The Seventh Sense

About the Book

In April, 2,000, Jenny Matthews attends a seminar led by Dr. Kevin Summers who investigates past life regression thru hypnosis. Jenny has no interest in reincarnation and only goes because a friend insists.

 Jenny is regressed into the life of Linda Packard who was born in Omaha Nebraska, in 1934 and murdered in 1952.

Jenny, twenty six,  can’t shake the experience and pursues it with Dr.  Summers. Working with her,  in deep hypnosis and researching the information taped during the sessions, Kevin establishes that a Linda Packard was born and did die in Omaha on those dates.

Needing factual corroboration Kevin and Jenny go to Omaha to visit Linda’s grave. Jenny experiences Linda’s soul and collapses on top of her grave.

Linda’s parents are still living in Omaha. Kevin and Jenny go to their home, Jenny experiencing de’je vu of a city she’s never visited.

At first The Packards, Linda’s parents, who do not believe in reincarnation, reject the concept that Jenny is the reincarnate of their daughter. But, Kevin, working with Jenny, proves to them she is by regressing her into Linda’s life and bring forth information that only their daughter could have known.

 Guests for dinner that night, Kevin and Jenny learn that Linda’s killer was never caught. Kevin is not sure but believes that it is possible to hypnotize Jenny into her past life, as Linda, and get information about the killer that only his victim, Linda, might know. The Packards will get in touch with Detective Paul Sachs, the policeman who investigated their daughter’s murder for three years in the 1950's.

Paul Sachs is now Captain of Homicide in Omaha and in the midst of trying to catch a killer aptly nicknamed, by the media, “The “Alphabet Killer” who pins letters of the alphabet and numbers to his victims. Sachs does not really have the time, or the man power, to investigate an almost forty year old murder. But he agrees to meet the Packards and listen to the ‘new’ information they have uncovered although he can’t imagine what it can be. He is drawn into opening up an investigation by the reality of a session witnessing Jenny, as Linda, describing her murderer as she catches a glimpse of him a hundredth of a second before she dies.

The Alphabet Killer and Jenny’s killer are unrelated and Sachs can’t get permission to assign any men to the ancient Packard murder. But two detectives, having been hurt in an accident, are available and the Chief reluctantly agrees to their working on the case. The Chief would be embarrassed if anyone thought he’d authorized an investigation of a forty year old murder obtaining information about her killer from her reincarnated self.

 Jenny returns to Los Angeles and becomes a celebrity as Kevin announces via the media the very first validation of reincarnation.

In Omaha, the Packards, now begin to bring flowers to Linda’s grave on a daily basis. They ask Rick Henshaw to join them. Rick, never married,  was Linda’s boy friend and was on her way to meet him the night she was murdered. As the three stand next to her grave, they are stunned to find the grass atop the grave turn dry and brown. It is resodded. It dies immediately. The flowers, placed on the grave wilt, instantly. Local camera crews begin to cover the phenomena. Their coverage becomes national.

Paul Sachs is working twenty hour days. The Alphabet Killer kills again. The detectives he has working on the Packard killing come up with new clues.

With  new communicastion technology between police departments, the manner of death; breaking and snapping, Linda’s neck, is linked to other unsolved murders. Four unsolved murders of girls in their teens, all killed in the exact manner, breaking the cortex at the base of the skull.

At home, in Los Angeles, Jenny has an inexpl

About the Author

Mr. Schwartz’ writing credits include three published books; The Silent Sin, 1970, The President’s Contract, 1972 and Tulsa Gold, 1982. He also wrote for TV, from 1960 to 1990, earning over 500 credits in half hour situation comedies, hour drama and two hour movies. He lives in Palm Springs, Ca.