PAUL PEIRCE   | Friday, Nov. 16, 2007 12:00 a.m.

Despite the arrest of a state trooper in the 2006 slaying of Blairsville dentist John J. Yelenic, family and friends are continuing to search for answers about his death.

On Thursday, two psychics from Butler -- sisters Suzanne Kelley and Jean McKenzie Vincent -- were invited by friends of Yelenic into his South Spring Street home to see if they could "read" whether any others were involved in his April 13, 2006 death.

Trooper Kevin Foley, of Indiana, was held for trial on a murder charge at a preliminary hearing Nov. 7, accused of cutting Yelenic with a knife and forcing his head through a pane of glass in the front doorway, which severely lacerated his neck. Foley was the boyfriend of Yelenic's estranged wife, Michele.

At the hearing, forensic pathologist Dr. Cyril Wecht, who performed the autopsy, reported that Yelenic died from blood loss and that more than one person may have been involved in the death. State Attorney General Tom Corbett said the case is still under investigation and others could be charged, but he declined to name any suspects.

Kelley and Vincent claimed yesterday that there may have been two additional people, a male and female, involved.

"I feel in this spot, where John died, just rage and blood. It's almost like small pictures coming to me," Kelley said.

While Kelley felt the woman was not directly involved in the incident, her sister disagreed.

"I think she may have been inside here and then went back outside ... maybe to watch," Vincent said.

Kelley claimed that a short, dark-haired man "with an aggressive personality ... possibly in the same profession (as Foley) may have been waiting watch outside or knew what was going on."

"I don't think he was involved with the blood," she added.

Yesterday was not the first time the psychics had been involved in the case, but it was the first time they had met personally with Yelenic's cousin, Mary Ann Clark. Kelley and Vincent reported that they met last July with Blairsville police investigators and Indiana County District Attorney Robert Bell at the home for three hours.

The sisters said they had not even heard about the case when Yelenic's neighbor Melissa Uss and her mother Diane Hershberger went to a psychic event in Indiana.

Uss reported the women immediately could tell she had been through a "very tragic" and "bloody" event and someone close in her family, possibly a child, may have made a discovery in the case. Uss's young son discovered Yelenic's body.

"I felt I had to bring them down here," Uss said.

Clark said any information obtained yesterday will be forwarded to investigators.

Clark said the psychics told authorities in July that they thought the bloody knife used in the attack and clothes are buried near a silo.

"We're willing to try everything to move the case forward," Clark said.

The psychics told Clark and Uss yesterday that they feel the case will eventually be solved.

During last week's hearing, Deputy Attorney General Anthony Krastek connected Foley, 42, to the slaying through DNA evidence, bloody shoe prints at the scene and testimony of several of Foley's co-workers. The state troopers testified at the hearing that Foley would often say to them that he wished Yelenic would die.

District Judge Guy Haberl ruled there was sufficient evidence for Foley to stand trial for murder. He is being held without bond in the county jail.

Psychic Sisters Suzanne Vincent and Jean Vincent were invited by Melissa Uss , Mary Ann Clark and friends of Yelenic into his South Spring Street home to see if they could "read" whether any others were involved in his April 13, 2006 death.  Jean and Suzann volunteered their time and expertise to help Melissa and Mary Ann.  they were so intrigued by the precise and accurate details that came through during their psychic reading that they had us give our psychic impressions to them numerous times and they put us in contact with the detectives working on the John Yelenic Homicide. 

 By Jill King Greenwood and Chris Togneri The Pittsburgh Tribune Review Focus Magazine  PSYCHICS SAY THEY WANT TO HELP

Suzanne Vincent and Jean McKenzie Vincent, sisters in Butler who claim psychic abilities, say they have been involved in investigations for decades. The family of Indiana County dentist John J. Yelenic consulted them about his 2006 slaying. Mary Ann Clark, Yelenic's cousin, says the sisters immediately sensed that the murderer was in law enforcement. Trooper Kevin J. Foley, 42, of White, Indiana County, later was arrested and accused in the slaying. The sisters say they do not charge for their services, but try to help because they can. "This is not something I wanted to do," Suzanne Vincent says. "We were afraid for our safety because we we're pointing fingers at killers. (Plus), it's like driving overnight to Florida -- it's very exhausting." Adds Jean McKenzie Vincent: "You don't want to be a psychic. You don't want to be getting this stuff. You don't choose this. I wouldn't do this if it didn't help people." When visiting a crime scene, they said, spiritual guides bring them mental images, sometimes in the form of rolling film in their minds, like a movie, and other times as mental snapshots. "It's like a transparent Polaroid," Suzanne Vincent says. "You can see it, but not all of it." In 2005, when Donald Liscsak, 27, of Blairsville went missing, his mother, Sandra Kozar Liscsak, contacted the Vincent sisters, she says. They told her the missing man would be found dead, just off a busy street, near a tree with a split trunk, Liscsak says. Eleven days after Liscsak went missing, state police found him dead in his sport-utility vehicle, which had crashed into a tree in the median of Route 119 in Indiana County. Passing cars did not notice the SUV, because the impact had splintered the tree's base and knocked it over, camouflaging it from passing cars, police said. That sold Sandra Kozar Liscsak on the sisters' psychic abilities. "They're the best people in the world at what they do, and they can help anybody," she says. "I would have been in the mental hospital if it weren't for them. I just wish more of the police departments and everyone else would realize they're willing to help people." The Vincent sisters want to find out what happened to Cherrie Mahan, who was 8 years old when she disappeared in February 1985 in Winfield, Butler County. She has never been found. Janice McKinney, Cherrie's mother, says a friend introduced her to the Vincent sisters.She says she was skeptical about their abilities, but the sisters knew about specific medical problems ailing her husband. McKinney hopes they can lead her to her missing daughter. "I've always had a strong feeling that Cherrie is OK, but I just didn't know if she was alive or dead," McKinney says. "It's a heartache to me. The 23 years of not knowing, or to never know, is terrible. All I want is an answer. Whether she's dead or alive, I just need to know. "I'm not a firm believer, but if they can give me an answer ..." McKinney and the Vincent sisters plan to visit Cornplanter Road, where Mahan was last seen, later this year in hope that they will divine clues. State Police Trooper Frank Jendesky, who is in charge of Mahan's case, says psychics have offered tips, but none have panned out. Yet, he is willing to listen. "We'll sit down and talk with them when they feel they can help the case," he says. "We don't want to be misled. But we have to see what they say.