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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold - Episode 18 - Cindy James

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.53.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2016

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

June 8, 1989. Richmond, British Columbia. Two weeks after she disappeared, the body of 44-year old Cindy James is found in the yard of an abandoned house. Her hands and feet have been tied behind her back and her cause of death is determined to be an overdose. Cindy’s death brings an end to six-and-a-half-years of terror, where she reported nearly one hundred incidents of being stalked, tormented and attacked by an unknown assailant. However, police believe that Cindy was a mentally ill woman who staged all the attacks against herself before committing suicide. Did Cindy concoct an elaborate hoax before taking her own life or was she murdered by her mysterious tormentor? In this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, I analyze one of Canada’s most baffling and hotly debated unsolved mysteries. Additional Reading: http://unsolved.com/archives/cindy-james http://www.melaniehack.com/ “The Deaths of Cindy James” by Neal Hall “Who Killed Cindy James?” by Ian Mulgrew The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

Transcript

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June 8th, 1989.

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Richmond, British Columbia

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After disappearing for two weeks, the body of 44-year-old Cindy James is found in the art of an abandoned house.

0:11.0

Her hands and feet have been tied behind her back and her cause of

0:14.8

death is determined to be an overdose. Cindy's death brings it into a six and a half

0:19.5

year period of terror in which she claimed to have been stalked, tormented, and attacked by an unknown assailant.

0:25.0

However, police believed that Cindy was a mentally ill person who staged all the attacks against herself before committing suicide.

0:33.6

The conflicting evidence prompts a coroner's inquest, and the official ruling is that

0:37.6

Cindy died of an unknown event.

0:40.6

After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, and uh, uh, and uh, and uh, and uh,

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uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,

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uh, uh,

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uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Oh, good news. Good me. dead me soon.

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Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.

1:34.0

I'm your host Robin Warder and I hope that sound bite I just played

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did not give any of you folks a heart attack.

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In case you're wondering that is a recording of an answering machine message from a

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raspy voiced collar uttering the words,

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Cindy, dead meat, soon. This message was left for the ex-husband of a woman named

1:52.4

Cindy James, who was suffering through a years long campaign of terror at this point.

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Was this call it to the same person who had been terrorizing Cindy or was it actually Cindy herself disguising her voice? Well that's a topic we're

2:05.7

going to discuss on this episode. I've developed a special theme for the

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