Dorothy Allison

Dorothy Allison (December 29, 1924 – December 1, 1999) was a self-proclaimed psychic detective from New Jersey.

Biography She was born and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Many others considered her a fraud. Two police detectives in Paterson, New Jersey, accused her of offering them money to say that she had been helpful in the 1979 search for a missing boy, later found murdered (Allison denied the charge). She was a frequent target of scientific skeptic James Randi,

Allison published a book about her activities, called A Psychic Story, in 1980. In May 1988, she was featured on the television series Unsolved Mysteries and, later that year, Secrets of the Unknown. Dorothy was also featured on Psychic Investigators, Season 3, Episode 3, What Lies Below.

A resident of Nutley, she died of heart failure on December 1, 1999, at Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, New Jersey.