Speaker 1: You're listening to part two of Unexplained, Season five, episode three,
Speaker 1: End Game. After the second apparent serious assault on Cindy
Speaker 1: in her home, though some in the force were beginning
Speaker 1: to seriously doubt her credibility, attention turned briefly again to
Speaker 1: doctor Roy Makepeace. In the following days, he was pulled
Speaker 1: in for extensive questioning. During an intense six hour interview,
Speaker 1: Makepeace conceded that he had physically hurt Cindy in the past,
Speaker 1: but would never think of doing anything remotely like what
Speaker 1: appeared to have been done to her. It was then
Speaker 1: suggested by Makepeace that maybe someone connected to Cindy's line
Speaker 1: of work, being as she was a care of for
Speaker 1: troubled children, had been responsible an angry relative of one
Speaker 1: of the children. Perhaps his theory wasn't pursued. In June
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three, Cindy's private investigator, Ozzi Kaban, was alerted
Speaker 1: to another break in at Cindy's home. After racing to
Speaker 1: her apartment, he found a deeply upset Cindy poring over
Speaker 1: yet another distressing note that she'd apparently received. As she
Speaker 1: explained she'd returned home after work earlier that day to
Speaker 1: find the back door left open again. Hearing her dog, Heidi,
Speaker 1: whimpering in pain from inside, she rushed in to find
Speaker 1: her badly beaten and tied up to the kitchen table.
Speaker 1: She found the note next to Heidi. It read last
Speaker 1: day's warning death Happy Birthday, Cindy. Cindy's birthday was June fourteenth.
Speaker 1: It was more evidence to Kaban that her attacker was
Speaker 1: someone she knew. Then, late one evening in July, a
Speaker 1: resident of West thirty third Avenue in Vancouver, some two
Speaker 1: miles away from Cindy's apartment, heard what sounded like someone
Speaker 1: trying to get in through their front door, keeping the
Speaker 1: chain on the latch. He pulled the door open and
Speaker 1: was startled to find a distressed and disorientated woman stumbling
Speaker 1: about on his doorstep, clawing at something tied tightly around
Speaker 1: her neck. It was Cindy. When police received the calls
Speaker 1: that Cindy had been attacked again, Detective David Bowyer Smythe
Speaker 1: was swiftly dispatched to investigate Ozzi. Kaban was also quick
Speaker 1: to arrive on the scene. Cindy had told Kaban earlier
Speaker 1: that night that she was heading out to Dunbar Park,
Speaker 1: located between west thirty first and thirty third Avenue, just
Speaker 1: a few blocks from where she was found to take
Speaker 1: Heidi for a walk. They'd been there roughly thirty minutes
Speaker 1: before she decided to head home. It was while walking
Speaker 1: westwards on thirty third Avenue that a dark green van
Speaker 1: with a blurred out window apparently pulled up alongside her.
Speaker 1: Though she couldn't be sure, she believed there were two
Speaker 1: figures in the front, one she described as a white,
Speaker 1: bearded male and the other a female, also white, with
Speaker 1: long blonde hair. The driver had asked for directions, and
Speaker 1: the next thing she knew, she was being dragged somewhere
Speaker 1: before later coming too in some bushes by the side
Speaker 1: of the road. When Caban and Bowyer Smythe first arrived
Speaker 1: to speak with Cindy, she appeared unusually drowsy, as if
Speaker 1: she had been drugged, and had twigs and leaves wedged
Speaker 1: inside her trousers. Her dog, Hidi was nowhere to be seen.
Speaker 1: Caban would find her later wandering around aimlessly a few
Speaker 1: blocks away. As perplexed as ever detected. Bowyer Smythe headed
Speaker 1: straight out to Dunbar Community Center car park and promptly
Speaker 1: located Cindy's car where she said it would be. Next
Speaker 1: he made his way to the spot where she claimed
Speaker 1: she was momentarily abducted. The detective flicked on his flashlight
Speaker 1: and shot it toward the ground, moving it about in
Speaker 1: the dark as the occasional car drove by on the
Speaker 1: road behind him. He suddenly came to a stop. There
Speaker 1: under the light of the torch, he saw what appeared
Speaker 1: to be recently made drag marks in the dirt, as
Speaker 1: if a body had been suddenly dragged off the pavement
Speaker 1: at that precise spot. It was enough to convince Detective
Speaker 1: Bowyer Smythe to have Cindy's case passed up to the
Speaker 1: RCMP made a crime's unit for Cindy's family and friends.
Speaker 1: It seemed like the police were now beginning to take
Speaker 1: her claims more seriously, giving them reason to hope that
Speaker 1: they might finally start to get some solid answers. But
Speaker 1: things were only about to get even more peculiar. Gray
Speaker 1: clouds hang low in the sky. She is standing by
Speaker 1: the water's edge on a mild summer's day as a
Speaker 1: light rain begins to fall. Roy is with her. They
Speaker 1: are getting into a boat and pushing off from Thormonby Island,
Speaker 1: a small island located just off the mainland about forty
Speaker 1: miles west of Vancouver. Now they are dropping anchor somewhere
Speaker 1: Buccaneer Bay. She thinks a small cove on the northwest
Speaker 1: shore of South Thormonby. At least that's where they stayed
Speaker 1: on the first night of the trip. It was January
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five, and Cindy is sitting with her eyes
Speaker 1: closed in the office of hypnotherapist Carl Booker, recounting a
Speaker 1: trip she'd taken with her husband back in July of
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one. The sessions had been Ozzikaban's idea and
Speaker 1: had begun in August, three weeks after the last apparent
Speaker 1: attack on Cindy. Frustrated by the police's inability to make
Speaker 1: any inroads into identifying a perpetrator, Kaban had suggested visiting
Speaker 1: a hypnotherapist to see if it might jog her memory
Speaker 1: and help provide more information about her assailants. At the
Speaker 1: first session, Cindy added that she had in fact been
Speaker 1: dragged into the van and injected in the arm by
Speaker 1: the man, who, on reflection, she thought might have been
Speaker 1: wearing a mask. At the time. She also described how
Speaker 1: her blouse had been ripped in the assault, and how
Speaker 1: she'd heard one of the attackers use the word hembagosh,
Speaker 1: an Afrikan's word which translates to be careful in English,
Speaker 1: something Cindy had heard her estranged husband's Roy use on
Speaker 1: many occasions. In the second session, Cindy provided a more
Speaker 1: detailed description of the van, but little else, and that's
Speaker 1: how things would have ended had Cindy not got in
Speaker 1: touch with Kaban a few weeks later, claiming to be
Speaker 1: suffering from apparent nightmares and flashbacks that she thought might
Speaker 1: relate to something horrific she'd experienced but had since suppressed.
Speaker 1: In January eighty five, Kaban took Cindy to see cal
Speaker 1: Booker again to find out what the flashbacks might relate to.
Speaker 1: Detective BOYA. Smythe and Staff Sergeant Crisp Jornerude from the
Speaker 1: Royal Canadian Mounted Police accompanied them. It is fair to
Speaker 1: say that nobody was quite prepared for what happened next.
Speaker 1: Cindy's regression continued. The day after arriving on Thornmonby Island
Speaker 1: had been a sunny one, so she and Roy decided
Speaker 1: to have a barbecue and just spend the day relaxing outside.
Speaker 1: Their friend Old Joe even stops by to join them.
Speaker 1: That's good, said Booker. Now what happened on the Wednesday?
Speaker 1: Cindy seemed to hesitate for a moment. Go on, Booker
Speaker 1: urged again. They set off early, she says, with Roy
Speaker 1: rowing the boat again. There is fishing gear with them now.
Speaker 1: She doesn't know where they're going, something about a property
Speaker 1: that Roy wants to take a look at, but she
Speaker 1: doesn't want to go. Doesn't know what they need another
Speaker 1: property for, but Roy insists. They turn left out of
Speaker 1: the bay when she'd expected them to go right. She
Speaker 1: hasn't been this way before. Cindy shifted in the chair
Speaker 1: and seemed to grow more and more uncomfortable. They're approaching
Speaker 1: a different island now, she says, not one she recognizes,
Speaker 1: and draw up to a log jetty of some sort.
Speaker 1: A wooden cabin lies just off the water. There are
Speaker 1: some other houses dotted about, but not much else. Roy
Speaker 1: tells her to stay in the boat as he steps
Speaker 1: onto the jetty and heads toward the cabin closest to them.
Speaker 1: It has a log roof and a small front porch.
Speaker 1: She feels anxious. Left alone in the boat, She calls
Speaker 1: out to Roy, but he doesn't reply, and now she
Speaker 1: is stepping off the boat and making her way toward
Speaker 1: the cabin. She knocks on the door, suddenly feeling a
Speaker 1: little silly. Roy is nowhere to be seen. She tries
Speaker 1: the handle and finds the door unlocked. She pushes it
Speaker 1: open and said Booker, what did you see inside kaban?
Speaker 1: And the two officers inch forward in anticipation. No, I can't,
Speaker 1: said Cindy, her face screwing up in horror. But you must,
Speaker 1: said Booker. Cindy, her eyes still tightly closed, continued, there
Speaker 1: are two bodies on the floor, a man and a
Speaker 1: woman I don't recognize, and blood everywhere. Roy is standing
Speaker 1: over the bodies. He has a knife in his hand.
Speaker 1: He is angry, as Cindy then went on to detail.
Speaker 1: At this point, she ran out of the cabin, grabbed
Speaker 1: the porch rail, and vomited over the side. The next
Speaker 1: thing she knew, she was running to the boat, with
Speaker 1: Roy chasing after her, demanding that she listened to him.
Speaker 1: Then he hit her across the face, she said, telling
Speaker 1: her to calm down. She then claimed to see more
Speaker 1: blood and an axe swinging down imbedding into something she
Speaker 1: couldn't see, and Roy telling her that her mother and
Speaker 1: sisters would be next if she ever told any one.
Speaker 1: And then they were back on the water, pauling two
Speaker 1: large bags from out of the boat and throwing them overboard.
Speaker 1: Booker brought the session to an end, Kaban and the
Speaker 1: detectives sat back in astonishment. By the end of that
Speaker 1: afternoon session, Cindy had effectively implicated her estranged husband Roy
Speaker 1: in the murder and dismemberment of two unknown individuals. This
Speaker 1: startling and unexpected revelation seemed to provide investigators with two
Speaker 1: possible insights into Cindy's situation. On the one hand, if
Speaker 1: Makepeace had indeed committed a murder, it stood to reason
Speaker 1: that he could also be Cindy's mysterious attacker. On the
Speaker 1: other hand, if Cindy had been doing it all to herself,
Speaker 1: the revelation of this trauma was at the very least
Speaker 1: a potential explanation for such bizarre behavior. There remained, of course,
Speaker 1: the possibility that Cindy's recollection of her trip to Thormonby
Speaker 1: Island was deliberately fabricated. But perhaps most complicated of all,
Speaker 1: there was also the possibility that Cindy's story was in
Speaker 1: fact just a symbolic and metaphorical expression of her feelings
Speaker 1: toward her estranged husband, as opposed to a literal account
Speaker 1: of a horrific event. Either way, having given her account
Speaker 1: of the trip, the Royal Canadian Mountain Police investigators had
Speaker 1: little choice but to look into it further. As it transpired,
Speaker 1: Cindy had indeed gone on a trip to Thormonby Island
Speaker 1: with her husband around the time in question. However, as
Speaker 1: investigators soon discovered, they had also been joined by her
Speaker 1: sister Melanie, who had no memory of anything unto ward
Speaker 1: taking place. A few days later, Cindy was back on
Speaker 1: a boat in Buccaneer Bay, this time accompanied by Ozzi
Speaker 1: Caban and a Sergeant Ferguson, as they searched for the
Speaker 1: cabin on the small island that she had depicted under hypnosis.
Speaker 1: Despite spending the best part of the day searching for it, however,
Speaker 1: it remained elusive. Roy make Peace was once again brought
Speaker 1: in for questioning. Outraged that they would take Cindy's story
Speaker 1: seriously enough to quiz him about it again, police find
Speaker 1: nothing incriminating Afterwards, make Peace makes the decision to cut
Speaker 1: all ties with Cindy for good, and the police are
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Speaker 1: In the months following Cindy's shocking hypnotherapy sessions, her mental
Speaker 1: health deteriorated significantly. Though it's important to state that there
Speaker 1: was absolutely zero physical evidence link Roy make Peace to
Speaker 1: any murder or any of the attacks that Cindy supposedly endured.
Speaker 1: What can't be ascertained is to what degree she really
Speaker 1: believed it had happened. In June nineteen eighty five, Cindy
Speaker 1: was rushed to hospital having overdosed on pills in an
Speaker 1: apparent suicide attempt. She was subsequently diagnosed with depression and
Speaker 1: moved to Vancouver's Lionsgate Hospital for her own protection and
Speaker 1: put on a course of antidepressants. With police yet to
Speaker 1: rule make Peace out entirely as a suspect to a
Speaker 1: possible murder, they arranged to have Cindy called him up
Speaker 1: so they could listen in while she asked him about
Speaker 1: what exactly took place on their nineteen eighty one trip
Speaker 1: to Thormanby Island. When she did, make Peace accused Cindy
Speaker 1: of being insane and denied everything. Both Cindy and make
Speaker 1: Peace were then placed under twenty four hour police surveillance
Speaker 1: for the next seven days, during which Cindy claimed her
Speaker 1: phone line were cut again. The police, however, saw nothing incriminating.
Speaker 1: The next few months were relatively incident free, though Cindy
Speaker 1: continued to report a number of threatening calls and yet
Speaker 1: another sinister note, this time in the form of a
Speaker 1: book with a nylon stocking placed inside it. Though Cindy
Speaker 1: continued to confide in her friends about it all, there
Speaker 1: were hopes that the worst might now be behind her.
Speaker 1: On a freezing cold day in early December, a resident
Speaker 1: cycling through the University Endowment Lands, some six miles west
Speaker 1: of Cindy's house, spotted a woman lying unconscious in a ditch.
Speaker 1: Rushing to help, the cyclist was horrified to find a
Speaker 1: black nylon stocking tied tightly around the woman's neck. One
Speaker 1: of her feet was exposed, while on the other she
Speaker 1: wore a large work boot while on her hands, she
Speaker 1: wore only one glove. When the woman eventually came round
Speaker 1: confirmed she was Cindy makepeace. She claimed not to remember
Speaker 1: anything of the attack. Following what was by then a
Speaker 1: fourth apparent violent attack, Cindy was sent for a consultation
Speaker 1: with doctor Anthony Marcus, a forensic psychiatrist with the University
Speaker 1: of British Columbia. After a couple of meetings, Marcus came
Speaker 1: to the devastating conclusion that Cindy was indeed her own stalker,
Speaker 1: as many in the police force had come to suspect. However,
Speaker 1: it wasn't simply that she was deliberately faking the attacks
Speaker 1: or lying about the phone calls. He suggested. Instead, it
Speaker 1: was his belief that Cindy was intermittently falling in and
Speaker 1: out of a psychogenic fugue state. If this were the case,
Speaker 1: she would have no recollection of what she was doing
Speaker 1: to herself, and as a result, have every reason to
Speaker 1: believe that she really was being attacked. According to doctor
Speaker 1: Marcus's diagnosis, this could well have been brought on as
Speaker 1: a consequence of a severe trauma that Cindy had previously suffered.
Speaker 1: Though close friends and family as well as her private
Speaker 1: investigator Ozzy Caban, remained convinced that Cindy truly was being attacked.
Speaker 1: For many in the police, Marcus's assessment was effectively the
Speaker 1: end of the matter. Doctor Marcus also suggested to Cindy
Speaker 1: that they begin regular therapy sessions to treat the condition,
Speaker 1: but she declined the offer because she was already visiting
Speaker 1: a therapist at the time. Doctor Connolly, her regular therapist,
Speaker 1: was more sympathetic to the idea that Cindy was genuinely
Speaker 1: under attack from an unknown assailant. In April nineteen eighty six,
Speaker 1: feeling somewhat abandoned by the police and more fearful for
Speaker 1: her life than ever, Cindy invited her good friends Agnes
Speaker 1: and Tom Woodcock to stay the night with her. They
Speaker 1: were just settling down to sleep when Cindy burst into
Speaker 1: their room in a panic. Together, they ran downstairs to
Speaker 1: find with horror that the basement was on fire. As
Speaker 1: Cindy yelled for some one to call the fire service,
Speaker 1: Agnes ran to the phone, but when she tried to
Speaker 1: use it, the line was completely dead. When Tom then
Speaker 1: ran out to alert the neighbors, he spotted a figure
Speaker 1: in the shadows seemingly watching the house from across the street,
Speaker 1: but when Tom called out to them for help, the
Speaker 1: figure simply turned and ran off into the darkness. Later
Speaker 1: that evening, with the fire safely extinguished, ARCMP investigators found
Speaker 1: a possible point of entry for an intruder, a bathroom
Speaker 1: window that looked to have been forced open. On closer inspection, however,
Speaker 1: it was determined to have been forced open from the inside. That,
Speaker 1: coupled with the discovery of liquid celerant all over the
Speaker 1: basement carpet, led them to conclude that Cindy was the culprit.
Speaker 1: A check on doctor Roy Matepiece's whereabouts was made just
Speaker 1: in case, but he was found to be in South
Speaker 1: Africa at the time. Only two weeks previously, Agnes and
Speaker 1: Tom had been staying at Cindy's home when her burglar
Speaker 1: alarm was triggered. Cindy was sat playing cards with them
Speaker 1: at the time. When they went to investigate, they found
Speaker 1: that part of the basement doors glass window had been
Speaker 1: completely removed after the fire. Cindy's misery was compounded when
Speaker 1: her insurance company refused to pay up for the damages,
Speaker 1: and she was served in a fiction notice from her property.
Speaker 1: Despite everything. Throughout it all, Cindy had continued her work
Speaker 1: at Blenheim House, which many believe was one of the
Speaker 1: few positives that Cindy had to hold on to. However,
Speaker 1: on the advice of her therapist, doctor Connolly, Cindy took
Speaker 1: a six month leave of absence from work and was
Speaker 1: committed to Saint Paul's Psychiatric Hospital in Vancouver. While at
Speaker 1: Saint Paul's, Cindy was assessed by a number of psychologists who,
Speaker 1: although on sure of the correct diagnosis, all came to
Speaker 1: a similar conclusion to doctor Anthony Marcus that Cindy had
Speaker 1: effectively manufactured her own stalker. After two months, Cindy was
Speaker 1: deemed well enough to be released, and in September nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty seven, she moved to her property on Claysmith Road
Speaker 1: in Richmond. With her divorce from Roy now finalized, Cindy
Speaker 1: changed her name from make Peace to James. With Cindy's
Speaker 1: life appearing to have stabilized, she was dealt a huge
Speaker 1: blow when she was asked to resign from her job
Speaker 1: at Blenheim House. Some claimed it was due to poor performance,
Speaker 1: while others believed she was unfairly maligned. After details about
Speaker 1: her medical history were leaked to her superiors. Though distraught
Speaker 1: at having to leave the job she loved, Cindy confided
Speaker 1: in friends that at the very least, perhaps now she'd
Speaker 1: finally hit rock bottom, her stalker might leave her alone
Speaker 1: rather than wallow in it all. Incredibly, Cindy fought hard
Speaker 1: to turn her life around, and after enrolling again in
Speaker 1: a series of nursing courses, she managed to secure a
Speaker 1: new job the following year at Richmond General Hospital, and
Speaker 1: by the summer of nineteen eighty eight, over a year
Speaker 1: had gone by without a sinister incident. As a refreshed
Speaker 1: and hopeful Cindy reveled in the freedom of her new life.
Speaker 1: For a moment, it seemed the distresses of the past
Speaker 1: were finally behind her, but all that was about to change.
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