Published: May 10, 2007 10:02 pm
Amazing Kreskin will appear at benefit to help aid in on-going search for Scott Javins
By Laura Followell
The Tribune-Star
TERRE HAUTE— A thought reader will try to elicit information from people’s
minds during a benefit performance Monday night to try to help find a missing Terre Haute man.
The Amazing Kreskin, a nationally-known
mentalist, will arrive in town from New Jersey for his first missing-persons, benefit show onstage at 8 p.m. in Terre Haute
North Vigo High School’s auditorium.
“It’s been a long time coming, I guess, doing a program for a group like [IN Hope,]
Indiana Missing,” Kreskin said.
IN Hope, Indiana Missing, a support organization for law enforcement and families who have
a missing-adult case, is hoping to bring national attention to the Scott Javins case.
Javins of Terre Haute has been missing
since May 24, 2002. He was last seen at his friends’ house near 22nd Street and First Avenue. Javins, an Indiana State University
student, lived at home with his parents and called his mother as he left his friends around 2 a.m. He never arrived home and
no trace of him has been found in nearly five years.
This type of show is overdue, Kreskin says, because he has helped
solve 84 criminal cases nationally but never during a performance.
Kreskin said, “Years ago, people misunderstood me and
thought well I’m some kind of psychic who’s going to be given objects found at the scene of the crime. … And I can’t read
the thoughts of inanimate objects, I’m a thought reader. I deal with people’s thinking and concentration and what have you
and that’s how I can perceive what’s on their mind.”
The two-hour, audience-participation performance will bring entertainment
to the stage. Kreskin will teach audience members a few meditation techniques, and might even hypnotize someone.
“Most
people don’t know how the hell to stop the world and [stop thinking],” he said.
Kreskin teaches people to get things off
their mind and relax, get away from the congestion and stresses in life.
“When they come home they should instruct their
husband or wife not to ask them a damn thing about the day,” he said. “And then they should sit down and not turn on the TV
because you’ve got 34 hours a day of news, but turn on a stereo or turn on a radio and listen to music and stare at a blank
wall and just relax and chill out for 20 minutes.”
Though he’s had contact with psychics, Javins’ father, Merv Javins,
said this is the first time a mentalist will try to assist in getting answers for his son’s disappearance.
“Hopefully we
can get some answers to where Scott could possibly be,” he said. “… Hopefully this is a source that may work, who knows?”
Javins
and his wife, Doreena, are planning to meet with Kreskin before the show to discuss the case.
“I really don’t know what
kind of questions he’s going to throw at us,” Javins said. “We’re anxious to find out.”
The money from ticket sales Monday
night will help fund IN Hope, Indiana Missing, in setting up support groups for families like the Javinses, and for search
and rescue equipment.
“ … Hopefully somebody is going to see this and is going to know what happened. Or it’s going to
trigger something that says ‘hey, we’ve heard this’ and hopefully they’ll call the authorities and help us solve this case
and get this over with,” Merv Javins said.
“We’d like to encourage everybody to come out and view the show and help support
the families of missing persons here in Indiana and help support IN Hope organization,” he said.
Chief Deputy Jake Compton
of the Vigo County Sheriff’s Department said the department will not be involved with the show, but hopes the Javins family
finds some answers.
“Anything helpful would be fine. We would be open-minded to anything that would help the Javins family,”
he said. “There’s nothing more that we would want at the Sheriff’s Department than give the Javins family closure.”
There
have been no recent leads and the case has gone cold, Compton said.
Kreskin has appeared on “The Late Show with Conan O’Brien,”
Comedy Central, MTV, ESPN, “Last Call With Carson Daly,” PBS, “Larry King Live,” “Jimmy Kimmel LIVE,” “Late, Late Show with
Craig Kilborn,” “The Today Show” and “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.”
Laura Followell can be reached at (812) 231-4253
or laura.followell@tribstar.com.
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