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'Ex-CIA psychic claims he had already told police where Émile Soleil's body would be found before the tragic child's remains were discovered'
A former CIA psychic has claimed he had already told police where the body of missing French toddler Émile Soleil would be found before the horror discovery on Saturday.
Major Ed Dames, 74, said he had used a technique called 'remote viewing' to locate the two-year-old in the idyllic Alpine hamlet of Le Vernet after his sudden disappearance from his grandparents' home last July.
The method, used by US and Soviet agents during the Cold War, ostensibly sees psychics access 'remote geographic targets otherwise inaccessible', 'looking into the distance and the future' merely by thinking.
Maj Dames showed The Sun emails he had sent to police last December claiming Émile was 'located at, or in proximity to' a field next to the site where ramblers found the bones and skull on March 31.
'It took me two days,' he told the newspaper. 'I jumped on it immediately. I knew this is a serious case and the sense of urgency is high.'
Maj Dames worked as an operations and training officer at the joint CIA and Army Psychic Intelligence Unit, a now-defunct project that inspired the book and 2009 black comedy 'The Men Who Stare at Goats'.
Ramblers discovered the remains of two-year-old Émile Soleil (pictured) close to the isolated family home from here he went missing in July last year
Emile disappeared from a family home in July last year, before the shock discovery Saturday
The bones and skull of young Émile were found by walkers on Saturday 'on a path between the Church and Chapel' of the quiet Alpine village of Le Vernet, according to mayor François Balique.
The site, barely a kilometre from where Émile disappeared while staying with his grandfather in July, had already been scoured by gendarmes with a 'tooth comb', the mayor told Le Figaro.
He said it was 'absolutely incomprehensible' that Émile had got into trouble by himself - and sources close to the investigation are now theorising whether the bones could have been moved.
'It's unlikely animals would bring human remains back into the village where someone went missing,' the source said.
'This leads to the theory that a person has brought Émile's remains back, and potentially very recently.'
Speaking on Monday, mayor Balique said he could not understand why the remains hadn't been found sooner.
'There are people who regularly use the path nearby. I used it last week. The volunteer searchers have been there, I'm sure.
'I was there during the beatings [on the ground by those searching for Émile] and the gendarmes couldn't have missed him with the dogs.
'There was even a logging there in the Autumn. The wood cutters didn't see anything either. It's incomprehensible.'
Gilles Thézan, a resident of Haut-Vernet, told Le Parisien: 'There's a trick going on.
'The body was found only one or two kilometers from Haut-Vernet, in a place which had already been searched and re-searched, notably with dogs.
'Everything was raked from top to bottom. There's no way anyone wouldn't have seen it before.'
Marie-Laure Pezant, a spokeswoman for the gendarmerie, said the bones may have been placed there by a person or animal, or moved by shifting weather patterns.
Police have not ruled out the possibility the remains were missed last summer due to heavy undergrowth in the area at the time.
Only 25 people live in Haut-Vernet, according to The BBC, and major Balique has said since the discovery he 'can't help but believe that an adult is involved in this matter'.
'Emile would never have gone alone to where he was found.'
Émile's parents, Marie and Colomban Soleil, told of their 'pain and sorrow' in a statement provided to press on Easter Sunday via their lawyer Jerome Triomphe.
'This heartbreaking news was feared... (They) know on this Resurrection Sunday that Émile watches over them in the light and tenderness of God.
'Marie and Colomban would like to thank all those who helped and supported them as well as the investigating judges and investigators for their work, their professionalism, their personal commitment and their humanity which were of great comfort to them, in recent months and in particular on this day... But the pain and sorrow remain'.
'The time has come for mourning, contemplation and prayer.'
Police closed off the village on March 27 to everyone except investigators and residents
Restrictions remain in place as cops gather further information about the remains found today
There had been no trace of Émile since he went missing eight months ago
José Morale, mayor of La Bouilladisse, the town near Marseille where Émile's family live for most of the year, said: 'We will do our best to support them.
'For the parents, it's very complicated. There is no relief, the sadness is infinite, we are all dejected.'
Ramblers found the bones of missing Émile near the house, concluding a desperate search lasting more than eight months.
A statement released by public prosecutors in Aix-en-Provence on Sunday said 'genetic analysis identifies' the bones as belonging to Émile.
It added that 'criminalistic analysis' was also underway, and that gendarmes were carrying out 'additional research' in the area where they were found.
There had been no trace of Émile since he went missing eight months ago, with investigators refusing to rule out any theory for the tragedy, including abduction and murder.
Émile was officially in the care of his grandfather, Philippe Vedovini, on the day of his disappearance, as his parents took a break.
A witness saw Mr Vedovini, a physiotherapist-osteopath, cutting wood outside his house around the time Émile is thought to have wandered off.
There was no immediate comment about the discovery of the bones from Émile's family, who were all at Easter Sunday mass when told.
Émile was last seen wearing a yellow T-shift and white shorts at 5:15pm local time by two neighbours who saw him walking by himself in the only street in the village before they 'lost sight of him'.
Police were alerted about the disappearance by the boy's grandfather.
Hundreds of people joined initial searches with the authorities in a hunt the next day.
The disappeance soon became a criminal inquiry, though detectives lacked leads into what may have caused Emile to wander off - and where he may have gone.
Last Thursday, investigators returned to the hamlet to reconstruct the last sighting with 17 people including members of the family.