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R. Leo Sprinkle

Person 5 stories, 1967 to 1980

A psychologist at the University of Wyoming. Again and again, when witnesses reported missing time, R. Leo Sprinkle was the one who hypnotised them. On February 13, 1968, he hypnotised police officer Herbert Schirmer in Boulder. In November 1974, working as an APRO consultant, he explored Carl Higdon's lost hours and concluded that Higdon was reporting sincerely. June 1976. In Liberty, he hypnotised the three women from the Stanford, Kentucky case. Sprinkle concluded that abduction and examination was the best hypothesis. Later, his sessions with Myrna Hansen took place in a Lincoln Town Car with foil over its windows.