Michael Angelo Crespo
From Kook Science
Michael Angelo Crespo was a Puerto Rican clairvoyant and Spiritualist healer, solicited as the Miracle Man, who was active in Los Angeles, California during the early 1920s, where he was arrested for selling Mexican divorce decrees in 1924. The investigation into Crespo expanded to bring down several allied schemes, including the National Independent Spiritualist Association, while Crespo himself was reported to have jumped bail and fled to Central America.
Press Coverage
- "DIVORCE-GIVING DOCTOR IS TAKEN IN FRAUD NET. Michael Crespo, Student of Occult, Nabbed While Taking Money for Ready-Made Mexican Decree.", Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA): 21, 7 Oct. 1924, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/380249926/
- "MORE CHARGES AGAINST CRESPO - Prosecutor Says They Will be Issued Later. Many Activities of Miracle Man Revealed. Marriage Without License is One Accusation.", Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA): 21, 8 Oct. 1924, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/380250749/
- "VERSATILE DR. CRESPO IS FUGITIVE - Court Forfeits Bonds of Psychic 'Recuperating' in Central America", Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA): 28, 10 Mar. 1924, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/380460366/