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A Woman to Know: Rose Mackenberg

A Woman to Know: Rose Mackenberg

No number of exposures, in fact, seem to shake the faith of believers. — Rose Mackenberg

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I smell a rat before I smell the incense. — Rose Mackenberg

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In her decades-long career as an undercover detective, Rose exposed hundreds of fraudulent fortune tellers, crooked clairvoyants and swindling psychics. She snuck into séances and palm reading parlors to lift the veil on the sleight of hand and other tricks many used…

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