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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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The Union Parish Sheriff’s Office issued a missing-person report saying that Jones had been last seen in the Evergreen community on February 2, 2023, wearing pink pajamas. (Union Parish Sheriff’s Office)
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.”
Ashley Deese found her mother deceased in Edmonds Creek in Evergreen, Union Parish, Louisiana. (Google Maps)
“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.”
Two Louisiana sisters say medium Carolyn Clapper found their mother, Theresa Jones, above, after she vanished on February 2, 2023. (Facebook)
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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Two teen boys in Florida are accused of fatally shooting a 14-year-old girl and setting her on fire along a wooded walking trail last week in what authorities are calling a “horrific” killing.
Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson told reporters Thursday that the body has been identified as Danika Troy. He said Danika’s mother reported her as a runaway on Monday.
“Unbeknownst to the mother, Danika was murdered the previous night,” Johnson said.
A passerby discovered Danika’s body along a wooded area off Kimberly Road in Pace, a town about 16 miles northeast of Pensacola, and called 911, Johnson said.
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Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson told reporters that the suspects were supposedly friends with the victim from school. He said investigators were still working to determine a motive. (Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office)
Investigators quickly identified the suspects as 14-year-old Kimahri Blevins and 16-year-old Gabriel Williams and took them into custody.
“This is where it gets really horrific,” Johnson said.
Kimahri Blevins, 14, is facing premeditated first-degree murder charges. Authorities are seeking to charge him as an adult. (Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office)
Williams allegedly stole his mother’s handgun and shot Danika.
“It’s bad enough you kill a 14-year-old. You’re 14. You’re 16,” Johnson said. “Shoot her multiple times, and then they set her on fire.”
Gabriel Williams, 16, is facing premeditated first-degree murder charges. Authorities are seeking to charge him as an adult. (Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office)
Johnson said investigators are still working to determine a motive.
“They have been interviewed, but the motive that they’re giving doesn’t fit the forensics or any facts of the case, so we don’t have a legit motive,” he told reporters.
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Blevins and Williams supposedly knew the victim from school, according to Johnson. He believed the two teens have had previous “run-ins” with law enforcement, though he could not immediately say if they had earlier arrests.
Blevins and Williams are being held at the Department of Juvenile Justice on premeditated first-degree murder charges.
“You don’t want to go out and see a burnt child with bullet holes,” Johnson said. “That’s not something you sign up for.”
Johnson said no parents have been charged at this time, though investigators are “looking into it.”
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The sheriff’s office is working with the State Attorney to charge both teens as adults.
“If you do an adult crime, you gotta do adult time,” Johnson said.
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Florida college student who allegedly shipped 1,500 rounds of ammo to dorm had AR-15 under bed
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A Florida college student who allegedly ordered 1,500 rounds of ammunition to his dorm room also had a semi-automatic rifle under his bed, according to authorities.
Constantine Demetriades, a 21-year-old senior at Rollins College, was arrested by Winter Park police on Wednesday and charged with possession of a weapon on school property after the ammunition order was reported to police by the school’s assistant campus safety director, according to an arrest affidavit, WKMG reported.
After the purchase was flagged, the assistant safety director searched Demetriades’ dorm and allegedly discovered an unloaded AR-15 under his bed inside an unsecured black carrying case with one loaded magazine and five empty magazines, as well as a tactical vest, knives, a black security vest and ear protection.
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Constantine Demetriades, 21, was charged with possession of a weapon on school property. (Winter Park Police Department)
Demetriades, who said he likes to shoot as a hobby, told police he had the rifle on school property because he had recently returned from a Thanksgiving trip to New Jersey, where he said the guns were purchased and registered legally, according to the affidavit.
He said he did not have ill intentions and that he usually stores the firearm at a friend’s home off school property, the affidavit stated. He also said he only brought the gun to campus on one other occasion.
Constantine Demetriades said he did not have ill intentions. (Getty Images)
While Florida allows open carry, Rollins College bans all weapons on campus. Demetriades allegedly said he is aware that weapons are not allowed on campus and that his New Jersey concealed carry permit does not apply in Florida.
The college said in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital that he is banned from campus until the situation is resolved, adding that an internal investigation has been opened.
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While Florida allows open carry, Rollins College bans all weapons on campus. (Getty Images)
“On Wednesday, the College received a report indicating a violation of our weapons policy,” Rollins College said in a statement. “After receiving this information, we immediately initiated an investigation.”
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“We quickly identified and contacted the student, who cooperated fully with College officials and local law enforcement as we investigated the matter further,” the statement continued. “The student was arrested and is not permitted to be on campus while the College proceeds with the student conduct process.”
The school said Demetriades was additionally charged with a violation of the college’s weapons policy, and will go through the on-campus conduct process.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., briefly sparred with “60 Minutes” host Lesley Stahl over what she claimed was “accusatory” behavior from the journalist.
Greene gave her first sit-down interview with Stahl since announcing her resignation from Congress last month. During the segment, Stahl and Greene spoke about the Georgia lawmaker’s apology for taking part in “toxic politics.”
“I would like to say humbly, I‘m sorry for taking part in the toxic politics,” Greene told CNN in November. “It’s very bad for our country, and it’s been something I’ve thought about a lot, especially since Charlie Kirk was assassinated, is that we, I’m only responsible for myself and my own words and actions, and I am committed, and I’ve been working on this a lot lately to put down the knives in politics.”
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., gave her first sit-down interview with “60 Minutes” since announcing her resignation. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“But you contributed to that,” Stahl asked Greene Sunday. “You. You, you were out there pounding, insulting people.”
Greene pushed back, claiming that Stahl had contributed to toxic politics herself.
“You’re accusatory, just like you did just then,” Greene said.
“I know you’re accusing me, but I’m smiling,” Stahl responded.
“You’re accusing me,” Greene said. “But we don’t have to accuse one another.”
The two continued to go back and forth, with Greene repeatedly insisting that Stahl should also acknowledge her own contribution to toxic politics.
“I don’t insult people,” Stahl said.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., previously apologized for her role in “toxic” politics. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)
“You just, you do in the way you question,” Greene said. “And you are, you’re accusing me right now.”
Fox News Digital reached out to CBS News for comment.
Greene previously sat down with Stahl in April 2023, when the two had a fiery exchange over the congresswoman’s claim that Democrats are the “party of pedophiles.”
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“They are not pedophiles. Why would you say that?” Stahl exclaimed.
“Democrats support — even Joe Biden, the president himself — supports children being sexualized and having transgender surgeries. Sexualizing children is what pedophiles do to children,” Greene said.
“Wow,” Stahl reacted.
“60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl had a tense exchange with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., over her claim that Democrats were the “party of pedophiles” during an April 2023 interview. (Screenshots/CBS News)
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Greene shocked the political landscape last month when she revealed she would leave Congress Jan. 5. Many believe her abrupt exit was the result of her soured relationship with President Donald Trump.
Fox News’ Joseph Wulfsohn contributed to this report.
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