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Richard Kneebone Reading

Sylvia Browne's services are sought to help find a missing man.

Published: Jan 07, 2008
Written by: Robert S. Lancaster

Richard Kneebone

Richard Kneebone

Background

Around midnight on June 22 1990, 26-year-old Richard Kneebone was last seen leaving a bar in Hollister, California and did not make it home.

Concerned, Mr. Kneebone's wife and relatives enlisted Sylvia Browne's help in finding him.

Missing

An excerpt from article in the July 6th San Jose Mercury News tells of Sylvia Browne's involvement (emphasis mine):

TITLE: NO CLUES IN HOLLISTER MAN'S DISAPPEARANCE
AUTHOR: JACK FOLEY
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News
DATE: July 6, 1990
PAGE: 1B

The disappearance of a 26-year-old Hollister man two weeks ago has police and relatives worried and baffled. Richard Kneebone was last seen leaving Don Pedro's tavern around midnight June 22, several hours after telling his wife and sister he was going for a walk.

He had suffered a concussion and neck sprain earlier in the day and was on medication, according to his family and authorities.

Teresa Kneebone said the family, including a father and a brother who live in San Jose, is so concerned about her husband they consulted well-known psychic Sylvia Brown for help.

"She said she feels he's not dead and that he could be traveling in Canada . . . and have partial amnesia," Teresa Kneebone said.

[...]

Found

An excerpt from the same newspaper, five days later, tells what happened (emphasis mine):

TITLE: BODY FOUND IN HOLLISTER IS IDENTIFIED CORONER SAYS MAN DIED OF BROKEN NECK, INJURIES TO HEAD
AUTHOR: JACK FOLEY
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News
PUBLISHED: July 11, 1990
PAGE: 1B

A body discovered in a vacant Hollister lot July 7 has been identified as that of Richard Kneebone, who was reported missing June 22 by his family.

[...]

Kneebone's badly decomposed body was identified using dental records and from clothing and a watch found on the body...

[...]

The tavern is a few blocks from where the body was found at the base of a building near police headquarters ...

Analysis

It is unclear when the "reading" with Browne occurred, but it had to be between the time of the disappearance (June 22) and the publication of the first article (July 6th).

Since his body was found on July 7th (the day after the first article was published), and was "badly decomposed" at that time, I think it is fairly safe to say that Browne was incorrect in saying that he was alive at the time the reading occurred.

Also, his body was found only blocks away from where he had disappeared, not "traveling to Canada." as Browne had predicted.

So, of the two statements Mrs. Kneebone reported Browne making, both were incorrect, leaving her with a zero percent accuracy rating in this case.

Conclusion

Yet another missing person case where Browne was totally incorrect, and in which she fed totally incorrect information to a family desperate for real answers.

Did she charge the family for this reading? She claims to never charge in a missing person case. She also claims to only work such cases through law enforcement. Was that the case this time? If I find the answers to these questions, I will post them as an update to this article.

My thanks to QG, a correspondent to this site who informed me of this case.

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