Parents with missing or stolen children and looking for help finding their children are being directed by University of West Georgia websites toward the use of paranormal powers as demonstrated by a particular female psychic medium. She's well known to numerous UWG parapsychology faculty and staff, and also many UWG alumni and students. This woman claims she is a "super psychic" police detective and when tested was found to have remarkable ESP powers including clairvoyance, psychokinesis, and psychometry. She even claims an ability to reach out and speak with ghosts who help her locate and communicate with both missing and dead children. And for years several official UWG "Special Collection" public websites (including more than 3 dozen devoted exclusively to this one psychic medium) state on UWG's matching website summary pages that she has worked "for" the FBI on FBI cases and with hundreds of other public law enforcement agencies on hundreds of official cases.
The problem with all this paranormal studies investigation (PSI) help offered by the UWG? Well, to start with, the UWG fails to mention to the millions of readers capable of downloading their free PSI Special Collection information that much of the UWG PSI Collection MS-0083 summary statements are bogus, delusional, faked, false, and deceptive. Readers can typically check off two or more of those choices. Some folks sense however than checking all five still seems too few. Or, as described by one Canadian researcher, and here written in a more polite way, the UWG statements are "unbelievable academic stupidity", showcasing just how low the Carrollton, Georgia campus PSI 'Special Collection' website summaries have plunged in credibility. How widespread are these kind of research communication shams across the UWG?
And with that, let's begin.
The UWG falsely claims their promoted psychic medium works "for" the FBI on FBI cases and with hundreds of other public law enforcement agencies on official cases. And additionally there are concerns of oblique UWG innuendos that this 88 year old female 'psychic medium' has worked with hundreds of public law enforcement agency approvals, and held hired agency status with police agencies and/or was sanctioned to do official police case work. UWG even provides a strong innuendo that this same 'psychic medium' could pick up murder evidence or an item belonging to a missing or murdered child and by simply touching the object learn information about the place, time, and circumstances of their disappearance. Those and many similar paranormal unfounded claims and innuendos are manipulative fiction we explore.
Not surprisingly UWG's estimated Public Law Enforcement (PLE) missing child and child murder cases worked by this same psychic include hundreds that investigators confirm have never actually existed! In fact, among UWG's 600 estimated total number of PLE and FBI cases worked by this 'psychic medium' it appears the UWG has no support evidence to match up with any sanctioning PLE agencies, PLE case records, or PLE contacts to confirm the cases are real. What has been factually uncovered instead is a serious UWG parapsychology PSI Special Collection summary charade apparently created, cleverly encoded into UWG subject summaries for search engine profiles, and distributed within University System of Georgia communication websites.
There is also nothing held by the UWG that confirms whether about 500 missing children and child murder cases associated within the total 600 or so cases claimed by the UWG were worked by this 'psychic medium' "for" the FBI and with other Public Law Enforcement (PLE) agencies. Incredibly the UWG doesn't even know, and has always been incapable of discerning which cases among its estimated 600 PLE cases worked by the 'psychic medium' actually dealt with missing children, child murders, traffic accidents, stray cats, or anything else! It's impossible for the UWG to defend their website summaries and case counts when apparently they were all created from faculty and staff whims, and evidence seemingly supported by talking ghosts, swinging psychic pendulums, and medium séance nonsense. But these are dangerous practices when real missing and murdered children and their families depend on public academic centers to portray realities in properly locating children and resolving crimes.
Global Net Research now on September 22, 2025 begins with two current UWG false and deceptive UWG website statements found among the dozens of websites and pages in UWG's PSI Special Collection #MS-0083 covering Noreen Renier, with both of these UWG summary pages linked here having now been published and distributed by the UWG for over 6 years. The first example can be found by clicking https://aspace-uwg.galileo.usg.edu/repositories/2/resources/266.html which states "Born in 1936, Noreen Renier is a Florida-based psychic. She has worked with law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on approximately six hundred unsolved cases.” Amazingly Noreen Renier is actually a radio and TV actress who has falsely claimed she works FBI cases as an "FBI medium investigator". Of great concern is that even after UWG senior officials and staff in early 2023 were pointed to prior court transcripts and testimony from FBI officers and the actress herself, that showed Renier never worked on cases for the FBI, and never worked for the FBI, the UWG continues to distribute false claims to the contrary on official UWG websites. More information on that point and federal court rulings against Renier are extensively covered below. A second example, shown at https://aspace-uwg.galileo.usg.edu/repositories/2/resources/266/collection_organization#tree::archival_object_60531 also states as of September 22, 2025 ---as it has since 2019---that the UWG #MS-0083 Noreen Renier Special Collection “includes material on cases that Renier worked on for the FBI." Neither of these two examples are true. And again, the UWG has known for years both UWG statements have been cited as deceptive and false.
What evidence have Global Net Research investigators found that shows both of these UWG statements in the links above are false, and knowingly false by the UWG? Compounding the UWG claims as false is court testimony by FBI Special Agent Robert Ressler stating Renier's claim of working for the FBI "is not true. …she does not work on F.B.I. cases… …She never really worked for the F.B.I.” And Ressler's senior officer, FBI Chief Roger Depue, also testified that Renier never did FBI case work. Ever.
And to confirm that the UWG has previously known about this court testimony -- printed in court transcripts more than 2 decades before the UWG began publishing their false claims, researchers confirmed that the UWG actually holds the same transcripts from the very court that includes the same testimony from FBI officers Ressler and Depue! The UWG since 2019 has had full access to these court transcripts from the Jackson County Court in Oregon that were provided to Noreen Renier after that court case closed. The same court transcripts were part of her materials reviewed by UWG Professor Blynne Olivieri Parker, who selected the transcripts and matching court materials that were sent to the University of West Georgia for permanent retention, and remain in the UWG Ingram library on campus.
And this testimony and transcribed court depositions taken from FBI officers Robert Ressler and Robert Depue clearly show the contrary UWG statements are false.
It is simply amazing that the UWG has not corrected its false summary statements on its websites and instead simply ignores the actual court testimony the UWG holds within its Ingram Library. There are no other validated and true materials in the UWG Noreen Renier MS-0083 Collection, nor in any other materials found by researchers or investigators as ever existing including up to the present day (September 22, 2025) that invalidate the testimony by FBI officers Ressler and Depue.
There are also no known statements, including in testimony, that match any that could have been taken from statements documented from Noreen Renier herself. And neither Renier nor UWG have any PLE 'Chain of Custody' (CoC) chronology logs showing she ever handled PLE case evidence from any of 17,743 U.S. PLE agencies to match the UWG claim of near 600 cases.
In October 2024 the new Microsoft 'Co-Pilot' AI option on the Bing search engine produced a false, but revealing statement. It stated that Noreen Renier worked on cases for the FBI by citing the UWG to support that claim. Yet the UWG showcases absolutely nothing to back its own public communications that the UWG holds material on cases that Renier worked for the FBI.
No UWG check out or missing materials lists, no FBI case material collection back-up materials, and no FBI 'Chain of Custody' (CoC) chronology case materials crossed tied to either the UWG or Noreen Renier. Nothing but UWG apparent make believe UWG fictional tales created and distributed by the UWG itself globally since 2019.
We also provide supporting materials showing some related UWG statements are false below, including from U.S. federal judges in court rulings against Noreen Renier; numerous quoted comments from law enforcement officers; as well as statements from witnesses, researchers, and investigators.
Such UWG deceptive public PSI academic summary communications raise significant concerns of UWG communication distortions, heavy paranormal and pseudoscience bias, sinking academic integrity standards, and truly atrocious UWG research failings. This seems to be a sign that some academic and research communication standards inside the University System of Georgia are imploding.
Equally disturbing is that while the UWG is administered by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) and its appointed president, currently Dr. Christopher "Mike" Johnson, the USG has not corrected these false statements. Incredibly the University System of Georgia and its Executive Administrative Council, and the Academic Affairs and Administrative Services personnel who manage the university's operations, colleges, and programs have apparently failed or ignored widely published and voiced concerns from many academic and private personnel. This website also includes many of those comments in quotes.
Now in late 2025 UWG websites promote this 88-year-old or 89-year-old actress who for decades has charged parents of missing children $20 to $40 a minute fees to access her 'super psychic powers' to ---she claims--- contact and talk with missing, dead, and murdered children.
While the U.S. state of Florida Department of Motor Vehicles shows the actress born in 1937, a 2025 UWG posting claims 1936 --- just one of many odd and/or sloppy UWG public communications. More critically, the UWG apparently accepts this actress as having many authentic 'God like' paranormal superpowers.
But first, a brief note about the UWG estimate that Noreen Renier has worked "on approximately six hundred unsolved cases.” As of late December 2024 the UWG has been unable to show in any materials they hold or reference how they came up with their 600 or so cases. Because the UWG, nor anyone else, can find any confirmation that even five cases exist. That's five, not five hundred. Not even 5 out of UWG's estimate of 600 cases. This naturally is a major credibility issue for the UWG as they themselves came up with about 600 cases and didn't even change it over the last six years.
Back in 2019 (the year UWG came up with their estimate) the UWG case count was fixed near 600. There were no other case number references in 2019 at or near 600. Even supermarket tabloid writers and stringers for the National Enquirer, the National Examiner, and FATE magazine were only guessing from 300 to 500 cases were worked by Renier with public law enforcement agencies. A principal critic and consistent winning litigator against Noreen Renier from 1994 thru 2025, John Merrell, had estimated as early as 2007 that her officially sanctioned PLE cases actually worked were "likely less than a dozen if not actually zero" after Renier refused to name even ten such PLE agencies after Merrell requested a list from Renier during litigation.
Across the last four decades even among many North American, European, Asian, and Australian PLE agencies and case locations cited by Noreen Renier and her paranormal colleagues, none reported that Noreen Renier was PLE hired and sanctioned to handle and examine all agency PLE evidence. She has for five decades spent far more time before televison cameras, newspaper reporters, on radio, and marketing herself with exaggerated claims, than any time spent working a case with PLE officers who sanctioned her assistance.
Renier herself reluctantly testified about her PLE work claims, admitting that she actually has no dated or numbered PLE agency work listings. Nor has she kept any PLE agency names, PLE contact names, or PLE case numbers that match up with her "more than hundreds" of PLE cases that she claims to have worked, nor that match the estimated 600 PLE and FBI cases the UWG first cited in 2019.
Had the claimed 600 or so UWG cases actually existed, among an estimated 600 Public Law Enforcement (PLE) cases cited by the UWG as worked by Noreen Renier, a minimum of 510 among those 600 law enforcement cases should had been tied to official PLE missing or murdered children cases. This is based on a 85% ratio estimate stated by Noreen Renier revealing the vast percentage of her PLE work claims were on child murder and missing cases solicited from their families. But again, there is no evidence any of the UWG's 600 or so cases are real. However its important to read the UWG statements because they are written as if their statements are real, and there are no UWG disclaimers otherwise.
And this is one key reason the UWG website summaries as published are false, deceptive, and misleading. Parents with missing or stolen children are desperate for information to help them locate their children. The UWG presentations made are anything but accurate and helpful. They hide behind a facade of providing responsible academic research and scientific steps before drawing conclusions. Instead they simply toss out deceptions and nonsense. This continuing UWG communications turmoil also showcases UWG's unwillingness to correct its own Noreen Renier falsehoods.
UWG students may need to be concerned at the educational quality they are receiving as these appalling UWG communication failures and their corrective enforcement appear repeatedly excusable even over six years when applied to UWG staff and faculty, but not so for students. Additionally both UWG donors and grant institutions should investigate how their UWG funding is being intermixed beside such globally viewed UWG spirit medium shenanigans promoted in UWG public communications, including on UWG websites. Not surprisingly, Noreen Renier has been unable to show any evidence in courts of her claimed "more than hundreds" of PLE agency hirings or law enforcement agency payment stubs or tax filing confirmations. Across the last 25 years her website posted fees for PLE agency work were typically $1000, which was often the same fee she charged for private missing person sessions averaging 25 to 40 minutes. Her posted fees charged on her website for law enforcement agencies or to families with missing children have never been shown, or reported as offered for free.
It remains true ---not false as some UWG proponents have recently claimed--- that the UWG is currently and has for over six years both published and distributed public communications shown as false based on U.S. court testimony transcripts, including transcripts held by the UWG in its PSI Collection. Just how many University of West Georgia sanctioned faculty, staff, and possibly students who wrote and encoded UWG PSI Special Collection website subject summaries are responsible for creating and/or corrupting the accurate realities about Noreen Renier case work and related claims? It certainly appears to be a growing number and with some "mixing in claims from talking ghosts with disputed bits of UWG PSI parapsychology pseudoscience nonsense" according to one researcher. Renier critic John Merrell was more blunt, stating in 2020 that the credibility of some UWG PSI Special Collection selections "could have been used in a Superman movie as the most dishonest and dangerous collection in locating missing children stored on the planet."
Some non-UWG researchers believe UWG faculty and/or UWG PSI website writers have displayed "gleeful fun" over many years creating fictional website subject summaries about Noreen Renier working on FBI cases directly "for" the FBI, and with hundreds of other major law enforcement agencies. Apparently several UWG faculty and staff have in recent years spent signficant funds and considerable time traveling and securing items from paranormal proponents for the vastly expanding UWG PSI Collection. Contrary scientific journal writers covering paranormal afterlife incidents; interactions with Public Law Enforcement agencies using psychic mediums; and the accuracy of psychic mediums issuing communications with deceased children interacting through the medium to their parents have apparently not been solicited or desired by the UWG for decades, if ever. And clearly some UWG personnel have themselves been sanctioned or have sanctioned others to write, compose, encode, communicate, lecture, and distribute false claims which can be found within UWG website subject summaries and also appear on Scientology related paranormal websites.
UWG PSI paranormal Special Collections subject summaries are heavily picked up by global search engines and have created thousands of UWG website "hits" including from global families with stolen and missing children. So why has the UWG so heavily emphasized such activities, and in recent years seemed to cover-up and/or obfuscate the concerns and items investigators have uncovered within UWG PSI vast Special Collection websites subject summaries? A recent quick survey of non-Renier UWG PSI Special Collection websites show similar issues. Why?
In late May 2025 another UWG website notes that UWG Professor Blynne Olivieri Parker, who as of March 2025 is also now the Dean of the UWG Ingram Library on campus, "reviewed Noreen Renier’s personal archive in July 2019 in Port Orange, Florida, and selected these materials to be sent to the University of West Georgia for permanent retention. Renier deeded the materials to the university on July 30, 2019." So UWG Dean Blynne Olivieri Parker, "reviewed", retained, and "selected" a large collection from a court discredited psychic actress, and then managed UWG distributing a collection of claims across official UWG websites. Many of the selections gathered by Dean Blynne Olivieri Parker have now been published by UWG for over six years even though many UWG senior executives, including UWG Dean Blynne Olivieri Parker herself; current staff for the UWG President; and lawyers at the UWG Office of Legal Affairs were all told over two years ago, (back on May 19, 2023), that UWG was publishing "deceptive, harmful, and fictitious promotional" claims and statements damaging to the global public community.
It remains unclear how many UWG personnel processed and coded the vast UWG Noreen Renier Collection subject and scope descriptions, but its clear in late 2025 there are valid concerns of reckless PSI paranormal misrepresentations involving law enforcement agencies across UWG public website summaries and among UWG PSI Collection public communications. These concerns prompted further Global Net Research funding and activities in recent months which uncovered additional UWG concerns.
Has the UWG created phoney ties to major global PLE agencies to convince families with lost and murdered children to book Noreen Renier to contact their missing or dead children? If so, did some UWG employees receive financial kick-backs from what appears to be a 'million dollar plus' business?
With Renier's claimed Public Law Enforcement (PLE) cases worked identified as "more than hundreds" as early as 1986 in testimony, even just 1000 PLE cases would net $1 million. And while Renier has stated 70% to 90% of her casework is with public law enforcement agencies, she has spoken of thousands of total cases she has worked on. If through her "retirement" in 2023 she worked on 3000 to 5000 cases over 40 years, and 70% of these (her low figure) were with law enforcement agencies, then at least 2800 cases worked for and with law enforcement agencies would result from a total of just 4000 cases. The average time per case including setting up her phone and cassette recorder, sipping beforehand an alcoholic drink or two as she claims, and preparing her psychic ghost entities and crystal pendulums might average a total of 3 hours per case, easily achieving more than a hundred cases by phone per month, or in this scenario across an entire year only about 25 total case working hours per month resulting in $15,000 to about $22,500 in average income per month based on her $20 to $30 per minute typical charge shown for her missing children contact and/or PLE murder case rate. That would represent near a minimum of $2.8 million in payments across 40 years for just 100 PLE cases per year, minus a few thousand dollars in phone charges as her last publicly documented case other than by phone is now decades old.
There are of course many spinning parts and claims. How many of her PLE claims are delusional or simply charades? Or just UWG created fictional representations without documents?
Did some UWG students, including student web script and software writers provide assistance to UWG staff personnel and receive academic credits for doing so? Or was the writing and encoding shown on UWG PSI website subject summaries done entirely by UWG faculty and staff?
Critically, Renier and UWG statements also seem to suggest Renier has mystical powers while holding objects, such as while touching Public Law Enforcement (PLE) physical evidence. Are both the UWG and Renier spinning a claim that touching an object can trigger 'psychometry' paranormal powers? There is of course no scientific evidence that psychometry exists, but even extensive testing directly on Renier hasn't stopped the UWG.
Ignored by UWG, Noreen Renier has only catastrophic 'psychometry' touching failures after expert testing by Southern Oregon State College faculty (Click to see Finding #22 at https://www.globalnetresearch.com/findings.html ). Yet UWG personnel offer no UWG method tests of their own, but remain firm in still backing Renier. UWG currently states that "her method involves holding items belonging to the missing person in order to learn information about the place, time, and circumstances of their disappearance." Such items have included the holding of Teddy Bears from missing and dead children. But not a single lost child or adult has ever been located using this mystical UWG 'touch-sense' claim. Yet during a typical Renier 25 to 40 minute medium session to contact the missing or dead, Noreen Renier often suggested along with their $1000 cash or check payment -- no credit cards were allowed -- that clients also send a personal item from the lost family member before Renier made contact using her ghost entities and her sensing of psychic vibrations.
According to retired private investigator Arthur Carmelo, Noreen Renier claims she has touched "thousands" of sensory items. He has spoken with many of her past clients who said Renier had them wrap a "lock of hair" in aluminum foil inside the mailing envelope with their personal or bank cashier's check. He also found many instead sent Renier different personal items including "small stuffed animals, child artwork, small books, hair combs, men's cuff links, dolls, women's scarfs, hand mittens, hair pins, several toothbrushes, and even a partially eaten bag of Cheetos" which, according to feedback from Renier to that client, produced “strong sensory waves” allowing Renier to contact a deceased young boy.
During brief recorded medium sessions, a few samples of which are stored by the UWG in their Noreen Renier Collection #MS-0083, actress Noreen Renier voices both her own voice and projects the responses from "lost souls" reaching out. Her paying clients also heard her medium session live over the phone, and often "communicated" thru Renier with their children or another family member or friend. In a public statement issued in her own published media pack titled "Workshop ESP: An Awareness" Noreen Renier stated even "an optional trance" was available "to make contact with the deceased relatives, friends, or famous people, and questions may be posed to 'Sing' and 'Robert', Noreen's two main spiritual entities, who have something to say about everything!" Now, after her "retirement" in mid 2023, the UWG continues to publicly provide access to its Renier collection. But it does so with no UWG warnings or stated reservations that hearing or relying on such paranormal methods can result in significant costs, just delusionary fiction, and additional emotional harms. Nor does UWG mention that Noreen Renier herself has been shown as not credible by a U.S. federal court, nor that the judgment against her was also supported by four additional U.S. federal judges. Excerpts from those judgements are shown below.
UWG even ignores Renier testimony that 40 years ago she stopped logging PLE agencies, cases, or contacts after her initial "35 to 40" files were "lost" by Renier. So UWG actually in 2019 never had any proof to support media stories citing PLE cases worked by Renier, resolved by Renier, or even existing. Not its estimated 600 cases much less even five. Indeed U.S. federal court subpoenas uncovered one unreported Noreen Renier bank account hidden just weeks after Noreen Renier declared a 2nd bankruptcy. Records provided to the federal bankruptcy Court Trustee state that Renier "provided information about seven (7) accounts in her bankruptcy petition: four different accounts at Wachovia Bank in Charlottesville, two retirement accounts (American Funds and Evergreen Investments), and a closed account at Bank of America in Tampa. However, the Debtor [Renier], failed to identify her checking account at the Putt Putt branch of Bank of America in Charlottesville." That hidden account showed cash deposits well over $100,000.00 including many additional payments from families who paid Renier for an over-the-phone missing child medium session. A related question is why were at least 7 different active financial accounts needed by Renier who initially claimed to the bankruptcy court that her total income the year before was just $6371.00? Then where did the funds in the hidden account come from and go to?
Among many families contacted from checks processed thru Renier's hidden bank account, not even one family said Renier had found their child. Many were further emotionally devastated as Renier, using a childish voice, voiced a child speaking thru one or both of Renier's claimed ghost entities. According to multiple witnesses across multiple sessions, Renier's mouth cried out repeatedly with the sound of a child's anguish that they were lost and afraid. This is the reality behind a UWG facade that the UWG showcases as a valued historical collection for academic research.
Instead the UWG is seen by many as providing a global stage for Noreen Renier, a former dinner theatre and lengthy professional playhouse actress. As early as 1957 the Key West Citizen newspaper described her as an "actress and model" as well as a "beauty contest" candidate having "radio and TV experience in acting." Later Noreen Renier for years worked in entertainment lounges and also operated and acted in her own nightclub. Noreen Renier was a performer across decades who also launched a business booking parents of lost and missing children to her own 'spiritual medium' sessions well before her claims of "suddenly" discovering her claimed psychic abilities. The University of West Georgia does not mention Renier's extensive history as a night club, bar, lounge, and playhouse actress and participant. By the late 1970's according to several trade companions, Renier discovered that she could sit in her own home and by phone discuss psychics, spiritual healings, and paranormal events on late night AM radio stations for free. As she became better recognized, radio stations booked her more often including across larger regions of the U.S. and Canada. With this better coverage she also began drawing new clients looking for advice by phone during the day after listening to her at night. Within a short period she became an American psychic talk show star, and also expanded from radio to TV. Over the years she evolved into a self-described 'police psychic contacting the murdered' further expanding her recognition.
After changing her title to just 'Police Psychic Detective' she even picked up a short luncheon talk at the FBI Training Academy located about an hour from her home. She quickly turned that description from 'a short talk over lunch in front of a few FBI trainees' into a false marketing campaign claiming to be "an FBI psychic medium investigator" who had "lectured at the FBI." This became her story, rather than simply speaking for a few minutes and answering some questions on the same afternoon, split between two trainee back-to-back lunch breaks. The UWG clearly never checked the facts. Her actual discussion was essentially that 'as a police psychic detective I am already on TV and real. Any questions?' She became a limited author extensively fronted by numerous ghost-writers, some who still remain unidentified in 2025, across 4 different global books and a mini pamphlet. By the mid 1980's she had left her work in lounges, playhouses, and her 'sleazy' nightclub attire far behind. Well, almost. (See her own comment in statement #23 below). But she has always remained first and foremost an actress marketing exaggerated tales. And outright lies.
Yet the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) which oversees the University of West Georgia remains silent. No corrections have been administered by the USG Executive Administrative Council nor personnel with USG Academic Affairs and Administrative Services. Nothing appears to be in a process of correction by any UWG or USG legal personnel to halt or revise UWG's dishonest statements and claims as noted on this site. It appears all risks and liabilities distributed about Noreen Renier from UWG websites are now fully transferred to the UWG and the USG without any publicly stated reservations. Not even a UWG or USG public disclaimer to cover the dismal research and dishonesty of the cited communications. Those remain posted under various UWG logos.
Renier's federal bankruptcy judge ruled she had misled the federal bankruptcy court, forcing Renier on her third court income filing to revise her income earnings upward by over 10 times even after her second filing. Even so, her major creditor showed further financial deceptions and the judge later ordered the sale of thousands of dollars in Renier's assets to pay her creditors. Deceptions after deceptions even while she stood in a federal court house. And bankruptcy issues were just one of her legal problems as a Washington U.S. District Court had also found that she had breached an earlier Florida State Court settlement agreement, ruling she owed a principal critic over $40,000.00. And even after that, after taking almost a year to twice appeal U.S. federal court judgments against her, she lost both of her appeals. Her legal costs became far greater than her income. All of which, across several years, are completely ignored in any UWG communications. Honest UWG coverage? No.
Using the minimum count tally of Noreen Renier's claimed PLE 'case work' totals, as of July 1, 2023 -- near Renier's "retirement" from case work -- Global Net Research investigators believe that conservatively 1,036 (99.7% to 100%) among her claimed total PLE 'cases worked' are in fact bogus and never existed, and/or are completely autonomous from authentic PLE cases she was never sanctioned or authorized to work, and therefore was never hired or "worked" according to any known PLE agency. If she accurately claimed even 1 to 5 PLE sanctioned cases given to her to work, they would likely be from small townships where that particular office closed and no records were transferred to other PLE cross referencing networks. That would be unusual as even smaller PLE offices would have PLE 'Chain of Custody' (CoC) documentation for the handling of their files and any acquired evidence. Beyond even the slim possibility of five or more such cases being claimed by Renier, all investigators contacted suspect such cases would be found delusional, exaggerated, or improperly recorded.
So why is the University of West Georgia pushing dishonest academic claims while promoting a woman that one writer called a fraud and charlatan in court as early as 1986? Since 1994 Renier has been handed over 120 pages of court judgment rulings against her from multiple U.S. state and federal courts. Class action litigation against U.S. institutions who have distributed public communications incorporating dishonest claims about Noreen Renier and others, may now advance. The University of West Georgia, having now distributed such false communications for years, has uniquely expanded its 2025 liabilities beyond the safeguard limits of other U.S. public institutions. Shockingly well beyond a publicly funded academic center. Is the UWG involvement part of a staff or donor financial hustle for kick-backs from outside paranormal support groups or alumni? Global Net Research will continue to monitor public and legal concerns until both the UWG personnel involved, and senior officials at both the UWG and USG issue public corrections and also credible public apologies as to why these issues occurred. There are parties who are now weighing whether the UWG and USG require a full public reveal to encourage the UWG and USG to publicly showcase new enforcement of corrective standards and policies so false communications will not be repeated. Meanwhile, further fraud concerns ignored by the University of West Georgia and its related USG state public educational hierarchy are noted below. Also below are dozens of identified personnel in Europe and throughout the world citing significant Noreen Renier public deceptions and/or delusions.

The photos above of Noreen Renier span the last 57 years. Noreen Renier has never been sanctioned to work PLE cases under the FBI, CIA, NSA, Scotland Yard, or for any of 38 U.S. state police agencies as she claims.
Only 0 to 5 cases from 4 tiny United States PLE offices MIGHT have been sanctioned for Noreen Renier to work over 60 years. Not UWG's whopping estimate of 600. As a 'police psychic detective for hire' Noreen Renier has preyed on families with lost children by selling them medium readings by phone. Noreen Renier self-claims to contact the dead, the murdered, and the missing using two "ghost entities" and purified crystal pendulums. Cost? Typically $20 to $40 per minute based on Renier's mid 2023 minimum flat rate shown on her website at $1000.
For more than 2 decades Noreen Renier has posted on her website her own faked academic credentials as an adjunct faculty member across 7 accredited U.S. colleges and universities including the University of Virginia, the University of Delaware, and University of Florida. Click here to see https://noreenrenier.com/services/academic.htm However, all 7 of these institutions denied her claims that they gave her a "teaching appointment" as a "adjunct faculty member" and many, beginning 30 years ago, requested Renier to remove these deceptive postings. She has never done so. Noreen Renier has never been an accredited adjunct faculty member or received any accredited public college or university faculty teaching appointment. She herself has never earned or received an accredited 2 or 4 year degree. Yet apparently the University of West Georgia has itself ignored these teaching appointment and title deceptions provided on May 18, 2023 to then UWG President Brendan Kelly; many current senior UWG officials and staff; the UWG Office of Legal Affairs; and to UWG Professor Blynne Olivieri Parker who is also the Dean of the UWG Ingram Library on campus and for years the Head of UWG Special Collections including Noreen Renier materials. In late 2024 the UWG added further confusion in using on its own website a subject title covering Noreen Renier with the beginning title "Teaching experience, 1978-2014 | University of West Georgia" which is typically clipped short on search engine displays. That descriptive title may cause some to falsely link Renier with a UWG teaching position. Was this deliberate, or just more sloppy UWG public community communications? In fact, in federal court testimony as the defendant Renier could not remember the name of any high school she graduated from. Yet in 2025 we now also have confusion about Noreen Renier teaching at the UWG for 36 years. Does anyone at the UWG care, or again, is this deliberate? The UWG just continues to compound its own false and/or misleading and/or sloppy UWG communications about Noreen Renier. Is the UWG promoting Noreen Renier alongside a mix of Ingo Swann Research Fellowship paranormal 'remote viewing' claims, while combined with materials in its UWG PSI Collection, supporting a relationship to Swann's ties to the Church of Scientology? Even if not, who at the UWG decided that an academic research integrity balance and truthful facts were not required within its Noreen Renier public communications?
Portraying herself as making contact with the dead, Noreen Renier claims hundreds of cases "when I was paid and hired by the police." Also not true. Instead many of those listed below note Noreen Renier lies and/or wildly distorts. Please note the statements from multiple judges below, including from Judge William E. Anderson, along with two other federal courts who rejected Renier's follow-up appeals. The statements below show how far some recent UWG academic communications and University of West Georgia and ethical accuracy standards have fallen.
-Washington United States District judge James Robart who ordered judgments against Renier in 2006 and 2007, and also ordered Renier to pay more than $41,000.00 to her principal critic, John Merrell.
-Reference the 4-page article and audio transcripts at https://www.csicop.org/si/show/psychic_detective_noreen_renier
–Revised and updated in London for Ariane Sizemore on August 6, 2024, and December 28, 2024.
-Edited after sixth phone interview on October 14, 2018 and edited with permission from Faith D. Mobley, Aberdeen, Scotland
- Nicole Clarke, Principal Investigator, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland.
-Liam McFarland, Montreal, Canada, and edited with updates in January 2022.
- United States federal Judge William E. Anderson in ruling against Noreen Renier on March 21, 2011.
“A psychic detective for the F.B.I.? The only thing I can say about that is it is not true. …she does not work on F.B.I. cases. . . .She never really worked for the F.B.I.”
–The late Robert Ressler (who died in 2013), during testimony while he was an F.B.I. Special Agent working at the F.B.I. Behavioral Science Unit of the F.B.I. Academy.
- Nicholas Walker, Orlando, Florida (U.S.A) researcher
–Nicolas Rousseau, Nanterre, France.


– Glenn Weatherholtz, Sheriff of Rockingham County and City of Harrisburg, Virginia.
– Kevin Paul, New York City. Compiled and edited in 2005 to 2025."
-Federal Circuit Court judges James Harvie Wilkinson III and Andre Davis, and Senior Circuit Judge Clyde Hamilton in their judgment order (Renier's second appeal rejection) rendered against Noreen Renier and issued April 18, 2012 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit [a court immediately under the U.S. Supreme Court]. Their order kept in place an earlier 2011 federal court judgment which found Noreen Renier not credible and having misled a United States federal court.
–Lieutenant J.W. Gibson of the Charlottesville Police Department, Virginia, United States
–Jack Ramsey, Perth, Western Australia.
-Detective Lieutenant Gerald Poirier, of the Gardner, Massachusetts, Police Department, and also Commander of the North Worcester County Drug Task Force.

-Carl Wilber, Gardner, Massachusetts, who according to all four of the responsible Massachusetts police agencies is credited with finding the plane along with his daughter Cheryl. Neither he nor his daughter had ever heard of Noreen Renier until John Merrell interviewed them.
–Cheryl Wilber, Gardner, Massachusetts
-Cricket Johnson, actual eye-witness to the airplane crash near the Gardner Airport.
–Attorney Roxie Cuellar representing Noreen Renier critic John Merrell in 1986. Attorney Cuellar presented facts that were confirmed as ‘keenly accurate and on-the-mark” by GNR researchers in 2014.
–Dr. Gary Posner, M.D., founder of the Tampa Bay Skeptics, Tampa, Florida, United States
–Krystian Truchan, Marki, Poland
-Dave Mitchell, Houston, Texas
[GNR note: Noreen Renier in her book A Mind For Murder on page 58 of her 2008 edition confirms drinking straight Scotch during questioning of a murder suspect at the Hampton Police Department. Multiple law enforcement offices have confirmed she consumed "red wine" and/or "alcohol" while in their offices and was not legally sober to drive when leaving their offices.


-Burt Kendall, GNR fact checker]
-Retired Virginia (U.S.A.) based senior detective at a major public law enforcement agency. [Name and prior rank withheld as a request but verified by GNR researchers]
-Bill Swanson.
[The events described by Mr. Swanson were confirmed by researchers who were shown an interview with Mrs. Renier from 1981 by newspaper reporter Darrell Laurant. Mr. Laurant wrote that Noreen Renier "opened, of all things, a night club act." Greg Thompson, a Gordonsville former actor confirmed that Mrs. Renier also did solo performances at the Four County Player Playhouse and in the old '12 o'clock High' Theatre. He stated "She had looks and isn't stupid. She could fool anyone if she wanted to commit a murder. And she could start crying in a split second. It was simply amazing. In two seconds she could be in tears and then stop and smile. She used to drive us crazy by doing something and then pretending she'd never done it. She's big on attention but anytime she's caught in the act she goes into her 'I'm really bad about remembering things' act. I'm not surprised she's pushing psychic stories. There's plenty of wobble room there and that's the way she likes it."]
-Noreen Renier.
[Note: On September 30, 2007 Dr. Pamela Health, M.D. of Frederick, Maryland (U.S.A.) posted the statement above from an interview she conducted with Noreen Renier on September 30, 2007. More recently Mrs. Renier stated 'Skepticism is healthy - everyone should have it. What annoys me is when people try to debunk me without listening to the facts."