Statesman Journal from Salem, Oregon • Page 13

Statesman-Journal, Salem, Wednesday, August 25, 1982, 13A Psychic feels certain Wilson is guilty party South Salem Candafaria Terrace 2SS3 Commercial St SE Salem, Oregon 352-9307 Prices Good Thru 83182 By ANDY McIVOR of Sales Limited Store Hours Sunday 1 2-5 10-6 It Pays to Shop Kiddy Wear, Even If You Are Miles Away. Our Entire Stock of First Quality Brand Name Merchandise is on Sale Now -Ji Lewi MilQVoff Size: 3 mo-24 mo, Toddler, 4-6x-7, 8-14 Boys Girls "Shop Early For Best Selection" career, his predictions have been accurate 15 to 20 percent of the time, he said. About 24 weeks ago, the Eyerly family sent to his Dallas office a picture of Sherry, her car keys, a wooden plaque she treasured, police reports on the case and maps of the Salem area, Catchings said. After studying those, he said he had a vision. Included were a white house, bars or pillars and a golf course.

Sally Baker's white house at 1945 Fourth Ave. NE, in front of Wilson's apartment, "looked a whole lot like the house I had in my vision," he said. A pillar holding up the garage behind Wilson's apartment could have been the bars or pillars. And the II-lahe Golf Course is adjacent to the area where Sherry's pizza delivery car was found abandoned July 4. Steve Eyerly, Sherry's father, said he is glad the family called in Catchings.

The police were building a strong case against their suspect, he said Tuesday, and "I think (Catchings) added some credibility to the police investigation." Catchings said he sensed the body of Sherry Eyerly in the valley of the Little North Fork of the North San-tiam River. Sunday, the Eyerly family and their friends went to search. They found nothing, but Eyerly said he would like users of that popular recreation area to be on the alert. Posters with Sherry's picture have been placed throughout the valley, he said. "If we can get that area out in front of the public, especially the hunters, maybe we can have an extensive search team out there," he said.

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"I know he didn't kill anybody." It was too much out of his character: mellow, happy, with a life to live, she said (Story on Page 1A.) Wilson was identified Monday by Marion County District Attorney Chris Van Dyke as the prime suspect in the disappearance of Eyerly. Catchings, who called himself a nationally known psychic with a number of solved cases to his credit, spent four days trying to help local police with the Eyerly case. He flew back to Dallas Sunday, a day after Wilson allegedly hanged himself. Catchings said Tuesday by telephone that police shared the results of their investigation with him, and "you'll be impressed with what they've got. They've got a lot (of evidence)." Authorities so far have not divulged whether they seized any incriminating evidence from Wilson's small apartment after he was found dead.

Van Dyke said Oregon State Police crime lab experts would be examining clothing, hairs and anything else they could find in the apartment. Authorities said that Wilson killed himself after Catchings and Sgt. Will Hingston, a Marion County sheriff's detective, talked to him about Eyerly Saturday morning. Originally, their intention was simply to drive past Wilson's apartment at 1945 Fourth Ave. NE so Catchings could look at it.

But Wilson was out in the yard hanging laundry and saw them, so Hingston decided to stop, Catchings said. Hingston asked Wilson a question he had posed before: Would he take a lie detector test about his relationship with Eyerly? No, Wilson replied, he did not believe in polygraphs, Catchings said. At that tirrie, Hingston introduced Wilson to Catchings. Wilson had said Thursday he would be willing to talk to a psychic, When they shook hands, "his hand was cold and clammy, and I could sense a lot of apprehension on his part," Catchings said. "I feel that when Darrell ran up against me I worried him a lot I think he realized I knew." The conversation was brief, and Hingston and Catchings treated the 30-year-old truck driver kindly, the psychic said.

Catchings encouraged Wilson to take the polygraph, saying that at that point, it couldn't hurt him. "The police could have been a lot more aggressive and pushy than they were. I think they would have been in time; it just hadn't progressed to that point," Catchings said. Catchings left a "media packet," full of articles about cases he has worked on, with Wilson. Before they left, Wilson said he would be contacting them after work that night or the next day to submit to an interview with Catchings.

He never made it to work. Wilson's landlady found him hanging in the basement of her house about 3:30 pjn. On a bench at his side was the book "Life Comes From Life," which Catchings said is about reincarnation. Spread out on the coffee table in Wilson's house were articles from the media packet, Catchings said. "I can respect a person that faces something within themselves and punishes themselves.

And I think Darrell Wilson was punishing himself I only wish he had left a note," he said. The grandfather of Sherry Eyerly, Coby Miller, found Catchings through the national television program "That's Incredible." Catchings has appeared on the show twice in connection with two cases in which he was able to show police where murder victims could be found, Catchings said. Catchings, 35, said he assists in criminal investigations in his spare time, charging no fee. In his 14-year Police protest in Silverton SILVERTON The Silverton Police Officers Association complained to a state agency Tuesday about a pay increase issue the officers had already won, City Administrator Doug Robinson said. The police union filed a complaint with the State Employment Relations Board, accusing the city of engaging In an unfair labor practice, said the association's Portland attorney, Michael Tedesco.

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