DD Support Board and Research Team

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Remember pop clairvoyants like Jeanne Dixon who dwelled mostly in Parade Magazine years ago? She earned a fine living locating missing kids and placing murder scenes.

Such hokum could occasionally be useful in reestablishing interest in forgotten crimes. That's why the police tolerated the practice. Hiring a star psychic almost guaranteed press coverage.

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"The Jeane Dixon effect

John Allen Paulos, a mathematician at Temple University, coined the term 'the Jeane Dixon effect', which references a tendency to promote a few correct predictions while ignoring a larger number of incorrect predictions.[1] Many of Dixon's predictions proved erroneous, such as her claims that a dispute over the islands of Quemoy and Matsu would trigger the start of World War III in 1958, that American labor leader Walter Reuther would run for president of the United States in the 1964 presidential election, that the second child of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his young wife Margaret would be a girl (it was a boy), and that the Soviets would be the first to put men on the moon.[20][21]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeane_Dixon