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Louisiana women say Wisconsin psychic led them to their mother's body after she disappeared
When Theresa Jones, a 56-year-old Louisiana mother of three and grandmother of seven, disappeared suddenly in February 2023, her daughter went on a frantic search.
Ashley Deese said she learned that her mother was missing from Union Parish on February 2 last year around 7 p.m. after Jones’ boyfriend contacted Deese asking whether she had seen her mother anywhere. She hadn’t.
Jones’ family reported her missing that day to the Union Parish Sheriff’s Office, which issued a missing persons report saying Jones had been last seen in the Evergreen community that Thursday wearing pink pajamas.
She left her phone and vehicle behind, the sheriff’s office said at the time. On February 3, the sheriff’s office conducted a K9 search in the area near Theresa’s home, but it did not turn up any evidence related to her disappearance.
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Less than a week later, on February 6, the sheriff’s office announced that her body had been located in a creek.
“Jones’ family contacted UPSO stating that they had found some clothing in a wooded area near her residence that may belong to Jones. Once on scene, deputies were informed that Jones’ body had been located, floating in nearby Edmonds Creek,” the sheriff’s office said at the time. “The body was recovered and has been tentatively identified as that of Theresa Jones. The Union Parish Coroner’s Office was contacted, and the body was sent for an autopsy.”
Deese clarified that she found her mother’s jacket, but her other clothing “from the waist down” was not located.
Jones’ daughters say that a Wisconsin-based psychic medium named Carolyn Clapper, founder of Next World Medium, had helped them locate their mother’s body in a wooded area.
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“By February 4th, law enforcement had exhausted their search for Mom, using a canine unit,” Deese said. “My sister, Brittany, contacted Carolyn Clapper by phone on Sunday, February 5th, 2023, at 10:48 p.m. She answered immediately and without knowing any information regarding our mom’s case or even her name. Carolyn gave a 45-minute reading, pro bono.”
Clapper told Fox News Digital that she wanted to help the sisters because she heard their “desperation and worry and felt compelled to help.”
“I read for them for about 45 minutes pro bono. In that time, a lot of information came through,” Clapper said, “including specific details surrounding her disappearance, such as the location of personal items left behind, Theresa’s interpersonal relationships with others and specific landmarks.”
Deese said she had listened in on Brittney’s conversation with Clapper on mute during a three-way phone call because she had been “skeptical.”
“Carolyn gave us information that no one would have known unless they were there or knew our mom,” she said. “None of it could have been found on the internet or anywhere else. She described my mom, her personality, and the uniqueness of relationships with those close to her. She could see everything without us telling her anything.”
“Carolyn gave us information that no one would have known unless they were there or knew our mom.”
Clapper “described the exterior” of Jones’ home, “down to the color of her carpet and where everything was, including items that were left behind after she disappeared,” Deese said.
“At one point, Carolyn paused and asked Brittney if I was on the phone listening in on mute from another state. That freaked me out! How would she know that I was listening in on the reading on mute?” Deese said. “Brittney reassured her that it was only her on the phone, as not to break my cover. But Carolyn insisted that we both take thorough notes, because my mom was about to give us step-by-step instructions on where to find her body, and Carolyn said that I would be the one who would need to go find her, because I lived closest to her.”
Those instructions included using a compass to find “specific landmarks, including a “huge log” south of her starting location, where her mother’s body would apparently be located.
Clapper said she was “shown step-by-step instructions on where to find Theresa’s remains.”
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“Beginning at Theresa’s home, Ashley would need to head south on foot until she reached the woodline, and then head southwest until she came to a huge, pronounced log. I was shown that the log would stop Ashley in her tracks. There would be a creek behind the log. This is where I saw Theresa’s remains,” Clapper said. ” I was shown Theresa’s body was nude from the waist down, and that her jacket wasn’t far from her remains.”
The day after her phone call with Clapper, February 6, Ashley went out with a friend to search the woods behind her mom’s house and used a compass app on her phone to follow Clapper’s directions until she apparently “came upon the huge log by the creeks,” which stopped Deese in her tracks as Clapper had apparently said it would.
“I had to stop because I felt sick and began vomiting. That’s when my friend found Mom’s remains just feet from the log in the creek, exactly where Carolyn told us she’d be,” Deese said, adding that she called Clapper later to share the news, and Clapper did another reading in which she described drugs that would eventually be found in Jones’ system “and what the toxicology, pathology and coroner’s report would later reveal.”
“I had to stop because I felt sick and began vomiting.”
Authorities closed Jones’ case in August 2023, ruling her death an accidental drowning due to methamphetamine poisoning, as KNOE first reported, but Jones’ daughters disagree with that finding and say they want “justice.” They are urging officials to reopen Jones’ case.
“Even though Mom’s body was found nude from below her waist, no rape kit and no fingernail scraping [were] performed,” Deese said.
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When Clapper heard from Deese saying she had found their mother where Clapper said she would be, the medium said she felt “a mixed bag of emotions, as it always is” when she has “successfully located a missing person.”
“My first feelings were those of relief that she was found, and gratitude to Theresa’s spirit for guiding me to her body, followed by deep empathy, compassion and sadness for Ashley having been the one to have found her,” Clapper said, adding that she is not releasing more details at this time due to the sensitivity of the case, and due to the fact that law enforcement has not reached out to her directly to discuss her findings.
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The Union Parish Sheriff’s Office did not respond to an inquiry from Fox News Digital about Jones’ case.
“Repeated attempts by myself and Theresa’s daughters to connect with her local law enforcement were rejected,” Clapper said. “Despite my success in locating Theresa’s remains within 45 minutes, pro bono, over the phone from another state, following their search using a canine unit that failed to produce any new evidence or locate Theresa.”
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Kentucky nightclub shooting leaves 1 dead, 7 hospitalized
An early morning shooting at a Louisville, Kentucky, nightclub Saturday left one man dead and seven others hospitalized, police confirmed to Fox News Digital, adding that there are no suspects.
The man was suffering from gunshot wounds when first responders arrived, the Louisville Metro Police Department said in a release, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The deceased was identified as Joseph D. Bowers of Indianapolis, The Associated Press reported.
Another adult who was shot was taken to the hospital with critical and life-threatening wounds following the 12:47 a.m. shooting.
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Six other victims with non-life-threatening injuries had also taken themselves to the hospital.
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The H20 club, located at 25th and Broadway, decided to close after the shooting, the Louisville Courier Journal reported, citing a statement from the Louisville Metro Alcoholic Beverage Control.
“This decision, made in light of our shared concerns for public safety, allows them time to mourn the tragic loss of their employee while ensuring the community’s well-being,” the statement stated. “The relationship of the victims, if any, is not known at this time.”
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NASCAR's Daniel Suarez, from Mexico, becomes American citizen: 'I did it my way'
NASCAR driver Daniel Suarez is now an American citizen.
Suarez, from Mexico, took the oath at the field office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Charlotte, North Carolina.
It wasn’t just the nearly 50 people becoming citizens there for the special day – even NASCAR president Steve Phelps was there, along with members of the rackhouse Racing team, as well as his fiancee.
All of that took Suarez by surprise.
“The most special part of everything was, you see so many people there,” Suarez said Saturday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. “I was not expecting it. I was not expecting to see so many people.”
“I didn’t think many people were going to really care about it,” Suarez said. “A lot of people really did.”
Suarez’s parents had actually thought about traveling to the United States for his birth, but it wound up being too expensive.
“It’s really funny how my parents, they had that thought before I was born, about being born in the United States, I guess to have more opportunities. They didn’t do it,” he said. “And now, I guess I did it my way.”
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Suarez admitted that becoming a citizen wasn’t originally a thought.
“It wasn’t a dream of mine,” Suarez said. “I came to this country to race and compete. I had been working really hard to try and go to the next step and be more competitive. In a blink of an eye, I’ve been already here 12 years.”
He learned, and dedicated himself to, the process of becoming a citizen about six years ago – his team even quizzed him in April in Dover ahead of his citizenship test.
“I felt like it was the right time to start this process. Slowly, I’m getting more and more responsibilities in my life. It was the right time to feel more secure; that I belong here.”
Suarez has two career Cup wins – including the closest finish ever at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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On this day in history, June 23, 1948, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is born in Georgia
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia on this day in history, June 23, 1948.
His entire family grappled with extreme poverty. His parents divorced when he was a toddler; Thomas’ father left the family when young Clarence was only two years old.
Eventually, Clarence Thomas was sent to live with his maternal grandfather following a house fire, multiple sources note.
Thomas’ grandfather had a profound impact on his life: Thomas even titled his 2008 memoir “My Grandfather’s Son.”
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“I even called him Daddy,” wrote Thomas in his book, “because that was what my mother called him … He was dark, strong, proud and determined to mold me in his image … He was the one hero in my life.”
Said Thomas in a September 2021 speech at the University of Notre Dame, “The single biggest event in my early life was going to live with my grandparents in 1955.”
As a young child, Thomas attended segregated Catholic schools for Black children.
He became the first Black student to be admitted to St. John Vianney, a Catholic minor seminary, said the website Oyez.
“My nuns and my grandparents lived out their sacred vocation in a time of stark racial animus, and did so with pride with dignity and with honor,” said Thomas at Notre Dame.
“To this day I revere, admire and love my nuns. They were devout, courageous and principled women,” he said.
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Despite his academic success at St. John Vianney, Thomas was the recipient of racially charged bullying, said Oyez.
Following graduation from St. John Vianney, Thomas intended on becoming a Catholic priest. He entered Immaculate Conception Seminary from 1967 to 1968.
He left seminary after again experiencing racism from classmates — and transferred to the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
He graduated cum laude in 1971, said Oyez.
In 1974, he graduated from Yale Law School and was admitted to law practice in Missouri of that same year, the Supreme Court’s website notes.
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Thomas worked in various roles throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including doing a stint as assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education and as chairman of the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission from 1982 until 1990.
In 1990 until 1991, Thomas was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
President George H. W. Bush appointed Thomas as an associate Supreme Court justice following the retirement of Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Marshall was the first Black member of the Supreme Court; Thomas was the second.
After a highly contentious confirmation hearing, the Senate voted 52-48 to approve Clarence Thomas to the high court, History.com noted.
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He was seated at the court on Oct. 23, 1991, at age 43.
During his time on the Supreme Court, Thomas has typically associated with the court’s conservative wing.
Thomas’ Martin-Quinn score — (or MQ score, referring to metrics used to gauge the ideology of Supreme Court justices based on their voting record) — of 3.05 during the 2021-2022 term was the most conservative of anyone on the court, the website Ballotpedia noted.
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Thomas is married to Virginia “Ginni” Thomas.
He has one son, Jamal, from a previous marriage, said Oyez.
Mark Paoletta, an attorney, close friend and co-author of the 2022 book, “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words,” told Fox News Digital two years ago of Thomas, “I think he is going to be considered one of our greatest justices. And he’s an originalist who had the courage to apply the Constitution and be faithful to the Constitution into the text of statute, come what may.”
He added, “His legacy is a courageous justice who faithfully applied the Constitution.”
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