Psychics love to make claims that they 'help the police' with murder and missing persons cases as the police are usually portrayed as being highly skilled, methodical and objective when it comes to solving crime
...
. It is now almost 18 months since Madeleine McCann went missing in Portugal. As is usual with high profile cases of missing persons, there's a plethora of 'gifted' psychics and mediums eager to involve themselves with the case so that if it is ever solved they can claim to have 'helped'. It is taking advantage of others' misfortune in a most despicable way yet it seems to help their profile - amongst believers
...