Baseline Killer Guilty / Allison Dubois Wrong And Useless

After a five-month trial, and seven days of jury deliberation, Mark Goudeau was convicted yesterday in 68 out of 72 counts including all nine “Baseline Killer” murders in Phoenix, AZ. He was caught in December 2006 through the use of DNA evidence.

Also residing in Phoenix, AZ is pretend psychic (some redundancy there – all psychics are pretend) Allison Dubois, of the TV series “Medium” (and more recently “Housewives of Beverly Hills”) fame. Of course Allison, back before Goudeau was caught, couldn’t resist getting in on the act, playing the usual guessing games in the hope that her guesses would be close to the actual person they would eventually catch. As I wrote in July 2006 in Medium guesses about serial killer, Dubois’s guesses were generic, just playing the odds and utterly useless in helping the police catch the killer. Five months later they caught Goudeau, and as I wrote in Allison Dubois no help in catching killer, her guesses also turned out to be totally wrong. Allison Dubois told dumb reporter Bert Sass in July 2006 that the Baseline Killer:

• Is not from Arizona
• Is ready to bolt.. “I would look in California”
• Didn't have a father in his household growing up
• Had a mother he didn't respect but that he, on a strange level, loved and is a little protective of when somebody says something about his mother. It's a love-hate which he has for her…
• Tucks his long hair up in his hat to hide it
• Was in and out of juvenile detention as he was growing up

All completely wrong. (Read Allison Dubois no help in catching killer for the details.)

It is true that an earlier composite police sketch of a possible suspect showed a man with a hat and long hair. But I’m sure Allison didn’t see the newspaper reports of that, oh no.

Also, although Dubois was apparently able to see Goudeau’s non-existent juvenile detention, she completely missed the fact that he had spent 13 years in adult jail, in trouble for a variety of things including charges of kidnapping, sexual assault and aggravated assault in the beating of a woman – information that might have been useful to the police in chasing down a killer/rapist. Assuming you knew such things using your awesome psychic powers.

It is clear we can now say with extreme certitude that Allison Dubois was totally wrong and completely useless in capturing this high profile killer who terrorized her home town for over a year before he was caught.

Now of course, I know that prosecutors sometimes get the wrong person and that innocent people are occasionally found guilty. (And some still claim he is innocent.) But, the thing is, I’ve watched several episodes of that dreary “Medium” TV program that is supposed to be based on Dubois’s actual life, and one thing that happens on the TV show is that if the cops have the wrong person, the TV “Allison Dubois” provides accurate information so that the real culprit is caught and the innocent person freed. In fact, that happens regularly. If Goudeau really were innocent, now would be the time for the real Allison Dubois to lead police to the real killer. But of course, she won’t as she has no such abilities. Her website has no mention of either Goudeau or the Baseline Killings, despite her eagerness to be quoted before Goudeau was caught. And, fortunately, police don’t pay any attention to her anyway, despite what she claims. What a waste of space she is.

More on Allison's awesome psychic abilities

Skeptico on Allison Dubois:

Allison Dubois Reads Newspaper, Tells Police

Medium guesses about serial killer

Allison Dubois no help in catching killer

A walking, camera-strutting, fake-ghost-talking joke

Secretary to the dead

Burden of proof

The Two Percent Company on Allison Dubois

Allison Dubois Week

Allison DuBois - Even More of a Hypocrite Than Previously Thought

Polar Opposites

Comments

[Andy]

Welcome back!

[Yojimbo]

Indeed - you've been missed.

[Bronze Dog]

Good to see you're still alive. Not so good to see Allison Dubois is still doing her thing. Or rather, not doing it.

[Skeptico]

Thanks all. It was actually a post I had been expecting to write for about a year now since the trial was in progress. At least I can cancel my "Mark Goudeau" Google alert now.

OTOH, it did inspire me to write another post today. That's two in a week - more than in the previous year!

[Rosie Davis]

According to Science: Quantum Entanglement = ESP.
2 protons met/were separated/1 was altered & the other altered by it's self far away from the first proton, which prover ESP. How, science does not know.
I don't believe the dead hang around just waiting for us to pay attention to them &/or to resolve the unresolved. However maybe it's unresolved memory, able to be accessed & continued ie; holograms audio/visual.
Maybe some people, can access these places in time & space/our mind set/our memory bank. Maybe they can hear us thinking & take it from there.
.... Mind Over Quantum Matter .... ?
Bump in the night does happen.

[Rosie Davis]

P.S there is also Toxaplasma Gondii :- flu like symptoms & apparent psychic ability ?
Also Shaman Crisis/Shaman Emergency ?
Scary places to be at, hey ! .....

[Skemono]

Um, no. Quantum entanglement is not the same as ESP. Just for starters, quantum entanglement is a phenomenon that was predicted by the model of quantum mechanics and was later tested and shown to exist; whereas ESP is a vague term for any number of different paranormal abilities (clairaudience, clairvoyance, telepathy, seeing the future, seeing the past, projecting images/dreams to other people's minds, telling what sort of card someone is holding, etc.), none of which have been shown to exist at all. So, no, quantum entanglement doesn't "prove" ESP. That has yet to be done.

[King of Ferrets]

Addressing the yet-to-be-addressed post (part of it, anyway, I have no idea what the shaman thing is about), toxoplasma gondii's effects probably have less to do with ESP and more to do with the fact that it's living inside another organism and can screw with said organism's body and brain. Just. You know. Seems likely.