Debate rages as medium finds body in lake

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John Hooper in Rome
Thursday September 15, 2005
The Guardian


In a country where plaster Madonnas weep blood, it is only to be expected that the supernatural should be on everyone's minds. But even miracle-hardened Italians have been taken aback by the affair of the medium and the body in the lake.

The body of Chiara Beriffi, who disappeared three years ago, was found in her car in Lake Como in precisely the area indicated by a medium, Maria Rosa Busi, who had been approached for help by Ms Beriffi's parents in March. A police source said it was a "million to one chance" that the vehicle would be found in the area marked by the medium.

Since Sunday, when volunteer divers found the car, the case has been debated on radio, television and in magazines.
Divers initially balked at the venture because the spot identified by Ms Busi was 500ft from shore. Detectives were yesterday trying to work out how the four-wheel drive came to be so far from the lakeside.

On Tuesday the dead woman's father, Francesco Beriffi, watched as the dark red vehicle was hauled 400ft from the bottom of the lake by a ship-borne crane. "I hesitate to believe in voices from beyond", he said. "But I really cannot be sceptical."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1570196,00.html

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1. The medium did it!!!!!! nt