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Speaker 1: You're listening to part two of Unexplained, Season five, episode three,

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Speaker 1: End Game. After the second apparent serious assault on Cindy

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Speaker 1: in her home, though some in the force were beginning

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Speaker 1: to seriously doubt her credibility, attention turned briefly again to

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Speaker 1: doctor Roy Makepeace. In the following days, he was pulled

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Speaker 1: in for extensive questioning. During an intense six hour interview,

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Speaker 1: Makepeace conceded that he had physically hurt Cindy in the past,

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Speaker 1: but would never think of doing anything remotely like what

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Speaker 1: appeared to have been done to her. It was then

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Speaker 1: suggested by Makepeace that maybe someone connected to Cindy's line

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Speaker 1: of work, being as she was a care of for

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Speaker 1: troubled children, had been responsible an angry relative of one

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Speaker 1: of the children. Perhaps his theory wasn't pursued. In June

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three, Cindy's private investigator, Ozzi Kaban, was alerted

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Speaker 1: to another break in at Cindy's home. After racing to

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Speaker 1: her apartment, he found a deeply upset Cindy poring over

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Speaker 1: yet another distressing note that she'd apparently received. As she

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Speaker 1: explained she'd returned home after work earlier that day to

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Speaker 1: find the back door left open again. Hearing her dog, Heidi,

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Speaker 1: whimpering in pain from inside, she rushed in to find

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Speaker 1: her badly beaten and tied up to the kitchen table.

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Speaker 1: She found the note next to Heidi. It read last

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Speaker 1: day's warning death Happy Birthday, Cindy. Cindy's birthday was June fourteenth.

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Speaker 1: It was more evidence to Kaban that her attacker was

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Speaker 1: someone she knew. Then, late one evening in July, a

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Speaker 1: resident of West thirty third Avenue in Vancouver, some two

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Speaker 1: miles away from Cindy's apartment, heard what sounded like someone

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Speaker 1: trying to get in through their front door, keeping the

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Speaker 1: was startled to find a distressed and disorientated woman stumbling

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Speaker 1: about on his doorstep, clawing at something tied tightly around

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Speaker 1: her neck. It was Cindy. When police received the calls

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Speaker 1: that Cindy had been attacked again, Detective David Bowyer Smythe

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Speaker 1: was swiftly dispatched to investigate Ozzi. Kaban was also quick

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Speaker 1: to arrive on the scene. Cindy had told Kaban earlier

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Speaker 1: that night that she was heading out to Dunbar Park,

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Speaker 1: located between west thirty first and thirty third Avenue, just

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Speaker 1: Heidi for a walk. They'd been there roughly thirty minutes

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Speaker 1: before she decided to head home. It was while walking

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Speaker 1: westwards on thirty third Avenue that a dark green van

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Speaker 1: Though she couldn't be sure, she believed there were two

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Speaker 1: figures in the front, one she described as a white,

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Speaker 1: bearded male and the other a female, also white, with

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Speaker 1: long blonde hair. The driver had asked for directions, and

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Speaker 1: the next thing she knew, she was being dragged somewhere

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Speaker 1: before later coming too in some bushes by the side

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Speaker 1: of the road. When Caban and Bowyer Smythe first arrived

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Speaker 1: to speak with Cindy, she appeared unusually drowsy, as if

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Speaker 1: she had been drugged, and had twigs and leaves wedged

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Speaker 1: inside her trousers. Her dog, Hidi was nowhere to be seen.

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Speaker 1: Caban would find her later wandering around aimlessly a few

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Speaker 1: blocks away. As perplexed as ever detected. Bowyer Smythe headed

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Speaker 1: straight out to Dunbar Community Center car park and promptly

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Speaker 1: located Cindy's car where she said it would be. Next

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Speaker 1: he made his way to the spot where she claimed

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Speaker 1: she was momentarily abducted. The detective flicked on his flashlight

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Speaker 1: and shot it toward the ground, moving it about in

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Speaker 1: the dark as the occasional car drove by on the

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Speaker 1: under the light of the torch, he saw what appeared

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Speaker 1: to be recently made drag marks in the dirt, as

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Speaker 1: if a body had been suddenly dragged off the pavement

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Speaker 1: at that precise spot. It was enough to convince Detective

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Speaker 1: Bowyer Smythe to have Cindy's case passed up to the

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Speaker 1: RCMP made a crime's unit for Cindy's family and friends.

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Speaker 1: It seemed like the police were now beginning to take

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Speaker 1: her claims more seriously, giving them reason to hope that

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Speaker 1: they might finally start to get some solid answers. But

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Speaker 1: things were only about to get even more peculiar. Gray

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Speaker 1: clouds hang low in the sky. She is standing by

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Speaker 1: the water's edge on a mild summer's day as a

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Speaker 1: light rain begins to fall. Roy is with her. They

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Speaker 1: are getting into a boat and pushing off from Thormonby Island,

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Speaker 1: a small island located just off the mainland about forty

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Speaker 1: Buccaneer Bay. She thinks a small cove on the northwest

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Speaker 1: shore of South Thormonby. At least that's where they stayed

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Speaker 1: on the first night of the trip. It was January

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five, and Cindy is sitting with her eyes

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Speaker 1: closed in the office of hypnotherapist Carl Booker, recounting a

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Speaker 1: trip she'd taken with her husband back in July of

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one. The sessions had been Ozzikaban's idea and

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Speaker 1: had begun in August, three weeks after the last apparent

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Speaker 1: attack on Cindy. Frustrated by the police's inability to make

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Speaker 1: any inroads into identifying a perpetrator, Kaban had suggested visiting

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Speaker 1: a hypnotherapist to see if it might jog her memory

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Speaker 1: and help provide more information about her assailants. At the

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Speaker 1: first session, Cindy added that she had in fact been

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Speaker 1: dragged into the van and injected in the arm by

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Speaker 1: the man, who, on reflection, she thought might have been

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Speaker 1: wearing a mask. At the time. She also described how

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Speaker 1: her blouse had been ripped in the assault, and how

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Speaker 1: she'd heard one of the attackers use the word hembagosh,

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Speaker 1: an Afrikan's word which translates to be careful in English,

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Speaker 1: something Cindy had heard her estranged husband's Roy use on

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Speaker 1: many occasions. In the second session, Cindy provided a more

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Speaker 1: detailed description of the van, but little else, and that's

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Speaker 1: how things would have ended had Cindy not got in

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Speaker 1: touch with Kaban a few weeks later, claiming to be

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Speaker 1: suffering from apparent nightmares and flashbacks that she thought might

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Speaker 1: relate to something horrific she'd experienced but had since suppressed.

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Speaker 1: In January eighty five, Kaban took Cindy to see cal

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Speaker 1: Booker again to find out what the flashbacks might relate to.

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Speaker 1: Detective BOYA. Smythe and Staff Sergeant Crisp Jornerude from the

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Speaker 1: Royal Canadian Mounted Police accompanied them. It is fair to

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Speaker 1: say that nobody was quite prepared for what happened next.

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Speaker 1: Cindy's regression continued. The day after arriving on Thornmonby Island

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Speaker 1: had been a sunny one, so she and Roy decided

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Speaker 1: Their friend Old Joe even stops by to join them.

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Speaker 1: That's good, said Booker. Now what happened on the Wednesday?

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Speaker 1: Cindy seemed to hesitate for a moment. Go on, Booker

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Speaker 1: urged again. They set off early, she says, with Roy

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Speaker 1: rowing the boat again. There is fishing gear with them now.

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Speaker 1: She doesn't know where they're going, something about a property

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Speaker 1: that Roy wants to take a look at, but she

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Speaker 1: doesn't want to go. Doesn't know what they need another

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Speaker 1: property for, but Roy insists. They turn left out of

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Speaker 1: the bay when she'd expected them to go right. She

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Speaker 1: hasn't been this way before. Cindy shifted in the chair

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Speaker 1: and seemed to grow more and more uncomfortable. They're approaching

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Speaker 1: a different island now, she says, not one she recognizes,

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Speaker 1: and draw up to a log jetty of some sort.

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Speaker 1: A wooden cabin lies just off the water. There are

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Speaker 1: some other houses dotted about, but not much else. Roy

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Speaker 1: tells her to stay in the boat as he steps

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Speaker 1: It has a log roof and a small front porch.

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Speaker 1: She feels anxious. Left alone in the boat, She calls

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Speaker 1: out to Roy, but he doesn't reply, and now she

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Speaker 1: the cabin. She knocks on the door, suddenly feeling a

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Speaker 1: little silly. Roy is nowhere to be seen. She tries

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Speaker 1: the handle and finds the door unlocked. She pushes it

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Speaker 1: open and said Booker, what did you see inside kaban?

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Speaker 1: And the two officers inch forward in anticipation. No, I can't,

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Speaker 1: said Cindy, her face screwing up in horror. But you must,

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Speaker 1: said Booker. Cindy, her eyes still tightly closed, continued, there

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Speaker 1: are two bodies on the floor, a man and a

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Speaker 1: woman I don't recognize, and blood everywhere. Roy is standing

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Speaker 1: He is angry, as Cindy then went on to detail.

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Speaker 1: At this point, she ran out of the cabin, grabbed

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Speaker 1: the porch rail, and vomited over the side. The next

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Speaker 1: thing she knew, she was running to the boat, with

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Speaker 1: Roy chasing after her, demanding that she listened to him.

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Speaker 1: Then he hit her across the face, she said, telling

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Speaker 1: her to calm down. She then claimed to see more

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Speaker 1: couldn't see, and Roy telling her that her mother and

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Speaker 1: sisters would be next if she ever told any one.

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Speaker 1: And then they were back on the water, pauling two

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Speaker 1: large bags from out of the boat and throwing them overboard.

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Speaker 1: Booker brought the session to an end, Kaban and the

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Speaker 1: detectives sat back in astonishment. By the end of that

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Speaker 1: afternoon session, Cindy had effectively implicated her estranged husband Roy

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Speaker 1: in the murder and dismemberment of two unknown individuals. This

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Speaker 1: startling and unexpected revelation seemed to provide investigators with two

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Speaker 1: possible insights into Cindy's situation. On the one hand, if

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Speaker 1: Makepeace had indeed committed a murder, it stood to reason

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Speaker 1: that he could also be Cindy's mysterious attacker. On the

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Speaker 1: other hand, if Cindy had been doing it all to herself,

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Speaker 1: the revelation of this trauma was at the very least

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Speaker 1: a potential explanation for such bizarre behavior. There remained, of course,

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Speaker 1: the possibility that Cindy's recollection of her trip to Thormonby

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Speaker 1: Island was deliberately fabricated. But perhaps most complicated of all,

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Speaker 1: there was also the possibility that Cindy's story was in

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Speaker 1: fact just a symbolic and metaphorical expression of her feelings

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Speaker 1: toward her estranged husband, as opposed to a literal account

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Speaker 1: of a horrific event. Either way, having given her account

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Speaker 1: of the trip, the Royal Canadian Mountain Police investigators had

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Speaker 1: little choice but to look into it further. As it transpired,

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Speaker 1: Cindy had indeed gone on a trip to Thormonby Island

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Speaker 1: with her husband around the time in question. However, as

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Speaker 1: sister Melanie, who had no memory of anything unto ward

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Speaker 1: taking place. A few days later, Cindy was back on

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Speaker 1: a boat in Buccaneer Bay, this time accompanied by Ozzi

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Speaker 1: Caban and a Sergeant Ferguson, as they searched for the

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Speaker 1: cabin on the small island that she had depicted under hypnosis.

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Speaker 1: Despite spending the best part of the day searching for it, however,

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Speaker 1: in for questioning. Outraged that they would take Cindy's story

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Speaker 1: In the months following Cindy's shocking hypnotherapy sessions, her mental

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