The history of the PSI Squad began in 1971. Formed of senior PSI students in a class being taught by instructor Beverly C. "Bevy' Jaegers, this class had decided to try their developing skills on a real puzzle. Picking out the five-week-old case of a missing local socialite, Sally Lucas, initial work by Bevy and senior student Jim Mueller was done which eventually led to locating the exact spot at which the woman's murdered body had been deposited by her killer, and then inevitably to the formation of the Squad itself.
A nightgown and powder puff belonging to the missing Sally Lucas had been given to a member of the group, and proved to be the significant factor in solving the case.
As the work of the group through another reporter, Susan Sherman, who had written about Bevy's teaching projects, and through him the MO State Highway Patrol, Mrs. Jaegers had been verified first when the victim's auto was found in Florida; and later, when she sat in the vehicle itself on Sat. Sept. 5, 1971, and vividly described the murder and disposal of the body in a place she identified, in writing, as having C and CC, as well as horses' heads, a small airport, a thick row of pillar mail boxes,an abandoned ancient and ruined-looking building that had been a church, a small bridge, and a creek bed.
Mr. and Mrs. Jaegers, along with Mueller had searched a particular area before going to the Police garage to sit in the car and returned to that area afterwards. Weeds and undergrowth in this wild area were head high, impenetrable. They told Feustel and Sgt. Kiriakos where they had been all morning, describing it thoroughly.
At dusk the group disbanded, Mrs. Jaegers returning home to work a map of the area with a pendulum. This form of using remote viewing is commonly known as map 'dowsing'. The pendulum indicated he exact same place they had spent the afternoon. It was decided to return the next day and resume their search. On Sunday, Sept. 6, a torrential rainstorm prevented the return. Later that afternoon a couple walking their dog discovered the body in a creek bed, 15 yards from the small bridge, Spirit of St. Louis airport was over a ridge less than a mile away. 10 yards from the bridge stood a thick cluster of pillar mailboxes, and the road itself was designated as Wild Horse Creek, County designation as Rt. C. An intersection a block or two away was the crossing of Rt. C and Rt. CC. 500 yards from the bridge was a ruined building which turned out to have been an Assembly of God church in earlier days. In addition to these facts, one of Jaegers' written comments involved the word 'poker' and a crushing blow to the right side of Mrs. Lucas' head. When the body was examined, it was found that the right side of her head had been crushed by a brutal blow. Bordering the body site was a horse ranch known as "Poker Flats'.
On Monday, Sept. 7, the Globe Democrat filled an entire page with the finding of the missing socialite, including a sidebar containing a photo of Bevy Jaegers and a run-down of her 'work' involving location of the automobile,and of the body, written by Feustel. This case was eventually the subject of a television documentary, on 'In Search Of' with Leonard Nimoy.
Following this publicity, several unsolved cases were presented to the group of students and since the members of this senior class had contributed correct information during the search for Sally Lucas, it was decided to form a formal group to assist police in these unsolved cases. It was also decided never to volunteer their services, but to wait to be asked.
The next Police case, a kidnapping of a young girl, was submitted to the new Squad by 3rd District St. Louis Police. The group did not feel Jannae Collins had been kidnapped, and declared that she was well, had run away, was in California, and saw an Air Force uniform on an individual associated with her. About two weeks later, Jannae was eventually located in California, alive and well, and had been staying near an Air Force base and had been friendly with some of the Airmen stationed there.
Additional publicity on this case brought others, and the Squad had to set rules on intake. Tabloid coverage had brought bales of unsolved cases, and intake had to be restricted to police or law enforcement only. The name chosen originally, The Psychic Rescue Squad, had brought calls to rescue cats in trees, so they eventually became the U. S. Psi Squad, first group of trained Psi operatives in the world, and included at that time one trained Police Officer, known as Del St. Clair. Bevy herself daughter of a Police Detective and a third generation 'cop' , was shortly sponsored by several high Police Officials for a Private Investigator's License,and has carried that badge since that time. Later a second member, Neil C. became first a PI and then because of his interest in detective work attended the Academy and became a uniformed Policeman.
The years of the 1970's brought a multiplicity of cases, ranging from homicide to a missing Picasso painting and a young black leopard from the St. Louis Zoo. Many of these cases received no publicity, as the Squad has always preferred to work quietly and in confidence. Some of their work in this decade was for a government agency who recruited Bevy as a remote viewer and as advisor on some special projects. She was also asked to prepare a training program for their usage. This program differed from that of Ingo Swann in that its genesis was in the Iron Curtain work of the 1950's and did not involve either altered states of consciousness nor the 'viewer-monitor' system, but was accomplished in an alert and aware state, without a need for any other 'state' of mind than concentration.
In 1981, Bevy was asked to become part of the team investigating the Atlanta child murders, and it was during that trip that author Alan Vaughan, representing the famed Mobius Project (a high-level effort at proving the efficiency of psi and remote viewing in archaeology and related fields, headed by well known science researcher Stephan Schwartz) approached Bevy with a project which turned out to involve the future of the U.S.'s then untried, new Space Shuttle program. Vaughan handed her a sealed envelope containing a photo and some information on the first Shuttle, Columbia,and did not tell her what was in the envelope (which has always been the preferred working method of the Psi Squad). A sequence of information was given and officially audio taped by Vaughan, involving a future Shuttle and some defect in certain 'wrap-around' rings being subject to leakage and then explosion, completely disabling the Shuttle and preventing it from landing at all. Jaegers specified that it was not the Shuttle in the envelope (Columbia) but a future craft. At that time, Challenger was barely under construction and had no name. A NASA contact of Mobius, Frederick Kolb, recognized the 'wrap-around' rings as o-rings and endeavored to alert others to the potential problem with this component. Bevy had specified that the danger area involved the rear end of the 'lifting-body' rocket, near the tail of the Shuttle. Kolb was unable to draw proper attention to the potential, despite strong efforts. Five years later, Challenger suffered leakage and explosion beginning at a o-ring seal near its tail, resulting in complete disaster and loss of life. Kolb, Vaughan and Schwartz had a complete file on the 1981 work done by Jaegers, as well as an audio tape of the session with Vaughan. This tape is on file with the other records of the Mobius Project, in California.
This sequence clearly indicates the potential for efficient use of remote-viewing in a future time, as a predictive tool. It is felt that ongoing repetition of this type of psi exploration could have resulted in pinpointing exact timing as well as exact identification of which Shuttle was to be involved in the o-ring failure. This sequence of events was featured on A&E's The Unexplained, Jan. 97.
Oddly, many years before, a survivor of the Titanic disaster, J. Beasley, had written a prediction that in some future time, such skills would be used to help avoid disasters of the type suffered by Titanic and Challenger.
In 1983 the Psi Squad was disbanded, as was Mobius, and a 9-year hiatus occurred during which Bevy continued to research PSI and Remote Viewing, with special concentration on the factor of exact timing of future RVs.
During a meeting of many of the police Detectives and former Squad Members in 1991 with writer Scott S. Smith, the idea of the Squad was reborn, but the focus was changed. Several of the Police requested training in remote viewing and psi, as Del St. Clair (also there) had been trained in 1968, and the new Squad was to be composed mostly of these individuals TRAINED in both police science and PSI detective work, with similar goals for the 'intuitive detectives' as had been taken on in the earlier years.
The older Squad had been given credit for locating the bodies of a half-dozen missing persons, 'profiling' of murderers and victims, and location of several downed airplanes for Alaska's Civil Air patrol, as well as conviction of murderers in several cases, including one in Kennett, Mo. and a serial-killer in Belleville, Ill. High profile cases involved the kidnapped bus load of schoolchildren, the Ted Bundy (Vail, Colorado) case, and several cases of serial murder.
By 1993 the new U. S. Psi Squad was officially in business with former Detective R. Bernsen as records keeper. Squad members range in profession from street cop to lawyer to authors with a rich mix of races and religious professions. The reborn Squad has exactly located a missing airplane in the California desert, completed expert profiles of several murderers, including the physical description and name of the Sacramento Thrill Killer, provided accurate information in a number of homicides and is at this time actively involved in assisting Sheriff's Departments and Police in homicide cases. As in the earlier Squad, a policy of 'no charge' for Police cases is continued. Such work is considered public service. Private clients such as Private Investigators, however, are accommodated at nominal fees.
A side interest of the Squad is in archaeology and paleontology, and a new project in each is underway in which the Squad is working directly with and for scientists.
Their documented work in remote viewing and crime has been detailed in many scholarly works, including:
Four members of the Psi Squad, Police or ex-police, have assisted in the first training Class of this type ever offered to the Public in Feb.1998, in St. Louis, MO., home of the Squad headquarters.
Drawing renewed interest from Police groups in recent years, they are involved in preparing a remote viewing and psi-detection training program for interested Police Departments across the Nation.
The Psi Squad is constantly on the lookout for recruits and all individuals with Police background or law enforcement specialties will be considered.
The Squad may be contacted at:
P.O. Box 21741On-line you may write to us at USPsiSquad@aol.com,or info4u@earthlink.net.