Sylvia Brown's telling the parents the boy was dead?

Question

I heard Sylvia Browne had charged the parents of the boy in captivity for 4 years, to tell them he was dead. Any truth to this?

Answer 1

I used to be impressed with Sylvia Brown.
Watching her on a local weekly show and reading a book she authored, made me disenchanted last year.
My sister told me that on t.v. she told parents their child was dead...not too long ago.

Answer 2

Four years ago, shortly after Shawn Hornbeck was abducted, his parents were on the Montel Williams Show with Sylvia Browne. During the show she told them that he was abducted by a hispanic man named Michael who had dreadlocks. She told them he was dead, and she said they could find his body in a wooded area between two large boulders. The only thing she got right was the abductors name, Michael, and that has been the most popular boys' name for the last fifty years. According to the boy's stepfather, she refused to talk to them outside the show unless they hired her at her $700 per hour fee.

Answer 3

I was shocked to hear of Sylvia Browne's duplicity. My husband is a big fan of hers and is constantly reading me snippets of her "wisdom". But she has not been charging them for these past 4 years. Somewhere here on YA, I discovered a website called 'StopSylvia Browne".

I went to it and was amazed at how much material had been gathered in an effort to expose her. Can you just imagine how awful it must have been for the parents to hear that their boy was dead? And then she wanted to charge them $700 after the Montel show? Boo. Hiss.

Answer 4

She's fake.