And of those who have, few have done so officially or claim significant success for them.
Most experienced police seem to recognize the basic trick of psychics, called retrofitting.
Unfortunately for Hurkos, the man he accused was eventually cleared of involvement in the rape-murders, and Albert DeSalvo confessed to the crimes. Shortly afterward, Hurkos was briefly jailed in New York for allegedly impersonating an FBI agent. Hurkos died in 1988. Nutley, New Jersey, 1968. The Nutley police subsequently expended an afternoon in digging up the culvert but failed to find the body or even an alleged bend that supposedly marked the site.