ASHBURN — A Michigan psychic said that he has reached his conclusion about the mysterious death of Greg Wallace.

Wallace’s body was found floating in a Turner County pond March 19, five days after he initially went missing. His family and friends have gone to unconventional lengths to try to find out why he died.

One of those lengths was hiring Jeffrey Pierce, a psychic from Flushing, Mich. Mark King hired Pierce to find some answers. King told Pierce and the Tifton Gazette that he was Wallace’s cousin; however, Tonya Wallace, the dead man’s sister, later said that King was only a family friend. Neither King nor members of the Wallace family could be reached to clarify the matter before presstime.

Pierce is a psychic investigator who has assisted in many law enforcement investigations.

One of his most famous cases was the Angel of Death case, where he helped the Park County (Colo.) Sheriff’s Department apprehend suspected cop killer William Burkhart.

Pierce has also worked extensively as a private investigator and recently founded a team of psychic investigators from his home in Michigan.

Pierce was not the first psychic to look into the Wallace case.

Lynn Ann Maker, a psychometrist — a person who reads psychic information from locations and objects — actually found Wallace’s body. As she walked around a pond near where his car was found abandoned, the body floated to the surface. Police had already searched the pond with no results.

Other psychics also investigated the case, including Jon Maronge, who helped the family arrange a rally in Ashburn.

Pierce said he was hired because King believed that police were covering up a crime in Wallace’s death. Wallace’s body was sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab, but the results of his autopsy were inconclusive and his cause of death was listed as “probable drowning.”

Pierce’s team’s psychic reading on the case does not point to foul play. Pierce said he looked at a picture of Wallace and immediately got a feeling of what may have happened to him.

“The first thing I sensed was a lot of fear, almost terror,” said the psychic.

Pierce said that the fear was not caused by a murderer stalking up on him, but by a large dog.

He believes that Wallace’s car overheated beside the road and he began going door to door hoping to get some water for his radiator. He said Wallace encountered a large dog during his search and that he was very afraid of dogs.

The dog chased Wallace, who ran, eventually spotting the pond and jumping into it in an attempt to escape the vicious animal. Pierce said that Wallace was unaware of the depth of the pond and could not swim.

His conclusion was that Wallace’s death was just as the autopsy said, “a probable drowning.”

“My conclusion is an accidental death,” Pierce said. “It was just a very bizarre act of God.”

Pierce said that, from the standpoint of a private investigator, the reading makes sense as well. He said that it was unlikely that Wallace was the victim of murder because the dead man was a loner with few enemies, he did not have bad habits like gambling or drugs, there were no marks on his body suggesting foul play and there were no other prints on the ground at the pond.

Pierce said that he performs his reading by relaxing himself and concentrating on a subject and then either looking into the past or future.

“All of these emotions run through you, as if it’s happening to you,” he said. “It’s like an empathic connection.”

Although Pierce said he received little cooperation from the Wallace family, he said that he was able to confirm several facts about his reading. Pierce said that King told him that Wallace could not swim, was not familiar with the pond and was out of shape, possibly causing his exhaustion after running from the dog.

Although King had originally planned to pay Pierce for his work and his team put in about 40 hours of work on the case, he said that he did not charge for the investigation.

“Hopefully now, the family can get some peace,” Pierce said.



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