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🗓️ 8 June 2022
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0:00.0 | There were two more murders 15 miles away. |
0:02.6 | When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines. |
0:06.0 | We have a weird homicide. |
0:08.8 | A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird... |
0:12.9 | Some stories are so sensational, it's hard to believe that they are real. |
0:18.8 | On June 8, 1989, the body of a woman was found in the yard of an |
0:22.9 | abandoned building, a woman who spent seven years telling everyone in her life, and police, |
0:28.9 | about the insane harassment that she was receiving. Harassment that, depending on who you ask, |
0:35.4 | may or may not not have actually happened. |
0:38.2 | So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder. |
0:48.5 | Things start getting weird for Cynthia Elizabeth Hack James in the fall of 1982. |
0:53.9 | Cynthia, Cindy, to all that knew her, had graduated from nursing school in 1966, |
0:59.6 | became an administrator for a preschool for children with behavioral and emotional issues, |
1:04.2 | and married a man whom she found herself separated from in July of 1982. |
1:10.3 | Still fresh off the recent upheaval in her life, Cindy started to receive strange phone calls |
1:15.2 | just four months later that would, in addition to other harassment incidents, end up lasting |
1:20.5 | for the next seven years of her life. |
1:24.1 | These issues ranged from silent phone calls to bizarre notes being left on the doorstep of her home in Richmond, British Columbia, and all the way to threats of violence, smashed porch lights, dead cats being left on her porch, and severed phone lines. |
1:39.9 | In total, over the course of those seven years, Cindy reported nearly 100 incidents of harassment, |
1:46.8 | five of which were violent physical attacks, and all of them seemed to escalate once she |
1:51.6 | involved the local police. Police who, for one reason or another, doubted the validity of her |
1:57.5 | stories. One night in January of 1983, Cindy's friend, Agnes Woodcock, dropped by the |
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