Mom says God led her to van that killed son

[Champ]

GREENWOOD, Ind. - A woman says it was divine intervention that led her to find the van that authorities believe killed her 27-year-old son in an October hit-and-run.

Joy English said was driving to a store the night before Thanksgiving to buy Christmas flowers for her son's grave when she felt guided to turn into a mobile home park in the southern Indianapolis suburb a few miles from her home.

"I went the long way ... and as I was driving I had this urgent prompting to pull over - pull over now!" she said Wednesday.

She said she was thinking of her son and crying as she listened to Christmas music when she saw a van that matched that given by witnesses to the crash that killed her son and debris found at the scene.

She wrote down the van's license plate number and called police. On Tuesday, a call from Marion County sheriff's Sgt. Doug Heustis confirmed her hunch.

He told her: "You found your son's killer," English said, recalling the conversation.
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/1202god-lead02-ON.html

[Must_B_Free]

1. Maybe it wasn't God, but instead a Mother's Intuition?

[benburch]

2. My thought too,

These things happen far too often, or at least it seems so, for this to be pure chance. I wonder if there isn't something for science to explore here.

[trotsky]

3. Key words: "at least it seems so"

Because only the "hits" like this are reported.

Let's face it - we never hear about the people whose intuition leads them nowhere.

[elehhhhna]

4. No, there is something more than coincidence. There is.

[trotsky]

6. I guess if you say so!

I mean, you ARE the final authority, right?

[elehhhhna]

7. Correctomundo! Just speaking from personal experience.

[benburch]

10. Agreed

But the data does not permit deciding that issue.

[soothsayer]

5. Doesn't matter whether it's God or intuition or the morphic field

It's cool!

[Zuni]

8. Interesting. Seems like real paranormal phenomenon

wether God or her own innate pyschic abilities (which could be God's way of telling her)

[curse10]

9. whatever the cause- it's pretty cool!

I can't imagine what it must be like to catch your son's killer. I hope this allows her to heal.