It all began with a single phone call.

It was brief, menacing, and impossible to trace.

But for the woman who answered, it was the start of a nightmare that would spiral into one

of the most baffling and disturbing mysteries in Canadian history.

As always, viewer discretion is advised. Things were going pretty well for Cindy James in the fall of 1982 and it had been a long time

coming.

Her life to that point could have been described as average by most people.

She grew up in a military family that moved around a bit, graduated high school, and eventually

decided to get into nursing as a career, but there were some darker moments throughout her life

to that point, too. She was born on June 12, 1944, in all of her British Columbia, Canada,

as one of six children. Her father, Otto, was in the Canadian Air Force, and as a military man,

Cindy would often write in her diary about how strict he was and how he would use corporal punishment whenever he deemed it appropriate.

At some point while the family was living in Ottawa, Otto got another transfer, this time

back to France, but Cindy wouldn't be joining them there.

Instead, she was heading back to British Columbia to attend nursing school.

During the holidays and breaks afterward, from her studies, she would fly out to friends to visit them, but most often she kept in touch through letters.

In these letters, Cindy would update the family at how school was going and what she was up to in general, but after a while, she started to make mention of a male intern that she met.

Then, not long after he started to appear in the letters, she announced that the two were engaged to be married. Tragically, however, a letter would soon come to explain that the intern had been diagnosed

with terminal cancer and while the couple was on a skiing vacation together, he decided

to end things himself.

Interestingly, never in her letters did she ever name him and none of her family members

ever met him, prompting some speculation among her loved ones that the story was never

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