Seeking by sixth sense
Court TV profiles Bay Shore psychic who has more than stars in her eyes
when helping in police work
BY ZACHARY R. DOWDY
Newsday Staff Writer
April 25, 2006

One day in April 1997, veteran New York Police Department Det. Joe Croce
sat and watched Bay Shore's Mary Rose scribble on a hand-drawn chart
representing the heavens.
The detective's world of solid objects - bodies, blood and guns - could
not vary more from Rose's intangible realm of mediums and the
metaphysical.
That encounter, which led police to the East River - and the body of a
missing person - will be re-enacted by Croce and Rose on national
television at 10 p.m. tomorrow on Court TV.
"We literally re-did the whole thing from soup to nuts," Rose said of
her latest foray into television.

The four hours Croce spent with Rose, a self-described
astrologer-psychological profiler and psychic, may have helped crack the
case of the disappearance of Patrick McNeill Jr. His body was found in
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, two days after Rose drew the chart, which she says
led to his body almost two months after he was seen leaving a bar on the
Upper East Side.
Rose will play herself in tomorrow's episode of Court TV's "Psychic
Detectives," a show that highlights cases where law enforcement relies
on the paranormal. But Nathan Bupp, communications director for the
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims for the Paranormal
in Amherst said, "When you actually look at it empirically you find that
time and again psychics have not led to solving cases."

Still, Rose has weighed in on local cases, including the kidnapping of
Katie Beers, a 10-year-old Mastic Beach girl who was imprisoned by a
family friend for 16 days in 1992 and 1993 in an underground vault.
Her insights were also sought in 1999 when state police were probing the
25-year-old murder of Katherine Kolodziej, 17, a Ronkonkoma student at
the State University at Cobleskill. Police said her leads helped,
although the case is unsolved.
She is the latest featured psychic on "Psychic Detectives," said Ed
Hersh, Court TV's executive vice president for current programming and

specials. "We only do stories in which the police say the psychic was
instrumental in helping them solve the crime," Hersh said.

Rose, who volunteers her time, says she uses a person's date and time of
birth to chart their whereabouts and even their thoughts. "To me, it's a
navigational tool," she said. "I navigate to find people, to find a
perpetrator. I navigate to find the truth."