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Psychic Says She Knows Location Of Duckett, Kesse
POSTED: 7:37 pm EST February 25, 2008
UPDATED: 8:01 am EST February 26, 2008
ORLANDO, Fla. -- An Orlando woman said she has visions about two big local missing person cases -- information that could help solve the cases.
"I will see images. I will hear a voice," Maggie Giono said.
Giono said she can channel spirits, talk with the dead and see into the future through meditation.
"l grew up with that gift. I've seen accidents before they happen, plane crashes before they happen," Giono said.
Giono said sometimes it can be very hard to know what to do with the information she sees.
She struggles to make sense of her visions, but hopes they can help with investigations that, to this day, baffle detectives -- cases like missing Orlando woman Jennifer Kesse and missing Lake County toddler Trenton Duckett.
"It's time for me to help bring closure with the gift I have to families like the Kesses and Trenton Duckett's family," Giono said.
Since 2-year-old Trenton Duckett disappeared from his mother's Leesburg apartment in August of 2006, Giono said the little boy has been talking to her, trying to lead her to him.
"Trenton has told us a lot of things. We've had many readings with Trenton," Giono said.
Those readings guided her across hundreds of miles in Lake County on her own time -- eventually leading her to Emeralda Marsh off county Road 452.
"These sheds are like what I saw," she said. "It was after many days of digging and searching that we actually found a location that had absolutely every landmark."
Giono called investigators, so they went with it, combing the private property for two days hoping this was the break in the case they needed.
"The tip said, he's here, right at this specific location," Lt. Robert Hicks of the Leesburg Police Department said.
Giono's remains convinced Trenton's body was there at one point.
"It's my feeling he's been put in the trunk of a car and moved," Giono said.
Leesburg police, like most departments in Central Florida, said they've never paid a psychic to help solve a crime.
"We really don't put much faith into them," Josh Duckett, Trenton's father, said.
Duckett said he's been let down by too many psychic tips to be a believer.
"If they were seeing things, and they could tell what happened and where he's at, then obviously, he'd be home now, he wouldn't still be missing," Duckett said.
Father Drew Kesse said not one of the many psychics that has contacted them has been able to help find his daughter, Jennifer.
She's been missing since January 2006.
Police believe Jennifer left her apartment for work and someone abducted her between her home and her car.
Giono said she has seen a different story.
"I believe she was abducted at the Mobile gas station at Kirkman and L.B. McLeod," Giono said. "That someone climbed in the back seat of her car and held a knife to her throat."
Giono said she believes Jennifer Kesse is in a waste management manhole off L.B. McLeod Road.
An Orlando police detective said they have searched waste management there based on Giono's tip.
They have also drained a retention pond, but they only found chicken bones and a lot of sludge.
They said they are willing to search this area with new concrete evidence that Jennifer Kesse is actually there.
Giono said she cannot change skeptics' minds that wonder how she can possibly be seeing what happened to Trenton and Jennifer when they're still missing. She said it is not her intention to change skeptics minds.
For desperate family members, it doesn't matter if police or a psychic solves it.
"We're just looking for Jennifer, whoever can bring her home," Drew Kesse said.
"The main thing is closure," Duckett said.
Giono said she is just the channel and the medium.
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