Updated for Friday, January 16, 2026

Located west of Atlanta, the University of West Georgia (UWG) 'Mission and Values' standards continue to sink as non-UWG researchers report the UWG is knowingly issuing false website communications. Parents with missing, stolen, or murdered children and looking for help finding their children are being directed by the UWG and 24 other campuses under the University System of Georgia (USG) websites to bogus claims, and an elderly female actress who claims to be a "super psychic".

The UWG and USG are also distributing a public website summary stating the UWG holds material on FBI cases "worked on for the FBI" by this "psychic". However, its UWG MS-0083 PSI 'Special Collection' has never held FBI case materials sanctioned by the FBI to be worked by this American career actress.

In fact authentic FBI case documents have never been released for work to this actress, and she has never worked "for" the FBI.

The UWG and USG are communicating a massive deception.

Additionally, this UWG cited "psychic" was previously discredited by a U.S. federal judge as 'not credible' in a 2011 ruling against her, and four additional federal judges during her appeals backed that original ruling. Excerpts of those rulings are shown below.

This "psychic" cited and promoted with many false UWG and USG claims is career actress Noreen Renier.

Renier is pictured above in 1989, and is 89 years old according to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles as of January 16, 2026. More recent photos are shown below on this page.

Actress Renier was hired by the parents of Tiffany Sessions to find their daughter in 1989. That year Noreen Renier aroused the media and told reporter Jack Alexander that "I have very good vibes about this case... ... I know I can find the young lady.”  But Noreen Renier has repeatedly failed over 37 years to solve the case and locate Tiffany Sessions. Over the last 50 years, Renier has never found a missing, stolen, or murdered child.

The current 2026 UWG and University System of Georgia (USG) 'Parapsychology Investigations (PSI) Special Collection' public websites fail to mention these disturbing federal court rulings, credibility concerns, or any of the other county, state, and federal court rulings from 1994 through 2022 against this professional actress.

This website is all about both old and fresh deceptive and false claims being made today by the UWG and USG.

But very briefly, a bit of background information first.

Over the past six and a half years (as of 1-14-2026), the UWG and USG have only mentioned one unnamed court, which was a small county court located in the U.S. state of Oregon north of California, with just six jurors. The UWG and USG websites have stated that 'skeptic writer' John Merrell was found at fault in a libel case brought by this currently UWG promoted 'super psychic' but do not reference this was when Noreen Renier lived in Phoenix Oregon, a town with 4383 residents in 1985.

The six member county jury awarded Noreen Renier just 9% ($25,000 of $275,000 USD) of what her lawsuit asked, but for Merrell it was a clear set-back, as he was active as a member of the National Council Against Health Fraud. He testified in the same southern Oregon county court that Noreen Renier was a fraud and charlatan who was making in 1985 false 'powers of healing' claims.

He also testified that she had lied and was misleading the jury that her psychic powers had been "instrumental" in finding a crashed airplane with still alive and injured persons.

While Merrell was initially unsuccessful in fully convincing the six jury members, 19 years later he conclusively proved after locating four eye-witnesses that his original county court testimony had been fully correct.

Merrell had in 1985 begun investigating Noreen Renier after receiving messages and mail from a woman named Nancy Uzdavinis who requested his help and encouraged him to investigate Renier with some urgency.

Years after Merrell lost the libel case, he discovered Nancy Uzdavinis was actually Renier's sister-in-law once he found Uzdavinis was Renier's maiden name. But this was only a tiny slice of the deception. Merrell also discovered that the letters signed as Nancy Uzdavinis had actually been written by Noreen Renier herself!

This confirmed that his initial investigative path to help 'Nancy Uzdavinis' had actually been directed by Renier for Merrell to investigate herself!

Noreen Renier never informed the Oregon county judge or jury about this prior deception and had repeatedly claimed Merrell 'decided for some unknown reason' to aggressively investigate her.

After this discovery a local and professionally seasoned attorney, (A. Philip Lomonaco) represented Merrell in a Knoxville Tennessee federal court stating "Dorothy V. Lehman, a forensic handwriting expert, who has analyzed these prior exhibits and concludes: 'it is my opinion that Nancy Uzdavinis did not execute any of these handwritings. . .' Further, Ms. Lehman states 'there is no doubt that Noreen Renier did execute all of the questioned handwriting, including the signatures of Nancy Uzdavinis on the two questioned letters."

But unfortunately Merrell discovered this too late to overturn the original 1985 ruling.

The UWG and USG have never admitted their cited and promoted "psychic" used a false identity before suing Merrell.

Today Merrell remains convinced that the actual Nancy Uzdavinis likely was unaware of this hidden charade before the judge and jury, and may not have been aware that Renier was falsely writing letters using the name Nancy Uzdavinis to entrap Merrell and others in having them investigate herself.

Yet this remains undisclosed by the UWG and USG in 2026, even though documented in federal court transcripts.

Merrell did fortunately later receive a federal court approval to investigate further, including using federal subpoenas which helped uncover the names of four key witnesses. Renier had never mentioned in her testimony these plane crash witnesses before the judge or jury, likely because two of Merrell's four newly discovered witnesses had actually located and discovered the crashed plane themselves. Had they testified they would certainly have destroyed Renier's fantasized and/or delusional testimony that she herself had been "instrumental" in finding the plane!

And the other two new witnesses found by Merrell were the only eye-witnesses of the actual plane crash. They were both standing about 90 meters below (about 300 feet) as the plane passed over a deserted local runway before suddenly pulling up, and then crashing about 900 meters (about 2900 feet) beside a swamp area vastly different from what Renier had told the jury. Renier told the jury instead that she "saw" the crash site near the top of a mountain and near canyons.

Merrell also confirmed that Renier's testimony before the jury that there had been two 'survivors' at the crash site was a complete fantasy created by Renier. Merrell even found fake and undated news stories about crash survivors found by Renier 20 years after the plane was found and these appeared conveniently in unison with Renier's 2005 first book release titled 'A Mind For Murder'. That book just months later was ruled by a federal court to have breached a Florida state settlement agreement with Merrell. Renier's publisher, Penguin Books, immediately halted publication and cancelled her contract.

The fake news stories stated Renier had "worked with more than 650 police departments", but these fake stories were never able to be linked directly to Renier herself. And as the average U.S. police agency typically has 8 to 42 departments, an average would reflect a total of just 26 undocumented police agencies. And Renier had by 2005 already falsely testified that she had worked 70% of her "more than hundreds of cases" with "police" (700 cases out of at least 1000), though she refused during one federal court break to identify even ten such cases when the court resumed.

Yet the UWG and USG website writers in 2019 attempted to untangled the case number chaos and fake news stories and apparently decided, without any documentation or evidence, that 'about 600' FBI and other Public Law Enforcement (PLE) cases worked by Renier seemed a good wobble area. Sort of. Maybe. Like a number one might use while thinking 'Who is going to question it anyway?'

More useful was that Merrell received many accurate local newspaper articles with photos of the plane crash, including many local newspaper clippings from one of his newly found witnesses, Cricket Frost, who had saved the articles published about the plane crash. All of those can be found on this website, again further documenting the deceptions in testimony by Noreen Renier.

All four of the passengers immediately "died on impact" per the medical examiner at the scene.

This showed that lengthy testimony by Renier before the jury stating incredible heroics by one survivor at the crash site was fiction. That testimony had caused two women among the six jury members to 'tear-up' and wipe their eyes. But Merrell proved 20 years after the jury had heard Renier testify, that her hours of testimony were simply filled with bold lies and/or delusional fantasies.

Yet her many such deceptions and lies in many different court rooms have never been publicly recognized by the UWG or USG, including now in 2026.

Merrell, who worked for Boeing for 10 years was found by all local Virginia law enforcement agencies near the crash as being accurate in his actual crash findings, while this UWG and USG cited "psychic" in 2026 has more recently been shown as repeatedly deceiving the Oregon court judge and jurors. Not once or twice, but court transcripts show she created dozens of misleading fictional events in her testimony.

And all four of Merrell's uncovered actual on-site Massachusetts witnesses fully backed his original 1985 testimony.

That incident is outlined in four parts on this website with no advertising, and at no charge.

Yet today neither the UWG or USG public websites have ever mentioned these facts, nor that Merrell moved litigation later against Noreen Renier to a far higher level U.S. District Court in Seattle.

That court ordered Renier to reimburse Merrell for over $40,000 which was more than 60% greater than the small county court had provided to Renier before.

Even today, there are no UWG and USG admissions that Merrell won additional rulings against Renier even after that, in four additional Virginia federal courtrooms, and also in a state court in New York.

Ignored by the UWG and USG on their websites is that over the past 32 years Merrell has won every state and federal court ruling in cases against Renier. Meanwhile both UWG and USG websites have only promoted Noreen Renier as a winning courtroom psychic.

UWG and USG website readers were only told about the single small county court where Renier "won" in 1985 and that was relayed across more than three dozen UWG and USG operated websites for years. Renier's small town or the title of the county court and its location 272 miles south of Portland, Oregon were never mentioned by the UWG or USG. Nor anything about the continuing litigation across the next 7 more major courtrooms.

Fair and balanced UWG and USG academic research and public communications beginning in 2019 and today? No.

UWG's and USG public communications showcasing Merrell only as a loser made a mockery of what transpired, while the UWG and USG have continued to ignore the extensive measures across 40 years that Merrell and many others have made to correct the deceptions.

Now, back to the present in 2026.

Today both University of West Georgia (UWG) and University System of Georgia (USG) websites are once again promoting Noreen Renier who claims paranormal powers to communicate with dead and murdered children through her ghost entities.

Her claims also include remarkable ESP powers including clairvoyance, psychokinesis, psychometry, psychic vision beneath others apparel, mental powers to alter solid objects, altering room temperatures with psychic commands, and using "super psychic" powers to levitate children.

Today Noreen Renier's ties with University of West Georgia faculty and its published claims about her are extensive.

Many of the UWG's present parapsychology and paranormal foundational supports began under Professor William Roll, who held various positions at the UWG, including as Professor of Psychology and Psychical Research. Prior to joining the UWG, Professor Roll had in 1961 been the project director of the private Rhine Psychical Research Center, and was also the Director of Research there.

The private Rhine Research Center has for decades been considered by many as a mystical after-life library and lecture center, with significant overlaps with Scientology beliefs, and not a traditional scientific research center.

Noreen Renier worked with William Roll across his employment at both the Rhine Research Center during his paranormal ghost studies, and also while he was a parapsychology professor over decades at the UWG. Professor Roll died in 2012 and remains most notable globally for his strong belief in poltergeist activity.

In 2007 in a public speech he referred to Noreen Renier as a "famed psychometrist" though there is no evidence that psychometry exists, nor its purported ability to glean accurate knowledge of an object's history by making physical contact with that object. Such as picking up a gun in California and instantly visioning a murder scene in New Zealand. And "seeing" the girl who loaded the gun with bullets, and the man who had pulled the trigger. And which one had stopped for shushi and fingered the gun under her coat, and the person who slid the gun into his car glove compartment.

That's apparently what a "famed psychometrist" might vision, at least if psychometry actually existed.

But during testing we reference below Noreen Renier instead flunked her psychometry claims. With truly incredibly bad results.

Professor Roll while at the UWG was the principal faculty supporter who established the current UWG PSI Special Collection websites. These were originally created to "support parapsychology and the teaching of parapsychology" including collecting psychic medium and ghost materials.

Professor Roll also supported Noreen Renier's claims of speaking with ghosts and talking with trees to investigate crimes. This support included a case in which Renier has described speaking with a maple tree that acted as a witness to a human death fight near its roots.

The work of William Roll has been described as "well outside mainstream science" and he has been described as "a credulous investigator" who was repeatedly and easily fooled.

He did however establish Noreen Renier's firm ties with the UWG and USG which have evolved over the past 40 years.

Today current 2026 UWG / USG website summary profiles specific to Noreen Renier knowingly ignore her proven fake academic college and university faculty credentials, and fail to acknowledge she has been a professional stage, radio, and TV career actress since the late 1950's. All of her psychic medium FBI and Public Law Enforcement (PLE) cases, and paranormal claims appear to be completely accepted on present UWG and USG websites with no concerns, and follow the 'William Roll parameters of acceptance'.

Cliff Helks, a Canadian researcher wrote "Renier must laugh at the ludicrous powers she claims knowing the UWG may just gobble them up and send them out."

We will now outline by citing present UWG and USG website statements how they are knowingly false and deceptive.

The typical fee charged by this UWG cited "psychic" for her communications with dead children? A flat $1000.00 paid upfront by only cash or check. And that quickly gets used up at about a $30 per minute rate, allowing for just over 30 minutes to hear her speak for both herself and her spirit ghosts. Sometimes while her fee charge is the same, her ghost conversations get cut back when her ghosts are "restless", and apparently when clients voice skepticism about what they are hearing. That's according to parents who have paid her base $1000.00 fee and never had her spirit ghosts locate their missing or dead children. In fact, the percentage of her 'ghost failings' to find missing, lost, stolen, kidnapped, or murdered children appears to be frozen for over 50 years at a 100% failure rate.

Renier, among other UWG and USG promoted 'psychic mediums' has never led official Public Law Enforcement (PLE) officers directly to a missing live or dead child.

Nor has any PLE agency stated her discussions with her ghosts resulted in an official PLE missing or murdered child case being solved.

Nor any PLE missing person case with a person of any age.

Noreen Renier has represented herself as a young girl into her mid teens as Noreen Uzdavinis (her family name); and then after her teenage marriage as Noreen Klinko. This was followed upon her second marriage in becoming Noreen Renier. After her divorce from Mr. Renier, she maintained the name, but in addition to posing as Nancy Uzdavinis, some investigators believe she may have used additional names during business banking and financial transactions.

Global Net Research investigators have also never found any newspaper, or mass media reports with any PLE documentation which claim missing or dead children were found by Renier's ghosts after talking to missing or dead children.

You book Renier, you automatically are booking her spirit ghosts. Her own radio and TV descriptions of her "more than hundreds" of alleged Public Law Enforcement (PLE) cases are never without her claims of contacting the dead through her ghosts.

But not even a single PLE missing child has been found from either of her two alleged spirit ghosts.

These continual downward slides in UWG / USG credibility may have finally hit rock bottom.

An examination of several 2026 PSI Noreen Renier MS-0083 'Special Collection summary pages again falsely state Noreen Renier has worked for the FBI on FBI cases. These UWG and USG websites do not identify the FBI cases, and also refer to hundreds of other Public Law Enforcement agencies (with those agencies never UWG identified), across hundreds of Public Law Enforcement (PLE) cases. All these UWG ties to PLE cases worked by Renier lack any evidence they actually exist.

Thus, even Noreen Renier who was discredited in courts, and by FBI officers in testimony, has become UWG super enhanced once again as a "psychic" working for the FBI, on FBI cases, and also with hundreds of other Public Law Enforcement (PLE) agencies.

John Merrell publicly stated that even after he showed false academic credentials published by Noreen Renier to senior UWG personnel, no one seemed concerned.

Amazingly in 2026 a current UWG public website still pushes innuendos that Noreen Renier has 'psychometry' powers that by picking up an item belonging to a missing or murdered child, Renier can sense the place, time, and circumstances of their disappearance.

As as a claimed medium, Renier then contacts the child, whether they are living or dead.

This directly conflicts with her actual catastrophic testing failures at Oregon State College which sunk such UWG credulous claims. Professional and repeated scientific testing at Southern Oregon State College actually displayed only repeated catastrophic failures from Noreen Renier. (Click to see Finding #22 at https://www.globalnetresearch.com/findings.html ).

And several of those managing those tests contacted Merrell directly with documentation about how the tests were developed, the testing conditions, and Noreen Renier's failures. Not too surprisingly the UWG has never publicly acknowledged or commented on this extensive and contrary Southern Oregon State College testing even though Noreen Renier's dramatic testing failures at Oregon State College have been noted in depth publicly for 23 years, and on this website since 2011. And not even a single documented and published contrary UWG or USG test seems to exist.

Rather than using such exacting and professional testing, the present UWG and USG public website support seems backed by alleged talking spirit ghosts, the use of swinging psychic pendulums, psychic powers of 'X-ray' vision, and psychic medium one-way séance recordings.

"Ghost tales over science" according to Melbourne researcher Olivia Chapman who has screened UWG parapsychology Special Collection materials and found them "phony in and phony out" for decades.

Multiple researchers agree that using such paranormal materials as a factual basis to support academic research claims is a "dangerous practice" with high liabilities, particularly when parents of missing and murdered children depend on academic centers to cite realities to locate missing children and resolve crimes.

Global Net Research cites here two current UWG false and deceptive UWG website statement examples found among the dozens of websites and pages in UWG's PSI Special Collection #MS-0083 covering Noreen Renier. 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.” Noreen Renier is actually a radio and TV actress who has over decades 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 and late 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 false UWG claim is shown at https://aspace-uwg.galileo.usg.edu/repositories/2/resources/266/collection_organization#tree::archival_object_60531 which states 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 years 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 and the transcribed witness depositions from the Jackson County Court in Oregon that were provided to Noreen Renier after that court case closed. The same court transcripts and depositions were part of her materials reviewed by UWG Professor Blynne Olivieri Parker, who selected the transcripts, depositions, 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 present and contrary UWG statements are false.

Yet UWG has never corrected numerous false summary statements on its present 2026 websites since first publishing them in mid 2019, even while further updating each website otherwise over the past three years. UWG personnel in particular have been repeatedly shown by Merrell and others that there are false claims, but UWG personnel have instead continued to ignore such concerns.

UWG and USG 'Mission and Values Standards' seem to be edging ever closer to "Phony In and Phony Out" by default.

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 through early 2026 research checks 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.

Based on these revelations Global Net Research investigators suspect both UWG and USG summary websites claiming Noreen Renier "has worked with law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on approximately six hundred unsolved cases" were published as also knowingly false, and never existed for UWG personnel to actually examine. Several investigators now suspect the UWG doesn't know, and would be incapable of discerning which cases among its estimate of 600 PLE and FBI cases worked by Renier are actually real.

Additonally it appears among the estimated 600 PLE and FBI cases cited by the UWG and USG, both the UWG and USG lack any ability to confirm how their case number 126 differs from their case number 523. Or if their case number 312 concerns a stray cat, and their case number 444 concerns a missing child.

If these and similar UWG / USG parapsychology Special Collection websites are fictional, there are serious legal and ethical issues for what the UWG and USG is presenting to likely thousands of families with missing or murdered family members.

And after more than six years, if the UWG / USG public website postings are portraying non-existing and fictional PLE and FBI cases, it may be time that the Georgia Office of the Attorney General is alerted to discuss why the University of West Georgia and USG have ignored and/or refused to correct their posted statements.

Neither Renier, the private Rhine Research Center, nor UWG have ever held any PLE 'Chain of Custody' (CoC) chronology logs showing Renier 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, like the private Rhine Research Center however, the UWG showcases absolutely nothing to support its own public communications that the UWG holds material on sanctioned FBI cases that Renier worked for the FBI.

No UWG 'checked-out' or missing materials, and no FBI 'Chain of Custody' (CoC) chronology case materials crossed tied to either the Rhine Research Center, or Noreen Renier.

Nothing now but apparent UWG make believe tales created and distributed by the UWG itself.

One interesting fact is that both Noreen Renier and UWG's Professor Christine Simmonds-Moore were associated with the private Rhine Research Center in Durham, North Carolina. The Rhine Research Center did not, and can not offer accredited academic degrees, but for some it provided complementary assistance or pay to help protect and promote its paranormal collections.

And before mid 2023 when paranormal critic John Merrell contacted the UWG about many of the concerns on this site, Rhine Research Center senior executives removed from various "Rhine" websites all references to John Merrell, under threat of defamation and slander litigation. The UWG also followed, removing over 3 dozen references to Merrell across its websites after Merrell voiced similar concerns as he had previously with the Rhine Research Center websites written by Rhine Research Center staff.

However, while "Rhine" personnel removed all references similar to the two examples of UWG and USG website statements cited above, the UWG and USG have not.

It is not known whether UWG Professor Christine Simmonds-Moore is a ghost writer behind one or more of the Noreen Renier's U.S. and European books still selling from multiple publishers. The ties and overlaps between Noreen Renier and Christine Simmonds-Moore at the Rhine Research Center and the UWG / USG however involve many of the same concerns Merrell voiced to executives at the Rhine Research Center, and later to UWG senior officials, and several UWG faculty members and staff.

According to Merrell, the present failure by UWG and USG not to fully remove their many current false website summary statements among their MS-0083 PSI Collection may be in response to some internal UWG staff frustrations after the Rhine Research Center removed their Merrell referenced postings, and then the UWG / USG did the same.

Merrell noted in 2023 that "in suddenly having to remove my name on their websites --- some 5 dozen references between the Rhine Research Center, and the UWG / USG public websites --- my name removal also likely dropped search engines prompting 'Rhine' and USG / UWG website visits."

Merrell in late 2025 stated "It's even possible both the previously written and published concerns referencing me by the Rhine Research Center, and those which were thereafter published and distributed by the University of West Georgia originated from the same writer or writers. It would explain a great deal." It's clear the UWG is no longer cooperating in removing the PSI Collection summary statements Merrell labels as false.

For some paranormal proponents the names John Merrell, Dr. Gary Posner, M.D., James Randi, and Joe Nickell have been strong targets to attempt to discredit. Yet paranormal believers have also referenced those names to incite pro-paranormal website viewership.

As an example, retired barrister (attorney) Victor Zammit of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia supported Noreen Renier's legal battles against John Merrell. Zammit is also a widely known international paranormal writer who co-wrote with his wife the book 'A Lawyer Presents the Case for the Afterlife'.

He has provided lengthy support for Noreen Renier on her website, and on his own websites endorsed Renier's powers of channeling the dead.

According to John Merrell and others, Zammit misrepresented Merrell's court wins as they occurred. Zammit repeatedly spread confusion as courts ruled in Merrell's favor by distributing statements that Noreen Renier had won a ruling against Merrell by citing Renier's prior small county case as if it had just happened.

So her 1985 win repeatedly was seen by readers as 'brand new', and without a date mentioned by attorney Zammit even in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, and 2012.

This may be the same strategy UWG and USG websites use in solely citing Renier's small county court win, but never mentioning Merrell's major litigation wins over decades, and never using dates and court names.

Such unothordox writing tricks further diminished Zammit's credibility, as well as his citing Renier's 'psychometry' powers by touching bullets used in murders.

Here, GNR unlike the UWG, also provides supporting materials 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.

The UWG public PSI academic summary Noreen Renier website communications raise significant concerns of UWG communication distortions, heavy paranormal and pseudoscience bias, undisclosed cross ties between relevant parties, sinking academic integrity standards, and truly atrocious UWG research failings.

These all seem to be signs that some academic and research public communication standards inside the University System of Georgia are imploding with little or no UWG self-oversight. And imploding may be an understatement.

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.

January 16, 2026 marks the day that Noreen Renier may be either 89 or 90 years old. Previously, in January 2025, UWG websites stated Renier as 89 years old and born in 1936, while the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles showed Noreen Renier as 88 years old and born in 1937. This is 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.

Fees charged by Noreen Renier to parents of lost and missing children on her own website have remained for over a decade at typically $1000 per short phone sessions which equate to $20 to $40 a minute charges to access her 'super psychic powers' to ---she claims--- talk with missing, dead, and murdered children.

But first, a brief additional note about the UWG estimate that Noreen Renier has worked "on approximately six hundred unsolved cases.” For over six years neither the UWG or USG have publicly showed any materials they hold or reference to untangle how UWG personnel came up with their 600 or so Public Law Enforcement (PLE) cases.

Because the UWG / USG, nor anyone else, can find any confirmation that such PLE sanctioned cases worked by Renier and documented exist. This is a major credibility issue for the UWG / USG as they themselves came up with about 600 cases and haven't changed it since making the claim in mid 2019.

Their estimate is a combined PLE and FBI case count worked for the FBI and other PLE agencies by Noreen Renier at near 600. This was in 2019 an incredibly large UWG estimate. There were no other combined PLE and FBI case counts by media, researchers, or other accredited academic centers that high for officially sanctioned PLE and FBI cases worked by Noreen Renier in 2019.

Indeed, even now in 2026, this UWG estimate of 600 sanctioned FBI and PLE cases worked by Renier remains absolutely unique among accredited academic centers worldwide. Many researchers simply report her lack of credibility as noted in federal court rulings eliminates believing any Noreen Renier PLE case count claims. Several both major and smaller academic centers have dropped prior references of Noreen Renier altogether as 'a can of worms with liabilities' and increasing grant concerns since 2022.

In 2019 even sensationalized supermarket tabloid writers and stringers for the National Enquirer, the National Examiner, and FATE magazine were only guessing from 50 to a few hundred sanctioned PLE cases might have been worked by Renier.

Noreen Renier critic John Merrell publicly estimated in 2007 and again in 2012, 2017, 2019, and in 2022 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 during litigation.

Merrell in early 2026 now believes that the continued UWG / USG websites estimating that Renier worked by mid 2019 about 600 FBI and PLE sanctioned cases may now qualify as an academic "cover-up" deception as no UWG or USG official has responded to his growing concerns over the past two years. Nor explained why they stand by that number.

He noted on-line on January 10, 2026, "At this point its becoming obvious others are moving to extensive class-action litigation, because they look at what I've tried and failed to accomplish. Many also feel others are getting scammed and directed to Noreen Renier. Some assume there must be a pile of money being made and protected, and others are just incredibly furious at the arrogance of UWG and USG personnel. And they may actually be right as I can no longer come up with any reason why so many of us are being ignored by a state public academic center."

Merrell added that he ultimately sued and won repeatedly against Renier, but noted "Class action lawsuits are time consuming and expensive, and here the action would be against an entire state's public higher academic center. But apparently multiple U.S. law firms are now studying the parameters, in parterships or alone. We'll see what happens."

Across the last four decades even among many North American, European, Asian, and Australian PLE agencies 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.

Renier herself reluctantly testified about her PLE and FBI work claims, admitting that she actually has no dated or numbered 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.

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.

Parents with missing, murdered, or kidnapped children are desperate for information to help them locate their children. But current UWG website presentations being made are anything but accurate forensic tools with proper procedures, and have proved far from accurate or helpful. The UWG and USG Noreen Renier websites hide behind a facade of providing responsible academic research and scientific steps before drawing conclusions. Instead they simply toss out nonsense, deceptions, and public communications turmoil.

There are also serious concerns about the materials UWG students involved in parapsychology research are being taught with, including fictional UWG and USG PSI Special Collection materials posing as factual.

Both UWG donors and grant institutions should also investigate how their UWG funding is being intermixed beside such globally viewed UWG spirit medium shenanigans promoted in UWG PSI public communications. Not surprisingly, Noreen Renier has been unable to show any evidence in courts of her claimed "more than hundreds" of PLE agency hirings or show PLE 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.

Just how many University of West Georgia faculty, staff, and possibly students who wrote and encoded UWG PSI Special Collection website subject summaries are responsible for distorting the realities about Noreen Renier case work and claims?

Renier critic John Merrell was more blunt.

He stated in 2020 that the UWG PSI Special Collection pushes "dangerous" fiction and promotes a psychic actress found by a federal court as 'not credible' yet charging $30 a minute to allegedly talk to dead children.

In early 2025 Merrell noted that the UWG websites covering Noreen Renier are just a tiny portion among the many other UWG / USG PSI Special Collections covering questionable psychics, mediums, and paranormal characters --- including new and younger characters active in Europe and worldwide.

Presently all UWG and USG PSI Special Collection file summaries and profiles of both active and historical paranormal authors and artists fail to provide any UWG / USG warning disclaimers stating the file materials may include fictional statements not representing true or accurate statements, including paranormal and pseudoscience claims not supported by leading accredited academic institutions using science based procedures.

Apparently several UWG faculty and staff have in recent years spent signficant funds and considerable time traveling and securing items and stories from paranormal and mystical authors.

Contrary scientific journal writers covering delusional paranormal afterlife claims; and disturbing interactions by Public Law Enforcement agencies with self-described psychic mediums and their exaggerated claims; and PLE agencies noting the dismal accuracy of psychic mediums issuing communications from deceased children to their parents have apparently not been solicited or published by the UWG for decades.

In recent years clearly some UWG personnel have themselves or with others written, composed, encoded, communicated, and distributed false claims which can be found within UWG website subject summaries.

Some of these current UWG false published statements also were duplicated by some independently administered Scientology paranormal discussion websites. On September 24, 2025 those replications of false UWG claims were appropriately removed on the Scientology related discussion websites, though the original false UWG claims remain posted on official UWG websites after repeated bi-monthly checks. We thank those managing the non-UWG websites, which are also independent from the Church of Scientology, for removing them from their own websites.

UWG PSI paranormal Noreen Renier Special Collections false website summaries however remain unchanged, and are now being picked up by global search engines and multiplied by AI response centers, particularly websites designed to 'hit and carry' statements for rapid dispersal.

The UWG PSI Special Collection websites are estimated in early 2026 to have created over 61 million UWG website 'transfer re-routes' including likely thousands of 'hits' from many global families with murdered and missing children since being published in 2019.

At the present rates of increase, the number of globally established outside replications of present UWG and USG PSI Collection website statements --rather than direct links to UWG / USG websites-- could actually out number all other original UWG / USG public subject postings.

In fact, UWG / USG replicated parapsychology paranormal references, including psychic, afterlife, and ghost references staged and distributed by others by late 2029 will likely become more seen and examined than all other UWG / USG subject matters across global public communication exchanges.

Two digital scientists who independently examined these projections gave the same response in late 2025 of "that's just amazing!"

Indeed, global Scientology supporters are likely smiling and bumping fists over this on-going trend.

So why is the UWG so heavily involved with such paranormal promotional activities, and in recent years has seemed to cover-up and/or obfuscate the concerns and items non-UWG researchers have uncovered within the vast UWG and USG PSI Special Collection websites?

Another current UWG / USG website notes that UWG Professor Blynne Olivieri Parker, who in March 2025 also became 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 in written email correspondence and/or certified U.S. postal mail over two years ago by John Merrell, (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 there are valid concerns of reckless parapsychology paranormal investigations (PSI) misrepresentations involving law enforcement agencies across UWG and USG public website summaries and on their Special PSI Collection public communications.

These concerns prompted further Global Net Research funding and activities in recent months which uncovered additional UWG concerns.

Did UWG personnel create phoney ties to the FBI and hundreds of Public Law Enforcement agencies to convince families 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?

Noreen Renier herself testfied that her Public Law Enforcement (PLE) cases she has worked were already "more than hundreds" in 1986. At her posted $1000 fee rate to PLE agencies now across decades, for each of her 1000 PLE cases she would net about $1 million. On this website is a recording of Renier claiming from all the cases she works, both PLE and private cases, 70% are with public law enforcement agencies. She has also spoken of working "thousands" of total cases.

Based on such estimates actress Noreen Renier across an entire year would need only about 25 total case working hours per month resulting in $15,000 to about $22,500 in average income per month.

That estimate is based on her $20 to $40 per minute typical fees charged from 1998 to 2024 for her missing children contact and/or PLE murder case rate. That could 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. Of course you also might need to add another estimated $1.6 to $2.2 million income over 40 years from private (non PLE clients), plus fees Renier obtains from private and public lectures, and also her book royalties.

That could result in a total estimated average yearly income for Renier (she claimed in court filings no business staff), of well beyond $100,000.00 per year, even if she paid out another 20% to 'helpers'.

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? Even the judge in her most recent bankruptcy filings stated she misled his court with income filings that rose more than 10 times even after her second set of bankruptcy filings for the court. Plus of course her failure to report a major hidden bank account which showed far more than $100,000.00 in deposits.

Did some UWG students, including student web script and software writers provide assistance to UWG staff personnel and receive academic credits instead of money for doing so? Or was the writing and encoding shown on UWG PSI website subject summaries done entirely by UWG faculty and staff?

As noted, even after extensive testing with personal objects, group blood samples, and random items numerous Southern Oregon State College faculty recorded only endless catastrophic failures by Renier. (Click to see Finding #22 again at https://www.globalnetresearch.com/findings.html ).

But multiple hired Global Net Research investigators and global researchers have combined their findings, and the holding of Teddy Bears from missing and dead children, by self-described 'psychometrists' is being increasingly referenced.

But not a single lost child or adult has ever been located using this mystical UWG 'touch-sense' claim.

How did the UWG and USG substantiate such use by Noreen Renier before sending it out on UWG and USG websites as a seemingly valid claim?

It is a fact, supported by Renier's own website, that Renier 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.

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.

The 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. During litigation brought by John Merrell, U.S. federal court subpoenas provided to the federal bankruptcy Court Trustee stated 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 and to whom did the funds in the hidden account go to? Renier never provided an answer.

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 (under her names Noreen Uzdavinis and Noreen Klinko) 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. The University of West Georgia has never mentioned Renier's extensive history across decades as a night club, bar, lounge, theatre, playhouse, radio, and TV actress. Why?

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 further expanded from radio to TV. Over the years she evolved into a self-described 'TV police psychic contacting the murdered' further expanding her recognition.

Following her second divorce, and after removing all references to her prior work as an actress, she changed her title to 'Police Psychic Detective' and even picked up a couple short 1981 luncheon talks at the FBI Training Academy located about an hour from her home. She quickly turned that description from 'back-to-back short talks over lunch in front of a few FBI trainees' into a full fledged marketing campaign claiming to be "an FBI psychic medium investigator" who had "lectured at the FBI."

Her actual luncheon lecture was essentially that 'as a police psychic detective I am already on TV and real. Any questions?'

Dr. Gary Posner, an M.D. who wrote about Noreen Renier in a chapter of the book 'Psychic Sleuths: ESP and Sensational Cases' edited by Joe Nickell' (Prometheus Books, 1994, pages 60-85), writes that "when I called the FBI Academy, I was informed that Robert Ressler has since retired from duty.

In his stead, I spoke with Richard Ault, also a Supervisory Special Agent in the Behaviorial Science Unit and instructor at the FBI Academy, and long-time co-worker with Ressler. Ault, who holds a Ph.D. in counseling psychology, informed me that indeed "Bob [Ressler] did have Renier down here to the Academy to speak. It was against my recommendations [but] he did it anyway."

Ault says that he attended a couple of Renier's lectures, and recalls that "At no time during any of her lectures, or any of the time that I was associated with her, did she make any 'uncanny' predictions, nor was I impressed with anything that she did say... ...I've seen that same technique used by a lot of people."

According to Gary Posner, who is both a doctor and author, Ault stated "I've questioned Bob about it on several occasions, and it sounded like the same stuff I've heard before. . . In fact, he [Ressler] has often expressed [to me] regrets at having brought Renier here to lecture. She's just caused him a lot of [paperwork] problems over the years [regarding] the kinds of claims that she's made."

Yet a current 2026 UWG / USG website states quite the opposite. As shown at https://aspace-uwg.galileo.usg.edu/repositories/2/resources/266/collection_organization#tree::archival_object_60531 the current UWG/ USG website notes "cases that Renier worked on for the FBI, as well as speaking engagements commissioned by the Bureau. FBI agent Robert Ressler thought highly of Renier and recommended her to colleagues."

However that UWG statement doesn't match up with the testimony by Ressler's senior officer, FBI Chief Roger Depue, nor the statements made by Supervisory Special Agent Richard Ault. Both at the time, along with Robert Ressler were key personnel within the Behaviorial Science Unit at the FBI Academy.

It doesn't even match-up with Robert Ressler's own testimony 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.”

So how did such a false and conflicting UWG statement get written, encoded, and now distributed across present 2026 UWG / USG websites when multiple court testimony, sources, and documents indicate contrary facts?

Along with such deceptive mentions in UWG / USG communciations, Noreen Renier has become an author extensively fronted by numerous ghost-writers, some who still remain unidentified, 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 describing her attire in statement #23 below). But she has always remained first and foremost an actress marketing exaggerated tales. And bold deceptions.

Yet the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) which oversees the University of West Georgia remains silent in 2026. 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 both UWG and USG logos.

Renier's federal bankruptcy judge ruled she had misled the federal bankruptcy court, forcing Renier on her third bankruptcy court income filing to revise her income earnings upward by over 10 times even after her second filing. Even so, her major creditor, John Merrell, showed further financial deceptions and the judge in response 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 Merrell, over $40,000.00. And even after that, after taking almost two years to twice appeal U.S. federal court judgments against her brought by Merrell, she lost both of her appeals.

Her legal costs became increasingly higher as Merrell uncovered further deceptions. All of which, across several years, are completely ignored in any UWG communications. Honest UWG / USG academic research and public website coverage in profiling Noreen Renier? 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 more recent total PLE 'cases worked' thru early 2026 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 actress Renier, all investigators contacted suspect such cases would be found delusional, exaggerated, or improperly recorded.

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 2026 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 2026 public reveal to encourage the UWG and USG to publicly showcase new enforcement of corrective standards and policies so false communications will not continue.

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.