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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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Brother of Parkland school shooting victim welcomes demolition: 'Provides us closure'
The brother of one of the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting victims said he is glad that the building where the 2018 massacre took place is being torn down.
Demolition began Friday of the 1200 building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where Nikolas Cruz killed 14 students and three adults in a Valentine’s Day shooting. Cruz’s rampage injured 17 others in what was the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history.
Hunter Pollack, whose sister Meadow was one of the slain students, said the building is a constant reminder of the horrific tragedy.
“Every day I drive by that building, the pain in my heart. It makes me want to throw up because it reminds me my sister was murdered on that third floor. It could have been prevented, it wasn’t prevented, and it makes me furious,” Pollack, 26, told Fox News Digital.
“I think the building should be knocked down. We’ll never forget that Meadow is dead, of course, she’ll be forever in our hearts.”
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The 1200 building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland has stood as a painful reminder of that tragic day and a nightmarish backdrop to current students who have been attending school in a new adjacent building on the campus. The new building replaced temporary classrooms students had been using for years after the massacre.
For years, it was left standing, frozen in time with its bullet-ridden walls and dry blood-stained floors as Cruz’s case and that of Parkland school resource officer Scot Peterson moved through the courts.
In 2022, Cruz was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, while Peterson was acquitted last year of felony child neglect and other criminal charges for failing to enter the building, engage the gunman and help the victims during the six-minute rampage.
However, the 1200 building is now being ripped down, and the operation is expected to take several weeks. Torrential rain in the Sunshine State prevented the start of demolition from going ahead as initially planned on Thursday.
Survivors, families of victims, as well as teachers and staff, had any items they desired returned to them, the Broward County Public Schools said.
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Pollack said the 1200 building is passed by residents every day given its prominent location in the neighborhood, at the intersection of Holmberg and Pine Island, and has had a fence erected around it.
“We don’t need the building there to remind us, the building is just a negative thing in our community,” Pollack said.
“Especially for the kids going to school there and the other people that live in Parkland that weren’t necessarily affected by the tragedy. But I have to be reminded every time they drive by the building. So I’m 100% in support of knocking down that building. It’s time we provide our community with some closure and having that building does not provide any closure.”
It is unclear what will become of the site after the structure is torn down.
“I think we could build a beautiful memorial, but if we build nothing, I’m OK with that, too,” Pollack says.
“At the end of the day, it’s up to the school board and the other municipalities and elected officials in Broward County to make that decision. But it’s not fair to the other people in the community to just constantly be reminded of such a terrible tragedy that occurred in Parkland.”
Some families have toured the building to see where their loved ones were slaughtered, as did Vice President Kamala Harris and some members of Congress.
Others, however, including Pollack, said it would have been too painful to see where his sister was innocently killed after Cruz stalked three floors of the classroom building.
“I saw the footage of the shooting for the first time in December of 2023… and what I saw reminded me of what you would see in a movie or documentary about war,” Pollack said. “It was just totally vile… to me, it’s not something I wanted to walk through after seeing the footage of what occurred.”
Pollack said that his sister Meadow was shot nine times by Cruz, who was armed with an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle and multiple magazines. Pollack has since successfully advocated for ending a unanimous jury requirement in death penalty sentencing after a divided 9-3 jury spared the life of Cruz.
“You could just see in the video and the pictures that I saw that it’s disgusting,” Pollack said. “If you could compare it to what’s going on in some places like Israel and Gaza, then you could do so because these kids were murdered by an AR-15. My sister was shot nine times, I watched it on camera. It was disgusting.”
“In that building, there was blood everywhere. It was a scene that would be in a horror movie.”
“I spoke to a law clerk that was working in a law firm, and he said that when he watched the footage of what happened he had to take a break as he was throwing up and crying. I mean, it was just totally disgusting and the inside of the building itself was blood all over the place. It was chaotic. It was something that you can’t fathom unless you saw the footage, the pictures, or walked the building yourself.”
“And that’s why I think it’s best that that building comes down, and we get a fresh start in the community, because the community deserves a fresh start.”
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Florida woman, 71, shot roommate dead because he 'did not clean up after himself': Police
An elderly Tampa woman allegedly shot her roommate dead because he “did not clean up after himself,” police said.
Patricia Whitehead, 71, faces one count of first-degree premeditated felony murder, according to Hillsborough County Court records.
Police responded to a reported shooting at a home on E. 26th Avenue around 9:28 a.m. on Thursday, the Tampa Police Department wrote in a press release. There, they found a man with a gunshot wound to his upper torso who later died of his injuries at an area hospital.
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“Through their investigation, detectives were able to determine that the suspect, 71-year-old Patricia Whitehead, and the victim shared a residential space,” read the release.
Whitehead had grown angry with the victim, “claiming he did not clean up after himself,” police said.
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On Thursday, the victim slammed the door as he left the residence. In response, police said, Whitehead “retrieved her firearm from her bedroom, exited the residence and shot the victim multiple times.”
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Whitehead is currently being detained at the Orient Road Jail without bond, according to online booking records. Her court date has not yet been scheduled. Fox News Digital could not reach her assigned public defender at press time.
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Trump celebrates 78th birthday with massive MAGA cake, fan club members in Florida
Former President Donald Trump celebrated his 78th birthday by hosting a political rally with members of his fan club in Florida.
Trump appeared at an event celebrating his birthday in West Palm Beach with members of Club 47.
“This is the biggest birthday party I’ve ever had by far,” Trump said of the event.
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The former president was presented with a Make America Great Again-themed birthday cake.
Trump revisited some of his biggest hits from the campaign trail, speaking at length about his belief that President Biden is mentally incompetent to hold office.
“Our country is being destroyed by incompetent people,” Trump told the crowd. “All presidents should have aptitude tests.”
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Club 47 is based in Palm Beach County and is intended to keep local Trump supporters engaged with the campaign.
The club sold out of its approximately 5,000 tickets, which were priced at $35 a piece. More exclusive seats near the stage were priced at $60.
During the event, Trump promised to build a “great” Iron Dome for the U.S. during his birthday rally, saying that it would be “made in America.”
“By next term we will build a great Iron Dome over our country,” Trump said about the idea, which he attributed to former President Ronald Reagan. “We deserve a dome. We deserve it all, made state of the art.
“It’s a missile defense shield, and it’ll all be made in America,” he said. “Jobs, jobs, jobs.”
Fox News Digital’s Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
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