Future Psychic David Guardino with High School Sweetheart, 1958

Confessions of a high school sweetheart

Dear Barbara,

I doubt you would remember me as you were a little girl when your family lived in Gilroy, CA for a year or so in 1957-58, but I remember you from several of the Guardino celebrations I was invited to attend.

At the time I was going steady with your brother David, who was a year ahead of me in high school. Even though your family soon moved on to Salinas, he and I kept in touch, invited each other to our mutual school proms and other events, and even into young adulthood, we were in occasional contact.

The last time I saw David was in 1972 in Carmel when he was still on his second marriage. Soon after that, he got involved with someone else under the psychic trade name "Jamil" and, as I understood it, bought out her business and appointed himself a psychic.

About then, I had a vivid dream that clearly told me he was headed in a dangerous direction with his new psychic business. I described it to him, it was very graphic, and I warned him to get out of the business before he brought destruction on himself. He was dismissive and said he intended to become rich and famous through attracting well-heeled people. I told him I thought he was about as psychic as my little toe, which of course he laughed off.

The last time we spoke was over the phone, probably around 1985-86. By then, he was in a lot of legal trouble. My mother had died and David somehow presumed that I had inherited some sort of vast wealth. When he called me for the last time, it was not to say hi, how are you, etc. Instead, he asked me to post bail for him so he could avoid going to prison.

I explained I was not well-to-do, that I had a son in college and a daughter in private high school. I asked, why should I support him after I had warned him years before against going into the psychic business in the first place. He became desperate. He begged me to fly to Las Vegas, meet with his attorney and post my property as bond on his behalf. When I said, "you are asking me to jeopardize my only property, for what, to save your own skin," he got mad and hung up.

I later got a very nasty vindictive letter from him from prison, blaming me for not helping him avoid what was doubtless a deserved sentence.

It is tragic that David used his life, and other people's resources, the way he did. David had a high IQ, genius level; how tragic he didn't use this gift in a more positive way. David lied to me about many things over the years, and he bamboozled other people in a number of ways.

I have wondered whether he was a full blown sociopath. I also felt that John Worth had a lot to do with leading David into the dark side at a young and impressionable age. I heard a lot about John from David and he sounded like an old sicko.

Nonetheless, I am sorry for your family, they were always nice to me. I do not believe I need to stand in David's judgment. I remember him best from when we were young and he was in good health and had such fine and honest-sounding aspirations for his future. It is tragic he got lured into the life he followed in the latter years and I am sorry for the distress this must have caused your family.

Sometimes I recall that graphic warning dream I tried to share with him, so many years ago, and regret that he did not heed my words.

Sincerely, Elizabeth (Ronald) Barratt

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