WEBVTT - S05 Episode 3: Endgame (Pt.1 of 3) 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:13.119 Gordon held tight to the jackhammer as it pierced another 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:17.320 concrete slab, the vibrations of the drill only intensifying his 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:21.840 steadily growing urge to pee. With one last chunk dispersed, 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:25.040 he eased off on the grip and signaled to a 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:29.000 co worker to take over. It was June nineteen eighty 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:33.320 nine and another mild summer's day in Richmond, the coastal 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:38.120 city just south of Vancouver in southwest Canada. Gordon and 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:40.199 his co workers had spent the best part of the 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:44.320 morning breaking up paving stones outside eighty one hundred Blundell 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.280 Road in preparation for the laying of a new sidewalk. 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:51.400 Looking for a suitable place to take a leak, Gordon 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.600 spotted an old, derelict house just off the main road 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:59.360 and headed off toward it, ducking him behind. He continued 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.720 on through the tall grass toward a small wooded area 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.440 to the side, but was startled by the sight of 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:09.160 a woman lying fast asleep on the ground, tucked up 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:13.679 like a ball. Gordon turned instinctively to head back out, 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:19.840 but something told him to stop and turn around. Looking closer, 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.680 he realized with horror that the woman's handsome feet had 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:27.640 been tied up behind her, and then it hid him 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:32.720 with the nauseating rush. She wasn't sleeping at all. She 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:37.920 was dead. When the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrived shortly 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:41.720 after to investigate, it didn't take them long to identify 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:47.040 the body. Though the skin was significantly discolored and desiccated, 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.200 there was little doubting that this was the woman they'd 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.880 spent the last two weeks looking for forty four year 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:59.880 old nurse Cindy James. Back in May, Cindy's car had 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.200 been found abandoned at the Blundell shopping Center over a 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:06.640 mile away, with recently packed groceries on the front seat 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.440 and a present she'd bought for a friend's son on 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:13.720 the back. Some of Cindy's blood was found smeared across 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.920 the door and her bank cards scattered on the ground 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:20.440 underneath the vehicle, suggesting that some kind of a struggle 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:25.919 had taken place. Examining Cindy's body, police found that her 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.320 blouse had been ripped at the neck and there were 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:32.480 buttons missing. Both her hands and feet had been tied together, 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.560 and a black nylon stocking had been tied tightly around 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:41.200 her neck at autopsy, a puncture mark was found on 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.239 her right arm, likely to have been caused by a needle, 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:48.600 but no needles or any other drug paraphernalia was found 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:54.320 anywhere near the body. Cindy's last known movements were traced 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.399 to a Bank of Montreal deposit machine close to where 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.920 her car was found, where she was believed to have 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:03.320 deposited a check at seven fifty nine pm on the 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.080 evening of May twenty sixth. She was due to take 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:12.160 five days leave from work the day she disappeared, As 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:15.880 the coroner confirmed Cindy had most likely died soon after 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:19.160 depositing her check at the bank two weeks before her 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:23.000 body was discovered. That it had been found only a 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.440 short walk from a major road suggested, however, that it 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:30.040 had been placed there quite recently, meaning this was almost 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:36.200 certainly a murder. But then again, nothing about Cindy's bizarre 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:41.840 and tragic story had ever been certain. You're listening to 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:55.160 Unexplained and I'm Richard McClain smith. Cynthia Hack, known as Cindy, 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.480 was born in Oliver, in the Canadian province of British 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:02.160 Columbia in the summer of nineteen forty four to homemaker 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:05.720 Matilda and her husband Otto, an education officer in the 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:10.120 Canadian military. The couple would go on to have six children, 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:14.400 with Cindy being a middle child, before eventually relocating to 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:20.720 Vancouver at seventeen. Cindy, intent on pursuing a career dedicated 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.280 to helping others, enrolled in a nurse training course at 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:28.800 Vancouver General Hospital. It was two years into her course 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.800 that the by then nineteen year old Cindy paid a 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.440 visit to the office of doctor Roy Makepeace, the hospital's 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:40.120 newly appointed resident in psychiatry. Cindy was working on an 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.839 assignment about the impact of the contraceptive pill and was 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:47.800 hoping to speak to doctor Makepeace about the project. When 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.520 the pair met that day. Little could they have known 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:55.080 just how much their lives were about to change. The 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:59.039 thirty nine year old Matepeace, halfway through his residency, had 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.040 emigrated to can with his wife and children from South 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:05.920 Africa two years previously, and would likely have returned there 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:10.520 a few years later had he not met Cindy. As 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:14.000 it was. The pair embarked on an affair soon after 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:18.000 their first meeting, with Makepeace, eventually ending the relationship with 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:22.560 his wife. The following year. In December nineteen sixty six, 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:27.920 Cindy and doctor Makepeace were married. By nineteen eighty one, 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:31.800 fifteen years later, Cindy had turned her focus to helping 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.800 children specifically, and was employed as a team coordinator at 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:39.240 Blenhem House, a local facility for children deemed to have 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:44.200 emotional and behavioral problems. Having been seemingly happily married for 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.760 fifteen years, cracks were now beginning to show, as she 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:53.159 routinely informed her colleagues about her increasingly difficult marriage. The 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:57.840 following year, Cindy and Roy agreed amicably to separate. A 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.880 few weeks later, after deciding to put their house on 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.920 the market, Cindy moved with her beloved dog, Heidi, into 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.640 a one story bungalow on East fortieth Street, a short 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:13.840 walk from Vancouver's Mountain View Cemetery. It was the first 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.640 time in her life that Cindy had ever lived somewhere 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.320 on her own, and despite the fact that she shared 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.560 the building with a couple who rented the basement department below, 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:27.719 there was no escaping the sudden shock of loneliness. It 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:31.160 was only three months later that the phone calls began. 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:44.040 It was late one October evening when Cindy's phone rang Hello, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:49.560 She'd said expectantly. What came back, as Cindy later explained 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.840 to police, was a sickening, raspy voice, which proceeded to 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.760 describe in graphic detail all the ways in which the 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:01.520 caller was planning to sexually mutilate her. After slamming the 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:07.279 phone down, Cindy claimed it rang again almost immediately, answering 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:09.440 it again in the vain hope that it might be 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:12.600 some one she knew. She was greeted, this time by 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.560 the sound of some one breathing heavily into the receiver. 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:21.280 The next day, after another breathe a call, Terrified, Cindy 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:24.360 closed all the curtains in her apartment, only to receive 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.800 another call soon after from the man with the raspy voice. 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.720 Don't think pulling the drapes means I don't know you're 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:37.480 in there, he said, followed by you're dead, Cindy. When 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.080 Cindy came home a few nights later to find her 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.360 back window had been smashed, she decided finally to call 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.520 the police and inform them about all that had happened. 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.520 With little evidence to go on, however, the best they 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.280 could offer was to suggest that she keep a record 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.600 of any similar calls and to contact them again if 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:02.440 she heard anything suspicious outside her apartment. Later that week, 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:06.240 Cindy arrived home with her good friend Agnes to find 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:10.120 her back door wide open. Too afraid to go in, 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.600 the pair went straight to Cindy's neighbor next door, who 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:17.280 in turn offered to check the apartment for her. After 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.679 finding nothing untoward, the neighbor told them it was safe 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:25.240 to go in. Agnes had just watched Cindy rush into 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:28.120 her bedroom to check that nothing had been stolen when 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:32.000 she heard a terrible scream coming from inside the room. 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:36.440 Agnes rushed in to find Cindy crying and shaking on 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:40.840 her bed, pointing toward the pillow. It had been slashed 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:47.200 multiple times by a sharp object. Royal Canadian Mounted Police 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:51.160 Constable Pat McBride arrived on the scene twenty minutes later. 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.200 After conducting a search of the premises, he sat and 0:08:55.280 --> 0:09:00.199 listened patiently as an understandably traumatized Cindy detailed everything that 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:04.000 had been happening over the last few weeks. She had 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.560 the sense that the police weren't treating the issue seriously enough, 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.160 But with no Prince or any other clues as to 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.680 who was harassing her. All McBride could offer was that 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:18.680 she installed better locks and change her phone number. He 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.560 also offered to put in a request for patrols to 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.680 be stepped up in the area, and that he would 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:27.760 personally check in on her from time to time. A 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:31.160 few days later, he stopped by Cindy's house to install 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:35.439 a series of dead bolt locks on her doors. It 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.360 was only a few days after that that Cindy received 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:42.960 the first of her threatening notes, made from crudely cut 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:46.960 and pasted words and images taken from magazines. She claimed 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.160 it had been left for her on her back porch. 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:54.520 When Cindy showed it to McBride, he made the extraordinary 0:09:54.559 --> 0:10:06.200 decision to move in to Cindy's apartment. Though McBride ostensibly 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.400 moved into Cindy's flat as a stop gap while looking 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.720 for a new apartment for himself, the pair soon developed 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:17.720 a more personal relationship. McBride's presence, however, did little to 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.760 stem the tide of harassment, and nor did changing the 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.880 phone number. A few weeks after he moved in, McBride 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:28.920 returned from work to find Cindy distraught after receiving another 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:33.240 disturbing call. A week later, she showed him another note 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:36.480 that she'd received, this time left on her car windshield. 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.920 It depicted a blondhaired woman not too dissimilar to Cindy, 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.760 cut out from a magazine with her eyes scratched out. 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.520 McBride learned from a neighbor of Cindy's that she too 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:54.319 was receiving nuisance calls. Another neighbor who lived behind Cindy, 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.720 informed him that he'd recently seen a man wandering about 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.520 his garden late at night. The man had bolted when 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.959 he realized he'd been seen, breaking the garden gate in 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.880 his haste to get away. Another claimed to have seen 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:12.760 a man they didn't recognize coming and going from Cindy's property. 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:18.560 It wasn't long before suspicion turned to Cindy's husband, doctor 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:23.439 Roy make Peace. However, when mc bride paid him a visit, 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.760 he found little reason to suspect him of any wrongdoing. 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.720 In late November, McBride returned from work with a partner 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:37.240 to find Cindy in an agitated state. She'd received another 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.080 nuisance call in the morning, but when she tried to 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.559 call the police shortly afterwards, her phone line was dead, 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.960 McBride took a flashlight and headed out to the junction 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.800 box by the side of the house. Cindy's line had 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:55.080 been slashed in five different places. The line for the 0:11:55.080 --> 0:12:00.679 apartment downstairs had been left completely untouched. McBride moved out 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.240 to the apartment a few days later, but the pair 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:07.120 continued to see each other, occasionally, even double dating with 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.000 doctor Makepeace and a woman he was seeing at the time. 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.480 Cindy would spend Christmas that year with her husband and 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:19.840 her parents in Vancouver. Any normality offered by the holiday season, however, 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.440 was soon shattered early in the new year with another 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:28.000 series of disturbing calls reported to the police by Cindy. 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.800 McBride decides to step up the investigation and instructs her 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:36.000 telephone company to try and trace the calls. One silent 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.880 call is traced to an exchange box on the southwest 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.600 side of Vancouver, closest to Richmond, and another to a 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:47.600 different exchange close by. In mid January nineteen eighty three, 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:52.840 McBride witnessed Cindy received one such call for himself. Taking 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:57.400 the phone from her hand, he listened in. Aside from 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.960 the sound of someone breathing, he was able to discern 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.960 a voice coming from a Tannoi system. The corps was 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:07.719 traced to an exchange box close to Vancouver Airport, suggesting 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:11.600 a possible lead. 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By 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:59.080 late January, with Roy and Cindy's marital home yet to 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:02.560 be sold and Cindy struggling to find a suitable apartment, 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.800 Roy offers to move out of it so Cindy can 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.800 stay there until she finds a new place. Throughout the 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.840 misery of the last year, Cindy had often turned to 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.760 her good friends Agnes and Tom Woodcock for emotional support, 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:19.640 even staying with them or having them stay over at 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:24.800 hers whenever she felt especially vulnerable. The Woodcocks, who being 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.320 a little older than Cindy, thought of her much like 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.400 a daughter, were only too happy to help and had 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.360 been devastated by the distress it was clearly causing her. 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.920 On the evening of January twenty seventh, Cindy called Agnes 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.240 to ask if she wouldn't mind helping her pack up 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.560 the apartment in preparation for her move back to forty 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:47.960 first Street. It was shortly after nine thirty p m. 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.440 When Agnes pulled up to Cindy's apartment and made her 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.840 way to the front door. When she knocked, however, the 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:59.800 place seemed strangely quiet, and there was no sign of Cindy. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:03.360 Thinking her friend might be in the bath, Agnes headed 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.680 round the back when she heard a pained moan coming 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:10.840 from out of somewhere in the darkness. Racing into the garden, 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:14.600 Agnes was horrified to find Cindy slumped in a daze 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.360 in the stairwell of the basement apartment, with bruises and 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:21.320 cuts all over her that were bleeding through her clothes. 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:26.400 More shocking still was the black nylon stocking tied so 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.760 tightly around her neck Agnes couldn't even get her fingers 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:34.360 underneath to loosen it. Agnes banged on the basement door 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:38.560 where Cindy's neighbor soon appeared similarly shocked by the sight 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:42.760 of it all, running back inside. They returned moments later 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:46.120 with a knife and promptly cut the stockings off, and 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:51.920 together with Agnes, carried Cindy inside. A severely dazed and 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:55.800 confused Cindy fought for breath as Agnes called the emergency 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.560 services and did her best to calm her friend down. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.280 Seeing Cindy more clearly now, Agnes gasped at the sight 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.160 of her ripped blouse and a tear in her trouser leg, 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:11.920 which was soaked in blood. The police and ambulance services 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:16.360 arrived minutes later, just before she is rushed off to hospital, 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.920 Cindy tells the police that she was attacked while collecting 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:24.920 removal boxes from her garage. A Constable val Willicott was 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:28.920 left behind to investigate the scene. After getting Agnes and 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:34.720 Cindy's neighbor's version of events, Wollicott inspected the garage, having 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:37.199 turned on the light. He was surprised to find it 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:40.520 full of neatly stacked boxes, with no obvious sign of 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:44.920 a struggle. However, there was a smear of blood on 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:49.119 one of the boxes. Walking through the apartment. He also 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:52.879 found blood on the bathroom counter still wet, and a 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:55.920 chair placed under a cross beam, as if someone had 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.679 planned to stand on it and hang themselves he thought. 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:04.240 Later that evening, Willicott spoke to the doctor who treated Cindy. 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:08.560 He confirmed that she had sustained multiple injuries from bruises 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:11.720 to cuts on her arms, back and legs, but there 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.720 is something unusual about the way in which many of 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:18.879 the cuts appear to run parallel to each other. Having 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:23.480 taken it all into account, Willicott concludes that Cindy had 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:28.679 done it all to herself. His final report marked it 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:33.199 up as a suicide attempt. The chair positioned under the 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.040 cross beam was later revealed to have been put there 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:47.119 arbitrarily by an officer who assisted at the scene. After 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:51.160 Willicott's assessment, the case is handed over to veteran detective 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:54.600 David Bowia Smythe, who is unconvinced that it was an 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:59.680 attempted suicide. The following afternoon, having spent the night in hospital, 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.840 Cindy arrived at oak Ridge Police Station to give her 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:07.439 version of events. As Cindy went on to explain, shortly 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.479 after speaking to Agnes on the phone, she'd gone out 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:14.320 to the garage to collect some removal boxes. Once there, 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.320 she switched on the light and took as many boxes 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:20.280 as she could carry back to the apartment before returning 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:23.840 to collect some more. But when she came back, she 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:27.800 noticed the light had gone out. She stepped back in 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:31.120 to turn it on, and that was when he grabbed her. 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:35.480 Keep quiet, or I'll cut her face, he said, grabbing 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:39.359 her from behind. After feeling a series of scratches on 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:42.600 her arms, she tried to break away, but he held firm, 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.240 holding a knife out in front of her, taunting her 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:47.879 about how he didn't want to cut her throat because 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:51.040 it would be too quick. The next second, he was 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:54.320 tying something around her neck. She tried to kick back, 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:56.719 but he pushed her to the floor and cut her 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:00.320 leg before he got up, suddenly said something like it 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:03.359 will take a long time to die, and then disappeared. 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:08.359 Struggling to breathe but unable to remove the ligature around 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.680 her neck, she stumbled toward the door of her neighbor's 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:16.120 basement flat. The next thing she remembered was being revived 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:20.520 by Agnes. Cindy added that she'd felt a sting on 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:24.720 her arm when she'd been grabbed. When Boia Smythe examined it, 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:27.919 he found what appeared to be a needle punch a wound, 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:31.800 suggesting the possibility that she'd also been drugged in the attack. 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:36.159 Though it seemed unfathomable that Cindy had done all of 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:39.479 that to herself, that a colleague had determined that to 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:43.760 be the case certainly gave Detective Boia Smythe food for thought. 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:49.360 It seemed odd, too, that despite the raft of harassment incidents, 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:52.840 nothing incriminating had been found to help nail the suspect. 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:55.919 At the very least, he couldn't help but feel that 0:20:56.040 --> 0:21:07.240 Cindy was holding something back. In discussing potential suspects, focus 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:11.879 inevitably turned to those closest to Cindy, in particular doctor 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:16.840 Roy Makepeace. Though Cindy was adamant it wasn't him, Bowia 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:21.119 Smythe felt obliged to pay him a visit. After meeting 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:23.840 with him the following week, Makepeace was found to have 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:26.960 a solid alibi for the night in question. He was 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:30.560 then invited to take a lie detector test. However, the 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:33.280 test was voided when it was revealed that he was 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:39.520 taking medication that could unfairly affect the result. The following day, 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:43.719 Cindy also took a lie detector test. She failed it twice, 0:21:44.119 --> 0:21:48.560 having been asked if she had inflicted the injuries on herself. However, 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:52.199 the analyst is unable to determine whether she'd lied or 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:54.879 whether the trauma of the event had made it impossible 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:59.840 to read her emotions. Days later, she contacts the police 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:03.160 to inform them that she had withheld information after all, 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:06.720 hinting that she had some idea who her attacker was, 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:10.639 she hadn't said any more because she was afraid they 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:15.200 might attack her friends and family in retaliation. She begged 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:19.440 Boya's smythe to drop the investigation entirely, but he declined. 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:23.520 In the end, Cindy was told to simply contact them 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:27.920 again should anything else happen, and in March, the investigation 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:33.720 into the apparent attack was brought to an end. For Cindy. However, 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:38.520 it seemed that things were only just beginning. Within a month, 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:41.800 she is contacting the police again to report yet more 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:46.240 disturbing phone calls. She moved again to West fourteenth Street 0:22:46.240 --> 0:22:49.440 in Vancouver and took the opportunity to escape it all 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:53.600 by visiting her brother in Indonesia, but within days of 0:22:53.640 --> 0:22:56.240 her return in August, she is on the phone again 0:22:56.359 --> 0:23:00.199 to the police. She had received another threatening letter, this 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:05.040 time delivered to her place of work. Welcome back, it said, 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:09.600 with the words death, blood, love and hate cut and 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:13.680 pasted into it from a magazine. A month after that, 0:23:14.119 --> 0:23:17.080 she called the police again to inform them that she'd 0:23:17.119 --> 0:23:20.000 found a dead cat strung up in her back garden. 0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:24.879 There was another note too that said simply You're next. 0:23:26.200 --> 0:23:29.840 The police again, however, informed her that without finger prints 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:33.639 or any other incriminating information, there was nothing they could do. 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:38.119 In her frustration, Cindy turned to Pat McBride, who she 0:23:38.240 --> 0:23:40.720 continued to date on and off since he moved out 0:23:40.720 --> 0:23:44.480 of her apartment the previous year. Unable to devote more 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:47.879 time himself, he instead put her in touch with his friend, 0:23:48.520 --> 0:23:54.480 private investigator Ozzy Caban. After learning about Cindy's troubles, the 0:23:54.560 --> 0:23:58.800 amiable Caban is left utterly bemused by the police's in action. 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:02.360 He reass shored Cindy that come what may, they would 0:24:02.400 --> 0:24:06.520 find her attacker. He began by installing a burglar alarm 0:24:06.520 --> 0:24:09.040 at her property and setting her up with a two 0:24:09.040 --> 0:24:12.040 way radio as well as a panic alarm should she 0:24:12.080 --> 0:24:17.119 ever need immediate assistance. It wasn't long before she used it. 0:24:24.440 --> 0:24:27.240 Shortly after the new year, Coban was in his office 0:24:27.520 --> 0:24:30.280 wrapping up for the evening when the two way radio 0:24:30.440 --> 0:24:34.440 crackled into life. Through violent bursts of static, he could 0:24:34.480 --> 0:24:37.679 hear what sounded like some kind of struggle taking place. 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:42.000 Within minutes, he was in his car and racing towards 0:24:42.000 --> 0:24:47.160 Cindy's home When he pulled up outside her apartment moments later, 0:24:47.520 --> 0:24:50.200 he saw the lights were on, but when he knocked 0:24:50.200 --> 0:24:54.080 on the door, there was no reply. He tried the 0:24:54.160 --> 0:24:57.760 radio again, imploring Cindy to pick up, but there was 0:24:57.840 --> 0:25:02.080 nothing but dead air in response. Heading into the back garden, 0:25:02.359 --> 0:25:06.359 he spotted her through a side window, lying completely still, 0:25:06.520 --> 0:25:11.560 faced down on the kitchen floor. Kaban radioed for the police, 0:25:12.040 --> 0:25:15.840 then quickly made his way to the back door. Smashing 0:25:15.840 --> 0:25:19.960 his way inside, he found Cindy unconscious, with once again 0:25:20.320 --> 0:25:24.000 a pair of black nylon stockings tied tightly around her neck. 0:25:25.440 --> 0:25:28.720 Perhaps more shocking, however, was that a pairing knife had 0:25:28.760 --> 0:25:32.600 been stabbed right through her hand, pinning a bloody note 0:25:32.720 --> 0:25:37.440 into her palm which read now you must die. Followed 0:25:37.480 --> 0:25:41.880 by a four letter expletive. After being rushed to hospital, 0:25:42.200 --> 0:25:45.720 Cindy eventually came round where she was met by detectives 0:25:45.760 --> 0:25:49.639 eager to find out exactly what had happened. As Cindy 0:25:49.680 --> 0:25:52.600 went on to explain, she'd been preparing food in the 0:25:52.680 --> 0:25:56.679 kitchen when she saw someone approaching the back door. Thinking 0:25:56.720 --> 0:25:59.440 it was her neighbor, she opened the door to greet them, 0:25:59.680 --> 0:26:03.760 only to find it was actually a complete stranger. The 0:26:03.840 --> 0:26:07.280 last thing she remembered was seeing something heavy in their hand, 0:26:07.840 --> 0:26:10.879 and then finding herself on the ground feeling a needle 0:26:11.160 --> 0:26:16.600 going into her arm. Back at Cindy's apartment, Royal, Canadian 0:26:16.720 --> 0:26:20.240 Mounted Police searched her property for any sign of an intruder, 0:26:20.880 --> 0:26:23.680 but found nothing to suggest that she'd been anything other 0:26:23.720 --> 0:26:27.920 than alone until the band had found her. One officer 0:26:28.040 --> 0:26:31.159 would later note that a series of circular blood smear 0:26:31.200 --> 0:26:34.639 patterns found on the kitchen floor suggested that at some 0:26:34.720 --> 0:26:38.200 point before Cindy was found someone had tried to clean 0:26:38.280 --> 0:26:42.280 up the blood, as they also noted never in ten 0:26:42.400 --> 0:26:45.560 years had they ever investigated a crime scene where an 0:26:45.560 --> 0:26:50.080 assailant had made attempts to clear up the blood. For 0:26:50.200 --> 0:26:52.960 many in the police department. It was just yet more 0:26:53.000 --> 0:26:56.720 evidence that Cindy's case might not be all that it seemed. 0:26:57.760 --> 0:27:00.640 Due to the severity of the possible crime, however, it 0:27:00.760 --> 0:27:05.880 was decided to give Cindy another lie detective test. When 0:27:05.920 --> 0:27:09.800 asked if she was her own stalker, Cindy replied emphatically 0:27:09.960 --> 0:27:12.840