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Speaker 1: End Game, as well as the two way radio. Ozzie
Speaker 1: Caban gave Cindy a panic button, which she made a
Speaker 1: habit of carrying with her wherever she went. The button
Speaker 1: set off an alarm in Coban's office, which would then
Speaker 1: in turn alert Coband to notify the police that she
Speaker 1: was in trouble. In October nineteen eighty eight, Cindy triggered
Speaker 1: the alarm. When police arrived at her home minutes later,
Speaker 1: they found her car parked up in the garage, with
Speaker 1: Cindy unconscious in the driver's seat, partially naked from the
Speaker 1: waist down, with her legs dangling out of the open door.
Speaker 1: Duct tape had been stuck over her mouth, and yet
Speaker 1: another pair of black nylon stockings had been tied around
Speaker 1: her neck. Her hands had also been tied behind her back.
Speaker 1: By the time she made it to hospital, Cindy was
Speaker 1: in a coma when she finally woke up. All she
Speaker 1: seemed to remember of the incident was returning home in
Speaker 1: the car that afternoon, and then being attacked by one
Speaker 1: or two men just as she was about to get
Speaker 1: out of it. Once again. Police made a thorough search
Speaker 1: of the crime scene, and once again they found nothing
Speaker 1: to suggest that anyone else had been involved in the
Speaker 1: apparent attack. By the spring of nineteen eighty nine, Cindy
Speaker 1: had triggered her panic alarm four more times. She also
Speaker 1: received another intimidating note, this time left on her car
Speaker 1: windscreen and discovered by a security guard at Richmond Hospital
Speaker 1: where she worked. It read simply Soon Cindy. One afternoon
Speaker 1: in May nineteen eighty nine, Cindy met with her friend
Speaker 1: and colleague Anne in the canteen at the hospital where
Speaker 1: they worked. Looking back on the meeting, Anne recalled that
Speaker 1: Cindy was in a buoyant mood and eagerly awaiting the
Speaker 1: five days leave she had coming up. On Thursday, May
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, Cindy spoke with another good friend, Marion Christensen,
Speaker 1: on the phone. Marion, who often made the effort to
Speaker 1: check in with Cindy to make sure she was doing okay,
Speaker 1: had called to tell Cindy that she was planning a
Speaker 1: trip to Vancouver Island in the next few days. She
Speaker 1: hoped that they might be able to see each other.
Speaker 1: On the call, Cindy told Marion about her fears that
Speaker 1: things were beginning to escalate again after months without incident,
Speaker 1: and that she'd sometimes felt too scared to even leave
Speaker 1: the house. In spite of this, however, overall, she'd seen
Speaker 1: happy and was looking forward to attending her friend's son's
Speaker 1: ate the birthday party that weekend. It was shortly after
Speaker 1: that call that Cindy drove out to Blundell Shopping Center
Speaker 1: on Blundell Road to get some advice about what skincare
Speaker 1: products she could use to combat a problem that had
Speaker 1: recently flared up on her face. After that, she headed
Speaker 1: back to work to collect her paycheck. Arriving a little early,
Speaker 1: she met her friend Diane for a quick coffee. Diane
Speaker 1: remembered the moment well, especially how good Cindy looked after
Speaker 1: her visit to the moor, which she complimented her on.
Speaker 1: The pair spoke a bit about the recent break ins
Speaker 1: at Cindy's house and how Cindy was otherwise in good spirits. However,
Speaker 1: she also remembered Cindy being worried that things might be
Speaker 1: too quiet, as if something terrible was about to happen.
Speaker 1: The pair arranged to have dinner the following evening before
Speaker 1: saying their goodbyes. Cindy picked up her page shortly after.
Speaker 1: Her colleague Tammy, who handed it to her, later remembered
Speaker 1: thinking it was the happiest she'd seen Cindy in a while.
Speaker 1: Soon after, at the home of Cindy's friends, Agnes and
Speaker 1: Tom Woodcock, Agnes received a call from Cindy. She was
Speaker 1: back at the Blundell Center hoping to find a present
Speaker 1: for her friend's son's upcoming birthday. The pair spoke for
Speaker 1: a short time, making arrangements to meet at Cindy's apartment
Speaker 1: later that evening to play bridge and stay the night.
Speaker 1: It was the last time Agnes would ever speak to
Speaker 1: her friend. As they had arranged, the Woodcocks arrived at
Speaker 1: Cindy's home on Claysmith Road at ten pm. Normally, Agnes
Speaker 1: liked to beat the horn when they drove up to
Speaker 1: let Cindy know. They derived Cindy would always appear at
Speaker 1: the window to wave hello. That night, however, she never appeared.
Speaker 1: As Agnes and Tom drew up to the door, they
Speaker 1: noticed too that Cindy's blue Chevrolet's Citation wasn't in the drive.
Speaker 1: Having got no response from knocking on the door, they
Speaker 1: tried Cindy's neighbor, but he hadn't seen her since she
Speaker 1: headed off to the shopping mall six hours earlier. Agnes
Speaker 1: and Tom returned to their car and waited. When they'd
Speaker 1: spoken on the phone earlier, Cindy said she'd be home
Speaker 1: before dark, and it wasn't like her to be late.
Speaker 1: After twenty minutes, the couple decided to head home and
Speaker 1: call the police, but first drive to the Blundell Center
Speaker 1: just in case she might still be there. The center
Speaker 1: had long since closed when the Woodcocks pulled up into
Speaker 1: the parking lot, which they found completely empty except for
Speaker 1: one car parked up in the middle of it, Cindy Chevrolet.
Speaker 1: Pulling up to it, Agnes left the headlights on as
Speaker 1: she and Tom went over to check it out. Inside,
Speaker 1: they spotted some bags of groceries on the front seat,
Speaker 1: but no sign of Cindy. Now deeply concerned, the Woodcocks
Speaker 1: drove straight to the nearest police station, arriving around eleven
Speaker 1: p m. Heading straight to the front desk, they reported
Speaker 1: to the staffer on duty that Cindy had seemingly disappeared. However,
Speaker 1: since it hadn't been twenty four hours, the officer told
Speaker 1: them to go away and come back the following day. Recently,
Speaker 1: a constable named Jerry Anderson had taken on Cindy's file
Speaker 1: and had told her or her friends to contact him
Speaker 1: if ever anything suspicious occurred. Since Andersen wasn't working that night,
Speaker 1: there was nothing the staffer would do for Agnes and Tom,
Speaker 1: not even allow them to speak to another officer to
Speaker 1: explain the situation. Not taking no for an answer, the
Speaker 1: couple refused to leave the station until finally another officer
Speaker 1: appeared mercifully after the Woodcock explained everything too, they despatched
Speaker 1: a patrol car immediately to the Blundell Center At twelve
Speaker 1: thirty am. Constable Jerry Anderson had just got into bed
Speaker 1: when the station rang to inform him that Cindy's car
Speaker 1: had been found seemingly abandoned. But more than that, the
Speaker 1: attending officer had also found blood on the door and
Speaker 1: Cindy's bank and ID cards scattered underneath it. Anderson got
Speaker 1: dressed and headed straight to the police station. Two weeks
Speaker 1: prior to her disappearance, Cindy had written a letter to
Speaker 1: Constable Anderson's department bemoaning the lack of trust she'd felt
Speaker 1: in most of her dealings with the police. Constable Anderson,
Speaker 1: who she described as the only officer she could trust
Speaker 1: and feel comfortable with, was the exception. Later that night,
Speaker 1: after briefing his staff on the situation, Anderson called Cindy's
Speaker 1: parents to let them know she was missing. As forensics
Speaker 1: dusted the car for Prince, two mounties were sent to
Speaker 1: search Cindy's house for clues. Inside, they found a clean
Speaker 1: and well looked after home. A deck of playing cards
Speaker 1: and a score pat were set up on the table
Speaker 1: in preparation for the card game that Cindy had been
Speaker 1: due to play with Agnes and Tom. An hour later,
Speaker 1: Cindy's car was being loaded onto the back of a
Speaker 1: truck and taken to the police impound lot to be
Speaker 1: examined the following day. Aside from the smear of blood
Speaker 1: on the door, forensics had found nothing else of note
Speaker 1: on the outside of the vehicle. Next, Constable Anderson sent
Speaker 1: two officers to visit Cindy's ex husband, Doctor Roy Makepeace.
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Speaker 1: you Survive the Curse of the Blair Witch. Although police
Speaker 1: had yet to find a solid reason to suspect that
Speaker 1: Makepeace had anything to do with all that Cindy had
Speaker 1: supposedly been experiencing, they also hadn't been able to rule
Speaker 1: it out. It had just gone three am when Constable's
Speaker 1: Bowl and Strand arrived at the apartment block where he
Speaker 1: lived near Kitsilano Beach. Spotting another resident entering the building,
Speaker 1: the two Mounties took the opportunity to let themselves in
Speaker 1: and head up to make Peace's apartment. When they tried
Speaker 1: to speak to make Peace, however, the doctor refused to
Speaker 1: let them in. Instead, he phoned the building manager, who
Speaker 1: arrived soon after to see what all the fuss was about.
Speaker 1: Only after the officers had shown their id to the
Speaker 1: manager did Makepeace finally grant them access to his flat.
Speaker 1: Appearing on edge, Makepeace told the Mounties to keep their
Speaker 1: distance and to go into the living room where he
Speaker 1: could see them better. The officers cautiously complied, casting their
Speaker 1: eyes over the apartment as they went. Makepeace then went
Speaker 1: on to explain that his nervousness was to do with
Speaker 1: a series of strange things that had happened recently in
Speaker 1: the area that had left him on shore of who
Speaker 1: to trust. He'd even been keeping a gun in the apartment,
Speaker 1: he told them for his own protection, and even pulled
Speaker 1: it out to show them. When asked to account for
Speaker 1: his recent whereabouts in the last twenty four hours, Makepeace
Speaker 1: explained that he'd cycled to Richmond and then headed back
Speaker 1: to Vancouver for dinner with a friend. He then spent
Speaker 1: the evening helping to install a stereo system at his
Speaker 1: friend's house before returning to his apartment at midnight. His
Speaker 1: friend would later confirm this. So in Richmond yesterday afternoon,
Speaker 1: said Constable bowl Why, asked Makepeace, what's going on. The
Speaker 1: officers then explained that Cindy's car had been found at
Speaker 1: the Blundell shopping Center, but there was no sign of Cindy.
Speaker 1: Makepeace stood shaking his head. My god, she's dead. She's dead,
Speaker 1: he said. Collecting himself, Makepeace told the officers that he
Speaker 1: had something they might want to listen to. Two messages
Speaker 1: he'd received on his answering machine the previous October. It
Speaker 1: was hard to say which was the more strange one
Speaker 1: delivered in a raspy voice said more smack more downers
Speaker 1: another grand after we waste no more deal, and the
Speaker 1: other was this one. Makepeace thought the voice had said
Speaker 1: Sunday dead meat soon. Since the Sunday before he got
Speaker 1: the message, he'd seen two characters who seemed out of
Speaker 1: place to him hanging outside his apartment block. The men
Speaker 1: walked away when they noticed that Makepeace was eyeing them
Speaker 1: from his car on the other side of the road.
Speaker 1: The doctor wondered if they'd been the same men, perhaps
Speaker 1: that attacked Cindy, looking to hurt him too. When he
Speaker 1: played the message to a friend, however, they realized the
Speaker 1: voice wasn't saying Sunday dead meat soon, but Cindy dead
Speaker 1: meat soon. Makepeace said he hadn't told the police about
Speaker 1: the takes before because he'd grown distrustful of them after
Speaker 1: all the years of being considered a suspect in the
Speaker 1: attacks on his ex wife. The morning after Cindy's disappearance,
Speaker 1: her sister Melanie received a letter from Cindy in the post.
Speaker 1: It read, this is just a wee note on this
Speaker 1: beautiful paper to say hi, hope all is well with
Speaker 1: you and thanks for the interesting mail you've sent. In
Speaker 1: the last while, I've been busy in the garden whenever
Speaker 1: I can, getting it slowly in shape. We've had some
Speaker 1: really nice weather lately. I'm still getting harassed from time
Speaker 1: to time by some one trying to break in here.
Speaker 1: But I think we've come up with the solution. If
Speaker 1: it doesn't cost too much. Goud is going to wire
Speaker 1: in a censer for me, so hopefully we'll know when
Speaker 1: someone enters the back yard and we can quietly call
Speaker 1: the police while he's busy doing his thing. I'm really
Speaker 1: hopeful we might actually catch him soon. Wouldn't that be wonderful.
Speaker 1: I could actually start living a normal life again. I've
Speaker 1: almost forgotten what that feels like. The police have been
Speaker 1: pretty useless, so it would be wonderful to hand him
Speaker 1: over on a silver platter. Well, I must bathe and
Speaker 1: get ready for Marion to pick me up. Hope to
Speaker 1: hear from you soon. By the afternoon, an extensive search
Speaker 1: by Richmond Police, including searching the shoreline and interviewing anyone
Speaker 1: within a half block radius at the Blundell Center, had
Speaker 1: turned up nothing. Shortly after five pm, Constable Anderson arrived
Speaker 1: at the police compound to examine Cindy's car. Cindy's black
Speaker 1: purse was found on the front passenger seat between two
Speaker 1: brown paper bags of groceries, with another two bags of
Speaker 1: groceries on the floor. On the back seat, they found
Speaker 1: two Seers bags with the croquet set and some wrapping paper,
Speaker 1: the gift Cindy had bought for her friend's son. A
Speaker 1: Bank of Montreal deposit slip revealed that she deposited her
Speaker 1: paycheck at the Center at seven fifty eight PM, the
Speaker 1: last of her known whereabouts. Curiously, police also found a
Speaker 1: pad of paper in the glove compartment with the words
Speaker 1: small silver and KdV seven eighty four written on it,
Speaker 1: as if Cindy had at some point noted down a
Speaker 1: suspicious vehicle she'd seen. The plate was checked against all
Speaker 1: known plates in British Columbia, but again nothing turned up.
Speaker 1: The handheld alarm that Ozzie Caban had given her, which
Speaker 1: she made sure to take with her wherever she went,
Speaker 1: was also found in the glove box. A few days
Speaker 1: after Cindy's body was found, Richard Johnston, a life insurance
Speaker 1: agent who'd sold Cindia policy, recently called Constable Anderson to
Speaker 1: let him know that a man had contacted his office
Speaker 1: requesting details about the policy, claiming to be Cindy's father,
Speaker 1: He denied all knowledge of the call. Around the same time,
Speaker 1: the words some bitch died here were graffitied onto a
Speaker 1: fuel tank beside the house where Cindy's body was found.
Speaker 1: Presumably the same person had also painted a rude outline
Speaker 1: of a body in orange paint on the ground. As
Speaker 1: Cindy's death began to hit the news, so too did
Speaker 1: stories begin to emerge about the bizarre circumstances leading up
Speaker 1: to her disappearance. With Cindy's father Otto acting as the
Speaker 1: family spokesperson, it was often up to him to outline
Speaker 1: to the press the extent of the almost seven years
Speaker 1: of harassment at attacks that Cindy had apparently suffered in
Speaker 1: the lead up to her death, while decrying the police's
Speaker 1: inability to find a perpetrator. As a result, the police
Speaker 1: were inundated with tips and suggestions by members of the
Speaker 1: public as to what might have happened, but no genuine
Speaker 1: leads came out of it. Ozzie Caban, who was on
Speaker 1: holiday at the time, learned as Cindy's death the day
Speaker 1: after her body was found After getting the first fight home,
Speaker 1: he went straight to the morgue to inspect the body
Speaker 1: for himself. After learning that it had been found on
Speaker 1: its right hand side, he was surprised to find blotching
Speaker 1: and signs of lividity the pooling of blood on the
Speaker 1: left hand side. Kaban also thought it strange that the
Speaker 1: skin was so dry considering the shady and damp area
Speaker 1: where the body had been found, nor did it seem
Speaker 1: to have been much damaged by other animals, all of
Speaker 1: which suggested that perhaps Cindy had died elsewhere and the
Speaker 1: body taken to the place it was found. Later On,
Speaker 1: on June twelfth, nineteen eighty nine, and what would have
Speaker 1: been Cindy's forty fifth birthday, friends and family gathered at
Speaker 1: her apartment to mourn her death. At her funeral two
Speaker 1: days later, the police used hidden cameras to record the
Speaker 1: faces and license plate numbers of all who attended. Doctor
Speaker 1: roy Makepeace was a notable absentee, since it had never
Speaker 1: been a particularly well kept secret. It wasn't long before
Speaker 1: the press what wind of what many in the police
Speaker 1: force really felt about Cindy's death. Within days, articles were
Speaker 1: already circulating questioning both Cindy's mental health and the veracity
Speaker 1: of all those harassment claims, for which there were almost
Speaker 1: a hundred in total. Cindy's family were incensed by the speculation.
Speaker 1: Twenty days after the body was found, despite being discovered
Speaker 1: with a stocking around her neck, toxicology results revealed that
Speaker 1: Cindy had most likely died from an overdose of the
Speaker 1: sedative florazepam. Dangerous levels of one other sedative and morphine
Speaker 1: were also present. With so many unanswered questions, the inquest
Speaker 1: into Cindy's death began in April the following year and
Speaker 1: evolved eighty witnesses as well as a number of expert testimonies.
Speaker 1: Some psychiatrists argued that perhaps Cindy had been suffering from
Speaker 1: some kind of multiple personality disorder, while others disputed this possibility.
Speaker 1: This diagnosis, now referred to as dissociative identity disorder, remains
Speaker 1: a deeply controversial and much contested one. Though some argued
Speaker 1: that Cindy couldn't possibly have tied her own hands and
Speaker 1: feet behind her back in the manner in which her
Speaker 1: body was found, a not specialist was asked to attempt
Speaker 1: it themselves for the inquest, they found they were able
Speaker 1: to achieve something similar in just under fifteen minutes, enough
Speaker 1: time perhaps for Cindy to drug herself and then make
Speaker 1: it to where her body was eventually found. Ozzie Kaban,
Speaker 1: for one, didn't believe that Cindy would have been able
Speaker 1: to stage that kind of death on her own. Detective
Speaker 1: Bowyer Smythe had also remained convinced throughout that Cindy had
Speaker 1: been the victim of a terrifying harassment campaign. When asked
Speaker 1: at the inquest to point to who he thought was responsible,
Speaker 1: he pointed to doctor Roy makepeace. After thirty days, the
Speaker 1: inquest was brought to an end on May twenty, nineteen ninety,
Speaker 1: a year to the day that Cindy died. In the end,
Speaker 1: the jury were unable to rule whether the death was
Speaker 1: an accident, a murder, or suicide. Katherine Kinahan, who summed
Speaker 1: up at the inquest, said, the Vancouver Police Department's position
Speaker 1: is that Cindy's death was suicide or accident. The proper
Speaker 1: verdict is the so called open ended verdict. It would
Speaker 1: be pointless to reopen the investigation at this stage. It's
Speaker 1: not going to solve the case. There is no more
Speaker 1: evidence to be found. The Vancouver Sun reporter Neil Hall,
Speaker 1: whose nineteen ninety one book The Deaths of Cindy provides
Speaker 1: extensive coverage of the case, called it the most baffling
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