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Psychic Detective: Inside the Mind of Noreen Renier
What happens when a reluctant psychic becomes law enforcement's secret weapon? Noreen Renier, the only psychic ever invited to lecture at the FBI Academy, takes us behind the scenes of her extraordinary four-decade career solving over 400 criminal cases worldwide.
Renier's journey began with skepticism—her own. "I was a bit skeptical, so I liked the police because they were skeptical too," she reveals, explaining how her initial doubts about her abilities actually helped forge stronger connections with law enforcement. This remarkable self-awareness led to breakthrough cases that established her credibility in the most challenging environments.
Her methods would make most people shudder. Through psychometry—touching objects connected to victims—Renier experiences their final moments with disturbing clarity. "I've been shot with a shotgun... had my throat slit many times, stabbed in the head," she explains matter-of-factly, describing how she absorbs victims' suffering to extract crucial case details. Yet these traumatic experiences yield astonishing results, from accurately predicting Ronald Reagan's assassination attempt to providing vital information in the high-profile Lacey Peterson murder case.
At this stage in her life Renier has now shifted her focus from readings to teaching, particularly helping law enforcement develop their own intuitive abilities. She believes psychic potential exists in everyone, much like artistic talent, waiting to be cultivated through meditation and mindfulness. "Everyone has this ability to some extent, some greater than others, sort of like athletes," she explains. Her ultimate goal: creating specialized teams within police departments who can apply these techniques to time-sensitive cases like missing children investigations.
Explore the fascinating intersection of conventional detective work and extraordinary psychic abilities with a woman whose career challenges our understanding of human perception. Noreen’s groundbreaking approach to criminal investigation is revealed by her in this special edition of Paranormal Yakker.
(eerie music) Stan Mallow - Hi everyone, I'm Stan Mallow. Welcome to Paranormal Yakker. My guest today is psychic detective Noreen Renier. She is the only psychic ever to lecture at the FBI academy and has assisted law enforcement officials all over the world. Working on over 400 criminal cases. Noreen Renier, welcome to Paranormal Yakker. Noreen Renier - Pleasure to be here. Stan Mallow - When did you first realize Noreen that by blending, by meshing your psychic gifts with your innate investigative skills, you could help distraught clients and police who found themselves hitting a brick wall with dead-end cases. Noreen Renier - Was about 40 some years ago. I was a bit skeptical. So I liked the police because they were skeptical too. I really wanted the skepticism because I was not a total believer in the beginning and I accidentally got involved in it. And I remember, I think one of the early ones was a homicide and because I still had doubts, I made myself feel the pain of the person being killed. And that went on for years. I've been shot with a shotgun and I've been a male in male parts. I've had my throat slit many times, stabbed in the head. And for some reason, while I'm in this sort of trans state, I don't get upset. But later if I hear my tape of my sessions, which I taped everything, and lots of times we transcribed the tapes, I would get upset, but it came accidentally. And then I think one detective talked to another, then another talked to another and very early on, I was lecturing for the FBI. And that gave me a exposure to a lot of men all over the United States. Stan Mallow - How did law enforcement officers initially react to you being brought in, to help them solve unsolved cases? I'm sure, at least in the beginning there was reluctance by some to use the services of a psychic. Noreen Renier - Well, in the beginning, no, I was lucky the, or I think if they had been mean or really skeptical, had my skeptical cops in that lifetime, but in the beginning they just wanted to solve the crime. And they had heard that I had worked on this other crime. So they were all gung ho look, we just want to solve a crime. If she uses whatever method we don't care if we're successful. And I was good. And right from the beginning, we clicked because I liked their skepticism and then they were teaching me because I had never worked with the police. I mean, all my encounters were maybe a speeding ticket. I mean, I had, no, I didn't read mystery books. I mean, I had two kids I was bringing up all by myself. So it was a totally new world for me to step into. And I liked it and they liked me and they could tell that I was being honest and real because they were used to people lying to them. Stan Mallow - That's good to hear. Oh, what was the breakthrough moment? The first case you helped police solve that gave wider acceptance to your abilities in the eyes of law enforcement? Noreen Renier - There was a rape case in, I believe Virginia. He was a serial rapist and I was lecturing to, I was teaching at the time at the University of Virginia of all things, I could barely spell psychic phenomena, but somehow they hired me to teach ESP class. And really, I was learning myself at that time, but I was lecturing outside of it at another college. And they asked me, somebody in the audience asked me about the rapist. And I started giving information, which nowadays I wouldn't do at all cause who knows what I'm picking up from where, but in those I was ignorant/innocent and they took that information. They tape recorded it. And there was also a newspaper man there, but the family they tape recorded it, gave it to the police. And the police agreed to meet with me. And we met at one of the victim's homes, which I do most of my, 90% of my work over the phone now. But then I went to the home and described the bad guy and how he started and apologized to his victim. And she kept nodding and they were really pleased. And just before we left, they asked me one question, when will we catch him? When will we make an arrest? And I just off the top of my head, I told them what I saw, which turned out to be accurate and they were kind enough to come back and tell me about my accuracy, how the rapist did have the bad leg, how his mother worked at a restaurant. So that was the first time I had worked with the police. The first time people gave me feedback. Now, after that, the police, lots of times don't give me feedback because they don't want me to take any, I don't solve crimes. I really don't, the police do. I just am sort of another tool for the long arm of the law. Stan Mallow - Psychometry and remote viewing are two of the tools you use in your psychic investigations. In what manner do you employ them? Noreen Renier - Oh, I love psychometry. I just get so much from touching a bloody object or an object that the person wore. And then I see let's take a homicide and I'm holding glasses. I can see what she saw, but once she's dead, I can't see anymore from her eyes. So I have to switch to Noreen, but psychometry to me tells me so much, I've had artifacts from the past that I've been able to touch and describe. I remember a museum one time hired me because they had found this painting and they didn't know who the artist was. So they wouldn't let me touch the painting, but I could make passes over it. And I described the man and how he, what he wore, what century, they knew what century I was talking about when I described his fluffy shirt and everything about him. And I knew immediately who I was talking about. So psychometry is my favorite, I like that. Remote viewing I have to do mostly with missing children or missing people because you have nothing to touch or the crime, homicides are much easier for me and since I have no memory. I don't get upset at that time, later I might, I think burning, I think I was burned once, which was the worst death I had, the burning. We had to stop the session and I was crying and screaming. And because I really feel the pain of the victim, which I tried to stop over the years. Not do it as sort of watch it, but it's hard, it's hard. Stan Mallow - You predicted the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. When did you make that prediction and how did that premonition come about? Noreen Renier - It was the second time I had lectured at the academy, earlier I had lectured to a class of agents. And in those days they were mostly men. I would never seen a woman, but it was like 35 in a class and do all that. And then remember maybe a couple of times I did the lecture in the class and one man after the class came up to me and he said, I don't believe a word you said, prove it to me. So nowadays, I would say well tough noodles, I don't care. But then I was at the FBI academy. I was teaching. So I held his watch and I thought, oh my God, I've got to be good, I've gotta be good. And I remember seeing his back and I saw a scar shaped like a cross and he would go, no, no, anything I said, but the men took him in the back of the room and lifted up his shirt. And there was a scar shaped like a cross on his back. And then he confessed everything else I said. So then the next lecture was in an auditorium about like 350 men in there. And I'm lecturing. In fact, the same thing happened there after the lec, oh, during the lecture, somebody asked me about Reagan and how was he going to do? I said he would be very popular. But then I remember putting my hands to my chest and say, but he's going to be injured he is going to come from outside and is going to be at this time. And I told him, and then all of a sudden I'm interrupted and somebody else wants something else. Another question. And then finally the man in the back, they're always in the back of the room, man in the back of the room stood up and he said, I don't believe a word you said, if you could do what you say, tell me who, how so-and-so died. Bobby died, it's not really the name, but Bobby died. So again, I'm good at praying, oh God, let me be right. Let me be right. So I tried to tune in to Bobby and I could see he died a very torturous death. I said he was a friend of his sons and he lived close by to the officer and his family. And describe the, I forgot everything. I think it's in one of my books and that man was holding an unlit cigar. So he crushed the cigar, threw it on the ground and stormed off. And the FBI agent came on the stage and said, who Noreen just described was Gacy. He was a serial killer of young children. And he always tortured them before death. So that I went outside the answer, but sort of tells you. Stan Mallow - Yeah, I'm glad you did. The Laci Peterson murder was in the headlines for a long time. And you Noreen provided police with vital information about the case. What were the circumstances surrounding your involvement? Noreen Renier - His mother called me and wanted to hire me. Oh, she wrote a check. I don't know why, but somehow I lowered by fee for her and I never copied checks I got, but for some reason I copied her check, later she denied and I told her, I said I needed something that Laci wore a great deal. So I could psychometrize it. I was not going to touch Scott. I was going to just find where the body was. I was going to program my mind, just find the body. Don't be concerned who did it. So we got to program my mind. Well, what Scott sent me was a big T-shirt of Laci, which I think if she wore it at all, there was no vibes, very little vibes. So I was calling his mother, I thought, and I got Scott on the phone and I could tell right away his mind was just being protective. It was shutting down on me. And I said, Scott, I'm so sorry about your wife. I appreciate you sending me the big T-shirt, but I need something that she wore more. Do you have, the police told me, he said we don't have any, the police took a lot. I said a toothbrush, hairbrush. No, the police took it. I said, the police taking a lot of shoes. Could you send me a pair of her shoes? So I would get vibes and there again, but what he didn't realize he did. He wrote in his own handwriting, my address on the envelope, his return address. So all I did was touch his handwriting and that's when I, and we send it to, usually I work with the police, but the police said cause this is so high profile. We can't work with you, but we'll listen to anything you give us So I hired not hired. I had a parapsychologist from up north, question me because I need to be questioned. So the police, they trained me enough that, we'll ask you a question. You tell us the answer. So I was real good at doing that. So she questioned me a lot. She tape recorded it and then transcribed it and sent it to the police. And then we did send it to the mother later and we tried to take out anything that Scott was mentioned in, but I did lead them. And I had never been in that part of the country and neither had, it was in Modesta and neither had the girl. So I had to leave from their place and try to drive them, go through the construction. That way there's a water, that and I don't remember everything. I think it's in my book A Mind from Murder. Stan Mallow - Yes and the beautiful sedgueway right now, cause that's what I wanted to speak to you next about. In your book, A Mind for Murder, the real life files of a psychic investigator. You give a true account of your remarkable life and career, included are stories about your prediction of the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan and your involvement in the Laci Peterson murder, both of which we spoke about, but you also include a number of other fascinating, literally jaw-dropping stories, such as having a client who is a professional mercenary. Can you expand on that story? Noreen Renier - This was very early in my career and I was seeing people, I lived in Virginia and people in those days, I didn't do it over the phone, I think I started there doing it over the phone, but I, people would just come in and remember this sort of still a little tough, a rough guy coming in and asking me questions about his, will I be safe? Will I have safe? It meant safe was a lot of important. The questions were sorta weird that he asked, and then he would come back and say, yes, you were right. This happened, the camp trip was canceled, but yes, I was this. And then he would ask for another reading and he was going someplace else. And he claimed he was a contractor. It was in construction or a contract for the, get all over all of the world, I guess. I'm trying to think how I knew that he, oh, oh, he got drunk one night. I think this is it. And he called me and he said he was the prince of death or darkness. I forgot all that. But he sort of told me about, he was drunk and he was confirming the trip, but he was also telling me about himself, but I really forgot. I think I pushed that one really back, really back, but he was an assassin. That's what he was doing, coming to me before each killing and making sure that the end, he wanted me to see always the end result. And the last time of course he got caught. I think it was in Qaddafi's area. I'm not a hundred. We should read the book. I should've read that chapter, darn, I'm sorry. Stan Mallow - Well if you wish to read the book you'll know about that. That's just touching on it. I mean, all of your stories are just incredible. And in your book, The Practical Psychic, a no-nonsense guide to developing your natural, intuitive abilities, you provide instructions, how anyone can develop and use their psychic abilities, to enrich their everyday life. This includes exercises and meditations. Can you share one or two were the exercises you recommend? Noreen Renier - Well, first of, at the beginning, I thought maybe I was special. And then I realized I'm not special. Everyone could do to some extent, it's like art. I can't draw but people claim anybody can draw or play musical instruments. I have bad ears. So I can't sing. I can dance, but I can't sing. But everyone has this ability to some extent, some greater than others, sort of like an athletes and all. And so I, University of Virginia, when I started teaching, I realized that everything first number one is energy. And if we learned how to interpret energy and when Ian Stevenson, who was very much into reincarnation, he was out of the states when I was hired, otherwise I would have never been hired because he just didn't believe in psychics. And my class was, it was going to say development, he said no, you can't tell people you could develop them. I said, but I can, I can. He said, no, you can't tell people. He would go your class should be called ESP and an awareness. So our class is really just games. I tell them to leave their logical mind at the door and we just play these games because we're so taught by society to use our logical, rational, thinking mind, the other hemisphere, that's what gets us in trouble. That's why psychiatrists are busy because the emotional side is not paid as much attention, to certainly 50 years ago, when I was starting to teach and all, it was more ignored, but now they have mindful meditation and meditation because we have right brain, left brain thinking, we cross over accidentally sometimes, sometimes in dreams. People have these wonderful dreams because they've let down all their defenses. But I was trying to teach them how to use the other hemisphere of the mind. Oh dear I'm just sort of going on and on. And now I, let me just breathe. I get excited very easily. Whoa, dear, I'm so sorry. Stan Mallow - No, no, no, not at all. Noreen Renier - So when I teach it, psychic abilities, I'm not teaching them I'm making them aware of what they already have. And I think through meditation of calming ourselves and focusing on other aspects it opens up the mind a great deal. I'm not saying that very cleverly, I'm so sorry. Stan Mallow - Oh no. It's very clear what you were saying. No, it makes a lot of sense what you were saying and letting people realize, it's all within them, they have that ability. They just have to accept it and develop it and focus on that. Now I have a question for you related to a lot of the things you told me, during our interview, if I'm wrong about this, tell me, but I would say that you are an empath because you were saying with the fire and different things that you pick up. My question to you is, and I'm always curious when I speak to people who are empaths on picking that up. How do you deal with that? Especially say, when you're in a crowd and you don't know who's what, what vibes are coming there and you pick up on that, how do you deal with that? Noreen Renier - It is difficult. It was difficult before I knew I was psychic. I just never liked crowded malls. I would just like little tiny stores, that very few people were in, but I didn't know what it was all about. And then even as a psychic, I again didn't realize how much people were affecting me. So I am a loner, I am a loner. I like maybe more one-on-one, I don't mind lecturing because I'm not that close. I'm on a stage. I like that. But to be in crowds, I couldn't handle it. I just can't. So I definitely prefer being, I love being alone I really do. I used to have a log cabin and I had 20 acres and everybody else around me had hundreds. So we had the animals and the only time I would have people is if I went out and I could choose when to go out and I loved living out there yes. Stan Mallow - Yeah, I just had to ask you that question for the same, cause it had to be so difficult to deal with, but obviously you did. Should viewers of Paranormal Yakker want to order your books, employ your services, learn about your lectures. What is your contact information? Noreen Renier - I have a website called all the W's NoreenRenier.com. I'm not doing private readings anymore. Really ancient, I'm 84 now. I can't believe I'm still alive. But I am lecturing and I am teaching. I might be teaching some police. I won't say where yet, how to develop their own ability, which is my goal. We will only need a few. We don't need the whole squad. We just need a special team to do what I can do. Certainly on missing children, crimes that they need help right away. If they had their own special people inside doing it, it would make easier. So I'm teaching the police, but I'm not doing private readings but my books, I want them to grow and learn. And I'm very honest. So I think I've showed as much as I know the truth. Stan Mallow - Noreen Renier, I thank you for being my guest on Paranormal Yakker. I wish you much success, not just with your books, but with the amazing work you're doing as a psychic detective. Noreen Renier - Thank you, I really appreciate that. Thank you. Stan Mallow - This has been a wonderful interview and God bless.(eerie music) Hi everyone, I'm Stan Mallow, the Paranormal Yakker. I hope you enjoyed the interview you just watched. To be sure you don't miss any interviews on my free YouTube channel. All you have to do is press the subscribe button on your screen.