NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE, FROM DATA BASE SEARCH. 'GERARD CROISET, 71, DIES; PSYCHIC IN NETHERLANDS'

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• Publication Date: July 22, 1980
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Copyright 1980 The New York Times Company
The New York Times
July 22, 1980, Tuesday, Late City Final Edition
SECTION: Section B; Page 8, Column 6; Foreign Desk
LENGTH: 218 words
HEADLINE: Gerard Croiset, 71, Dies; Psychic in Netherlands
BYLINE: AP
DATELINE: UTRECHT, the Netherlands, July 21
BODY:
Gerard Croiset, a Dutch psychic who frequently used his extrasensory
abilities to find lost, strayed and abducted people, died yesterday, Utrecht
officials said. He was 71 years old.
Mr. Croiset became ill at his home this morning in nearby Houten and was
taken to the Sint Anthonis Hospital where he died a short time later, the
officials reported. The cause of death was not given. They said his body will be
cremated Thursday in Utrecht.
Mr. Croiset was called on by Dutch police a number of times to help locate
missing persons and he was credited by Japanese authorities with finding the
body of a murder victim. In 1964, he assisted the Westchester County sheriff's
office in a renewed search for Judge Joseph Force Crater after officials became
impressed with Mr. Croiset's suggestions on where the jurist's body might be
found. Judge Crater disappeared in 1930.
Parapsychologists at universities in several countries, including the
Soviet Union and Japan, studied Croiset's ability to perceive events beyond the
reach of his immediate senses.
Parapsychology is the branch of psychology that investigates psychic
phenomena, such as telepathy, extrasensory perception and clairvoyance.
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