S05 Episode 3: Endgame (Pt.2 of 3)
Unexplained
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4.4 • 9.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In June 1989, the body of forty-four-year-old Cindy James, who had been missing for two weeks, was found lying in the tall grass behind a derelict property in the suburbs of Richmond, Vancouver. Cindy's hands and feet had been tied behind her back and she appeared to have been drugged.
A coroner confirmed that Cindy died shortly after she went missing. That her body had been found only a short walk from a major road suggested however that it had been placed there quite recently, meaning this was almost certainly a murder.
But then again, nothing about Cindy’s bizarre and tragic story had ever been certain...
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to part 2 of Unexplained Season 5 Episode 3 Endgame. |
| 0:14.6 | After the second apparent Sirius assault on Cindy in her home, though some in the |
| 0:25.3 | force were beginning to seriously doubt her credibility, attention turned briefly again |
| 0:30.4 | to Dr Roy Makepiece. |
| 0:32.9 | In the following days, he was pulled in for extensive questioning. |
| 0:38.0 | During an intense six hour interview, Makepiece conceded that he had physically hurt Cindy |
| 0:43.0 | in the past but would never think of doing anything remotely like what appeared to have |
| 0:47.4 | been done to her. |
| 0:49.0 | It was then suggested by Makepiece that maybe someone connected to Cindy's line of work, |
| 0:54.3 | meaning as she was a carer for troubled children had been responsible, an angry relative |
| 0:59.5 | of one of the children perhaps. |
| 1:02.0 | His theory wasn't pursued. |
| 1:04.7 | In June 1983, Cindy's private investigator, Ozzy Caban, was alerted to another break-in |
| 1:11.0 | at Cindy's home. |
| 1:13.0 | After racing to her apartment, he found a deeply upset Cindy pouring over yet another |
| 1:18.0 | distressing note that she'd apparently received. |
| 1:22.0 | As she explained, she'd returned home after work earlier that day to find the back door |
| 1:27.4 | left open again. |
| 1:29.4 | Hearing her dog Heidi whimpering in pain from inside, she rushed in to find her badly |
| 1:34.6 | beaten and tied up to the kitchen table. |
| 1:38.2 | She found the note next to Heidi. |
| 1:41.2 | It read, last day's warning, death, happy birthday Cindy. |
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