

FACT: Amazingly it doesn't matter whether the young woman carried by Arthur Herbert was headless or alive when she was carried out of the plane.

The reality is that the medical examiner found that none of the passengers could have carried the female passenger anywhere, as everyone died on impact.

In her 2005 edition of A Mind For Murder Renier described telling Jessica Herbert that her brother Arthur Herbert was in Renier's vision a young man with "blond, straight hair to his shoulders."   In the 2008 edition of the same book she claims she told Jessica in her visions she saw Arthur with "medium length hair, light brown."

But beyond the length and hair color change, why did Renier describe before millions of TV viewers that Arthur Herbert was alive after the crash?

Remember upon examining the crash site the medical examiner concluded Arthur Herbert died instantly, and also found the young woman's body still within the aircraft.

What's more stunning is that the medical examiner released these findings --- facts in direct conflict with Arthur Herbert being alive and carrying the young woman from the plane --- two years before the conflicting court testimony under oath made by both Renier and Jessica Herbert.   And its even more incredible that Renier actually further enhanced this charade before a national TV audience six years later!

It is at this point that many readers of this web site begin to wonder how great that charade there might be.

We believe you will be increasingly surprised and dismayed about this "super psychic" and her claims.

In February 2005 Noreen Renier described herself as a "super psychic" and Renier's web site claims that "Court TV online recently called her the most credible psychic out there."

Yet this quote was never taken from officials at Court TV which has promoted an assortment of psychics and in early 2008 changed its name to truTV.   Instead the quote comes from an on-line web site moderator who was somewhat confused and reflected that "Ms. Renier seemed like the most credible psychic out there."

Those who rate Renier among the "top five" crime psychics apparently select from have a pretty dismal group.   None of the five have avoided controversy about their claims and most reference themselves as " the most credible" among their peers.

Renier's web site states that she "considers herself a born skeptic.  But the sudden onset of her psychic abilities changed not only her beliefs but the course of her life and career."

Critic John Merrell calls that "Rubbish!  Many indications point to Renier as a 'psychic-want-to-be' even from her very first media interviews.   Some her earliest claims included contacting the dead and encouraging her clients to "make contact with deceased relatives, friends or famous people.   Indeed under oath she admitted she acts as a dual entity host for two helpful contactees named Robert and Sing." 

In 1985 Renier personally handed out promotional materials which included the statement that ". . .questions may be posed to 'Sing' and 'Robert,' Noreen's two main spiritual entities."  Critic Merrell admits no one knows except Renier whether she actually really communicates with famous dead people and how long that list of persons might be.   Perhaps in Renier's mind the contact is made by her entities who apparently are dead themselves before they then speak to others.

Merrell commented "Exactly how far these bizarre claims go depends on whether or not you believe famous people if they could make contact after dying would actually then converse with a woman like Renier who charges for the contact.   I can't disprove that Renier can't communicate with the dead and/or has entities that communicate with the dead.   However I personally think most famous people who die even if they could communicate back to the living would utlilize someone without the exaggeration record of Noreen Renier."

Merrell stated that "One lady told me that she and her husband were asked for two hundred dollars by Renier in order to converse with a Marion Morrison several years after his death.  The skeptical husband had got his wife to agree beforehand to offer up the name the person was born under.   Renier apparently stumbled about not quite sure whether this was a woman or a man until the husband decided to at least assist by indicating the person was a man who also had gone by the name Duke and provided his place of birth and death.   The feedback they received through Renier from a dead Marion Morrison didn't match the Marion Morrison the couple were after even after more help to Renier.   The couple was attempting to connect to actor John Wayne originally born as Marion Robert Morrison.   Even with his birthplace, death location, age and birth name Renier missed the mark.  Or perhaps the psychic on-call bureauracy Up Above is so chaotic that someone crossed wires?"

According to Merrell another woman claimed she called Renier hoping that as a psychic Renier would visionalize the location of a lost bracelet.   "However when Renier was unable to visionalize where it might be found Renier according to the woman suggested making contact with deceased actor Cary Grant who had played a jewel thief in the movie To Catch A Thief.   The woman who was already dissatified declined the additional offer, but others also have indicated Renier referenced Cary Grant among her contacts."

A complete list of famous dead people that Renier claims to have contacted or chain-contacted through one or more of her entities is known only within the mind of Noreen Renier.

More than 25 years ago Renier was also claiming she had the ability to block billiard table shots with her mind and newspaper interviews indicate she was attempting to find missing persons using swaying pendulums hung over maps.   Other news media wrote that she claimed to have psychic powers that allowed her to change physical matter and even adjust room temperatures with her mind.   Not surprisingly Renier even claimed to levitate her own children.

Merrell also pulled out two quotations from actors John Wayne and Gary Grant.  He notes "John Wayne before his death in 1979 provided the kind of comment I suspect he might have provided to anyone claiming that he would actually communicate from the dead through a soothsayer who charged people.   Wayne said ---'Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.'   And a quote from actor Cary Grant in To Catch A Thief seems equally appropriate for those who would charge to communicate with famous dead people --- "My only comment would be highly censorable."

In fact Renier's relationship with her critics leaves little doubt about her openness to scrutiny.   She previously included commentary on her web site which portrayed her principal critic John Merrell as "vicious", "vindictive" and "vexing".

Did Renier carefully select a man to deliver this string of comments for her web site?  Are his comments credible?

Not likely.   The man whom Renier sanctioned for commentary operates from his home an effort he calls the Washington DC Citizens Against UFO Secrecy and has voiced numerous sensational CIA, UFO and paranormal comments for years.   And blending suspense and fantasies which could have come from the 1960's TV show The Invaders alongside her own Psychic Detectives visions has not silenced critical eye-witnesses.  

Also explored is the involvement for more than 20 years of Renier's sidekick --- former FBI agent and profiler Robert Ressler who referenced Renier to dozens of police and law enforcement personnel.   The same age as Renier, Robert Ressler's involvement with Renier is extensive and explored here.   According to Renier the man describes her as "the best" and Ressler actually sanctioned her use in locating the crashed plane.   But even before testifying on behalf of Renier it was Ressler who misled Merrell by telling him the plane had crashed in Maryland when in fact it had crashed in Massachusetts.

And it is Robert Ressler, previously with the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit that may have propelled paranormal psychic involvement with police more than anyone else in the last 25 years.  

Now 22 years after Renier's crash claims what other evidence indicates a psychic charade?  

In 1985 a letter concerning Noreen Renier arrived in the mail to investigator John Merrell.   It includes the comment "I'm confused about her abilities and need to know if she's real or not.  She's planning a workshop in July and I need to make a decision."  The letter was signed by Nancy Uzdavinis --- a woman who showed an Oregon address.

That letter arrived to Merrell's home months before Renier filed a county lawsuit in Oregon against Merrell for libel.   But years after Renier won her $25,000 lawsuit in 1986 against Merrell for libel an amazing discovery was made.  Multiple letters including the first one sent to Merrell were found.

Each letter was signed in Nancy Uzdavinis' name but each one was discovered to have been written by Noreen Renier herself!

The original six member jury in 1986 jury never knew this truth.   Amazingly one of the questions posed by Noreen Renier about herself --- in another letter she signed as Nancy Uzdavinis --- was the question "Is she a phony?"

Merrell notes, "It's not just the fact Renier pretended to be someone else.   It's the deception she's displayed in her testimony and in public.   Over many years she has actually told the paranormal community that I sought her out and started this 22-year battle.   Little did I know that the deception had already begun when I first opened my mail and Nancy Uzdavinis asked for my help the first time.   It is not my opinion but her own deceptive handwritten signature that showcases exactly what she is.   And by the way, the real Nancy Uzdavinis is her sister-in-law.   So why would Noreen Renier pretend to be her sister-in-law and need to know if she herself was authentic from someone who at the time was investigating several psychic charades?   Does the word entrapment months before filing a libel suit seem reasonable?"

Merrell continues, "If not, why didn't Renier ever let the 1986 jury in on this secret little game she played?   Phony doesn't begin to describe her agenda.   But this case isn't just about the facade erected by a psychic as there's an entire theatre here filled with players.   It's been an enormous undertaking to keep the truth under cover for 22 years."

Yet in 1986 Noreen Renier claimed truth was her ally in winning her case.

Merrell's 1987-1992 attorney Philip Lomonaco noted "Noreen Renier lied under oath when she stated she was not aware of any investigation of herself by John Merrell . . . In actuality, Noreen Renier deceived John Merrell by sending him letters under the disguise of Nancy Uzdavinis. . . .In other words, Ms. Renier, through her deceitful letters, under the name of Nancy Uzdavinis, began the whole process, which culminated in Ms. Renier perjuring herself in an attempt to conceal the fact that she knew of John Merrell's investigation. . . .Mr. Merrell was unaware that Noreen Renier had led him to investigating herself.  One truism rings clear in this whole situation; these parties would not be together had it not been for Ms. Renier's deceitful beginnings."    And a statement provided to a federal court judge from a handwriting expert indicates Renier wrote letters to at least two skeptic writers using the name Nancy Uzdavinis.

In 2007 Renier described the recent federal judgment against her as simply "an adverse verdict" even though after reviewing Renier's stack of filings the U.S. federal judge denied motion after motion.   The judge wrote in placing the judgment against Renier that "the court rejects Ms. Renier's claim that she did not breach the Settlement Agreement because her statements in A Mind for Murder are, according to her, true."   Not surprisingly Renier has now entirely removed statements about the judgment against her from her web site including one where she attempted to shift the blame to the publisher of her book.

On February 11, 2008 a United States Bankruptcy Trustee conducted an examination of Ms. Renier, under oath.   She was questioned about her sources of income, including police and private readings, television appearances, and her book royalties.  After initially filing statements which showed her personal income over 30 months beginning in January 2005 was near $40,544 Renier suddenly revised the number upward by more than $100,000.

How does one --- particularly someone claiming psychic abilities --- misplace amounts greater than $100,000?

The stunning $141,000 plus in court losses, costs, and debts by Renier as she has interacted with skeptic Merrell can be examined by simply clicking here and the actual legal filings are shown in segment 10 (see index at bottom of this page).

A general reading of this web site typically takes an additional 10 minutes to 4 hours depending on the dose of amazement you seek.   If you want a good 10-15 minute overview on her claims take a look at her biography coverage segment or if you have 30-90 minutes segments 4 -7 take you through the plane crash charade as it unfolded over the past 20 years.   Just skimming through and reading the captions below the photos on each web page below will take a total of about 10 minutes and also provide you with some highlights.

Thanks for your time and while we don't offer a prize, we'd appreciate your comments at amindformurder@gmail.com