Independent Publisher Book Awards Finalist 

ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Finalist

While many among us view the field of parapsychology with suspicion, the truth is that more than one-third of major police departments across the United States, and many more throughout the world, use psychic detectives to help solve their most difficult cases.  And they’re by no means alone. In late 2001, a team of psychic “remote viewers” was hired by the US government to aid in the fight against terrorism, following a high-level directive to “think outside the box.” 
 

In the same open-minded investigative spirit, this award-winning book interweaves the public record with the insights of renowned police psychics and mediums in a quest for the missing pieces to some of our most puzzling mysteries, including the cases of:    

• Martin Luther King, Jr., whose assassination is still an open case after a Memphis trial and a federal investigation reached opposite conclusions in 1999 and 2000. Four alleged cover-up murders are also explored. 
• Kurt Cobain, the 'voice of his generation' whose death by shotgun triggered scores of  'copycat suicides' world-wide, even though America's leading forensic pathologist maintains that the rock icon, having triple the lethal dose of heroin in his body, could not have shot himself.
• Vincent Foster, the White House deputy counsel found shot to death in 1993. Three-quarters of Americans polled in 2000 did not believe the official ruling of suicide.
• Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown. Shocking news about the circumstances of his death led to calls for an investigation by the NAACP, Dr. Cyril Wecht, and others.         

                                                                                                                                                                         Also explored: 

      

  • The bizarre fate of former CIA chief William Colby.
  • Unsolved crimes against environmental leaders--Judi Bari, the victim of a car bomb assassination attempt; and Leroy Jackson, whose death before he was to testify to Congress has been compared to that of Karen Silkwood.
  • The violent deaths of financial genius John Markle (the son of actress Mercedes McCambridge)  and his family.    
    

  And much more...
  
  The impressive cast of police psychics includes Nancy Myer, investigator of hundreds of homicides in North America and overseas; Robert Cracknell, who was labeled “Britain’s number one psychic detective” by Fleet Street tabloids when he provided accurate information to investigators of the Yorkshire Ripper serial murders and other high-profile crimes; and Bertie Catchings, named “best psychic in Texas” in The Book of Texas Bests. Prominent mediums Betty Muench, Janet Cyford, and Philip Solomon provide further illumination—along with dramatic, comforting evidence of life after death—with “spirit communications” that carry enhanced credibility following the remarkable performance of skilled mediums in recent scientific studies.
  
  In April 2009, Witnesses to the Unsolved attracted the attention of Evolution Entertainment, a production company that is pitching the book to television networks as a possible series or special.
  
  About the author:
  
  Edward Olshaker is a longtime journalist whose coverage of current events and historical issues has appeared in History News Network, The New York Times, and numerous other publications. He broke the story of Florida prisoner John Merritt's fight for DNA testing and a new trial, an article reprinted in the Justice Institute's Justice Denied magazine. 
  
  He can be contacted at edw106 [at] gmail.com.