Remote Crime Viewing - Article 4 in a 4-part series

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The Natural Investigative Skills re-visited

Remote Crime Viewing – Psychic Intuition – Science – It is complex, fascinating, captivating and certainly not deserving of dismissive scepticism.

Intuition or Psychic visions have been with us for millennium:  In Indigenous cultures the practice of seeking signs from ‘above or beyond’ are well documented.  In the US in 1876 as the US Army sent three columns of troops into Indian Territory, Sitting Bull, the famous Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux) Holy Man, summoned Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho to his camp, where he led them in a Sundance offering prayers to Wakan Tanka, The Great Spirit.  During the Sundance Ceremony, where he is said to have slashed his arms one hundred times in sacrifice to his people, Sitting Bull had a vision where he saw soldiers falling like grasshoppers from the sky into the Lakota camp.

Inspired by Sitting Bull’s vision, Crazy Horse, the Oglala Lakota war chief, attacked and forced one US General and a thousand troops into withdrawing at the battle of the Rosebud River. Shortly after the Rosebud the Lakota moved to the Little Bighorn River, where on June 25^th they were attacked in their village by the 7^th Cavalry under Lt. Colonel George A. Custer.  Custer’s cavalry rushed the Lakota camp and were destroyed as depicted in Sitting Bull’s vision.

Some years later Sitting Bull and the Lakota were no longer in big fights with the US Army and were forced onto reservations where Sitting Bull had another vision.  This time, he saw a meadowlark on a hillock beside him.  He heard it say.  “Your own people, Lakota’s, will kill you.” At Standing Rock Indian agency, the Lakota had planned to hold a Ghost Dance ceremony, which was a dance to rid the land of white people and restore the Indian way of life.  A large contingent of Lakota police officers was despatched to arrest Sitting Bull.  Before dawn on December 15 1890, the police officers, in trying to arrest Sitting Bull became engaged in a gunfight with some of his followers and a Lakota police officer fatally shot Sitting Bull in the head.^[ii]

Whilst the visions of Lakota Holy men are perhaps remarkably different from the Remote Crime Viewing used by professional psychics employing a much more scientific and controlled process in the twenty-first century, one thing does seem to resonate with me as being similarly fundamental, that is the need to immerse oneself into a space of immense quiet devoid of distraction.  Whether you are sitting cross legged on a rocky ledge above some wilderness valley, or in a room somewhere in an apartment overlooking Manhattan, or in a stark minimalist office, the need for quiet is the holy grail for vision, thought, and feelings, and evermore the rarity in this modern age.

What is Remote Crime Viewing (RV)?

To answer this, I am going to reference material from a number of sources, with much of the anecdotal quotes being provided by a professional advocate of RV, Stefan Bosselmann^[iii].  Stefan is a Private Investigator from Solingen in Germany who regularly writes on the virtues of RV in supporting conventional processes in certain investigations.

RV, and specifically RC (= Remote Crime Viewing), is based on scientific and military parameters developed to capture and employ a systematic use of intuition.  In those origins it was locked for many years in the halls of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as an intelligence tool since the 1970’s until released for general consumption in the 1990’s. 

Am I likely to be able to be a Remote Viewer? 

Remote Crime Viewing itself is actually quite simple to understand, though not necessarily easy to do. All of us naturally possess the ability to remote view, but most people have given up this intuitive capacity, some when entering school, others once their analytical thinking took full control. The challenge is conditioning, most of us are conditioned to think, to analyse everything, whereas RV requires you to employ feelings not connected to rational analysis through thought.

If you consider that your mind might reside inside your brain and intuition outside it, it quickly becomes clear how limited thinking as such must be. For some who thought and analysed less as a child and relied more on feelings, it isn’t hard to have such perceptions. But for others who are essentially trapped in their thinking, it is almost the only way they perceive the world.

This leaves us to understand that there are really only two camps: those who are able to suddenly start engaging with RV and those who because of their analytical mindset, simply cannot. However, some of us, can perhaps possess a bit of both.

If the mind is still trying to provide explanations, then that’s exactly where the real problem will lie because if you are a thinker, analytical, then I suspect you approach most things rationally, but your intuitive ability will be significantly reduced.

To test where you might sit in all of this try a small exercise for yourself. Have someone put a photo of a simple object in an envelope so that you cannot see it, or have someone place an object in an empty shoebox and close the lid.  Place the envelope or box in front of you on the table.

Now you can consult your logic and analytical thinking about what’s inside the envelope/box, or you can mentally take a step back, let your mind relax, take a blank sheet of paper and a pen, and write down spontaneous impressions about the hidden object. Just try it, so that you experience the difference between the mind’s performance and intuition. Your mind won’t be able to help, intuition will. Observe yourself and your approach.

This is roughly how RV practitioners work. They don’t know the target. Usually it’s not a simple object, but more complex events, processes, objects, people, or questions. The primary goal here is for you to perceive the difference between the thinker and the feeler yourself. These are two different modes, which can be used in parallel, but only if you have yourself under control.

How does Remote Crime Viewing Work (Technical)?

Following on from the previous paragraphs, imagine the mind as a big box. Inside are experiences and memories that can move back and forth between the four corners. In this way, everything gets examined and analysed, because the mind can only think in these compartments. Now, look beyond the edge of the box, consider the space outside. There you find intuition, which directly and immediately perceives what actually is, even if it wasn’t there. Of course, we need the mind for tasks like defining words or writing down numbers, but that’s more about a basic language for communication. In RV, there are many situations where the words we’ve learned so far simply aren’t enough to describe an intuitively perceived impression. And that’s exactly what RV is about.

If I give you the following description: wavy, blue, wet, cool, what does your mind make of it? Water, perhaps? Possible! But that doesn’t mean our target is water. If you let your mind dominate, we call these obstacles AOL (analytical overlay), you will always arrive at incorrect results. Not because the right clues and information aren’t there, but because you trust your mind more than your intuition.

For example, there are reports of police officers who always reacted the same way in routine situations. However, on one occasion, they had a brief flickering feeling to do something different in that one situation. Later, it turned out that they could not have avoided harming someone if they had followed the usual routine. They were saved by a subtle, fleeting intuitive impulse. Many people have such impulses but do not recognize them, they ignore them because the mind chatters constantly and explains everything. But in these fleeting moments, the mind simply cannot perceive what is, it lacks the global overview.

So intuition can be used not only systematically for gathering information but also for rapid decision-making in precarious situations. And information is always present, everywhere. Being able to perceive it is the main challenge for many people.

In RV, prediction works very differently than in a logical sense, such as the time/distance sense delay between sight/sound, for example lightning/thunder as a vanguard to a storm, which is a logical analytical predication.   In difference RV looks into the future because we assume it doesn’t exist as such. Time is only a definition from our mind, a constant. We are now, and everything else is too. The mind, due to its limited nature, simply cannot understand this. For it, such a statement is wrong.

Our consciousness has a filter and may consist of multiple layers. On one hand, we could never process all incoming impressions simultaneously. On the other, we as human beings may not actually be what we define ourselves to be, or perhaps precisely because we impose this rationally understandable definition.

Switching back to the technicalities of RV, and specifically RC (= Remote Crime Viewing), emphasising that it is indeed based on scientific and military parameters and represents the systematic use of intuition; it is noted that complex cases should involve several viewers to achieve consistent results, meaning that a whole team of up to 80 viewers may be involved.

These also cover different task areas within the viewing process: In addition to the actual crime viewers, who must know absolutely nothing about the target (blinded), there is the tasker, who defines and encrypts the assignment, and the analyst, who later examines all viewer results for information and compiles them.

Remote Crime Viewing can be described as the perception that everything is connected at all times — call it the quantum field. Whether future, present, or past — all information exists somewhere. You can imagine it like walking into a completely dark room with a flashlight. Wherever you shine the light, you become aware of that portion of the room, even though the rest — which you cannot see at that moment — still exists.

In Remote Crime Viewing (RV), the idea is to direct the viewer’s subconscious focus toward a specific target, question, object, or topic, in order to gain insight. For example, we might want a description of an unknown person, say, a burglar. We have no prior data, and that’s the point — to obtain initial clues for further investigation. A viewer might receive a task like: “Describe appearance of burglar, 30 Main Street.”  This task is tied to a random numerical code, e.g., 238754-908122. Only this number is given to the viewer — they know nothing else. This prevents the analytical mind from interfering or drawing on memory and experience.

RV can be done alone or with a monitor. The monitor may or may not know the target (double-blind setup). If they do know, they must not influence or direct the viewer — not even mentally — but remain fully neutral and merely guide the protocol process.  The viewer follows a structured protocol consisting of a number of stages, which requires a great deal of practice to apply correctly. In addition, the content of the various RV protocols differs quite significantly.

It is no coincidence that the military spent many years researching and developing this highly specialized tool in order to be able to deploy it appropriately for intelligence gathering.

Who uses Remote Crime Viewing and how (example)?

RV is used by private investigators in a number of countries that are either themselves qualified, or if not, employ others who are qualified.  It is not something that can be just picked up and practised at random.  For example, the team used by Stefan Bosselmann in the ‘Missing Girl in the Forest case’^[iv] was a small, discreet team, as the case offered little room for large-scale action. The crime viewers had various training backgrounds — some in Technical Remote Viewing (TRV, taught by former military viewer Ed Dames), others in Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV, taught by Dr Paul Smith, also ex-military). They studied several methodologies, allowing Stefan’s team to compare and refine approaches.

In this case, Stefan’s team assigned a mapping task on a blank map sheet, under which a real but undisclosed map section was hidden. The viewer could mark possible locations using intuition, pendulum, or feeling. Some used a free “wild guess,” others divided the map and inquired in which half the target might be — narrowing it step by step.

Although RV is highly descriptive, geographic localization can be less precise. That’s why it is always necessary to correlate RV data with traditional investigative work and never use raw session data alone. RV acts as an information bridge — similar to OSINT, SOCMINT, or surveillance — a complementary intelligence-gathering tool.

In larger projects, up to 30–80 viewers may work over months to increase data density. In the missing girl case, Stefan had far fewer, but that sufficed since RV played a supporting role. RV without investigation is often as ineffective as investigation without RV. The combination of both brings results — even in hopeless cases.

To determine whether the girl was still alive, Associative Remote Viewing (ARV) was applied. This technique links viewing data to symbolic associations to forecast past or future events. The viewer describes one of several possible outcomes — without knowing which is which — and the matched outcome indicates the answer. Using ARV, the team quickly sensed (still tentatively at the time) that she was already deceased.

Cartographic triangulation was not used, as it was considered too cognition-driven. In summary:Viewers only receive a random numeric code. Optionally, at a later stage, there may also be a mid-load hint (e.g., “target is a place/object/person”) to focus the subconscious further.

In this case, the location described by RV practitioners resembled a plateau in a natural, wooded environment — details that helped narrow the search. Mapping these perceptions within the same session deepened the connection and refined the task.

In conclusion

For crime viewers, RV is a standard investigative method — as is the use of trained intuition. Both can be refined through practice and structured learning. Many people struggle to grasp such natural abilities because the rational mind reacts only within its logical limits — unable to perceive the vast field beyond. With practice, however, parts of that field become accessible. Out there, there are no real boundaries — only those constructed in our minds.

It is important that it is understood that RV is discussed here as an integral partnership, along with traditional investigative practises in an investigation.  In ‘The Girl in the Forest’ case it was such a partnership that succeeded in locating her remains in the woods as the RV data could be matched to a geophysical location within the forest, which brought the result.

I hope this could shed some light on your questions and expand your insight into the seemingly hidden realm of intuition, Remote Crime Viewing, and the boundless capacity of human consciousness. 

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Note: The author is a strong advocate in the application and use of the natural senses in investigative thinking and incident/crime scene examination. However, whilst retaining a completely open-mind to knowledge, the author does not have any experience in the use of Remote Crime Viewing in investigations.

The author is aware, however that Stefan Bosselmann is experienced in Remote Crime Viewing and is a strong advocate for its use in investigations.   It is also quite apparent that Stefan presents as a professional in this regard and his support in providing reference material and his vast knowledge in Remote Crime Viewing to assist in the preparation of this article is greatly appreciated.

Written and prepared by Valentine Smith APM of www.footprintsinthewilderness.com.au based on notes and material provided by Stefan Bosselmann of Solingen, Germany, www.privatemittler.eu

^[i] Image of Mount Buller sunset taken by Robyn of Mansfield, Victoria. Australia.

^[ii] Akta Lakota Museum & Cultural Center St. Joseph’s Indian School. Chamberlain, SD USA.

^[iii] Stefan Bosselmann P.I. Solingen Germany – (Feature writer LinkedIn)

^[iv] ‘The Girl in The Forest’ written by Valentine Smith APM 2025 published on www.footprintsinthewilderness.com.au and LinkedIn