Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian police are considering using a psychic witness to solve the brutal murder of an eight-year-old girl whose body was found stuffed inside a bag last week, an official news report said Tuesday. Public tip-offs and police investigations into the death of Nurin Jazlin Jazimin, who was missing for a month before a shopkeeper found her body in the sports bag, have so far failed to find any clear leads to the killer.
A police source was quoted by the official Bernama news agency as saying that police were now open to using psychic experts to assist in their investigations, an unprecedented move by the police force.
"Why not use the help of psychic experts, if they can assist us to locate the suspect(s) in Nurin's murder?
"If someone offers psychic expertise to assist our investigations, we might consider," the source told Bernama.
It is common for Malaysian authorities to turn to shamans, witchdoctors and supernatural mediums to either locate missing persons or to seek specific weather conditions, but the police force has yet to openly seek psychic assistance to solve serious crimes.
The country was shocked when gruesome details of Nurin's death were released. The young girl was sexually abused, with a whole cucumber and eggplant forced into her vagina, and then murdered and stuffed into a travel bag outside a shop in the central Petaling Jaya district on September 18.
The government has vowed to track down the killer as public fears mount over the seemingly increasing violent sexual crimes against young children.
