Six More Failed Examples

Reporter Doug Margeson, of the Bellevue (Washington) Journal-American, had no better luck finding anyone healed by DiBiccari. He attended a huge meeting in the Seattle Center Arena, where this colorful performer failed dramatically in every case he was able to record. He made a list of those she treated. (1) Kendal Walker, from Tacoma, Washington, was paralyzed from the waist down as the result of a 1978 accident. Grace said he was cured. He is the same now as he was then. (2) Carolyn Rogala, of Seattle, had her ankle crushed in 1980 and still suffers severe pain. After Grace ministered to her, there was no change. (3) Gladys Chase suffers from osteoporosis and arthritis, was touched by Grace, “felt better,” but left wondering if the feeling would last. (4) Gloria French, a tiny woman from Tacoma, had pain in her knees. Grace made no change in her condition. In fact, Grace declared that Mrs. French had been in a wheelchair for ten years, which Mrs. French later denied. “I tried to explain that to Grace,” she said, “but she kept insisting.” (5) Jamie Kitts, 7, of Lynnwood, wanted to be cured of certain birth defects and asthma. Her parents had to take her home early. The next day the little girl was taken to the Children’s Orthopedic Hospital, very sick as a result of attending the meeting. Her mother, Sharon, said:I noticed that Grace didn’t approach anyone who was incurable like Jamie. We talked about it on the way home. We all decided we don’t buy it.

(6) Finally, reporter Margeson submitted to Grace’s divine touch. He suffered from back problems, but went away no better off than before.

An Amazing Lack of Evidence and Loss of Memory

Grace DiBiccari’s biographer, Elizabeth Fuller, makes some startling statements about her, particularly about her early life. As usual, this subject of an official biography has come up with fascinating anecdotes to glamorize her history. On one occasion, says Fuller, who has taken her subject’s word as gospel without troubling to check the facts, young Grace refused to go on a car ride with some friends because she had “an overpowering feeling something bad would happen.” Moments later, Fuller reports, the friends were all dead in a car wreck. Asked about the names of her friends and the date of the wreck, Grace could not remember any of them. Nor could she recall the name of a man in Danbury, Connecticut, who, she told Fuller, was instantly able to walk out of a wheelchair when she “called him out.” She also had a memory lapse about what happened to him following the healing. “We have nothing to hide,” she told Margeson. She claimed that “healed” people were followed up by her staff to see if the healing had worked. All the evidence that Margeson—and I—have gathered shows that they would have little to report back after an investigation. In response to criticism of her claims, despite her repeated offers to prove her claims and her failure to provide that evidence to the media, DiBiccari surprises no one by declaring in the same breath that she has no need to document any of her healings: “As long as the results are there, I don’t care if the skeptics laugh.” Well, we’re not laughing, Grace. We weep for the tens of thousands that you and other “healers” have talked out of their money, their reason, and their lives. The “results” you claim to obtain just aren’t there.