Jun 10, 2011

'Prophet' in massive grave hoax in Texas denies filing a false report

By Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY
Updated 1h 31m ago

A self-proclaimed "prophet" whose tip to Houston police sent authorities -- and the media -- on a fruitless hunt for mass graves denies she filed a false report but does tell KHOU-TV that she gets her crime tips from "Jesus and the angels."

Sheriff's deputies for Liberty County, along with the FBI, DPS and convoys of media, converged on the town of Harding on Tuesday looking for signs of a reported mass grave.

Liberty County Judge Craig McNair alerts the media that the authorities didn't find any dead bodies in a Hardin, Texas, farmhouse on Tuesday.
CAPTIONBy Nick de la Torre, APAuthorities says the tipster could face charges of filing a false report. KHOU-TV says a sheriff's office spokesperson had told the station that officers were responding appropriately to a pair of phone calls from a woman claiming there was a mass grave with children at the site.

But the 48-year-old woman, identified only as "Angel," tells KHOU-TV that she had called authorities to "check on three live children" and that "everything pretty much got blown out of proportion."

The woman, who says she is not a psychic but a prophet, insists she did not file a false report, but adds that if the authorities want to call it that "that's up to them."

She also tells KHOU-TV that she has worked with law enforcement in the past.

"They up front asked me how I got the information, and I am a reverend," she says. "I am a prophet and I get my information from Jesus and the angels, and I told them that I had 32 angels with me and they were giving me the information and then it went from there."

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