NEW LEIPZIG - A nationally televised psychic detective looked through rain streaming down the windshield at a farmhouse out in the muddy boondocks southeast of New Leipzig.

Nancy Orlen Weber, of New Jersey, took off her glasses and rubbed her fingertips across her forehead and her eyes.

"I feel like some kids left here and the words, 'We'll fix him, nobody does that to one of ours,' come up in my mind. There was an altercation, real anger, in-your-face kind of stuff, a lot of yelling," Weber said.

The old yellow farmhouse looked abandoned in Thursday's rain. Cow-calf pairs were fenced near the yard and hay was stored nearby.

Weber rubbed her eyes again and resettled her glasses on her face. Still, the scene was blurry from the cold, wind-driven rain on the windows.

Eighteen months ago, on a warm October night in 2005, the farmyard was filled with cars and kids and young adults drinking in the yard and in the house.

Two of those kids were Louis Jahner, 19, and Kjirsten Carlson, 16, from neighboring farms north of Regent. Jahner was home from college; Carlson still a high school sophomore.

Jahner and Carlson shared April 20 as birthdays. He would have been 21 and she would have been 18 on Friday.

They both were intoxicated.

Jahner said he'd drive her home in her car and bunk at her place until someone brought his car back from the party in the morning.

They left the party around midnight, down hilly gravel roads over to Highway 49 and then north on pavement toward New Leipzig.

They should have turned left at New Leipzig, toward Mott and Regent and home.

Instead, they went north through the intersection onto a gravel farm-to-market road and rolled and crashed less than a quarter-mile up the road. They were both dead at the scene.

Louis Jahner's father, Roger, a Regent dairy farmer, has never believed his son simply drove too fast, missed the intersection, lost control and rolled the vehicle, though that is the conclusion of an exhaustive investigation conducted by the North Dakota Highway Patrol and the Bureau of Criminal Investigation that was closed a year ago.

Investigators from both agencies conducted dozens of interviews and conducted polygraph tests on several people who were at the party. They focused in particular on young men from nearby South Dakota, who were known to have argued with Louis Jahner at the party.

Interviews and those polygraphs provided evidence that they were home in Lemmon, S.D., before the accident occurred and the police report says they had their pickup inspected by local Lemmon police.

Roger Jahner has always believed, based on other tracks in the ditch, that the altercation Weber picked up on back at the farmhouse all these months later, in fact resulted in two, possibly three young men, chasing and dogging his son, forcing him to drive erratically and eventually roll over.

Shortly after it happened, Jahner and the Carlsons hired retired Highway Patrol chief, Norman Evans to investigate the accident.

Evans concluded that the so-called "mystery tracks," which looked to have been churned up at the same time as Louis Jahner's, and which paralleled his in the ditch, left too many questions unanswered by the one-car, speed-and-alcohol scenario in the official report.

In closing the case, law enforcement investigators said they believe the "mystery tracks" were in fact left a few days before the accident by a rural New Leipzig woman who also struck and knocked a hay bale askew.

Besides Weber, Jahner also asked retired New Jersey police chief Dave Heater to look at the case photographs and interviews.

Both Heater and Weber were featured on Court TV, in a program in which Heater recounted how Weber's intuition on a crime scene provided critical crime-solving information.

Heater, who has investigated hundreds of homicides and has a training resume pages thick, said he'll complete his report of the Jahner-Carlson accident in 60 days and send it to all the agencies originally involved.

Based on the case files and photographs he's examined over the past two months, Heater says he believed the North Dakota Highway Patrol dropped the ball.

He says besides the "hay bale tracks," the scene photos clearly show at least two other vehicle tracks besides Jahner's, one paralleling the Jahner-Carlson vehicle and one behind it.

Further, he said skid marks back at the intersection indicate the intersection was blocked. Heater also said he thinks the Highway Patrol's estimate that Louis Jahner was going 87 mph when he hit the intersection is false, because he would have "vaulted," when he crowned the intersection and been immediately out of control when he hit the ditch, or there would have been landing marks on the gravel.

Instead, photographs show Louis Jahner tracked steady on the ditch incline for a couple hundred yards, until crossing over the road, going into the other ditch and then rolling over.

Heater also said the Highway Patrol and crime agents relied too much on telephone interviews of party-goers. He said potential witnesses, or suspects, should have been interviewed face to face, outside of their comfort zones.

"It was extremely slack, and it absolutely should be redone," Heater said by phone Friday. "I don't buy what the state police are saying."

Weber would not let Roger Jahner describe anything about the accident, or what he believed happened, either when he first contacted her by phone after seeing her and Heater on Court TV in November, or when she arrived in North Dakota. She needs to work "cold," she said.

When she stood at the intersection near New Leipzig, she said she felt fear.

"I'm hearing, 'Chase, crash.' I believe the left blinker was on. Why didn't he make that turn? I don't know if someone was blocking him, or if something interfered with his ability to make that left turn," Weber said.

Roger Jahner said he was told by Kjirsten Carlson's father, Jim, that the left blinker was still blinking when he arrived at the accident scene that night.

At the scene last week, Weber said she could smell heavy alcohol. Carlson's blood alcohol was .2; Louis Jahner's was .16, both much higher than the .08 considered the legal limit, though since both were teens, no consumed amount was legal.

Weber said she sensed that in addition to being chased, Louis Jahner was dealing with a crisis, possibly an alcohol-related seizure of some kind, going on with Carlson, next to him in the passenger seat.

"It scared the hell out of him," she said.

Weber said she doesn't think the alleged chase was premeditated, or that the alleged pursuers had any idea the outcome would be fatal. She said she sensed they had "tapped" the Jahner-Carlson vehicle with their own vehicle at some point.

Earlier, while gazing at the farmhouse, she said she felt the guilt of some at the party who haven't come forward to say what they know.

"They think, 'They're already dead; what's the difference?'" Weber said. "The difference is that people can't get closure."

At $1,500, plus airfare, for each of the two days she was in the Regent and New Leipzig area, looking over the scene, the farmhouse, the crash vehicle, the cemetery, Weber's help didn't come cheap.

Weber said she told Roger Jahner straight up that he shouldn't count on her for missing answers, names or even that she would verify his version of events.

She is featured on several psychic detective television programs, including those on Court TV. She also is a registered nurse with psychiatric nursing experience and has a Web site devoted to her national appearances and programs.

Weber has a grandmotherly look about her and a sweet, exotic smell from the herbal oils she wears and the herb-infused tablets she eats to aid her auto-immune system.

Leaving New Leipzig behind in the driving rain Thursday afternoon, Weber and Roger and Renae Jahner met with three members of the North Dakota Highway Patrol.

Superintendent Bryan Klipfel, Sgt. Brad Smith and patrolman Lonny Hulm sat across a long table and listened while Weber recounted her perceptions of an altercation, fear, a chase and interference at the intersection.

The three men in uniforms had intense facial expressions and asked a few questions. None took notes.

Klipfel said it was the first time in his 30 years of law enforcement that a psychic had been drawn in on an official incident.

"He (Roger Jahner) said it was something he wanted to do, and we promised we would listen," Klipfel said.

Patrolman Lonny Hulm was a primary investigator and Roger Jahner asked him - after recounting his own theory about the mystery tracks - whether he, Hulm, had any doubts about the official report.

Hulm said he had absolutely no doubts about the case ruling, based on years of experience looking at fatal car crashes and also on the unparalleled number of hours he and other investigators put into looking into the crash and interviewing witnesses and others involved.

"This is the biggest case I've ever worked on," Hulm said.

He told Roger Jahner that, despite his questions about the police work, the case did affect him personally, and while he couldn't imagine the depths of the family's loss, he could understand it.

"We are human; we do feel," Hulm said. "We look like we have stone faces, but if we're going to survive, there's a certain psych we have to have."

Klipfel said the speed, the alcohol and the intersection all tied together, and agreed that the time spent investigating the Jahner-Carlson fatalities, questioning and polygraphing witnesses was unusual in agency history.

Weber intervened - primarily to Roger Jahner - to say that what the Highway Patrol would need to restart their investigation is for someone with first-hand knowledge to step forward, someone who was there and saw and heard more than he or she has admitted so far.

Klipfel agreed. "Hearsay doesn't do much," he said.

Weber told Roger Jahner to give the situation more time.

"What you need now is real patience, and we've talked about that," she said. "You won't have to call. The kid who knows something will call someday and say, 'I have something to tell you.' You've got to wait it out, and how you wait matters."

Roger Jahner said he will wait for Heater's report and, if he can or has to, he'll take it to Gov. John Hoeven to get the case reopened.

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