A woman who was hypnotized during the police investigation of the disappearance of Laci Peterson last year has raised new questions about the handling of the case, according to a report obtained ...

A third-grade teacher in Pennsylvania tried to hypnotize young girls, forced them to call him “master” and made them perform puppet shows that he recorded, according to police. James William Mentzer, ...

Cops desperate for clues in the Psycho Sniper case have begun bringing in experts to hypnotize witnesses in hopes of jogging hidden memories that may help them figure out the identity of the cowardly ...

A 30-year-old Blue Grass man is in custody after police allege he tried to hypnotize a child on a school bus, according to court records. Nicholas Munger faces a felony charge of enticing a minor ...

BOSTON (CBS) - There is anger on the streets of Chinatown at the idea that scam artists are taking advantage of elderly women. Boston Police have issued a Community Alert about a new scam. It's one ...

A woman told Boston cops she was tricked into giving up jewelry and $160,000 in cash to three women who approached her on a Chinatown street and hypnotized her in Cantonese, police said. Authorities ...

A woman has told Boston police that she was approached by three scam artists in Chinatown last month and hypnotized without her permission before giving them all her valuables, including jewelry and ...

AUSTIN — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has vetoed a bill that would have banned people who have been hypnotized from testifying in a criminal trial. Abbott expressed support for limiting the use of ...

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