Haunting Evidence
| Haunting Evidence | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Documentary |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
| Release | |
| Original release | December 21, 2005–October 11, 2008 |
Haunting Evidence is an American documentary television series following the travels of a psychic profiler, a medium, and a paranormal investigator. The trio travels the United States investigating "cold case" homicide and missing persons cases. The premise of the series was that this "team of unconventional investigators" could shed new light on unsolved crimes.
The series began production in October 2005 and premiered on Court TV (now truTV) in mid-June 2006, with a run of nine episodes. Season 2 began on June 20, 2007. There were two episodes in the third season. The series was cancelled after a total of 22 episodes were shown. The final cast was psychic profiler Carla Baron, medium John J. Oliver, and paranormal investigator Patrick Burns.
None of the cases investigated by the show were solved because of the show. Two cases were later closed by police work:
Managing editor of Skeptical Inquirer Magazine, Ben Radford writes that shows like Haunting Evidence prey on vulnerable and desperate families hoping to find evidence. Reality shows like this are not entertainment, yet are presented as such. "The only 'success' was in producing another television show lending credibility to psychics who have once again clearly and demonstrably failed to give useful information".
In a 2008 follow-up of his previous article, Radford states that he had hoped he would be able to report back that the Haunting Evidence team had successfully solved many crimes, but that was not the case. Of the nine cases featured, zero were solved by the team. The one case solved, Katie Sepich was solved "by science, not psychics". DNA was matched to the killer who later confessed, the police give no credit to Haunting Evidence. The Tara Baker family profiled on the first season shared with Radford that [psychics and the producers] "feed on the emotions of people in real tragedies", and called Baron 'a real fruit loop'". Oliver claimed the police have the DNA evidence already. The team also presented a sketch of the murderer and stated that she knew her killer. Tara Baker's murder as of 2011 remains unsolved.
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