Creating a Strategy for Manipulating Anatomy: Cindy James

Cold Case Murder Mysteries

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🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

In late 1982, a nurse from Richmond, BC, Canada started receiving calls from a mysterious man who would increasingly terrorize and stalk her over the course of the next 7 years in what amounted to nearly 100 encounters between the two of them.

During this time, the police made every attempt possible to apprehend the culprit through extensive surveillance, but were never able to identify the presence of an outside party in these incidents.

Accordingly, the situation continued to get worse, and Cindy eventually disappeared, only to be discovered dead two weeks later lying in the grass outside of an abandoned house. To this day, however, the nature of her fate remains a mystery, and the stalker's identity is unknown.

Was it suicide… or murder?

Join host Ryan Kraus for a fascinating exploration of the human psyche in an effort to bring the truth to light.

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0:14.2	Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host Ryan Krau stepping up to the mic once again to shed light upon yet another intriguing investigation the stalking and subsequent death of Cindy James.
0:19.7	On May 25th 1989 the 44-year-old nurse disappeared, and two weeks later was found lying in the grass behind a residence in Richmond, British Columbia, bounded the wrists and ankles and having
0:35.5	succumbed to a fate of being drugged by ingesting dozens of pills and being injected by something
0:42.2	else as well.
0:44.3	This event was the culmination of a nearly seven-year period in which Cindy claimed to have suffered
0:50.1	at the hands of an unknown stalker who had tortured her both psychologically and physically
0:56.1	before eventually taking her life in the end.
0:59.6	The fear, paranoia, and uncertainty she felt must have been overwhelming.
1:06.0	But were they real?
1:08.4	Did Cindy James suffer a cruel fate at the hands of a relentless menacing stalker?
1:15.0	Or is there something lurking beneath the facade of this case that says otherwise?
1:21.0	Some people believe it was a suicide, and that Cindy was mentally ill and broke down.
1:28.0	Yet, the truth is still unknown.
1:31.0	So let's make this our mission in the analysis. We want to know if a
1:36.7	stalker was responsible or if it was Cindy James herself. Is it possible the victim really staged the terror over the course of almost
1:46.8	seven years? And if she did, then the most pertinent question becomes,
1:53.0	why?
1:55.0	Is it possible there's another villain involved,
1:58.0	a monster lurking in the shadows?
2:01.0	Somebody from her past, who's still following her and torturing her in her mind?
2:09.8	Could the stalker be a manifestation of that psychological disposition?
2:15.0	And if he is somebody from her past, maybe even her childhood,
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