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Psychic ComesAlaska .—Continued from page 1She doesn’t know how these landmarks relate to the case.In early October, the clues began to fail into place. A story was published in the Anchorage Times describing the above visions. Pat Winters, who used to run a trading post on the Parks Highway, says the landmarks Allison described can be found in the Willow area. “When I read the story it was so clear to me. Even though she (Allison) had never been to Alaska she was describing a place that I know. I read it and had goose bumps,”Winters said.According to Winters, Allison may be describing Mile 65 on the Parks Highway — a place where the highway and the Alaska Railroad intersect. It is known to local residents as “Deadman’s Comer” or “White’s Crossing because of the number of accidents which happen there.Until 1978 an Alaska State Trooper lived at White’s Crossing, Winters said. A mile and a half north of White’s Crossing is Crystal Lake. Next to the lake is the Turning Point Boys Ranch, a private institution that attempts to help wayward boys.Winters cannot remember whether or not a policeman was involved in an accident in the area, however, she does remember that her daughter has some memory of a childhood friend’s father dying or being seriously injured in an automobile crash near Mile 65. She thinks her friend’s father may have been a policeman.When told of this breakthrough, .Allison could not say whether the area Winters spoke of was the scene she had envisioned. She said she would know more upon her arrival in Alaska. Allison did say, “It’s beautiful when people respond like that,” noting that suchinformation has helped find achildrennumber * of missing in the past.Originally scheduled to arrive in Alaska towards the end of October, Allison has been delayed by the illness of her aide, Detective Salvatorre Lubertazziof the Nut ley, N.J. Police Department. Detective Lubertazzi suffered a heart attack and has been replaced on the case by Capt. Angelo “Sonny Ferrara, also of the Nutiey PoliceDepartment.Lubertazzi has worked with Allison since 1974 when they combined forces to find the body of a missing Nutiey businessman. Lubertazzi accompanies Allison when she works on cases outside New Jersey and screens all her mail. The practice was initiated by the Nutiey Police Department for Allison’s protection.Lubertazzi is also invaluable to Allison in another way. His long-time association with the psychic has given him the ability to interpet what she says faster than anyone else Interpretation is important in order to weave through the maze of possible clues. Allison doesn’t know if the visions she has seen in relation to the Fandei case are related to the children themselves or to the person or persons responsible for their disappearance.By coming to Alaska, Allison believes she can bring into focus what she has seen and hopefully give to police theleads they need to crack thecase.Allison accepts only gratitude and expenses in exchange for her services. She requires expenses because, “I can't afford to go all the places I am need ed,” Allison said.Allison was asked to work on the case - by Terry Schon felder, the Fandei childrens uncle.Although Schonfelder isjjen eraily skeptical of psychics, hehopes for the clues needed to solve the mystery. “I think she’s our last hope,” he said.While the Fandei case is Allisons primary reason forcoming to Alaska, other people have contacted her in their search for missing children. She has agreed to work on other cases if time permits.A fund has been established by Frank Devlin, the father of 18-year old Joey Devlin, who is believed to have died in an automobile accident July 12. Devlin’s two-door Toyota crashed in Keystone Canyon and rolled into the Lowe River. When the car was discovered, the boy’s body could not be found. An intense search produced only one clue, the boy’s T-shirt, which was found inside out on a sandbar in the river Police feel it was washed off the boy’s body by the force of the current and that the boy drowned. Devlin, however, feels his son did not die in the crash. Based on the condition of the car, and that the doors were jammed tightly shut with the roof pushed in, he feels it was impossible for the boy s bodv to wash out of the carIf his 90n survived the crash, perhaps by being thrown from the car, Devlin believes it may be possible the boy wandered off, and may be suffering from amnesia. The lack of finality in the case has kept alive Devlins flickering hope, ‘it’s the not knowing that’s really hard. If he’s gone. I just hope she (Allison) can find him for us.According to State Troop ers working on the disappear ance of local Fairbanks girl, Doris Oehring, Allison will notbe working on her case Appar ently she volunteered her set vices early in the search, but was unable to come up with any clues. So far as the troopers know at present, AUison will not be coming to Fairbanks.
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Fairbanks Pioneer All Alaska Weekly
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Thu, Nov 06, 1980
Page 11
Full Page
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Jessica D.
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