LAKE OSWEGO, Ore. - Psychic detectives might sound a little far fetched, but law enforcement agencies all across Oregon are using these people to help crack some notorious cases.

"We all have it. It's different degrees. Pay attention to your dreams. Pay attention to just feelings," said Psychic Detective Laurie McQuary.

McQuary has a knack for listening to her gut. As a psychic consultant in Lake Oswego, she said she's helped find the bodies of 27 murder victims in 26 years.

"I've worked with a lot of detectives, some of them aren't comfortable talking about it. Some of them don't even want their department to know about it," said McQuary.

McQuary used to lead a normal life, but the former nurse started having nightmares and visions- after a fall from a horse forced her into a coma for three weeks.

"Started to have precognitive dreams of plane crashes, and I had no idea what it was about because they'd happen about three days after I'd dream them. I thought I was nuts," said McQuary.

Word spread, and McQuary opened her business. Then in 1986- her first case came out of Clackamas County where a young woman was murdered by her own husband.

"I was so nervous because you know what these cops are like- they're impassive," said McQuary. "You can sit there and tell them every nuance about the victim, 50 pages worth and then they'll go 'yup, that's right, but where's the body?'"

Lake Oswego Police Detective Bob Lee was working that case.

"After about two months, you've pretty much done whatever can be done from a police department's standpoint. The woman had simply disappeared,"

Lee met with McQuary and she gave him a list of what she sensed about the murder.

"Some of the stuff was fairly generic. You know, like you would pretty much if you described one case, you described them all sort of thing. But some of it was very very specific, like the younger brother being involved in the burial of the body," said Lee.

Lee and McQuary later married.

McQuary said she got involved in Brooke Wilberger's case, after getting a call from one of Wilberger's teachers. The psychic took notes and passed her thoughts on paper back to the teacher- who then gave them to the Corvallis Police Department.

"I said don't even tell police who it's from. If they're going to wig out and think it's a psychic, don't. Just say somebody was just thinking these thoughts and give it to them just to be taken seriously," said McQuary.

McQuary also said she thinks Wilberger's body is in the Crabtree area.

"Right there. And I felt she was off the road, like it was a logging tree road, which we have many of those, but I think she's off about 150 feet to the right of a road," said McQuary.

KVAL News called Corvallis Police, told Lt. Tim Bruer what McQuary sensed and asked if searchers ever looked in that area.

He would not confirm where searches had been.

"Frankly, we never waste our time on psychics. We've had hundreds of psychic tips from the very beginning. We don't use them because it takes away time from our legitimate resources,* said Bruer.

"I can not change people's opinions if they have a mind set to that. I think if they ever bothered to look at my web page, if they would take the whole picture of how long I've been doing this, and for how many years I've done it for nothing, for gratis," said McQuary.

McQuary believes each of us have an intuition, a gut feeling, that we just don't listen to.

When Dianne Downs shot her three children over 20 years ago, and lied to detectives about a strange man doing it...

"I thought, that's bull-honey! There was no bushy-haired stranger. The next day, I had people calling my office, clients, going 'that lady's lying.' I mean, these are people who are bank tellers or whatever else in life, and they are certainly not exercising that ability... but they were," said McQuary.

The Lane County Sheriff's Office hired two psychics to examine the 2005 murders of campers Stevan Haugen and Jeanette Bauman near Oakridge. That case remains unsolved.