Halloween Special: The Baffling Case of Cindy James

True Crime Campfire

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

For our first Halloween special episode, we tackle one of the creepiest, most confounding, most fascinating cases we've ever encountered. For six and a half years, Vancouver nurse Cindy James was the victim of stalking, threats, vandalism, physical attacks and terrifying phone calls. Several times she was discovered unconscious and bruised with a black nylon stocking tied tightly around her neck. Her tormenter left notes that said things like BEHEAD; CINDY, SOON; and WE ARE WATCHING. Her house was set ablaze. Dead animals were left hanging in her front yard.

And the Royal Canadian Mounted Police couldn't find out who was doing any of it. Eventually, they came to a shocking conclusion--Cindy was doing it herself, possibly without realizing it. This stunned and infuriated Cindy's family, friends, private investigator and psychiatrist, but the police were convinced. The investigation stalled. And then, one afternoon in May 1989, Cindy went missing. Her car was found in a shopping center parking lot, blood on the driver's side door, signs of a struggle strewn about. Two weeks later, her body was found in the yard of an abandoned house, hog tied and barefoot with a stocking tied around her neck. Was Cindy the victim of murder? Was it a suicide staged to look like a murder? Or was something else going on?

This case is bizarre from start to finish; this description barely scratches the surface! We can't wait to hear your theories.

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Sources (also available on social media):

http://www.melaniehack.com/
http://thetroublewithjustice.com/2014/07/05/who-killed-nurse-cindy-james/
https://unsolved.com/gallery/cindy-james/
https://49thshelf.com/Books/C/Canada-s-Greatest-Unsolved-Mysteries?fbclid=IwAR0H8RxwRWMJhyysjUwEmTLkRz1CrR1gxO5g1bqQMYpsNZUZheUoTSbNO68
Unsolved Mysteries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yJUBUF0s0U
News report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbrAggQE2EA&t=7s
News report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljymSSBqflU
A Current Affair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPZ-G5bFEek

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0:00.0	Hello, campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:05.0	We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney.
0:08.0	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.
0:12.0	We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the True Crime Campfire special Halloween episode.
0:26.4	Dim your lights and grab your candy because tonight we're going to tell you a true story that is
0:30.9	way scarier than fiction. So, campers, tonight we're going to lay a doozy on you, and we have to apologize in advance
0:51.6	because it's probably going to hurt a little bit.
0:53.7	Not everybody's a fan of unsolved cases and that's what this one is. In fact, Katie, you're not a fan most of the time yourself, right?
1:00.0	No, because I have a burning need to know everything.
1:03.4	And the fact that I can't know everything
1:05.5	about an unsolved case makes me want to scream.
1:07.8	It just deeply offends you to your soul.
1:09.6	It's upsetting.
1:10.3	I just can't know.
1:11.6	Like this case that we've been discussing has turned me into the Pepe Sylvia
1:15.6	meme.
1:16.6	I have like red yarn on my wall. I am going crazy.
1:20.0	She's got a full-on conspiracy theorist wall going, you know, to me it's kind of fun because I like
1:26.2	puzzling out all the options, but I can completely get how it can be frustrating in all.
1:31.0	But it is worth it to learn about this case because it is hands down one of the most baffling, most frustrating, most fascinating cases that we've ever looked at.
1:40.0	And that is the case of Cindy James.
1:42.0	Yes.
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