For years, a woman claimed that someone was stalking her, attacking her, attacking her, terrorizing her. There was just one problem. No one else

ever saw him. Some people, even police, wondered if she was making it all up. But then when she was

found dead, nothing made sense. This is a strange case of Cindy James.

It all started with a phone call.

October 7, 1982, just weeks before Halloween,

Cindy James was home alone when the phone rang.

On the other end of the line was a voice she didn't recognize,

a man whispering her name. And then the line went dead. At first, she tries to dismiss it.

Wrong number. A prank? But the calls didn't stop. Sometimes the voice would change. Deeper,

higher, distorted. The caller would make crude, violent threats. Other times she would answer and hear nothing, just the sound of someone

breathing. And it was getting creepier. One night after she closed all of her blinds, her phone

quickly rang. The caller said,

There's no use in hiding. I can see you in the living room. In recent weeks, Cindy had told

friends and family that she felt like someone was lurking around her house at night.

And now the calls? Someone was watching her. But who? At this time, Cindy was 38 years old,

a nurse. She worked with emotionally disturbed children at Blenheim House in Vancouver. Colleagues

described her as steady. She wasn't dramatic. She wasn't known to exaggerate. But there was a big

recent change in her life.

Months earlier, she had separated from her husband,

a man named Roy Makepeace.

He was 18 years older, a South African physician.

She had married Roy when she was very young,

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