Welcome. Updated Sunday, March 1, 2026 - Atlanta, USA, 1:00am EST.
The University of West Georgia (UWG) 'Mission and Values' standards continue to sink as non-UWG researchers report the UWG is knowingly writing psychic parapsychology claims without proof or evidence. Parents of missing, abducted, and murdered children and seeking help finding their children are being misled by University System of Georgia (USG) GALILEO websites replicating UWG false claims. These websites extend across all 26 Georgia college and universities and showcase an elderly career actress who claims psychic powers to talk with the dead.
Today the UWG falsely claims it holds material on FBI cases "worked on for the FBI" by this 'super psychic'. That's also knowingly false. The UWG has never held FBI active crime cases sanctioned by the FBI to be worked by this woman. Nor have they held any inactive official FBI case files ever sanctioned for her to work.
UWG personnel are passing knowingly false UWG scripted communications thru the USG GALILEO system. And then out to the global public.
No FBI crime cases were ever provided or released to this southern U.S. actress for her to work. Ever. FBI officials, in court testimony, strongly denied this actress has ever worked for the FBI. Additionally, this UWG cited elderly "psychic" (rather than being described as a TV and radio actress since 1957), was previously discredited by a U.S. federal judge. That judge ruled this woman was 'not credible' in a 2011 court order against her, and four additional federal judges during her appeals backed that original ruling.
Excerpts from those U.S. federal court rulings are shown below.
This "psychic" promoted with many knowingly false University of West Georgia parapsychology claims is Noreen Renier.
Renier is pictured above in 1989, and is now 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.
In one example among thousands of her claims, Noreen Renier was hired by the parents of Tiffany Sessions to find their missing 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 locate Tiffany Sessions, or solve any other authentic and publicly documented Public Law Enforcement (PLE) crime cases. In fact, over the last 50 years, Renier has never found a missing, abducted, kidnapped, or murdered child.
Or anyone else.
All current UWG parapsychology written website summaries are passed thru the USG GALILEO communications system. The UWG text fails to mention the disturbing federal court rulings against Renier; her many credibility concerns; her bogus media case claims; nor any of the other county, state, and federal court rulings from 1994 through 2022 against this professional actress.
The website you are now reading is all about both old and fresh deceptive and false claims being scripted by the UWG today and passed across all 26 state of Georgia universities, colleges, and out to the general public globally.
But first, in about 36 short paragraphs like this one, we provide a bit of background information about actress Noreen Renier. This will assist readers to understand how several UWG faculty over decades, using deceptive scripts, have helped manipulate the credibility and parapsychology powers of Noreen Renier.
Over the past six and a half years (as of 2-18-2026), UWG and USG GALILEO websites have only mentioned one small Oregon county court located just over the northern border of California. They do not reference this was in 1985 when Noreen Renier lived in Phoenix Oregon, a town with just 4383 residents.
Nearby a six member county jury awarded Noreen Renier just 9% ($25,000 of $275,000 USD) of what she asked in a libel lawsuit against John Merrell, a member of the National Council Against Health Fraud. Merrell testified 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 investigative path to help 'Nancy Uzdavinis' for free 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 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 has never admitted their cited and promoted "psychic" used a false identity before Renier sued Merrell. For years, across over three dozen USG GALILEO websites the UWG scripted Merrell's small Oregon county courtroom loss without ever acknowledging Merrell thereafter from 1994 to 2012 won every single lawsuit he brought against Renier, up thru state and federal courts in Virginia and New York including the last appeals court immediately under the U.S. Supreme Court. Merrell waited almost 6 months just getting UWG parapsychology department personnnel to remove their own text sentences that likely took them less than 90 minutes to remove. Merrell noted in late 2025 "Some UWG parapsychology personnel dragged their feet repeatedly" and Merrell believes that they clearly knew their website statements were not balanced with accuracy or fairness. They reluctantly finally removed their distortions perhaps recognizing a local Georgia court might rule they were guilty of defamation. According to Merrell, the level of arrogance and anger removing over 3 dozen of their own text entries as directed by the UWG Office of Legal Affairs showcased what was yet to come.
In 2006 Merrell fortunately also received a federal court approval to investigate further as Renier's principal owed creditor, including issuing 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 testified instead that she "saw" the crash site near the top of a mountain and an old gas station. Neither the mountain or the gas station exist.
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 discovered fake and undated news stories about crash survivors having been sensed by Renier in 1985 at the crash site but these fake news stories appeared rather conveniently in unison with Renier's 2005 launch of her first book titled 'A Mind For Murder'. That book just months later was ruled by a U.S. District Court in Seattle to have breached a Florida state settlement agreement with Merrell.
Renier's publisher, Penguin Books, immediately halted publication and cancelled her contract. And the federal court then ruled Renier owed Merrell over $40,000.00 for her settlement breach.
The completely faked 2005 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. But did the UWG simply decide these fake news clippings were "historical documents" and convert their fake department counts that Renier had worked with to about 600 police cases and others for the FBI? Adding to the charade, the average U.S. city police agency typically has 8 to 42 departments, so that even the faked average count of "departments" would only convert to just a few dozen total city police agencies.
And Renier had also by 2005 already falsely testified that she had worked 70% of her "more than hundreds of cases" with "police" (citing 700 cases out of at least 1000), though she also refused during one federal court break to identify even ten such cases when the court resumed.
The UWG parapsychology personnel scripting their UWG summary website pages before moving their finished writings onto the USG GALILEO communications system may have stopped for a moment and tried to untangle Renier's false cases worked chaos. Renier in 2019 already had a historical record of claiming she worked from only a few dozen cases all the way up to falsely claiming over a thousand cases with the FBI and other Public Law Enforcement (PLE) agencies. According to witnesses Renier could never keep up with her own prior exaggerations.
And at the same time many writers were speculating the 'honest' number of FBI cases worked by Renier was actually "zero" and her PLE sanctioned work on official cases maybe, just maybe, "from zero to five." Adding to these bad problems to give Renier some credibility, there was authentic news that a third, fourth, and fifth U.S. federal court judge had ruled against Noreen Renier after agreeing with an earlier judge who ruled that Renier was 'not credible'.
It is reasonable to assume UWG script writers in lacking any credible support that Renier's counts were honest, simply decided to claim that Noreen Renier had worked 'about 600' cases for the FBI and other Public Law Enforcement (PLE) agencies.
These UWG website script writers may have thought 'Who is going to question whatever number we report on our own websites anyway? Nobody's going to figure it out.' So instead of using the number of officially sanctioned cases worked by Noreen Renier provided by the FBI ('Zero'), or an officially sanctioned PLE case count (also at or near 'Zero'), some UWG personnel in charge apparently decided 'about 600' would still sound pretty amazing. No FBI or PLE official ever gave them that number, and such a number was never stated by any Public Law Enforcement (PLE) office. It has always been a fictional number, and UWG personnel have always known no one ever confirmed it. It is smack at 600 in phonyness, give or take a phony or two.
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 referenced by the UWG or USG GALILEO system, including now in 2026.
Merrell, who worked for Boeing for 10 years was found as being accurate in his actual crash findings, while Noreen Renier was 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 plane crash testimony.
That incident is outlined in four parts on this website with no advertising, and at no charge.
Yet in 2026 neither the UWG or USG GALILEO and Digital Library of Georgia entries ever mention that Merrell moved litigation later against Noreen Renier to a far higher level U.S. District Court in Seattle and won against Renier.
And even in 2026 the UWG has never admitted 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.
Over the past 32 years Merrell has won every state and federal court ruling in cases he brought against Renier.
Fair and balanced UWG parapsychology academic research and public communications beginning in 2019? No.
Now, back to the present in 2026. Today, UWG parapsychology 'PSI Special Collection' scripted summaries once again are transferred onto the USG GALILEO communications system, plus the Digital Library of Georgia, and outward to the global public. Many of these UWG data scripted and composed communications continue to falsely state, as an example, that Noreen Renier "has worked with law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on approximately six hundred unsolved cases.”
John Merrell in his February 12, 2026 filing to the USG Chancellor and the USG Board of Regents noted that while an archive preserves historical material, the descriptive institutional metadata provided by the UWG is an academic product.
UWG parapsychology Professor Christine Simmonds-Moore on February 13, 2026 reportedly stated [a full confirmation is pending] that UWG personnel and staff involved with the UWG parapsychology PSI Special Collections and scripting website summary pages do not alter archived data, nor their written, scripted, and encoded descriptive institutional metadata. If this is a true representative statement by Professor Christine Simmonds-Moore then Global Net Research investigators already showcased where this is false, such as in the UWG descriptive statement referencing the contents within its own UWG MS-0083 Noreen Renier collection which states it "Includes material on cases that Renier worked on for the FBI, as well as speaking engagements commissioned by the Bureau."
That false UWG statement was clearly not a historical original from outside the UWG, as the UWG themselves accepted the materials for storage, and then themselves created, scripted, and have managed their own archived library storage continously, and the statement includes their own reference that the UWG holds crime cases "that Renier worked on for the FBI".
As it never specifically states anyone outside of UWG personnel claiming that, how could it be an unaltered historical document statement which couldn't have existed prior to the UWG storing the same materials at their own UWG library and then afterward anyone else scripting and encoding the statement? Many such UWG parapsychology twists have become ever more convoluted.
However, there are much simplier concerns than just the raw parameters in data scripting and descriptive metadata. The UWG parapsychology personnel managing the UWG PSI Collections, including the MS-0083 Noreen Renier Collection replicate many of their Noreen Renier website summary pages with entire pages lacking any reference to the individual who originally spoke or wrote the UWG cited statements.
Often too there are no supplied references of the statements original source for cross-referencing and authenticity confirmations. Such extremely 'loose' compiling and lack of references, indexing, or verifiable supports seem to imply if a proven false and/or fictional statement is simply UWG characterized as a "historical document" and archived, it is automatically then acceptable for UWG public distribution without a need to be labeled or determined as a false and/or fictional document. That's a lot of wide open weakness in an academic institution where it must maintain strict integrity while serving its students and the general public. And additionally here, serving families of missing, abducted, or murdered children seeking credible knowledge to locate their children.
Individual faculty opinions or departmental summaries may reflect personal interpretations, selective reporting, or preliminary internal ideas that have not undergone formal review or statutory approvals. Decisions by governing bodies such as the USG Board of Regents are currently pending, and the USG Board of Regents has not yet issued an official determination on these matters. John Merrell noted that while all references to UWG parapsychology research should be presented without endorsing claims of psychic or paranormal efficacy, many UWG parapsychology scripted profiles instead showcase heavy pro-paranormal bias. Many, including the UWG Noreen Renier collection, cite personnel who have been discredited in courts; and repeatedly failed tests they agreed beforehand were fair and properly conducted.
In 2026 Renier's alleged ties helping find missing and abducted children; and locating missing aircraft now extend across five decades.
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, and without any credibility concerns noted or offered by the UWG.
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 noted for his strong belief in poltergeist activity. That includes his stated belief in physical disturbances caused by ghosts or supernatural beings including kitchen knives rattling, objects being tossed and levitated though the air inside homes, home and car lights flashing, and homeowners being mysteriously touched and spoken to by ghosts.
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 "hearing" the voice of a person nearby, and "feeling" the killer's strength as he slid the gun back into his pocket.
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 UWG 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.
Shortly before his death Professor Roll also supported Noreen Renier's claims of speaking with ghosts and talking with trees to investigate murders. This support included a case in which Renier has described speaking with "a huge, sprawling oak tree that had been around for a long, long time" with The work of the elderly William Roll has been described as "well outside mainstream science" and he has been described as "a credulous investigator" who was gullible and easily fooled. He did however establish Noreen Renier's firm ties with the University of West Georgia which have dramatically intensified over the past 65 years. Today current 2026 UWG and USG GALILEO 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 actress since the late 1950's. All of her paranormal claims appear to be completely accepted on the present 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 GALILEO communications, and entries to the Digital Library of Georgia some samples of knowingly false and deceptive UWG statements. 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, kidnapped, or murdered children appears to be frozen for over 50 years at a 100% failure rate. Renier is among many other UWG parapsychology 'Special Collection' psychic mediums who have never led official Public Law Enforcement (PLE) officers directly to a missing alive or dead child. Nor has any PLE agency stated Renier's discussions with her ghosts resulted in an official PLE missing or murdered child case being solved. Nor has she solved any other PLE missing person case with any adults. No one. 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. A few years later, 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. 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. These continual downward slides in UWG institutionally scripted parapsychology 'second state realities' may have finally hit rock bottom. An examination of several February 2026 PSI Noreen Renier MS-0083 'PSI Special Collection' summary pages shows the UWG is still falsely stating that Noreen Renier has worked for the FBI on FBI cases. These UWG scripted and networked communications do not identify the FBI cases, and also refer to hundreds of other Public Law Enforcement agencies, with those agencies also never UWG identified. All these UWG ties to PLE cases worked by Renier lack any evidence they actually exist. 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 scripted 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 claims to contact 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 UWG faculty tied to UWG Noreen Renier scripted communications have 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 test seems to exist. Rather than using such exacting and professional testing, the present UWG scripted communications seem 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 scripted 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 script and distribute false claims to the contrary across USG GALILEO communications, and with entries in the Digital Library of Georgia. More information on that point and federal court rulings against Renier are extensively covered below. A second false UWG scripted communication 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 scripted for USG GALILEO communications and the Digital Library of Georgia after first scripting many beginning in August of 2019. No corrections to false claims even as the UWG has updated their own institutional PSI Collection websites and metadata since mid 2023. 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 and seemingly obfuscate such concerns. Currently USG GALILEO websites seem to be providing full-time "Phony In and Phony Out" UWG parapsychology publishing, and unchecked UWG access 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. In some cases there are also no known statements or testimony, confirmed as credible, that match any that are documented as taken from Noreen Renier herself. Citing delusionary exaggerations, ghost claims, and one-way medium séance recordings are NOT considered credible court or law enforcement materials. Additionally 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 464 concerns a murdered horse. Noreen Renier writes on page 300 of her book A Mind For Murder in its 2005 edition, and also on page 219 in the 2008 edition that while next to a dead "prize racehorse" named Dandy Dancer shot in its stall, she put the horse's tail to her forehead. She then as an alleged medium with ghost entities, reached communication ties with the dead horse and learned that the owner's ex-wife had pulled the trigger. There is no record of a murdered Virgina race horse named Dandy Dancer, or any other race horse ever being shot twice by an ex-wife of an owner between 1975 and 2005. No such crime has ever been recorded across any PLE network, state or federal. An unrelated racehorse named Dancer, nicknamed the Gray Ghost, was an accomplished thoroughbred who died in 1967 of natural causes. Did Renier's ghost entities talk to the horse 'Gray Ghost' and get really mixed up? Or is it more likely this fantasized horse murder matches all of the other 600 or so UWG cited FBI and PLE crime cases as an exaggerated delusion? If these and similar UWG parapsychology Special Collection websites are fictional, there are serious legal and ethical issues for what the UWG and USG GALILEO, and connected Digital Library of Georgia entries are presenting to likely thousands of families with missing or murdered family members. And after almost 7 years, if UWG and USG GALILEO postings and the Digital Library of Georgia 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 has ignored and/or refused to correct their own scripted and institutional metadata matched with their distributed network 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. That Co-Pilot 'lift' likely was taken off a USG GALILEO network website but originally scripted by UWG personnel with UWG encoded metadata. These upward level network liability transfers should be a major concern to USG management. John Merrell warned UWG officials on May 18, 2023 of such "litigation time bomb" surprises, but no UWG officials seemed to care. In an email to then UWG President Brendan Kelly and Associate VP & Chief of Staff to the President Russell Crutchfield, Merrell referenced the Renier Collection transfers by UWG outward to the public as a "vast and incomplete litigation collection" with issues. He surmised that the transfer "explains why persons may have found the UWG was an ideal means to maneuver around Renier's legal constraints while the materials were jettisoned, and likely without fully signed releases by all involved parties" from the UWG, onto the USG GALILEO system, and then out to the public. Was the UWG takeover of the Noreen Renier Collection, according to Merrell's email "really a cleverly disguised time bomb hand-off with gleeful hoots?" Now in early 2026 the UWG still showcases absolutely nothing to support its own scripted communications and metadata claim that the UWG holds material on sanctioned FBI cases that Renier worked for the FBI. Nothing but another make believe collection of psychic ghost tales now scripted, encoded, distributed, and metadata backed by the UWG over the USG GALILEO network. And apparently an 'off the rails' department with little or no communication liability standards and integrity oversight. 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 scripted statements cited above, the current UWG and USG GALILEO websites 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 however involved 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 concerns in not fully removing many UWG parapsychology archived paranormal collections networked to USG GALILEO and the Digital Library of Georgia are liability litigation and increasing unknowns. The past failures to not remove even specific false website summary statements among the UWG MS-0083 Noreen Renier Special Collection is likely due to UWG staff frustrations after the Rhine Research Center removed their Merrell referenced postings, and then UWG Office of Legal Affairs arranged the similar removals. Merrell noted in 2023 that "in suddenly having to remove my name -- some 5 dozen references between the Rhine Research Center, and the UWG and USG GALILEO public websites -- my name removal also likely dropped search engines prompting 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." 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 together with Renier misrepresented Merrell's court wins as they occurred. Zammit and Renier both 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 small county court 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 scripted communications use in solely citing Renier's small county court win, but never mentioning Merrell's major litigation wins in state and federal courts over decades, and never providing dates, court titles, or locations. Such unothordox writing tricks further diminished Zammit's credibility, as well as his citing Renier's 'psychometry' powers by touching bullets alledgedly used in crimes and murders. But not surprising, neither Zammit or Renier ever say where and for what case these alledged crime and murder bullets came from. And would any authentic Public Law Enforcement (PLE) agency give crime and murder bullets to Renier to then parade around the globe at lectures and to reporters? Renier also claims the "sheriff" (no name, agency, or county was ever provided by Renier, and there is zero evidence this Virginia case actually ever existed) who allegedly managed the thoroughbred 'Dandy Dancers horse murder' also then handed Renier those alleged murder bullets shot into the horse while she stood over the alleged dead race horse. Renier claims these two "projectiles" (so far never documented or found existing, along with the so far non-existing horse), were handled by many others before being handed to her. Renier writes in her book that "the energy emanating from killers was powerfully enduring, and could overshadow the others" who previously handled the "projectiles" which were then finally placed in her hands. Using according to her book her alleged 'psychometry powers' she was able to describe the killer (also so far non-existing other than in Renier's mind) as a revenging ex-wife. Yet with all that, Renier positions that this murder case was solved by using her psychic powers, and the revengeful wife was sent to jail. Really? No. There was no such Virginia race horse thoroughbred (easily checked out by Global Net Research investigators), that was shot with "projectiles" found by a Virginia county sheriff during the time period Renier indicates. Nor was there any ex-wife of the high-end Virginia horse stables described by Renier who was sent to jail for murdering a thoroughbred race horse, which was again easily checked and found bogus. It only gets worse yet if one asks UWG parapsychology personnel what the differences are between their cases 202, 318, 571, and 467. This is how parents with missing, abducted, and murdered children are fooled by UWG websites claiming Renier worked for the FBI and hundreds of other PLE agencies. And real PLE agencies don't give away murder evidence or let it be paraded around by psychic mediums. The UWG Noreen Renier institutionally scripted communications and metadata encoding 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 oversight of UWG parapsychology publishing and encoded digital scripting to USG GALILEO and Digital Library of Georgia networks. Who is in charge of UWG oversight? 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 for years. This website also includes many of those comments in quotes. January 16, 2026 marked the day that Noreen Renier was likely 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 to find them. Hundreds of parents have paid these fees believing that Renier must be credible if, as the UWG and USG GALILEO websites state, she has worked on FBI cases for the FBI, and with hundreds of other Public Law Enforcement (PLE) agencies. But in truth, the UWG, nor anyone else, can find any confirmation that such cases worked by Renier exist. Their estimate of a combined PLE and FBI case count near 600 sanctioned cases worked by 2019 is 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 FBI and PLE cases worked by Renier remains absolutely unique among accredited academic centers worldwide. Many researchers simply report Renier's lack of credibility as noted in federal court rulings eliminates believing any 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 passing along claims of 50 to a few hundred "police detective" cases. 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 GALILEO websites estimating that Renier worked by mid 2019 about 600 FBI and PLE sanctioned cases seem to qualify as a "cover-up" as no UWG or USG official has responded to his growing concerns about these false claims over almost three years. Nor explained why they still 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 PLE files and 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 or USG GALILEO disclaimers otherwise. Parents with missing, murdered, or kidnapped children are desperate for information to help them locate their children. But current UWG scripted presentations being made are anything but accurate forensic tools with proper procedures. The UWG and USG GALILEO Noreen Renier websites hide behind a facade of providing responsible archived collections, without subjective commentary. But their scripted and encoded metadata is an academic creation of its own. There are also now serious concerns about the materials UWG students involved in parapsychology research are being taught with, including fictional UWG PSI Special Collection materials posing as factual. One student wrote on-line "If they were false then faculty would have taken them down. That proves traditional scientists are just way behind on new ideas." In February 2026 some concerned non-UWG Atlanta residents began contacting UWG donors and grant institutions about how UWG funding is being intermixed beside UWG spirit medium shenanigans. They are showcasing how 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. And how her posted fees charged to families with missing children were never offered for free. Just how many University of West Georgia faculty, staff, and possibly students who wrote and encoded UWG PSI Special Collection subject summaries are responsible for distorting the realities about Noreen Renier claims? In early 2025 Merrell noted that UWG presentations covering Noreen Renier are just a tiny portion among the many other UWG PSI Special Collections covering questionable psychics, mediums, and paranormal characters --- including new and younger characters active in Europe and worldwide. Presently all UWG PSI Special Collection summaries and profiles of both active and historical paranormal authors and artists fail to provide any warning disclaimers stating that materials may include fictional statements not true or accurate, including paranormal and pseudoscience claims in conflict with science based procedures. Reports over the past 7 years have cited several UWG faculty and staff who spent 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 are not, it appears, solicited or published by the UWG. Some of the 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 scripted claims were appropriately removed, though the original false UWG claims remain posted on UWG and USG GALILEO websites after repeated bi-monthly checks, including one on February 9, 2026. Several also remain in the Digital Library of Georgia locator index. We thank those managing the non-UWG websites, which are independent from the Church of Scientology, for removing them from their own websites. UWG PSI paranormal Noreen Renier Special Collections false website summaries however are now being picked up by global search engines and multiplied by AI response centers, including 'hit and carry' statements for rapid dispersal. The UWG PSI Special Collection scripted postings networked to the USG GALILEO and Digital Library of Georgia are now estimated as of February 9, 2026 to have created over 62.4 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 and USG GALILEO websites-- could actually out number all other original UWG and USG public subject postings. In fact, UWG and USG GALILEO 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 and 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, many global Scientology and after-life 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 parapsychology PSI Special Collection and the UWG institutional scripting and metadata transfers to networks?
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 UWG and for USG GALILEO websites. Many of the selections gathered by Dean Blynne Olivieri Parker have now been published to websites and transferred to the Digital Library of Georgia. This is after 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 certified U.S. postal mail 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 communications. In 2026 many of these are connected to alleged law enforcement sanctioned cases tied to Renier and referenced as part of the numeric count near 600. "And all wrapped up with a pretty bow" according to Stan Bowers. Bowers contacted multiple UWG personnel in 2020 about false UWG published claims, but was told his "off campus" concerns were not addressable. Additional concerns by 2023 prompted further Global Net Research funding and activities from 2023 to 2026 which have uncovered growing 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 metadata encoding 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 substantiate such use by Noreen Renier before providing it out across the USG GALILEO network? 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. For an in-depth summary of Renier's court troubles across her bankrupcy filings, click this link at https://www.globalnetresearch.com/NoreenRenierBankruptcies.html. 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 lectures a couple times over lunch in front of a few FBI trainees' into a full fledged marketing campaign claiming to be "an FBI psychic medium investigator" at the FBI. Her actual luncheon lectures were 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 and USG GALILEO 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 and USG GALILEO websites reference "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. As of March 1, 2026 the University System of Georgia (USG) appears to be evaluating Formal Inquiry filings presented to the USG Chancellor, the USG Board of Regents, and the USG Office of Legal Affairs. The documentation provided by John Merrell outlines issues of archival integrity and factual discrepancies "pertaining to multiple false and deceptive UWG and USG communications impacting families of missing, abducted, and murdered children" and "requests an immediate review of the metadata and biographical descriptions associated with the MS-0083 Noreen Renier Collection, managed by the UWG" and distributed over the USG GALILEO communications system. The USG Board of Regents meets March 10th and 11th, and also April 14th and 15th. It is hoped this near 7-year public communication damage run ends and any new litigation is promptly resolved by significant policy changes. As of March 1, 2016 however, it appears all risks and liabilities distributed about Noreen Renier from UWG websites have now also been transferred to the USG GALILEO communications system and the Digital Library of Georgia. None of these have ever been published with a UWG or USG public disclaimer to cover false parapsychology and psychic referenced claims, nor their claims associated with unidentified FBI and PLE cases worked by psychic mediums. Nor has the accuracy of claims cited by the UWG about dozens of other psychics and mediums in the UWG PSI Collection been validated. 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. It's not surprising that parents of missing children in 2026, after discovering the true facts about Noreen Renier, now blame UWG and USG personnel for pushing public deceptions. 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. New concerns have been outlined to University System of Georgia officials in early 2026, and to other oversight and related personnel. There are also independent parties who reportedly per Georgia based journalists are now preparing a public showcase of UWG and USG deceptions to stimulate more rapid corrective measures. 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 58 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.
As a 'police psychic detective for hire' Noreen Renier has preyed on families with lost children by selling them medium readings by phone. As noted, 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.
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 their Noreen Renier paranormal claims and 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. Click here to view this UWG / USG site at https://aspace-uwg.galileo.usg.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/60544
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 2026 we now also have confusion about Noreen Renier teaching at the UWG for 36 years. Is the UWG promoting Noreen Renier alongside a mix of Ingo Swann Research Fellowship paranormal 'remote viewing' claims, while combining materials in its UWG PSI Collection?
Are UWG faculty and staff providing support across a multi-decade relationship to Ingo Swann's ties to the Church of Scientology while pushing fiction?
Are there financial 'gifts' being provided from organizations or groups for promoting Noreen Renier and/or other UWG parapsychology and paranormal 'PSI Special Collection' collected materials? Have there been financial or other 'gifts' provided directly to UWG / USG personnel to sustain parapsychology and paranormal collections pushing Scientology themes?
The combined UWG / USG public website distribution, particularly with many multiple website scripts encoded with search engine word and phrase triggers offers a very strongly framed distribution scale for global mass delivery.
Yet this USG website system appears to have little or no oversight to its encoding and editing access, much less any apparent review of how and what materials are promoted and published across its network.
From an academic center it certainly stands alone globally for paranormal content showcased as real, but clearly fiction beside knowingly false content.
And most search engines prioritize 'credibility scores' which prioritize search engine response placements at higher levels with "edu/repositories" or similar educational tags as used by both UWG and USG. Even if not, who at the UWG and USG decided that an academic research integrity balance and truthful facts were not required across such 'multiplexed' Noreen Renier public communications sites from UWG and USG?
Many of those quoted below show 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 support how far some recent UWG academic communications and University of West Georgia ethical accuracy standards have fallen. And showcase how they continue to be ignored by University System of Georgia management and both UWG and USG legal personnel.
-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 re-edited in late 2025 from original 2017 and 2018 notes with Faith D. Mobley, Aberdeen, Scotland
- Nicole Clarke, Principal Investigator, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland.
-Liam McFarland, Montreal proper, Canada, and edited with updates in January 2022, and late 2025.
- 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.
However as early as 1985 during her cross examination at the Jackson county courthouse in Medford Oregon, Noreen Renier became angry and frustrated according to six court attendees while being questioned about her law enforcement case claims. She testified "I mean, you are all questioning that I worked on hundreds. I’ve worked on more than hundreds of cases.”
This "more than hundreds of cases" quote from Renier was in response to questioning about her "police" cases, not additional cases outside of law enforcement agencies. It later became a phrase Ms. Renier spoke more often rather than earlier numeric estimates like 'over 700', or 'over 1000'. Sloppy reporters and naive paranormal supporters would, according to Kevin Paul in 2017, "stumble over" a very wide range of law enforcement case counts from Renier, but none to his knowledge offered specifics. None of these people had copies or access to the Jackson County court transcript, and often simply defaulted to sensationalized but older National Enquirer, FATE magazine, and similar tabloid stories.
However personnel from the University of West Georgia actually handled the lengthy 4-day Jackson County court transcripts. They were provided directly from Noreen Renier to UWG including the pages documenting her actual testimony and estimated case counts. Apparently UWG ignored the actual court transcript testimony and depositions, using instead an unfounded UWG estimated case count of 600 combined FBI and other Public Law Enforcement (PLE) cases. While 600 cases seems just 100 more than sensational supermarket tabloids stating near 500 cases, the tabloids were counting her total cases [not just her fewer official PLE cases], which included many private client cases seeking their lost wedding rings, lost pets, love life forecasts, etc. Thus, the UWG case PLE count with phoney FBI cases was hundreds higher than even the sensational National Enquirer guesses. For simplicity Global Net Research investigators established in early 2022 a very conservative base line of 1000 reflecting Noreen Renier's Public Law Enforcement (PLE) case count by 2007. A tally of zero has been used for her non-existent sanctioned and official FBI case work. This 1000 level case count was based on her "more than hundreds of cases" testimony as far back as her 1986 Oregon county court testimony, and beginning in 2004 her higher rate of using the same phrase. Additionally, from 2005 "thousands" (plural) was also referenced on internet forums.
However, GNR is unable to confirm whether "thousands" referenced Renier's total claimed number of cases, rather than just those she tied to Public Law Enforcement agencies. Also the use of "thousands" became increasingly difficult to confirm as being directly spoken by Noreen Renier, rather than tabloid reporters. In 2017 Mr. Paul added "Even in her fifties she was hop-scotching with her case counts. Even month to month. But after she turned 70, [in 2007], her counts became impossible to untwist. She didn't seem to know. Much less care." -GNR Oversight Group in March 2024, and January 2026]
– Kevin Paul, New York City. Compiled and edited in 2005, 2006 from Paul, and edited by GNR Oversight personnel in 2024 and 2026.
-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."