Gina Marks and her husband Steven had been renting a business called Psychic Gina. Authorities said that instead of revealing fortunes, they were stealing them.
When Fort Collins Police searched the Marks’ home last month, they allegedly found stolen credit cards and merchandise, fake IDs, and even a fraudulent sheriff’s badge.
Now the two are facing charges for bilking a woman out of tens of thousands of dollars.A private investigator hired by the victim said the duo conned her into believing that a curse had been placed on her family. He said they persuaded her to participate in elaborate rituals at their previous home, and to give them cash and gift cards worth $36,000.
The investigator said they left the victim emotionally abused and financially devastated.
Now the family’s latest alleged victim is left to rebuild her life after she lost everything.
The Marks are charged with class four felony theft. Gina Marks is also facing additional charges including identity theft.
Source: cbslocal.com
3 comments:
I cannot and will not lay blanket judgement on all self-proclaimed 'psychics'.
I've heard remarked, a number of times, that there are real psychics and that the last thing these real psychics ever want is fame and/or money for their authentic gift. (Convenient that the real psychics are guaranteed not to be the ones failing tests and loosing credibility all over the place! Like so many fantastical myths it has rules ingrained within it that fully explain and apparently forgive its horrible failures.)
This post shows the collection of fraudulence, theft, exploitation and false hope that is a gathering of themes far too common in the quagmire of belief in psychic powers.
Woody
Fair post Woody, I agree with much of what you say.
Authorities said that instead of revealing fortunes, they were stealing them.
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