Doris Stokes

Doris May Fisher Stokes (1920-1987) was a psychic and medium who claimed to be able to "speak" to the dead. Her technique involved the use of cold readings, with a series of "refresher" questions to the person being interviewed, to the use of eavesdropping (her husband was accused of interviewing audiences before they appeared on her public shows), and planting accomplices in the audience.

In a number of her books published during her lifetime, Stokes also claimed she solved a number of unsolved murders - all of which was proven to be untrue.