Speaker 1: Gordon held tight to the jackhammer as it pierced another
Speaker 1: concrete slab, the vibrations of the drill only intensifying his
Speaker 1: steadily growing urge to pee. With one last chunk dispersed,
Speaker 1: he eased off on the grip and signaled to a
Speaker 1: co worker to take over. It was June nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: nine and another mild summer's day in Richmond, the coastal
Speaker 1: city just south of Vancouver in southwest Canada. Gordon and
Speaker 1: his co workers had spent the best part of the
Speaker 1: morning breaking up paving stones outside eighty one hundred Blundell
Speaker 1: Road in preparation for the laying of a new sidewalk.
Speaker 1: Looking for a suitable place to take a leak, Gordon
Speaker 1: spotted an old, derelict house just off the main road
Speaker 1: and headed off toward it, ducking him behind. He continued
Speaker 1: on through the tall grass toward a small wooded area
Speaker 1: to the side, but was startled by the sight of
Speaker 1: a woman lying fast asleep on the ground, tucked up
Speaker 1: like a ball. Gordon turned instinctively to head back out,
Speaker 1: but something told him to stop and turn around. Looking closer,
Speaker 1: he realized with horror that the woman's handsome feet had
Speaker 1: been tied up behind her, and then it hid him
Speaker 1: with the nauseating rush. She wasn't sleeping at all. She
Speaker 1: was dead. When the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrived shortly
Speaker 1: after to investigate, it didn't take them long to identify
Speaker 1: the body. Though the skin was significantly discolored and desiccated,
Speaker 1: there was little doubting that this was the woman they'd
Speaker 1: spent the last two weeks looking for forty four year
Speaker 1: old nurse Cindy James. Back in May, Cindy's car had
Speaker 1: been found abandoned at the Blundell shopping Center over a
Speaker 1: mile away, with recently packed groceries on the front seat
Speaker 1: and a present she'd bought for a friend's son on
Speaker 1: the back. Some of Cindy's blood was found smeared across
Speaker 1: the door and her bank cards scattered on the ground
Speaker 1: underneath the vehicle, suggesting that some kind of a struggle
Speaker 1: had taken place. Examining Cindy's body, police found that her
Speaker 1: blouse had been ripped at the neck and there were
Speaker 1: buttons missing. Both her hands and feet had been tied together,
Speaker 1: and a black nylon stocking had been tied tightly around
Speaker 1: her neck at autopsy, a puncture mark was found on
Speaker 1: her right arm, likely to have been caused by a needle,
Speaker 1: but no needles or any other drug paraphernalia was found
Speaker 1: anywhere near the body. Cindy's last known movements were traced
Speaker 1: to a Bank of Montreal deposit machine close to where
Speaker 1: her car was found, where she was believed to have
Speaker 1: deposited a check at seven fifty nine pm on the
Speaker 1: evening of May twenty sixth. She was due to take
Speaker 1: five days leave from work the day she disappeared, As
Speaker 1: the coroner confirmed Cindy had most likely died soon after
Speaker 1: depositing her check at the bank two weeks before her
Speaker 1: body was discovered. That it had been found only a
Speaker 1: short walk from a major road suggested, however, that it
Speaker 1: had been placed there quite recently, meaning this was almost
Speaker 1: certainly a murder. But then again, nothing about Cindy's bizarre
Speaker 1: and tragic story had ever been certain. You're listening to
Speaker 1: Unexplained and I'm Richard McClain smith. Cynthia Hack, known as Cindy,
Speaker 1: was born in Oliver, in the Canadian province of British
Speaker 1: Columbia in the summer of nineteen forty four to homemaker
Speaker 1: Matilda and her husband Otto, an education officer in the
Speaker 1: Canadian military. The couple would go on to have six children,
Speaker 1: with Cindy being a middle child, before eventually relocating to
Speaker 1: Vancouver at seventeen. Cindy, intent on pursuing a career dedicated
Speaker 1: to helping others, enrolled in a nurse training course at
Speaker 1: Vancouver General Hospital. It was two years into her course
Speaker 1: that the by then nineteen year old Cindy paid a
Speaker 1: visit to the office of doctor Roy Makepeace, the hospital's
Speaker 1: newly appointed resident in psychiatry. Cindy was working on an
Speaker 1: assignment about the impact of the contraceptive pill and was
Speaker 1: hoping to speak to doctor Makepeace about the project. When
Speaker 1: the pair met that day. Little could they have known
Speaker 1: just how much their lives were about to change. The
Speaker 1: thirty nine year old Matepeace, halfway through his residency, had
Speaker 1: emigrated to can with his wife and children from South
Speaker 1: Africa two years previously, and would likely have returned there
Speaker 1: a few years later had he not met Cindy. As
Speaker 1: it was. The pair embarked on an affair soon after
Speaker 1: their first meeting, with Makepeace, eventually ending the relationship with
Speaker 1: his wife. The following year. In December nineteen sixty six,
Speaker 1: Cindy and doctor Makepeace were married. By nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 1: fifteen years later, Cindy had turned her focus to helping
Speaker 1: children specifically, and was employed as a team coordinator at
Speaker 1: Blenhem House, a local facility for children deemed to have
Speaker 1: emotional and behavioral problems. Having been seemingly happily married for
Speaker 1: fifteen years, cracks were now beginning to show, as she
Speaker 1: routinely informed her colleagues about her increasingly difficult marriage. The
Speaker 1: following year, Cindy and Roy agreed amicably to separate. A
Speaker 1: few weeks later, after deciding to put their house on
Speaker 1: the market, Cindy moved with her beloved dog, Heidi, into
Speaker 1: a one story bungalow on East fortieth Street, a short
Speaker 1: walk from Vancouver's Mountain View Cemetery. It was the first
Speaker 1: time in her life that Cindy had ever lived somewhere
Speaker 1: on her own, and despite the fact that she shared
Speaker 1: the building with a couple who rented the basement department below,
Speaker 1: there was no escaping the sudden shock of loneliness. It
Speaker 1: was only three months later that the phone calls began.
Speaker 1: It was late one October evening when Cindy's phone rang Hello,
Speaker 1: She'd said expectantly. What came back, as Cindy later explained
Speaker 1: to police, was a sickening, raspy voice, which proceeded to
Speaker 1: describe in graphic detail all the ways in which the
Speaker 1: caller was planning to sexually mutilate her. After slamming the
Speaker 1: phone down, Cindy claimed it rang again almost immediately, answering
Speaker 1: it again in the vain hope that it might be
Speaker 1: some one she knew. She was greeted, this time by
Speaker 1: the sound of some one breathing heavily into the receiver.
Speaker 1: The next day, after another breathe a call, Terrified, Cindy
Speaker 1: closed all the curtains in her apartment, only to receive
Speaker 1: another call soon after from the man with the raspy voice.
Speaker 1: Don't think pulling the drapes means I don't know you're
Speaker 1: in there, he said, followed by you're dead, Cindy. When
Speaker 1: Cindy came home a few nights later to find her
Speaker 1: back window had been smashed, she decided finally to call
Speaker 1: the police and inform them about all that had happened.
Speaker 1: With little evidence to go on, however, the best they
Speaker 1: could offer was to suggest that she keep a record
Speaker 1: of any similar calls and to contact them again if
Speaker 1: she heard anything suspicious outside her apartment. Later that week,
Speaker 1: Cindy arrived home with her good friend Agnes to find
Speaker 1: her back door wide open. Too afraid to go in,
Speaker 1: the pair went straight to Cindy's neighbor next door, who
Speaker 1: in turn offered to check the apartment for her. After
Speaker 1: finding nothing untoward, the neighbor told them it was safe
Speaker 1: to go in. Agnes had just watched Cindy rush into
Speaker 1: her bedroom to check that nothing had been stolen when
Speaker 1: she heard a terrible scream coming from inside the room.
Speaker 1: Agnes rushed in to find Cindy crying and shaking on
Speaker 1: her bed, pointing toward the pillow. It had been slashed
Speaker 1: multiple times by a sharp object. Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Speaker 1: Constable Pat McBride arrived on the scene twenty minutes later.
Speaker 1: After conducting a search of the premises, he sat and
Speaker 1: listened patiently as an understandably traumatized Cindy detailed everything that
Speaker 1: had been happening over the last few weeks. She had
Speaker 1: the sense that the police weren't treating the issue seriously enough,
Speaker 1: But with no Prince or any other clues as to
Speaker 1: who was harassing her. All McBride could offer was that
Speaker 1: she installed better locks and change her phone number. He
Speaker 1: also offered to put in a request for patrols to
Speaker 1: be stepped up in the area, and that he would
Speaker 1: personally check in on her from time to time. A
Speaker 1: few days later, he stopped by Cindy's house to install
Speaker 1: a series of dead bolt locks on her doors. It
Speaker 1: was only a few days after that that Cindy received
Speaker 1: the first of her threatening notes, made from crudely cut
Speaker 1: and pasted words and images taken from magazines. She claimed
Speaker 1: it had been left for her on her back porch.
Speaker 1: When Cindy showed it to McBride, he made the extraordinary
Speaker 1: decision to move in to Cindy's apartment. Though McBride ostensibly
Speaker 1: moved into Cindy's flat as a stop gap while looking
Speaker 1: for a new apartment for himself, the pair soon developed
Speaker 1: a more personal relationship. McBride's presence, however, did little to
Speaker 1: stem the tide of harassment, and nor did changing the
Speaker 1: phone number. A few weeks after he moved in, McBride
Speaker 1: returned from work to find Cindy distraught after receiving another
Speaker 1: disturbing call. A week later, she showed him another note
Speaker 1: that she'd received, this time left on her car windshield.
Speaker 1: It depicted a blondhaired woman not too dissimilar to Cindy,
Speaker 1: cut out from a magazine with her eyes scratched out.
Speaker 1: McBride learned from a neighbor of Cindy's that she too
Speaker 1: was receiving nuisance calls. Another neighbor who lived behind Cindy,
Speaker 1: informed him that he'd recently seen a man wandering about
Speaker 1: his garden late at night. The man had bolted when
Speaker 1: he realized he'd been seen, breaking the garden gate in
Speaker 1: his haste to get away. Another claimed to have seen
Speaker 1: a man they didn't recognize coming and going from Cindy's property.
Speaker 1: It wasn't long before suspicion turned to Cindy's husband, doctor
Speaker 1: Roy make Peace. However, when mc bride paid him a visit,
Speaker 1: he found little reason to suspect him of any wrongdoing.
Speaker 1: In late November, McBride returned from work with a partner
Speaker 1: to find Cindy in an agitated state. She'd received another
Speaker 1: nuisance call in the morning, but when she tried to
Speaker 1: call the police shortly afterwards, her phone line was dead,
Speaker 1: McBride took a flashlight and headed out to the junction
Speaker 1: box by the side of the house. Cindy's line had
Speaker 1: been slashed in five different places. The line for the
Speaker 1: apartment downstairs had been left completely untouched. McBride moved out
Speaker 1: to the apartment a few days later, but the pair
Speaker 1: continued to see each other, occasionally, even double dating with
Speaker 1: doctor Makepeace and a woman he was seeing at the time.
Speaker 1: Cindy would spend Christmas that year with her husband and
Speaker 1: her parents in Vancouver. Any normality offered by the holiday season, however,
Speaker 1: was soon shattered early in the new year with another
Speaker 1: series of disturbing calls reported to the police by Cindy.
Speaker 1: McBride decides to step up the investigation and instructs her
Speaker 1: telephone company to try and trace the calls. One silent
Speaker 1: call is traced to an exchange box on the southwest
Speaker 1: side of Vancouver, closest to Richmond, and another to a
Speaker 1: different exchange close by. In mid January nineteen eighty three,
Speaker 1: McBride witnessed Cindy received one such call for himself. Taking
Speaker 1: the phone from her hand, he listened in. Aside from
Speaker 1: the sound of someone breathing, he was able to discern
Speaker 1: a voice coming from a Tannoi system. The corps was
Speaker 1: traced to an exchange box close to Vancouver Airport, suggesting
Speaker 1: a possible lead. It also seemed to rule out Doctor Makepeace,
Speaker 1: since Cindy had only spoken to him on a phone
Speaker 1: call minutes before, and there was little chance he could
Speaker 1: have driven out to the airport in time. Feeling increasingly exposed,
Speaker 1: after confiding with Roy and her friends, Cindy makes the
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Speaker 1: late January, with Roy and Cindy's marital home yet to
Speaker 1: be sold and Cindy struggling to find a suitable apartment,
Speaker 1: Roy offers to move out of it so Cindy can
Speaker 1: stay there until she finds a new place. Throughout the
Speaker 1: misery of the last year, Cindy had often turned to
Speaker 1: her good friends Agnes and Tom Woodcock for emotional support,
Speaker 1: even staying with them or having them stay over at
Speaker 1: hers whenever she felt especially vulnerable. The Woodcocks, who being
Speaker 1: a little older than Cindy, thought of her much like
Speaker 1: a daughter, were only too happy to help and had
Speaker 1: been devastated by the distress it was clearly causing her.
Speaker 1: On the evening of January twenty seventh, Cindy called Agnes
Speaker 1: to ask if she wouldn't mind helping her pack up
Speaker 1: the apartment in preparation for her move back to forty
Speaker 1: first Street. It was shortly after nine thirty p m.
Speaker 1: When Agnes pulled up to Cindy's apartment and made her
Speaker 1: way to the front door. When she knocked, however, the
Speaker 1: place seemed strangely quiet, and there was no sign of Cindy.
Speaker 1: Thinking her friend might be in the bath, Agnes headed
Speaker 1: round the back when she heard a pained moan coming
Speaker 1: from out of somewhere in the darkness. Racing into the garden,
Speaker 1: Agnes was horrified to find Cindy slumped in a daze
Speaker 1: in the stairwell of the basement apartment, with bruises and
Speaker 1: cuts all over her that were bleeding through her clothes.
Speaker 1: More shocking still was the black nylon stocking tied so
Speaker 1: tightly around her neck Agnes couldn't even get her fingers
Speaker 1: underneath to loosen it. Agnes banged on the basement door
Speaker 1: where Cindy's neighbor soon appeared similarly shocked by the sight
Speaker 1: of it all, running back inside. They returned moments later
Speaker 1: with a knife and promptly cut the stockings off, and
Speaker 1: together with Agnes, carried Cindy inside. A severely dazed and
Speaker 1: confused Cindy fought for breath as Agnes called the emergency
Speaker 1: services and did her best to calm her friend down.
Speaker 1: Seeing Cindy more clearly now, Agnes gasped at the sight
Speaker 1: of her ripped blouse and a tear in her trouser leg,
Speaker 1: which was soaked in blood. The police and ambulance services
Speaker 1: arrived minutes later, just before she is rushed off to hospital,
Speaker 1: Cindy tells the police that she was attacked while collecting
Speaker 1: removal boxes from her garage. A Constable val Willicott was
Speaker 1: left behind to investigate the scene. After getting Agnes and
Speaker 1: Cindy's neighbor's version of events, Wollicott inspected the garage, having
Speaker 1: turned on the light. He was surprised to find it
Speaker 1: full of neatly stacked boxes, with no obvious sign of
Speaker 1: a struggle. However, there was a smear of blood on
Speaker 1: one of the boxes. Walking through the apartment. He also
Speaker 1: found blood on the bathroom counter still wet, and a
Speaker 1: chair placed under a cross beam, as if someone had
Speaker 1: planned to stand on it and hang themselves he thought.
Speaker 1: Later that evening, Willicott spoke to the doctor who treated Cindy.
Speaker 1: He confirmed that she had sustained multiple injuries from bruises
Speaker 1: to cuts on her arms, back and legs, but there
Speaker 1: is something unusual about the way in which many of
Speaker 1: the cuts appear to run parallel to each other. Having
Speaker 1: taken it all into account, Willicott concludes that Cindy had
Speaker 1: done it all to herself. His final report marked it
Speaker 1: up as a suicide attempt. The chair positioned under the
Speaker 1: cross beam was later revealed to have been put there
Speaker 1: arbitrarily by an officer who assisted at the scene. After
Speaker 1: Willicott's assessment, the case is handed over to veteran detective
Speaker 1: David Bowia Smythe, who is unconvinced that it was an
Speaker 1: attempted suicide. The following afternoon, having spent the night in hospital,
Speaker 1: Cindy arrived at oak Ridge Police Station to give her
Speaker 1: version of events. As Cindy went on to explain, shortly
Speaker 1: after speaking to Agnes on the phone, she'd gone out
Speaker 1: to the garage to collect some removal boxes. Once there,
Speaker 1: she switched on the light and took as many boxes
Speaker 1: as she could carry back to the apartment before returning
Speaker 1: to collect some more. But when she came back, she
Speaker 1: noticed the light had gone out. She stepped back in
Speaker 1: to turn it on, and that was when he grabbed her.
Speaker 1: Keep quiet, or I'll cut her face, he said, grabbing
Speaker 1: her from behind. After feeling a series of scratches on
Speaker 1: her arms, she tried to break away, but he held firm,
Speaker 1: holding a knife out in front of her, taunting her
Speaker 1: about how he didn't want to cut her throat because
Speaker 1: it would be too quick. The next second, he was
Speaker 1: tying something around her neck. She tried to kick back,
Speaker 1: but he pushed her to the floor and cut her
Speaker 1: leg before he got up, suddenly said something like it
Speaker 1: will take a long time to die, and then disappeared.
Speaker 1: Struggling to breathe but unable to remove the ligature around
Speaker 1: her neck, she stumbled toward the door of her neighbor's
Speaker 1: basement flat. The next thing she remembered was being revived
Speaker 1: by Agnes. Cindy added that she'd felt a sting on
Speaker 1: her arm when she'd been grabbed. When Boia Smythe examined it,
Speaker 1: he found what appeared to be a needle punch a wound,
Speaker 1: suggesting the possibility that she'd also been drugged in the attack.
Speaker 1: Though it seemed unfathomable that Cindy had done all of
Speaker 1: that to herself, that a colleague had determined that to
Speaker 1: be the case certainly gave Detective Boia Smythe food for thought.
Speaker 1: It seemed odd, too, that despite the raft of harassment incidents,
Speaker 1: nothing incriminating had been found to help nail the suspect.
Speaker 1: At the very least, he couldn't help but feel that
Speaker 1: Cindy was holding something back. In discussing potential suspects, focus
Speaker 1: inevitably turned to those closest to Cindy, in particular doctor
Speaker 1: Roy Makepeace. Though Cindy was adamant it wasn't him, Bowia
Speaker 1: Smythe felt obliged to pay him a visit. After meeting
Speaker 1: with him the following week, Makepeace was found to have
Speaker 1: a solid alibi for the night in question. He was
Speaker 1: then invited to take a lie detector test. However, the
Speaker 1: test was voided when it was revealed that he was
Speaker 1: taking medication that could unfairly affect the result. The following day,
Speaker 1: Cindy also took a lie detector test. She failed it twice,
Speaker 1: having been asked if she had inflicted the injuries on herself. However,
Speaker 1: the analyst is unable to determine whether she'd lied or
Speaker 1: whether the trauma of the event had made it impossible
Speaker 1: to read her emotions. Days later, she contacts the police
Speaker 1: to inform them that she had withheld information after all,
Speaker 1: hinting that she had some idea who her attacker was,
Speaker 1: she hadn't said any more because she was afraid they
Speaker 1: might attack her friends and family in retaliation. She begged
Speaker 1: Boya's smythe to drop the investigation entirely, but he declined.
Speaker 1: In the end, Cindy was told to simply contact them
Speaker 1: again should anything else happen, and in March, the investigation
Speaker 1: into the apparent attack was brought to an end. For Cindy. However,
Speaker 1: it seemed that things were only just beginning. Within a month,
Speaker 1: she is contacting the police again to report yet more
Speaker 1: disturbing phone calls. She moved again to West fourteenth Street
Speaker 1: in Vancouver and took the opportunity to escape it all
Speaker 1: by visiting her brother in Indonesia, but within days of
Speaker 1: her return in August, she is on the phone again
Speaker 1: to the police. She had received another threatening letter, this
Speaker 1: time delivered to her place of work. Welcome back, it said,
Speaker 1: with the words death, blood, love and hate cut and
Speaker 1: pasted into it from a magazine. A month after that,
Speaker 1: she called the police again to inform them that she'd
Speaker 1: found a dead cat strung up in her back garden.
Speaker 1: There was another note too that said simply You're next.
Speaker 1: The police again, however, informed her that without finger prints
Speaker 1: or any other incriminating information, there was nothing they could do.
Speaker 1: In her frustration, Cindy turned to Pat McBride, who she
Speaker 1: continued to date on and off since he moved out
Speaker 1: of her apartment the previous year. Unable to devote more
Speaker 1: time himself, he instead put her in touch with his friend,
Speaker 1: private investigator Ozzy Caban. After learning about Cindy's troubles, the
Speaker 1: amiable Caban is left utterly bemused by the police's in action.
Speaker 1: He reass shored Cindy that come what may, they would
Speaker 1: find her attacker. He began by installing a burglar alarm
Speaker 1: at her property and setting her up with a two
Speaker 1: way radio as well as a panic alarm should she
Speaker 1: ever need immediate assistance. It wasn't long before she used it.
Speaker 1: Shortly after the new year, Coban was in his office
Speaker 1: wrapping up for the evening when the two way radio
Speaker 1: crackled into life. Through violent bursts of static, he could
Speaker 1: hear what sounded like some kind of struggle taking place.
Speaker 1: Within minutes, he was in his car and racing towards
Speaker 1: Cindy's home When he pulled up outside her apartment moments later,
Speaker 1: he saw the lights were on, but when he knocked
Speaker 1: on the door, there was no reply. He tried the
Speaker 1: radio again, imploring Cindy to pick up, but there was
Speaker 1: nothing but dead air in response. Heading into the back garden,
Speaker 1: he spotted her through a side window, lying completely still,
Speaker 1: faced down on the kitchen floor. Kaban radioed for the police,
Speaker 1: then quickly made his way to the back door. Smashing
Speaker 1: his way inside, he found Cindy unconscious, with once again
Speaker 1: a pair of black nylon stockings tied tightly around her neck.
Speaker 1: Perhaps more shocking, however, was that a pairing knife had
Speaker 1: been stabbed right through her hand, pinning a bloody note
Speaker 1: into her palm which read now you must die. Followed
Speaker 1: by a four letter expletive. After being rushed to hospital,
Speaker 1: Cindy eventually came round where she was met by detectives
Speaker 1: eager to find out exactly what had happened. As Cindy
Speaker 1: went on to explain, she'd been preparing food in the
Speaker 1: kitchen when she saw someone approaching the back door. Thinking
Speaker 1: it was her neighbor, she opened the door to greet them,
Speaker 1: only to find it was actually a complete stranger. The
Speaker 1: last thing she remembered was seeing something heavy in their hand,
Speaker 1: and then finding herself on the ground feeling a needle
Speaker 1: going into her arm. Back at Cindy's apartment, Royal, Canadian
Speaker 1: Mounted Police searched her property for any sign of an intruder,
Speaker 1: but found nothing to suggest that she'd been anything other
Speaker 1: than alone until the band had found her. One officer
Speaker 1: would later note that a series of circular blood smear
Speaker 1: patterns found on the kitchen floor suggested that at some
Speaker 1: point before Cindy was found someone had tried to clean
Speaker 1: up the blood, as they also noted never in ten
Speaker 1: years had they ever investigated a crime scene where an
Speaker 1: assailant had made attempts to clear up the blood. For
Speaker 1: many in the police department. It was just yet more
Speaker 1: evidence that Cindy's case might not be all that it seemed.
Speaker 1: Due to the severity of the possible crime, however, it
Speaker 1: was decided to give Cindy another lie detective test. When
Speaker 1: asked if she was her own stalker, Cindy replied emphatically
Speaker 1: that she wasn't and was judged to be telling the truth.
Speaker 1: When asked if she wrote the offensive note to herself
Speaker 1: and stabbed it into her own hand, she again said no,
Speaker 1: and was again judged to be telling the truth. The
Speaker 1: result was little consolation for Cindy and her family and friends, however,
Speaker 1: who remained convinced that a violent attacker was still at large.
Speaker 1: For the experienced private investigator Ozzi Kaban, who had by
Speaker 1: then become a close confidante of Cindy's, it was simply
Speaker 1: absurd to think that she could possibly be doing it
Speaker 1: all to herself. Kaban was left in no doubt that
Speaker 1: Cindy's life was still very much in danger, and if
Speaker 1: they couldn't find the culprit soon, something even more terrible
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