Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 3, Issue - 1, ( 1 July 2018) | Page 12

The Boy Who ‘Pointed Out’ His Own
Murderer
In the same vein as Ian Stevenson’s and Jim Tucker’s research is
the body of work presented by German therapist Trutz Hardo. In
his book, Children Who Have Lived Before:
Reincarnation Today, Hardo (like Stevenson and Tucker) relates
stories of children who seem to remember their past lives with
verified uncanny accuracy.
However, the most dramatic story he recounts is that of a 3-year-
old boy in the Golan Heights region near the border of Syria and
Israel who said he was murdered with an axe in his previous life.
He showed village elders where the murderer buried his body, and
sure enough they found a man’s skeleton there. He also showed
the elders where the murder weapon was buried and, upon
digging, they did indeed find an axe.
The boy’s story was witnessed by Dr. Eli Lasch, who is best known
for developing the medical system in Gaza as part of an Israeli
government operation in the 1960s. Dr. Lasch, who died in 2009,
had recounted these astounding events to Hardo. The boy was of
the Druze ethnic group, and in his culture the existence of
reincarnation is accepted as fact. His story nonetheless had the
power to surprise his community. He was born with a long, red
birthmark on his head.
The Druse believe, as some other cultures do, that birthmarks are
related to past-life deaths. When the boy was old enough to talk,
he told his family he had been killed by a blow to the head with an
axe. It is customary for elders to take a child at the age of 3 to the
home of his previous life if he remembers it. The boy knew the
village he was from, so they went there.
When they arrived in the village, the boy remembered the name he
had in his past life. A village local said the man the boy claimed to
be the reincarnation of had gone missing four years earlier. The
boy also remembered the full name of his killer. When he