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Comment by Anonymous, 18 Aug, 2008
Hi, I used to know Angela Blackmoore. I read what you had to say about the sensing murder episode about her. I picked more holes in the story telling than even you did...lol. But, I knew Angie very well whereas you did not.
Anyway, I'm really only letting you know that 31st January was Angela's birthday, not the day she died, as you state. She was murdered on the night of Thursday 17 August 1995.
I watched that sensing murder episode and had watched others prior to it. I have never watched the program since.
Wish I could tell you more, but for the sake of Angela's family who have suffered enough for too long with it remaining unsolved, I will leave it here.
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Comment by the 'Silly Beliefs' Team, 19 Aug, 2008
Thanks for that correction. You are quite right, the date we had for the murder was wrong. As you say, the 31st Jan was Angela's birthday. I've had a very quick review of the episode to see where we might have picked up the wrong date and I think they only mention the "17th of August 1995" as the date of the murder once, and her birthday not at all. There is one quick shot of the 'headstone' at the cemetery and you can just make out the date of birth on it. I suspect the place we got the false date is from the following summaries of Sensing Murder episodes at 'www.tv.com' which gives 31st Jan as the date of the murder.
We've changed our article to reflect the correct date. Thanks again for pointing out our error.
Like you I don't watch the program anymore either.
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Comment by GT, 31 Oct, 2014
I was up early reading your website, I fully believe also with what you state.
I just wanted to absolutely confirm (because I know Laurie) to you that Laurie (Her finance) DEFINITELY still has a "family" portrait on the lounge wall at his address, I have no doubt that they would have seen it, you know one of those large framed professionally done photos.
The Photo is of Laurie Anderson, Angela Blackmore & Son.
Laurie is always modifying that Aranui Home.
Sensing Murder, what a crock of ...
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Comment by Anonymous-2, 31 Aug, 2015
I lived with Angela in a foster home and went to the same high school as her. We lost touch when I moved to Australia. Just hope they find her killer
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Comment by Anonymous-3, 11 Jan, 2016
I was married to Angela's Half sister. Not that I'm sure how many people even know this. Regardless of the show I can say her mum and step-dad never recovered from losing their daughter and both died before they were able to bring their daughters killer to justice. Their daughter vowed to never give up the quest to find the truth.
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Comment by the 'Silly Beliefs' Team, 12 Jan, 2016
I can only imagine the heartbreak that family and friends go through when an event like this happens, and worse still when there is no resolution. That's why it annoys me when their grief is needlessly compounded by having their hopes raised and then dashed when these silly psychics fail (and they always fail) to expose the killer.
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Comment by Anonymous-4, 02 Mar, 2016
I noticed that, although all the psychics seemed to pick up very specific info like Angela's name and other things, when it came to finding physical evidence (the knife, very specific map drawn by Kevin and metal detector used) frustratingly, as was the case with another episode where a psychic led investigators and was adamant that a body would be found, nothing was in either case.
I've only seen a few episodes of Sensing Murder, but am guessing that this pattern of being specific about stuff that might have been gleaned from things that are already known by research, the "unknowns", like finding a knife or a body, will be frustratingly unsolved. Makes you wonder about how psychic these people are.
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Comment by the 'Silly Beliefs' Team, 02 Mar, 2016
Well, of course the answer is that these morons are not psychic at all. Like parents talking to their young kids about Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, they're telling lies to people gullible enough to believe them. And contrary to what you think happened in the show, the reality is that none of the psychics were able to name Angela. No psychic is ever able to even reveal a murdered person's first name, let alone their full name, or their occupation, address etc, and certainly never the name of their murderer or the location of evidence, even though they claim to be communicating with them. As you say, they can only ever appear to hint about things that are already well known, never about things that are unknown. That's why worldwide, no psychic has ever solved a murder case. Or even the case of the missing car keys.
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Comment by Anonymous-5, 27 Oct, 2019
That's what TV is still about, as people in the production of ANY program will tell you.
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Comment by the 'Silly Beliefs' Team, 28 Oct, 2019
Your comment is a little vague, but would I be right in thinking that you're suggesting that TV programs like 'Sensing Murder' are made to entertain rather than inform, and thus will always be short on the truth? By which I mean the production team will lie and cheat and falsify to cater for the gullible viewers that childishly believe the mediums are really talking to dead people. Depressingly there are millions of people in the world that can't grasp that they are being lied to, and they continue to hand over vast sums to these fraudsters, just to be reassured that their dead granny still loves them, even though granny can't remember her name or theirs.
It's interesting to note that last week (Oct 25, 2019) the police arrested and charged a 45-year-old man and 47-year-old woman with Angela Blackmoore's unsolved murder in 1995. Blackmoore was 21 at the time of her death, and the accused would have been around 21 and 23 respectively. Apparently this breakthrough came about due to the police offering a $100,000 reward for information that leads to a conviction. It's depressing that some people will only do the right thing when you bribe them with lots of money.
Assuming of course the police have arrested the real guilty party, and new information is forthcoming about the crime, it will be interesting to compare the facts with the conflicting stories the silly mediums bandied about on 'Sensing Murder'. I predict that the lying scumbags won't be held accountable for the bullshit they got paid for. And I wonder why Angela Blackmoore's ghost didn't give any of the three mediums advance warning of this new development in the case? Wouldn't it have been impressive if the mediums had revealed to the public that the police were about to arrest her murderers, before they told us, rather than the mediums just hearing about it in the news like the rest of us folk that don't have magic powers?
UPDATE: On 10 Jun, 2020, the 45-year-old man police arrested, Jeremy Powell, was sentenced to imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 10 years. He had pleaded guilty to Blackmoore's murder which he had carried out as an amateur contract killer. At that time Rebecca Wright-Meldrum and David Hawken had also been arrested and were awaiting trial. In December 2023 they were also both found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 10 years for Blackmoore's murder. Apparently Hawken wanted to 'receive financial benefit from her property' and hired Powell who was helped by his then-girlfriend Wright-Meldrum to kill her. The nonsense dreamed up by the 'Sensing Murder' psychics played no part in the arrests or the trial, the psychics having no knowledge of the people who actually committed the murder. No surprise there.
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Comment by Anonymous-6, 13 Sep, 2020
Do you all feel silly now that much of what the psychics sensed coincide with the facts surrounding the murder of this poor pregnant mother? The truth is still unfolding.
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Comment by the 'Silly Beliefs' Team, 13 Sep, 2020
To my knowledge, very little information has been released publicly regarding Jeremy Powell's involvement in the Blackmore case. We have been given very few facts to compare to what the psychics said many years ago.
However it is quite clear that none of the psychics identified Jeremy Powell as the killer. None of the psychics identified the murderer as an amateur contract killer. None of the psychics revealed that he failed to kill her on his first attempt, and had to return for a second attempt. None of the psychics revealed that a woman and another man were also involved. None of the psychics identified who paid Powell to kill Blackmoore or why. None of the psychics predicted that Powell would be arrested in 2019.
You talk of 'the facts surrounding the murder' and how they coincide with 'what the psychics sensed', but you don't reveal what these crucial new facts are, so how can we compare them? The psychics did indeed give some very concise and graphic details about the murderer and the murder itself, but the court authorities have not released information from Powell's trial, so where are you getting your facts from? You're not using another bloody psychic are you? How do you know facts of the murder, were you involved somehow, or know someone who was? And what are these facts? Why don't you reply and inform us of their nature and if they do match what the psychics waffled on about years ago, we will reconsider out stance. If you don't reply with the facts surrounding the murder then I'll assume you have no such facts and are merely making things up. Just like the psychics did.
You say that, 'The truth is still unfolding', and indeed it is. But we are learning more because the police offered a $100,000 reward for information, because someone was bribed to tell the truth, not because those silly psychics revealed some crucial piece of information long ago. This case was solved now because of the police. The psychics had their chance many years ago, and failed miserably.
But prove us wrong. Send through the facts of the murder, reveal how they match what the psychics said. I nervously await your reply.
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Comment by Anonymous-6, 14 Sep, 2020
I will respond in more length later. But it's apparent that you fail to understand how psychic abilities work. Spirit does not reveal every detail. Clues yes. Some detail. Yes. But it's never a full picture. And to say that the psychics got it wrong is too simplistic. If psychics could reveal everything, they'd be like God and He's simply not going to allow for that. He will allow those who see to have some clues to help out investigations. Don't stand in the way of real investigative work. Yes. 100k is a real incentive and someone who has more direct knowledge is going to talk for that amount especially. But it doesn't mean that people don't sense the truth. Notice that the show is called "sensing" and not "seeing". Sensing means that you don't quite know or understand the details...but you do sense some things. Most of the time, the psychics that get it right and are chosen for the sleuthing process are doing a good job. Are there a bunch of fakes out there? Absolutely. Scam artists born every day. But don't discount the process simply because you chose not to understand or validate it.
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Comment by the 'Silly Beliefs' Team, 14 Sep, 2020
Thank you for your reply. You say that I 'fail to understand how psychic abilities work'. On the contrary, I understand all too well that they — like witch's spells and energy healing — don't work at all, or if there is some minor psychic connection, it is so tenuous and vague as to be next to worthless. This is borne out by the fact that psychic claims are never any more reliable than an educated guess, and more often than not are merely dumb guesses.
Your initial claim was that 'much of what the psychics sensed coincide with the facts surrounding the murder', and I asked which facts you were referring to. Now you seem to be backtracking, saying that 'Spirit does not reveal every detail', apparently offering that as an excuse for why the psychics didn't come up with the facts the police did. And then you surprised me with this bold assertion, 'If psychics could reveal everything, they'd be like God and He's simply not going to allow for that'.
Really? Are you serious? So it's God that's stopping brutal murders of children and pregnant young women from being solved? First of all God does nothing to stop these murders from occurring, but then he finally decides to get involved and handicaps those people that might be able to bring the murderers to justice? Rather than be on the side of the innocent child or pregnant young woman, God permits the murderer to carry out his vile deed and then obstructs the efforts of those trying to catch him. When believers tell me this is how God behaves then it's no wonder that I see God as the most disgusting and obnoxious character imaginable.
Thankfully this monster you call God is not real so the actual reason psychics must plead ignorance must simply be the cold fact that their so-called psychic abilities are, like God, just imaginary.
You argue that psychics 'do sense some things', and 'that the show is called "sensing" and not "seeing"'. But surely no one watches the show without forming the belief that these psychics are not merely going to 'sense' that a murder was committed, but that they are going to provide new leads that will help solve these cold cases. They're not just there to say, 'Oh ... I'm feeling something ... I sense someone was murdered ... and that it wasn't pleasant'. Indeed, you claim that the psychics provide 'some clues to help out investigations ... and ... are doing a good job'. What evidence can you provide to support that claim? In our 'Sensing Murder' articles it was noted that
'Sensing Murder' isn't just failing in New Zealand and Australia. The show's format originated in 2002 in Denmark, and local versions of the show in the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, the Netherlands, Romania, Sweden and Norway also failed to solve the murders their psychics investigated. All these countries demonstrated that their psychics are just as pathetic as ours in solving murders.
There is not one well-documented case worldwide of a psychic solving any crime. Not just the crimes in 'Sensing Murder', but any crime. Ever. Worldwide. We know some psychics say they have helped the police solve crimes, but they are never able to prove this. Saying something doesn't make it true. If psychics really could solve crimes, there would be no unsolved crimes on police files.
In just the NZ series, there were 6 seasons which looked at some 38 unsolved cases, and of those, the information gleaned by the psychics didn't solve a single case. Not one. How can you argue that the psychics are getting it right — providing clues that aid the investigations — and doing a good job when they failed on every attempt? Imagine if the local police had a team of three detectives that investigated 38 murders and didn't solve a single one. Not even close! Would you say they were doing a good job or would you demand that they be replaced by more competent detectives? So I ask again, why do you think the psychics are doing a good job when they haven't obtained closure for the families or the police in a single case?
You admit that as psychics go, there are a bunch of fakes out there. But since the psychics on 'Sensing Murder' have a worldwide success rate of zero, wouldn't that indicate that they are part of that bunch of fakes? How bad do they have to be, how many cases do they have to fail to solve before you start to suspect them?
You finish by imploring me not to 'discount the process simply because you chose not to understand or validate it'. I don't really understand that request. I haven't deliberately chosen 'not to understand' claims around psychic abilities, your statement seems to be a version of the insult, You're being close-minded. I discount psychic abilities because I DO understand the difference between what psychics claim and what is supported by evidence. And to validate a claim is to confirm that it is true, and nothing that any psychic has said has offered the slightest bit of evidence that psychic abilities are real. But perhaps your promised reply can change that?
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