The deaths of Maria Scott and her murderer
The stabbing murder of Marie Scott 27, was also solved with help from a psychic, Debbie Malone, who was contacted by an investigator four years after the Maria case went cold. Leading police to a remote cabin where she had “seen” Maria’s murder, Malone also found the murder weapon, a knife, lodged in a drainpipe. Malone reported having felt the murderer pass through her body as if he too was dead. In fact, the murderer had committed suicide four years earlier.
In the early 2000s, a young Australian woman named Maria Scott was a resident at Triple Care Farm youth rehabilitation center at Robertson in the Southern Highlands. While she had previously struggled with drugs, she had been working on improving her life at the rehabilitation center, until the 27-year-old tragically went missing. In October of 2003, her decomposed body was discovered wrapped in a quilt and dumped in bushlands on the grounds of Triple Care Farm, having been badly beaten and stabbed five times.
For more than four years, Scott's killer remained at large. After investigating other suspects, including Scott's former partner, Jason Maher, authorities began to suspect that a man named Mark Brown was involved. Brown was a staff member at Triple Care Farm who had been living on-site at the Waratah Lodge in 2003, less than 200 feet from where Scott's body was found. Brown had a history of violent behavior but without definitive proof, the police were not able to confirm his involvement in Scott's murder.
The Police invited Malone to consult on the case. She was given a bangle that had been found on Scott's body. Simply by holding the object, she was able to give specific details about the case. Malone reportedly led authorities to the location where the murder had occurred, pointing out blood on the walls and even directing authorities to look in the drainpipe, where they discovered the knife that had been used to take Scott's life. Even more strangely, she told detectives that she could feel the spirit of the killer walking through her, which told her that the killer himself had since passed on, since she could only feel ghosts walking through her, according to Reader's Digest. This revelation only confirmed authorities' suspicious that Mark Brown had been the killer, since he had committed suicide four years before.