The meat here starts around the two minute mark.
What I want to point out is that this woman doesn’t actually believe she’s a scam artist – but she does believe that she can look at photographs and tell you if the people involved are living and dead.
The important thing to note here is that she uses cold reading techniques to try to confirm her statements with Randi – she throws out extra data, trying to indicate how well she knows these souls, looking for ‘hits’ – but Randi gives her no approval one way or another.
Sadly, it’s very easy to delude yourself when you seek outside confirmation. Is she deliberately trying to throw this out there as false? no. But she’s definitely not doing anything WRONG – she’s just mistaken as to what rate of success trumps chance, and is operating from conversational cues.
Or so I think, anyway.
