Louisiana daughter says a medium led her to missing mother’s body as she accuses sheriff of botching investigation

A Louisiana girl has accused nan section sheriff’s agency of failing to afloat analyse her mother’s decease past twelvemonth aft a psychic mean led her to her mom’s half-clothed assemblage successful nan woods.

The mother of 3 and grandma of seven, Theresa Jones, was reported missing connected Feb. 2, 2023.

Her oldest girl Ashley Deese spent hours desperately searching for her 56-year-old mom that time and nan adjacent time nan Union Parish Sheriff’s Office and a K9 portion spent much clip searching for Jones, but she was obscurity to beryllium found.

Three days aft she vanished, Deese and her sister Brittany reached retired to a psychic mean successful Wisconsin who has a ample pursuing acknowledgment to her occurrence successful helping to find missing people, KNOE reported.

The medium, Carolyn Clapper, talked to nan sisters connected nan telephone for 45 minutes, sharing step-by-step, elaborate instructions connected wherever to find their mom, Deese said.

“There would beryllium a log, [Jones] kept showing maine this pronounced log, a very large log successful nan woods. It wasn’t conscionable small twigs and sticks, it was a log, a immense one, you cognize you deed this log is fundamentally what she said, you get to this log and my assemblage will beryllium there. There’s water, I saw a creek,” Clapper told KNOE.

Deese group retired into nan woods adjacent her mother’s location nan adjacent greeting and spotted a ample log.

“It’s for illustration I envisioned what I had heard connected nan telephone past night, that was nan landmark, that was nan log. So I instantly sewage ill, shaky, and sick, and started vomiting,” she said.

Jones was recovered look down and partially nude successful Edmonds Creek. She only had a apical connected and nary bottoms aliases underwear.

Deese called nan sheriff who began investigating but ne'er did a rape trial aliases scraped nan woman’s fingernails for imaginable DNA evidence.

“So there’s a female deceased facedown successful a creek, nude. All she had connected was a top, nary undergarments, nude. There was nary rape kit, nary scraping of nan fingernails. I’m bothered by that,” Deese said.

Union Parish Sheriff Dusty Gates confirmed that neither trial was done connected Jones’ assemblage successful an question and reply pinch KNOE. He told nan position that his agency could person requested either trial but he didn’t cognize if his agency ever requested those tests.

The sheriff’s agency reportedly told Deese that location were nary signs of disturbance successful nan area wherever her mother’s assemblage was recovered truthful investigators didn’t consciousness a rape kit aliases fingernail scraping was needed. The investigators judge her assemblage was nude from nan waist down because her bottoms were pulled disconnected by nan unit of nan water.

“This is an presumption aliases a guess, it mightiness beryllium a bully guess, but nevertheless if there’s nary clothes, shouldn’t we find nan clothing shouldn’t we beryllium that, shouldn’t location beryllium subject down these ideas,” Clapper said.

The aesculapian examiner — who besides didn’t do those tests — ruled that Jones’ decease was accidental. She died drowning, pinch methamphetamine intoxication a contributing facet successful her death, according to nan autopsy.

Jones had a ample magnitude of meth successful her strategy astatine nan clip of her decease but her girl said she had been sober for 20 years aft a cocaine addiction.

“It doesn’t statement up, it doesn’t make sense. And if personification tin make it make sense, I will beryllium down and listen,” Deese said.

The incident study says that Deese told deputies that her mom was backmost connected meth and marijuana and suffered from intelligence illness, but “refuses to return her medicine for illustration she is expected to.”

But Deese said she ne'er said those things.

“I besides consciousness that arsenic soon arsenic it was known that location was narcotics involved, and moreover a history of drugs, I felt for illustration nan sobriety didn’t matter. And I consciousness for illustration since location was narcotics involved, it’s conscionable 1 much disconnected nan street,” she said.

She besides criticized nan sheriff’s agency for failing to speak to Clapper who has helped supply info to different rule enforcement agencies that helped find missing group successful nan past. She said Clapper knew things astir nan information of her mother’s assemblage and toxicology study earlier each was revealed.

“Even if they don’t judge successful psychics aliases they’re skeptical, you know, they still travel up connected leads, truthful they’ll still mobility maine if I cognize excessively overmuch astir a lawsuit and they can’t really explicate really I would cognize nan specifications that I cognize astir a case, it’s their occupation to travel up,” nan mean said.

Both she and Deese pleaded pinch nan deputies to speak to Clapper repeatedly.

“For months, for months I tried getting successful touch, for months Ashley tried pursuing up pinch them, lending my sanction and my interaction information. Months person gone by, astir a twelvemonth and a half now,” Clapper said.

Jones’ lawsuit was closed successful August 2023.

But her girl doesn’t judge her decease was an accident.

“I do fishy foul play. I haven’t been proved that it wasn’t. And I will fishy that until I’m proved that it’s not,” Deeves said.