Psychic won't be charged in frenzied Texas search for bodies

(CBS/AP) HOUSTON - Remember last week's frenzied search for perhaps dozens of bodies at a home about 70 miles from Houston - and the equally frenzied and largely incorrect reporting about the same?

Texas authorities say they will not file charges against the woman - the psychic - who sent them looking for the bodies that didn't exist.

The tip from the woman who claimed to be a psychic sent the local sheriff's department, the FBI and the Texas Rangers on a whirlwind hunt for dozens of bodies she said were buried at a home about an hour's drive from Houston.

Liberty County sheriff's Capt. Rex Evans says the woman will not be charged because she did not act with malice or criminal intent. He says investigators do not know how she had intimate details about the home's interior.

Media flooded the rural area on June 7, with several outlets incorrectly reporting police were searching for dismembered children. The Associated Press reported a search was under way but never reported bodies were found.

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