Ty Callison for Kennebec7 #5
Well, whatta you know? Kennebec7 extended me. Apparently you folks were taken by Edson’s story, and Carmen DaSilva, so Kennebec knew I had another prime Edson Viana story, and they thought this would be the ideal time to tell it to you.
When Edson and I were working the Billy McCrae case together, we had occasion to go out to a Japanese restaurant for lunch in Scottsdale where we got to swapping stories. Edson asked if it was acceptable up here in the U.S. for a lawman to use psychic abilities to help solve a case. I told Edson that I keep what I do pretty quiet. Some colleagues on the force that are real close to me know something about my special skills. But I’ve been somewhat successful at keeping the media ignorant of those extrasensory aspects of crime solving. They call me ‘highly intuitive,’ and that’s fine.
I asked Edson how about down in Brazil? Edson said his paranormal abilities get into the newspapers and TV all the time. Later he showed me stuff about him on the Internet, but it was in Portuguese. His picture was there all right.
“In Brazil,” he told me, “these phenomena are more widely accepted.”
“But Brazil is a Christian country. Right? Don’t you get a lot of grief from those folks?”
“In Brazil Christianity blends with Spiritism. It is in our tradition.”
Then he went on to tell me an amazing story. “I was even in court testifying in a murder case,” Edson grinned, “but it wasn’t me who was testifying. It was the spirit of the murdered woman.”
It turned out that Edson was living some 200 miles away from where the dead woman’s husband was on trial, defending himself against a charge of murdering his wife.
“I was sleeping one night, minding my own business,” Edson said, “blissfully unnoticing this trial when Julietta Barreto came to me. A pale, gossamer spirit, a not unattractive lady, who had been forty-nine years of age,
suffering from cancer, when someone poisoned her. I was not shocked, Ty, well, perhaps momentarily at my awakening. But then I was pleased. I rather enjoy meeting people from other realms. Unless they are diabolical spirits, which also happens on occasions. But even those entities are not necessarily what they seem.”
Edson went on to explain that this Julietta was rather distraught over the fact that her husband very well could be found guilty of her murder, when, in fact, he was totally innocent, being framed by her brother, who was the real killer. It was, as usual, motivated by greed. The husband was supposed to inherit Julietta’s estate, but if he was found guilty of her murder, the brother could inherit.
“Julietta told me,” Edson went on, “’My husband was steadfast during the horror of my cancer. My brother wishes to deprive him of my inheritance. I implore you to make this right.”
“Madam, what can I do to help you?”
“You can go to court and testify on my behalf,” she replied. “I am aware of your abilities to channel the voices of the deceased.”
And so, Edson went to court in the city where the trial was going on. He was an esteemed man in Brazil. Folks knew what he did. He was allowed to testify for the defense as Julietta, which, of course, would be unthinkable up here in the States.
The defense attorney asked him questions about the murder, and Edson answered, but it was Julietta’s voice that came out of his mouth. Through Edson, the murdered woman told the details that would be impossible for anyone to know excepting Julietta. Edson had not been in her city in about two years. He (she) spoke of particular streets, rooms in her house, all matter of intimate details that were relevant to her murder.. She explained how her brother had provided the poison, but it was unwittingly served by her husband.
The husband was found not guilty. The brother was ultimately arrested and tried and found guilty. Surprised our media never picked up such a story. It was pretty big news down there in Brazil.
“The Madagascan tiger prawn here is excellent, Ty,” Edson commented at the end of his story. “The best I have tasted outside of Tokyo.”
Thanks for checking me out,
Ty Callison
Mesa, Arizona
04/12/2010