Radio show host to call on psychics
Keep an open mind, urges radio talk show host Scott Colborn. The world is far more wild, wacky and wily than most imagine.
Ask Colborn, who has dedicated part of his life to unraveling the supernatural as a part of his 89.3 KZUM-FM radio show, “Exploring Unexplained Phenomena.”
His show will take a personal turn on Saturday when he’ll interview the first of three psychic detectives. Each will tell of their work on cold cases.
The idea for the show came after watching a CourtTV episode with psychics. Regina Bos, he thought after seeing the episode.
Bos, a 42-year-old mother of three, went missing from a downtown Lincoln club around 1 a.m. Oct. 17, 2000.
Colborn couldn’t tell you how many times he has talked about the night he didn’t meet her. He recites as if from script the night he never got a chance to meet Bos.
It was open mike night at Duggan’s Pub, a popular venue for local musicians. Just another Monday night, and Bos was just another musician strumming her guitar and belting out her best. Afterward, she jumped in to sing harmony with another group.
Colborn didn’t think much of it at the time, but he can remember Bos exchanging thank yous with the group afterward, talking about how they needed to get together.
“She was having fun and in full control of herself,” he said.
Then, Colborn, a drummer, and his band took the stage and closed down the club. They left about 1:15 or 1:20 a.m.
“I wish I could snap my finger and solve it. What I can’t imagine, unless this individual is dead, is waking up every single morning knowing they did this,” he said, referring to the commonly held belief that Bos was killed.
With the night etched in his mind, Colborn hopes the psychics he interviews will shed some light on how they might go about solving a case like Bos’s.
His show airs from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturdays and has been on the air since 1984. On Saturday, he’ll interview Noreen Renier, then two others on Feb. 18 and March 11.
Renier concentrates on criminal cold cases and has spoken at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va. She has a book, “A Mind for Murder: Real Life Files of a Psychic Investigator.”
Her Web site says psychic detectives should only be called into a case when traditional investigative methods haven’t worked. She uses two methods, one in which she touches an object the victim wore or a suspect left behind.
“(She) believes that objects emit a field of energy which can be ‘read.’ This energy-field carries information, images, visions, feelings, etc.,” her Web site says.
Another method involves Renier becoming another person, seeing, hearing and feeling the world through the senses of the victim or murderer.
She charges $1,000 for a one- to two-hour consultation, the Web site says. It also states this: “It must be understood that psychics do not solve crimes ... police do.”
Colborn contents everyone has some psychic ability.
“I have long believed that each of us have these gifts and abilities, (we’re just not in touch with them. People like Noreen realize they have these gifts.”
Colborn said he plans to ask each psychic about the Bos case, even though they may not be able to comment.
Jannel Rap, Bos’ sister who lives in Los Angeles, said about 20 psychics have approached or talked to her or police since the disappearance. She has even paid for a few psychic readings.
“They all have different ideas, but nothing concrete or anything that’s pointed us in any direction,” Rap said. “We don’t think they couldn’t help, but they haven’t helped.”
They might blurt out a number. They might say she’s by a river or a tree.
“It’s not solid enough to follow up on,” Rap said. “I take it with a grain of salt, but I write it down and try to look and see if anything is a common thread, but really, there hasn’t been.”
Still, Rap believes there’s some validity in psychics. She knows they have helped police in some cases.
“I believe some of them really do have a connection somehow. I don’t really know how they do it, but it hasn’t helped in the case of Gina,” she said.
The Bos family, her sister said, has settled in for the long haul. Hope is all they have.
“We’re hopeful with each passing day that we’re one day closer to finding her. We really didn’t think it would go five years,” she said. “But with each day that passes, you’re one day closer.”
Lincoln Police Detective Greg Sorensen, lead detective on the Bos case, says the psychics who have contacted LPD say about the same thing.
She’s dead and her body is near a body of water, or a busy highway, or in a rural area near a busy highway.
Sorensen said he might have an easier time buying into a psychic’s work if specific information came out of it.
“If somebody called me up and said they said we could find Regina there, and she’s there, I would be happiest person in the world,” he said. “Any help that I can get, I will take.
“But,” he added, “I don’t think the city would authorize payment of a psychic.”
Reach Gwen Tietgen at 473-7242 or gtietgen@journalstar.com.
Continuing the search
Jannel Rap, sister of missing Lincoln woman Regina Bos, started an organization for missing persons, GINA, which stands for Greater Information Now Available.
The group’s Web site is www.411gina.org.
Rap said the organization’s work serves as a reminder that good can come from tragedy.
“That’s what motivates me to continue on. Somebody is being helped, even if it’s not Gina.”
Ask Colborn, who has dedicated part of his life to unraveling the supernatural as a part of his 89.3 KZUM-FM radio show, “Exploring Unexplained Phenomena.”
His show will take a personal turn on Saturday when he’ll interview the first of three psychic detectives. Each will tell of their work on cold cases.
The idea for the show came after watching a CourtTV episode with psychics. Regina Bos, he thought after seeing the episode.
Bos, a 42-year-old mother of three, went missing from a downtown Lincoln club around 1 a.m. Oct. 17, 2000.
Colborn couldn’t tell you how many times he has talked about the night he didn’t meet her. He recites as if from script the night he never got a chance to meet Bos.
It was open mike night at Duggan’s Pub, a popular venue for local musicians. Just another Monday night, and Bos was just another musician strumming her guitar and belting out her best. Afterward, she jumped in to sing harmony with another group.
Colborn didn’t think much of it at the time, but he can remember Bos exchanging thank yous with the group afterward, talking about how they needed to get together.
“She was having fun and in full control of herself,” he said.
Then, Colborn, a drummer, and his band took the stage and closed down the club. They left about 1:15 or 1:20 a.m.
“I wish I could snap my finger and solve it. What I can’t imagine, unless this individual is dead, is waking up every single morning knowing they did this,” he said, referring to the commonly held belief that Bos was killed.
With the night etched in his mind, Colborn hopes the psychics he interviews will shed some light on how they might go about solving a case like Bos’s.
His show airs from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturdays and has been on the air since 1984. On Saturday, he’ll interview Noreen Renier, then two others on Feb. 18 and March 11.
Renier concentrates on criminal cold cases and has spoken at the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Va. She has a book, “A Mind for Murder: Real Life Files of a Psychic Investigator.”
Her Web site says psychic detectives should only be called into a case when traditional investigative methods haven’t worked. She uses two methods, one in which she touches an object the victim wore or a suspect left behind.
“(She) believes that objects emit a field of energy which can be ‘read.’ This energy-field carries information, images, visions, feelings, etc.,” her Web site says.
Another method involves Renier becoming another person, seeing, hearing and feeling the world through the senses of the victim or murderer.
She charges $1,000 for a one- to two-hour consultation, the Web site says. It also states this: “It must be understood that psychics do not solve crimes ... police do.”
Colborn contents everyone has some psychic ability.
“I have long believed that each of us have these gifts and abilities, (we’re just not in touch with them. People like Noreen realize they have these gifts.”
Colborn said he plans to ask each psychic about the Bos case, even though they may not be able to comment.
Jannel Rap, Bos’ sister who lives in Los Angeles, said about 20 psychics have approached or talked to her or police since the disappearance. She has even paid for a few psychic readings.
“They all have different ideas, but nothing concrete or anything that’s pointed us in any direction,” Rap said. “We don’t think they couldn’t help, but they haven’t helped.”
They might blurt out a number. They might say she’s by a river or a tree.
“It’s not solid enough to follow up on,” Rap said. “I take it with a grain of salt, but I write it down and try to look and see if anything is a common thread, but really, there hasn’t been.”
Still, Rap believes there’s some validity in psychics. She knows they have helped police in some cases.
“I believe some of them really do have a connection somehow. I don’t really know how they do it, but it hasn’t helped in the case of Gina,” she said.
The Bos family, her sister said, has settled in for the long haul. Hope is all they have.
“We’re hopeful with each passing day that we’re one day closer to finding her. We really didn’t think it would go five years,” she said. “But with each day that passes, you’re one day closer.”
Lincoln Police Detective Greg Sorensen, lead detective on the Bos case, says the psychics who have contacted LPD say about the same thing.
She’s dead and her body is near a body of water, or a busy highway, or in a rural area near a busy highway.
Sorensen said he might have an easier time buying into a psychic’s work if specific information came out of it.
“If somebody called me up and said they said we could find Regina there, and she’s there, I would be happiest person in the world,” he said. “Any help that I can get, I will take.
“But,” he added, “I don’t think the city would authorize payment of a psychic.”
Reach Gwen Tietgen at 473-7242 or gtietgen@journalstar.com.
Continuing the search
Jannel Rap, sister of missing Lincoln woman Regina Bos, started an organization for missing persons, GINA, which stands for Greater Information Now Available.
The group’s Web site is www.411gina.org.
Rap said the organization’s work serves as a reminder that good can come from tragedy.
“That’s what motivates me to continue on. Somebody is being helped, even if it’s not Gina.”
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