Column Chronicles: The Skeptical Psychic and the Visiting Nurse Murders

The Skeptical Psychic and the Visiting Nurse Murders

Frank Cotolo
December 5, 2024

I worked as his assistant, he being Reggie Von Wethersbury, the Skeptical Psychic, for fifteen years during the greatest time of his success whenever called upon by police detectives.

Another great adventure with him was the case of the the Visiting Nurse Murders. After a score of deaths the detectives were stumped and turned to Reggie.

"Reggie," a detective said, "all of victims were visiting nurses caring for sick people at the peoples' homes."

"Did they wear uniforms?" Reggie said.

"Sick people don't wear uniforms," I said.

"Shut that kid up," a detective said.

"I see images of nurses," Reggie said, "but they could be ice cream salesmen dressed as nurses. But I don't know, perhaps they were house painters."

"They?"

"Oh there was more than one," Reggie said. "Maybe a dozen house painters ganging up on sick people. A gang, maybe."

The detective said, "So they weren't visiting nurses?"

"They may've been, sure," Reggie said, "but I'm foggy on the nurse thing."

"But you said you visualized nurses."

"I did not use the word visualize. Even if I did I may have meant imagined or depicted or interpreted. But the seventeen sick people murdered..."

"We didn't say there were seventeen," a detective said.

"Maybe you're right but I actualized seventeen. Unless I miscounted and there were only eleven."

"But Reggie," I said, "all of the victims had visiting nurses and none were found after the murders."

"Shut that kid up," a detective said.

"I'm getting a vision," Reggie said. "I see a blues quartet dressed in white from head to toe, five of them, and they're strangling sick nurses with guitar strings. Then again the sick people don't look sick at all. They're faking it. Or not."

"Brilliant," the detective said later that week when three visiting nurses confessed to the murders. "We can thank Reggie Von Wethersbury, the Skeptical Psychic for solving this one."

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.