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Cindy James and the Invisible Man - Part 1 · Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

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  Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty nine, the body of a Canadian nurse
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  Speaker 1: was found bound and strangled outside of Vancouver, capping off
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  Speaker 1: nearly seven years of terrifying harassment and stalking. Despite over
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  Speaker 1: one hundred reported incidents, including threatening phone calls, break ins,
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  Speaker 1: and physical attacks, the police found no evidence of the
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  Speaker 1: alleged stalker. Now to this day, debates ray je On
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  Speaker 1: over whether the victim was truly being stalked and tormented,
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  Speaker 1: where if her death was the result of her own hand,
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  Speaker 1: making her case one of Canada's most chilling mysteries yet.
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  Speaker 1: This is the story of Cindy James.
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  Speaker 2: My name's Ben, I'm Nicole, and you're listening to Wicketing Rim,
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  Speaker 1: You know, I really feel like we have just nailed
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  Speaker 2: I like, what the fuck doing I don't care. You
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  Speaker 1: and laughing on that one.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what I mean, right, Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I honestly think you have like nailed it even more
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  Speaker 1: than me. You're like exactly the same every time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's good. There was a problem though,
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  Speaker 2: because I would like a few months ago, where I
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  Speaker 2: would start it with or something like oh yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 2: Nicole or something, and then you were like, you got
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  Speaker 2: to stop this annoying.
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  Speaker 1: I actually I haven't noticed you might still be doing it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh shit. I maybe I I shouldn't have pointed it.
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  Speaker 1: Out because I forgot all about it, but I noticed
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  Speaker 1: it a couple of times. Yeah, you were like, I'm Nicole.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny because I watched this these Instagram stories of
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  Speaker 2: a clothing store, and everyone that she starts with she's
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  Speaker 2: does that. Oh no, And so if you're like going
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  Speaker 2: through really quick, it's like like time and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I guess no one's ever pointed that out
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  Speaker 2: to her. Maybe hey, drive me nuts nuts.
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  Speaker 1: For show, But anyways, yeah, I just wanted to point
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  Speaker 1: I think we should get into this case though.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, let's do it, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So this is part one of the story of Cindy James,
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  Speaker 1: So there will be a part two to this one.
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  Speaker 1: This one it's a little in depth, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: to it, So buckley seat belts. It's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a wild ride and and you're not going to get
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  Speaker 1: the conclusion until next well this next episode, which will
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  Speaker 1: be in a few days.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't done a two parter for.
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  Speaker 1: A while, we haven't done it part, so we are
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  Speaker 1: due for one. So either buckle your seatbelts get ready
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  Speaker 1: for it. Or hey, maybe you're gonna wait for the
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  Speaker 1: next episode to come out and you'll binge the two together.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever the case, get ready for it, because this is
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  Speaker 1: one hell of a story. So Cindy Elizabeth Hack was
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  Speaker 1: born on June twelfth, nineteen forty four, in Oliver, Oliver,
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  Speaker 1: British Columbia. She was born to her parents, Matilda and
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  Speaker 1: Auto Hack. She was one of six kids, and growing
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  Speaker 1: up back then was a whole it was a whole
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  Speaker 1: different world. Matilda and Auto were, you're pretty old school.
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  Speaker 1: They believe kids should be quiet, behave, and not make
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot of fuss. Auto in particular, was tough
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  Speaker 1: as nails. He if he was in a bad mood,
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  Speaker 1: it was usually kind of the kids who ended up
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  Speaker 1: receiving the bad end of it. And his way of
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  Speaker 1: handling discipline, well, let's just say it was not exactly gentle.
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  Speaker 1: In his mind, if something was wrong, he could just
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  Speaker 1: mack it out. Of you sort of things. Oh yeah, now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it was like abusive sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like, you know, back in that time, like
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  Speaker 1: spanking your kids sort of thing, or give you a
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  Speaker 1: smack of size her.
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  Speaker 2: Head kind of more acceptable. I guess you could say.
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  Speaker 1: It was more accepted at the time. Not to say
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  Speaker 1: it's right or not abuse, but just kind of giving
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  Speaker 1: you a frame of reference. Now. From a young age,
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  Speaker 1: Cindy figured out the safest bet was to stay on
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  Speaker 1: Auto's good side, though that was a lot easier said
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  Speaker 1: than done. She threw herself into her school work and chores,
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  Speaker 1: always hoping if she did well enough, Auto might actually
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  Speaker 1: be proud of her. Whenever she got even a sliver
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  Speaker 1: of attention from him, she'd light up and go on
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  Speaker 1: about her latest accomplishments, her grades, or how much her
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  Speaker 1: teachers liked her, or how hard she was working in school,
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  Speaker 1: But compliments or praise from anyone besides Cindy herself were
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  Speaker 1: few and far between. After school, Cindy made up her
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  Speaker 1: mind she was going to become a nurse. Helping people
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  Speaker 1: had always come naturally to her, and she figured nursing
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  Speaker 1: was the perfect way to do that. School was kind
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  Speaker 1: of her safe place, so she felt right at home
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  Speaker 1: in her nursing program. Every time she checked in with
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  Speaker 1: her family, she made sure to mention how well things
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  Speaker 1: were going. Now. At some point, her whole family ended
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  Speaker 1: up moving to France, leaving Cindy on her own for
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  Speaker 1: the first time in her life. She kept in touch,
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  Speaker 1: and so did they. They were writing letters whenever they
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  Speaker 1: could write, and of course visiting for the holidays as well.
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  Speaker 1: But even with these letters and the occasional visits, Cindy
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  Speaker 1: often talked about how lonely she felt during that time,
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  Speaker 1: at least until she met a guy who would become
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  Speaker 1: her very first fiance. Oh yeah, getting a little romantic
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  Speaker 1: up in this house. So she met this guy while
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  Speaker 1: working at the hospital. Allegedly he was a doctor working
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  Speaker 1: at the hospital as well. So she's doing her training
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  Speaker 1: shifts and stuff, you know, and they kind of cross paths,
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  Speaker 1: and that's kind of how it ignited. Now, they spent
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time working together, and before long he
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  Speaker 1: asked her out. Things moved fast after that, and they
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  Speaker 1: fell hard for each other and soon they were basically inseparable.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't stop gushing about him, you know, especially in these letters.
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  Speaker 1: As she's writing home, she told her parents how he
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  Speaker 1: made her feel special, how he treated her like a queen,
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  Speaker 1: and how he'd be in the perfect husband and of
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  Speaker 1: course would be the perfect father someday. Sorry I should
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  Speaker 1: say perfect husband eventually because he's not.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, I was like, I miss the wedding.
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  Speaker 1: No, my apologies. I worded that weird, how he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be the perfect husband and father someday. Now. Her
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  Speaker 1: family naturally wanted to know more about this guy, simple
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  Speaker 1: things like you know what's his name, you know what's
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  Speaker 1: he like, and all this sort of stuff, But Cindy
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  Speaker 1: always seemed to dodge those questions. Instead, she'd steer the
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  Speaker 1: conversation back to you know, how perfect he was, and
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  Speaker 1: how he'd treated her, and how he'd already popped the question.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so it is okay. For some reason, I'm thinking,
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  Speaker 2: is this made up or something? Uh? Bear with me, okay,
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  Speaker 2: because but at first I was thinking, okay, that's how
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  Speaker 2: she sort of always talked to her family, like wants
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  Speaker 2: to make them think she's like so good and looking
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  Speaker 2: for praise and stuff but not really getting it. But
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, there I'm just like, Okay, what's
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  Speaker 2: going on here?
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of questions around this individual. Let's
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  Speaker 1: put it that way. Well, we're going through it right now. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So this was huge news, this whole like pop the
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  Speaker 1: question being engaged sort of thing, obviously. And while some
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  Speaker 1: of Cindy's relatives were you know, over the moon for her,
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  Speaker 1: Matilda and Auto couldn't help but feel like something was off.
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  Speaker 1: Why hadn't this guy, whoever he was, tried to reach
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  Speaker 1: out to them, even just to introduce himself. You know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe he should say hello to his future in laws
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  Speaker 1: or maybe you know, ask for their blessing, because we
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  Speaker 1: are talking about you know, a little bit older school
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  Speaker 1: type people here, right, And why was Cindy being so
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  Speaker 1: weirdly vague whenever asked these basic questions. It was strange,
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  Speaker 1: But with them living so far away, they didn't really
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  Speaker 1: want to push too hard or ask too much themselves.
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  Speaker 1: So still they made it clear that they'd really loved
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  Speaker 1: to meet him, ideally in person, of course. Then eventually,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they invited him to come along for the
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  Speaker 1: holidays with Cindy so they could all, you know, get
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  Speaker 1: to know each other. But every time they brought this up,
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  Speaker 1: Cindy again had some sort of diversion from the conversation,
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  Speaker 1: or even some excuse. She said, in this case that
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  Speaker 1: he was too swamped at work where he was tied
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  Speaker 1: up with his own family, he wouldn't be able to
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  Speaker 1: make the holidays. Even though her family never got to
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  Speaker 1: meet him. Cindy assured them that, you know, once they
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  Speaker 1: were married, they'd figure out a way to split holidays
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  Speaker 1: between both sides. She promised that it no matter how busy
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  Speaker 1: life got, they would make it work eventually.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they are busy people, right, so I mean it
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  Speaker 2: makes sense that I'm it's journey right over there, so
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  Speaker 2: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Now. Unfortunately, that promise never had a chance to come true.
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  Speaker 1: As the holidays crept closer, Cindy and her fiance were
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately hit with devastating news. What was supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: just a standard check up at the doctor's office turned
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  Speaker 1: into a nightmare. See, her fiance was diagnosed with a
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  Speaker 1: rare and aggressive form of cancer. The doctor told him
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  Speaker 1: he only had a few months left at best.
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  Speaker 2: Oh shit.
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  Speaker 1: Cindy was heartbroken, but she refused to give up. She
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  Speaker 1: told him that, you know, in her mind, they're already
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  Speaker 1: married and in every way. This is like, this is
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  Speaker 1: how it matters. Right. We're together, we're basically married. She's
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  Speaker 1: going to be there for him through better and through worse,
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  Speaker 1: just like a married couple should be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So she was determined to stick by a side no
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  Speaker 1: matter how rough the road ahead was going to be,
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  Speaker 1: But her fiance didn't see it the same way as
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  Speaker 1: she did. After the diagnosis, the two of them decided
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  Speaker 1: to go ahead with a ski trip that they had
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  Speaker 1: already booked. It was supposed to be a fun little
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  Speaker 1: getaway before the wedding, you know, a chance to relax,
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  Speaker 1: just be together. Now it felt more like a final escape. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This trip, however, changed from what it was what it
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be. Instead, it ended in tragedy. Cindy's
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  Speaker 1: fiance took his own life, leaving a note that said
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't stand the thought of her watching him waste away.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted her to remember him as the man she
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  Speaker 1: fell in love with, full of life, strong and completely
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  Speaker 1: in love with her.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, Okay, that's like so sad, right.
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  Speaker 1: But here's where things get strange. No one could ever
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  Speaker 1: find a single shred of evidence that this fiance ever existed.
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  Speaker 1: No records, no obituaries, oh nothing. There were no reports
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  Speaker 1: of a man taking his life at that ski trip.
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  Speaker 2: Oh shit.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, there wasn't any concrete evidence Cindy was ever
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  Speaker 1: engaged at all. The only trace of him was in
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  Speaker 1: the letters to her family, and even in those the
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  Speaker 1: details were all over the place, never quite adding up
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  Speaker 1: and very vague.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So this man might have been made up and
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  Speaker 2: then she decided that she had enough of this made
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  Speaker 2: up story, and then he had got cancer and then
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  Speaker 2: took his own life.
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  Speaker 1: For It's hard to say, but as far as evidence goes,
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  Speaker 1: it seems that he was never real and he could
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  Speaker 1: have very well been made up.
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  Speaker 2: And he was a doctor, right, like she met him
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  Speaker 2: through the hospital or something.
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  Speaker 1: Met him through the hospital, and as far as I
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  Speaker 1: can find, he was supposedly a doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, okay, So you just I don't know, you think
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  Speaker 2: that would there would be evidence of this or or
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  Speaker 2: something you know, of his story out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, coworkers maybe being able to you know, confirm that. Yeah, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I know the dude his name was Stephen.
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  Speaker 1: Stephen was the man she was dating and he died
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  Speaker 1: and like totally get it, Like there should be some
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  Speaker 1: links somewhere pointing to the existence of this individual. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but as far as anyone can see, there's nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and because what time frame was this in? Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: what do you mean?
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  Speaker 1: What time? Like?
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  Speaker 2: How old of a case is this? I forget the year?
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  Speaker 1: This is happening in the eighties, I believe.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, I mean still there because we kind
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  Speaker 2: of think how everything is readily available to us now,
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  Speaker 2: but then back then it isn't as much, right, So
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  Speaker 2: I feel like something like that could potentially slip through.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean it is.
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  Speaker 2: There's a possibility.
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  Speaker 1: It is possible, but it's not the most probable, let's
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  Speaker 1: put it that way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now, whether that mystery fiance ever actually existed or not,
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  Speaker 1: we don't know. But Cindy eventually moved on with her
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  Speaker 1: life one way or another, and eventually she crossed paths
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  Speaker 1: with a man named Roy make Peace, a psychiatrist originally
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  Speaker 1: from South Africa. Now Roy did in fact exist. Roy
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  Speaker 1: was thirty nine when he met Cindy, which put them
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: nearly two decades apart in age. So she was about
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  Speaker 1: twenty ish and he was like thirty nine ish, right,
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  Speaker 1: But the gap, it didn't really sit well with her family.
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  Speaker 1: Right off the bat, they felt like Roy was taking
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  Speaker 1: advantage of how trusting and inexperienced Cindy was in life.
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  Speaker 1: To them, it seemed like he was drawn in by
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  Speaker 1: her youth and good looks, and they worried that she
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  Speaker 1: was just a little bit too naive to see it.
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  Speaker 1: But as time passed on, they spent more and more
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  Speaker 1: time around Roy and Cindy together and their opinions softened
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  Speaker 1: on him a little bit. The two seemed to actually
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  Speaker 1: balance each other out, at least on the surface, and
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  Speaker 1: some of those initial worries they started to fade. That's
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  Speaker 1: why it was such a shock when after sixteen years
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  Speaker 1: of marriage, Cindy dropped a bombshell. She told her family
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  Speaker 1: she was leaving Roy, and not just because they'd grown apart,
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  Speaker 1: but because that she had been abused pretty much from
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  Speaker 1: the start of the relationship. Boy. Yeah, So to clarify,
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  Speaker 1: going back a little bit, the story takes place in
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  Speaker 1: the eighties, yes, but you have to look at like
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  Speaker 1: the sixteen years, so it was like probably early seventies,
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  Speaker 1: maybe late sixties when she supposedly.
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  Speaker 2: Met that Oh okay, right, doctor dudeen.
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  Speaker 1: Ski trip thing right now? According to Cindy, it began
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  Speaker 1: with small things in the relationship with Roy, emotional games.
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  Speaker 1: For example, if she didn't go along with something Roy wanted,
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  Speaker 1: he'd give her the cold shoulder for days. One big
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  Speaker 1: point of content was Roy's love of sailing. Cindy, on
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  Speaker 1: the other hand, was absolutely terrified of water, convinced she'd
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  Speaker 1: drowned if she ever ended up overboard, but Roy didn't
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  Speaker 1: really care. He wanted her to come with him anyways,
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  Speaker 1: and when she said no, he'd freeze her out completely,
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  Speaker 1: treating her like she didn't exist, just ignoring her outright.
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  Speaker 2: Holy shit, when she has an like, an actual fear,
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  Speaker 2: that's not cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, as the years went on in this relationship,
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  Speaker 1: Cindy said, the emotional manipulation turned into more physical. She
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  Speaker 1: told her family that Roy would lash out and hit
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  Speaker 1: her when he did whenever she did something wrong or
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: something that he didn't approve of. There was even one
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: story where she claimed he'd thrown her down the stair,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: leaving her with black eyes and she had to hide
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: it under her makeup. What made it all harder to believe,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: at least for the people around her, was that no
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: one had ever seen any clear evidence of that abuse.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Her coworkers, her friends, even her own family had never
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: noticed bruises or any obvious signs that something was wrong. Now,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: but of course that didn't mean that it didn't happen.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: No one really knows what goes on behind closed doors.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: People hide that stuff all the time, so that's definitely
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: not an indication that it's not happening right now. En
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Roy was asked about all of this, he did admit that, yeah,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: there were two separate times in their entire marriage over
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: the course of sixteen years, where he did slap Cindy
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: during arguments and incidents. He said, yeah, he crossed the
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: line these two times and probably of course regretted it
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: even but he did completely deny any kind of violent
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: outside of that, or any sort of controlling or any
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: sort of abuse outside of that.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, so he's admitting to his wrongs. I guess you can.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Say he did admit that twice he struck her, but
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: there was no other things like throwing her down the stairs,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: for example. Yeah, so not to say that, you know,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: striking her two times.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Is is is? Okay? Yeah?
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so outside of those incidents, he's saying there was
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: no violent or physical abuse.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: That it hadn't escalated to the point where he's throwing
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: her down the stairs.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Correct now. Even though her family was caught off guard
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: by Cindy's decision to leave roy they were one hundred
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: percent behind her to do so, and they weren't too
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: worried about her figuring out her life on her own either.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: By then, Cindy had built a solid career as a nurse,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: and everyone knew her as very smart, very capable, and
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: dedicated to her job. She had a great reputation, and
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: her friends and family made it very crystal clear that
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: if she ever needed anything, they would be there in
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: a heartbeat for her. After for about four months of
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: the breakup, so Cindy and Royer now split up. In
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: September of nineteen eighty two, Cindy sat down with her
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: family and dropped some unsettling news. She was convinced someone
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: was stalking her. See over the last few weeks, she
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: said she'd spotted a man, always dressed head to toe
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: in black, sneaking around her property. When her family asked
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: if she could describe this man who was sneaking around
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: her property, Cindy was pretty vague. She was sure that
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: it was a man. But that was about all she
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: could say then, not even just two weeks later, things
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: escalated from there. The man clad in black wasn't just
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: lurking outside anymore. The phone calls started. Cindy said. The
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: calls were terrifying, graphic and violent and downright disturbing. The
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: caller didn't just threaten her, he described in vivid, horrifying details,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: exactly what he wanted to do to her. Oh, she
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: said that she can even hear him getting off while
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: on the phone.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: That's some nasty shit, yeah.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Which left her feeling completely violated and unsure what to
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: do next. At first, she thought maybe it was some
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: sick teenager pulling a twisted prank, right, something completely tasteless,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: just trying to freak her out for the laughs. But
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: as the calls kept going, she got, you know, the
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: clearer idea that this was not just some dumb kid.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: The threats got weirder and more personal, like this person
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: was actually watching her, knew her routines, her schedules, maybe
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: even what she was wearing.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Okay, I was just going to say new things about her.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: So yeah, things just spiraled, let's put it that way.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: On October twelfth, nineteen eighty two, about a month after
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: she first spotted this prowler, Cindy picked up the phone
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: and heard that same chilling voice on the other end.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: In a low, almost whispered tone, the caller told her
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I'm going to get you one night soon, and she
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: didn't stick around to hear how that sentence ended.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, I was like I was on the edge.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Might see end end.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: She immediately slammed the phone down, heart racing. After weeks
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: of this, Cindy finally decided enough was enough. She called
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police the RCMP, to report everything
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: the prowler, you know, the disgusting phone calls, the constant
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: feeling that someone was watching her. She needed to tell them.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: The officers took her very seriously.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's good.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: They could tell how shaken she was and you know,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: said that they were definitely concerned. So they suggested that
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: she start keeping track of every single call that she got,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: you know, even the ones that seemed normal, right down
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: the times. What they said, if the number showed up,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: anything that she could remember anything at all. You know,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: maybe the caller is describing what she's wearing, you know,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: writ down that the caller knew these things, whatever it was,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: any detail. The hope was that maybe with enough records
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: they could find some kind of pattern or clue or
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: someone behind this right now. Cindy also asked if there's
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: any way that they could send an officer to stay
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: with her for a while, just in case this guy
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: called or showed up again right now. Unfortunately, the police
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: told her that that wasn't an option. There was no
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: evidence right now. There was just her word that there's
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: something going on. So there's no proof, no recordings, no witnesses, nothing,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: and they couldn't justify assigning someone to her house. It's
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: just not how it works right now. They weren't dismissing her,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: but their hands were kind of tied now. The lack
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: of any real action from the RCMP left Cindy feeling
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: pretty isolated and completely alone and honestly kind of embarrassed
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: at the same time, like maybe she was overreacting, for example.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: But that feeling didn't last long. See, not long after
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: the officers left her home, her phone rang again. The
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: second it started ringing, her stomach dropped immediately. If this
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: creep had been watching her like she suspected, then they
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: probably saw the police leave and they knew she was alone.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Her hand shook as she picked up the phone, and
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: on the other end was a voice that said, I'll
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: get you.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: That's it, just I'll get you. Okay. Here I thought
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: they were going to say something about the police.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: But well, the next day the same voice called back,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: the same voice that had been calling, and this time
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: it was even worse, and they said, so you think
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: calling the police will keep you safe? You wait, I've
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: got my zipper open. Ugh, I'm talking to my throbbing
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: dot dot.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, this is so unsettling. What a nasty, nasty man.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, Cindy again didn't wait for the finish of
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: that sentence as she dropped the phone down on its receiver,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: and that was that, yes, on the receiver. We are
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: not talking about cell phones.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I know. I'm almost surprised that she picks up the phone.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: I feel like, well, I mean, I don't ever pick
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: up my phone, like it rang this morning and You're like,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: you have a call, and I'm like, cool.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Well, honestly, it wasn't even ringing. It's on dudelster.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's always usually just I don't know what like silent. Well, no,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: not the calls so oh, the calls are always usually
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: to someone like trying.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: To oh, telemarketers or scammers and.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know the yeah, but she's keeping answering her phone.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: But I mean, I guess she does have to document
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: this and stuff for the police exactly.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: So she was shaking and she grabbed a notepad, and
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: that's exactly what she did. She documented this phone call,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: diding exactly what the police told her. She wrote down everything,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: the time, exact words, which is how we can quote it,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: even how the voice sounded. She was determined to give
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: them something they could actually work with, you know, next
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: time that she called for help. Right, But whoever this was,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: they weren't done. They were just getting warmed up. Two
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: days after her first call to the RCMPI S Sindy
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: phoned them again. This time someone had been right outside
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: her house. She swore she heard footsteps on her and
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: when she went out to go check, she found her
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: porch lights were smashed. Oh geez, Now, the porch lights
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: being smashed, to me, that means, you know, if she's
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: entering or exiting her house at night, it's dark, it's dark. Yeah,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe concealing an attack, So that's ominous in itself.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: The police came back and they did a thorough check
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: of the area. They checked her house, her yard, even
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: up and down the street in the neighborhood. They didn't
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: find a thing, no footprints, no broken glass leading anywhere,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: no shadowy figure hiding nearby. It was like, whoever did
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: this just disappeared into thin air. Then the very next
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: day things escalated again. Cindy called the police in a
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: full panic, saying someone had just thrown a rock straight
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: through her window, and not just that, she was convinced
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: someone had actually been inside her house. When officers showed up,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: they found Cindy practically shaking out of her skin in hysteria.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: It was clear she was terrified, and honestly, they couldn't
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: blame her. Ever was messing with her was getting bolder
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: by the day, and it was obvious Cindy felt like
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: she was running at a time. Once again, the officer
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: searched everywhere, the house, the yard, the street, neighborhood, and
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: once again there was nothing, no sign of anyone hanging
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: around nothing. Whoever was stalking Cindy was either a ghost
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: or they were blending in so well with the neighborhood
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: that they might have just been hiding and right in
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: plain sight. Now I'm not accusing anyone by saying this,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: but for example, it was the neighbor. It was, you know,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: one of the officers, something like that, someone who can
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: hide in plain sight. And like when a phone call
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: comes in or an officer comes in, it's like the
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: neighbor's caught in the yard and it's like, oh no,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: I'm just like grabbing a piece of garbage off the lawn. Okay,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: something like that for example, you know what I mean. Now,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: that same week, just when Cindy thought things couldn't get
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: any worse, she went to climb into bed at the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: end of the day, she pulled back the covers and froze.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: See when she pulled back those covers in her blankets,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: she found her pillow sliced wide open with a knife.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: The realization hit her like a punch in the gut.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Whoever was tormenting her had just been watching. Hadn't just
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: been watching from a distance. They'd been inside the house
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: confirmed now, and maybe even while she was inside the
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: house too.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Oh my, oh, okay, that's too much. That is so alarming.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: I don't even know how you could could carry on, really,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Cindy was shaking in fear, and of course called the police.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: They showed up took her statement, but with everything piled up,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: one of the officers, Constable Patrick McBride with the RCMP,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: he decided he was going to take a bit more action.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: He started digging into her case a bit more seriously. Now,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Patrick couldn't ignore the timing. Cindy had just ended a
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: nearly twenty year marriage right sixteen years, and now she
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: was living alone for the first time in ages. That
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: kind of life change can leave someone very vulnerable and
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: in Patrick's mind, and it seemed pretty likely that her
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: ex husband might have something to do with all of this. Okay, now,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Cindy shut that theory down real fast. She told Constable
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Patrick that she didn't believe Roy would ever do something
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: like this. According to her, Roy was way too busy
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: with work to be sneaking around her house. And she
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: also said that she and Roy were actually on pretty
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: decent terms and that he would never hurt her.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, but also, I'm just gonna play devil's advocate. As
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: you say, being in a relationship takes a lot, like
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: a long a lot of your time, and so all
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, if you're not in a relationship, I
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: feel like you would have so much spare time that
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: he may have time to do this.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: That's true, That's very true. Now, one thing is clear, though,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: what she told officers, being you know, they're in good
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: terms and that he would never hurt her, it didn't
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: line up with her story she told friends and family
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: about her abuse during the marriage. Right Still, though, Cindy
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: insisted Roy was not a threat. In fact, she even
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: said that she called Roy before she contacted the police
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: about these events, and he'd actually been the one to
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: tell her that she needed to report everything to the
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: authorities and get some protection. So that doesn't exactly screamed guilt.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: If Roy was the one behind all this, why would
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: he encourage her to get the comps involved?
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Right? Well, I mean not necessarily. I feel like people
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: sometimes it's like covering your own book, right.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: True, But at one point, like he wants her to
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: be alone and vulnerable, right, getting the police involved is
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: going to make that harder. So most likely, not for sure,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I totally agree with you, but Devil's advocate. Most likely
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: he wouldn't want that to be the case, you know,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: m hm. So, hoping to get some outside perspective, Constable
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Patrick decided to check with the people living next door
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: to Cindy. Maybe someone had seen something. Turned out, one
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: of the neighbors they had. They told Patrick they'd noticed
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: a man hanging around outside these places more than once,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: sometimes during the day, sometimes late at night. The neighbor
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: even saw him walking right through Cindy's front gate once. Now,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: at the time, they figured this was just some new
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: boyfriend or something. After all, she's nearly single, right, so
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: they didn't think much of it. When the neighbor was
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: shown a photo of Roy, they didn't hesitate to say
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: that they were one hundred percent sure that that man
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: that they seen was not Roy.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I thought you were going to go the
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: other way with that one, but that's.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Why I lingered on the side. So drug it on
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: a bit to build that suspense and it worked, clearly did.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: But yeah, they confirmed that the man in that they
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: had seen lurking around was not Roy, not the same
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: guy in the photo that they the RCMP showed. Now,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: one more piece of the puzzle came from inside Cindy's
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: house itself. She had been renting out her basement to
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: a couple of tenants to help cover her bills. So
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Patrick talked to them too. Both of them said they'd
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: occasionally heard noises upstairs when Cindy should have been at work, footsteps,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: doors opening, that kind of thing. Now, at the time,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: they figured maybe Cindy would have just you know, come
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: home early from work whatever.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Right, Well, yeah, people always just make excuses up for things, right,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: because I mean that's human nature.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: So well exactly, And it's not like these people know
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Cindy's schedule, or probably don't know Cindy's schedule exactly.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Maybe she's sick and home or something.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Right, or swap shifts with someone else, you know. I'm
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: sure nurses probably do that because they got quite a
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: radic schedules off, right, So I would imagine that there
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: is some shifts swapping with them. I don't think that
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: would be uncommon. But now with everything happening, they were
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: starting to wonder if that person or footsteps or doors
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: closing that they were hearing was actually, you know, the
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: person who was tormenting Cindy. Now, Constable Patrick wasn't just
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: interested in Cindy's case. See, it quickly became personal for him.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Something about her situation really struck him, and after just
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: a couple of days in the case, he took it
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: upon himself to show up at her house with a
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: toolbox in hand, and he installed the dead bolts on
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: all of her trying to give her at least some
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: peace of mind.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, that like warms my heart.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. He also promised he'd stop by every day to
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: check in, just to make sure she was okay. Now,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: this kind of personal involvement is not exactly standard police procedure,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: but Patrick was already feeling a pull towards Sindry, that
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Cindy that went beyond just doing his job. Oh yeah,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: so he was starting to, you know, get some feelings
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: for her, right, okay, Yeah, So that attachment, that feeling,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: of course, eventually spilled into his personal life. His marriage,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: for example, would come to an end, and soon after
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: that he and Cindy officially started dating.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Oh shit, Okay, so this guy was even married.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: He was married, correct?
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Huh.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I'm unsure if he left his wife for Cindy, or
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: if the attention he was giving Cindy within the case
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: or other things caused trouble in the marriage for an
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: amicable split up, but one way or another, the marriage
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: ended and he ended up dating Cindy.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Dang. Okay, that is a plot twist that I did
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: not see coming.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of plot twists in this story, trust
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: me on that.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Now, from that point on, Patrick spent most of his
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: free time over at Cindy's place. What made all of
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: this weird though, was that, almost like clockwork, the second
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Patrick started hanging around, all the creepy calls, threats and
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: weird incidents, they just stopped. It was like whoever was
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: stalking Cindy didn't want a risk getting caught with Patrick around.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Well that doesn't make sense though it does.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: But then right before Halloween, Cindy found something chilling left
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: on her front porch. There was a ransom style note
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: made by cutting out letters from the newspaper and it
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: simply read quote soon.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Cindy, dot dot dot.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's had doc over. I know, I'm
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: not sad, cut out and pasted three dots, but now
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: shake and Cindy called Patrick immediately and asked him to
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: move in with her, hoping to have you know him
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: there full time and scaring off whoever was doing this.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Patrick didn't hesitate. He agreed right away. Now. Interestingly enough, though,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Cindy gave a slightly different version of events to her friends.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: You see, it's a little bit questionable in this situation
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: on who asked who to move in. See, according to her,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Patrick had actually offered to move in on his own,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: saying that he wanted to monitor the house during his
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: off hours. She insisted that even though they were dating him,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: staying there was purely for safety and nothing romantic about it. Okay, Interesting,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: So Patrick's saying that Cindy asked him to move in,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: and she's saying that Patrick asked to move in. Yeah yeah, Now,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: not long after Patrick moved in, something strange happened. One evening,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: he spotted Roy make Peace sitting alone in his car
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: parked right near Cindy's house. Oh dang, yeah, Roy is
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Cindy's ex husband. Right when Patrick approached him to ask
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: what the hell he was doing there, Roy casually told
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: him that he was just keeping an eye in the neighborhood,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: trying to catch the stalker himself. Apparently, he'd even brought
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: along two guns, a rifle and a handgun with him
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: sitting next to him in the car. Now, Patrick couldn't
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: exactly arrest him for you know, sitting in his car
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: in a street or something like that. Right, there's no
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: evidence that Roy was doing anything wrong, so he just
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: simply told Roy to pack up and go home and leave.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: So Roy left without argument. Now, this weird situation aside,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: there was something almost predictable about this whole situation. As
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: long as Patrick was physically in the house, the calls
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: and harassment completely stopped. Whoever was behind it seemed to
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: know exactly when Patrick was around and only target Cindy
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: when she was alone, and then not before long. That's
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: when the threats started showing up in a new form,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: handwritten notes, disturbing images. They were all left on her porch,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: stuck to her windows, or tucked under the windshield wiper
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: of her car. At one point, someone even cut the
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: phone line to her house, but every time the police investigated,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: they came up empty. No footprints, no fingerprints, no sign
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: of anyone coming or going. It was like her tormentor
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: was a ghost. After about a month of living together,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Cindy decided Patrick's present wasn't actually helping as much as
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: she'd hoped. If anything, the whole situation felt even more tense,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: and she was worried his constant presence was making things worse.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: They talked it over and Patrick agreed to move out,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: but on one condition, only if you could keep a
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: key to her house just in case of an emergency.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Cindy agreed, and even after he moved out, they kept
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: dating for about.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Okay, I was just gonna ask, was that like a
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: breakup or what?
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: No?
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: I mean?
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: And Cindy did say to her friends that, you know,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: them living together was for a safety thing, not a
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: romantic Yeah.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: So now, what Cindy didn't know was that, starting in
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: January of nineteen eighty three, the police began secretly wiring
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: her phone. They tapped her phone line. They hope that
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: if the caller kept up their campaign of terror, if
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: you will, they could finally trace the call and figure
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: out who was behind them.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, the calls were just a little too short for
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: each each time for the tech to pin down the
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: exact location. All they could figure out was that the
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: calls were coming from somewhere on the outskirts of Vancouver.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Six months after the nightmare began, things kept getting worse
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: and took a terrifying new turn. On January twenty seventh,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three, Cindy's friend and coworker, Agnes Woodcock, swung
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: by her house. See the two of them had made
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: plans to hang out after work that day, just a
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: low key evening to relax, catch up sort of thing.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: But when Agnes knocked, there was no answer. So she
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: tried knocking on the door again, and still no answer.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: The house was silent. Figuring Cindy might be in the shower,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: or maybe had dozed off or forgotten that Agnes was
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: showing up, whatever, she walked around to the back of
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: the house to see if there was another way to
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: get Cindy's attention inside, and that's when she stumbled onto
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: a terrifying scene. Agnes was horrified by what she found.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: She made her way to Cindy's garage, and there on
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: the cold floor was Cindy, crouched down, trembling with a
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: nylon stalking tightly wrapped around her neck. She was shaking
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: to her core, and though tears and panic, she told
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Agnes exactly what had happened. According to Cindy, she heard
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: a knock at the front door, and when she opened it,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: a man forced his way inside and drug her into
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: the garage, where a second man was already waiting for her. Together,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: they held her down and strangled her, both of them
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: putting their hands around her neck, squeezing until she thought
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: she'd pass out. She also told Agnes, though her memory
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: was fuzzy, she believed that one of the men had
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: sexually assaulted her with a knife.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: What the shit? Yeah, Okay, that is a huge escalation.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Isn't it. So before they left, the men warned Cindy
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: and then as she went to the police, they'd track
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: her sister down, her sister Melanie, and kill her.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: To prove they weren't bluffing, they told Cindy details about
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Melanie's life, things only someone who'd been watching her closely
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: would know.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Huh.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: When Agnes asked if Cindy could describe the attackers, all
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: she could say was that they were both wearing white sneakers,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: and that was the only detail that stuck in her mind. Now.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Despite these threats, Agnes didn't hesitate. She called the police
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: right away. When officers and paramedics arrived, they got Cindy
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: to the hospital for a full examination. But this is
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: where things got a little complic For someone who'd just
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: been overpowered by two grown men, Her injuries didn't really
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: line up with her story. Her neck was read from
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: a nylon stalking being tied around her neck, but there
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: were no deep bruises or signs that anyone had used
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: any serious force. We're talking her story was two men strangling.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Well yeah, and they were using their hands at points too,
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: so you think there'd be like handprints or something.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Bruising or something, But most of her injuries were minor
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: surface level scrapes and some small bruising, barely at all,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: nothing you'd expect from a violent assault from alleged two attackers.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: And furthermore, there was no physical evidence to suggest that
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: she'd been sexually assaulted at all, let alone with a knife.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, with a knife, that is. Oh, I can't
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: even imagine.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. The whole thing left investigators scratching their heads. If
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: someone had gone through all this trouble to terrorize Cindy,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: why had they left her alive? And if there really
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: were two men working together, who was the second person
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: lot alone the first? Right? Nothing about this made any sense.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: The inconsistencies made police more suspicious than sympathetic. They wanted answers,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: and they started to wonder if Cindy wasn't telling them everything.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: To get a better sense of what was going on,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: they asked her to see a psychiatrist, hoping a professional
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: might be able to help shed some light or you know,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: help her at all. But Cindy flat out refused. She
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: was terrified that if people found out she was seeing
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: a psychiatrist, they'd labeled her as unstable, and that was
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: the last thing she wanted. Now. Remember we are talking
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: about mental health in the eighties. Yeah, Instead, she compromised
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: and agreed to see a general practitioner who was also
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: experienced with counseling. It wasn't exactly what the police wanted,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: but it was better than nothing. Now. By this point,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: the investigation was at a complete stand still. The more Cindy
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: told them, the less things made sense at all. It
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: felt like there were so many large gaps in the
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: story and what was going on, you know, things that
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: she want wasn't saying, or maybe couldn't bring herself to say.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Hoping to get some clarity, they asked her to take
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: a polygraph test when the results came back, it confirmed
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: what they started to suspect. Cindy wasn't being completely honest
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: with authorities. There were things that she knew that she
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: just wasn't sharing with them.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: Okay, like maybe she knew these people or something. I
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Well, that's where we're gonna end part one.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Okay, what you look pissed? Well kind
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: of because this case is kind of like, I don't
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: know how to describe it, but it's just fucking all
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: over the place.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Really, it really is. Honestly, you nailed it. It's fucking
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: all over the place.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's just I don't know. It seems like
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: it plays with your mind a bit, like I don't know.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Well, there's a lot of things where it's like, oh,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: I believe Cindy, and then there's a lot of things
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: where it's like, oh, I don't believe Cindy. So you're
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: very at least I am very contrary adding myself and
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: my beliefs and my thoughts and what I want to
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: say is true and false because.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm left sitting here just being what the fuck
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: kind of thing, like what the fuck's happened here? And
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: now I have to fucking wait and tell Friday to
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: find out.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: I will promise you that what the fuck feeling will
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: stay even to the end. Oh gosh, okay, I promise you.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Huh wow.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: I mean yeah, it's just sitting here listening to this
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: It's the world is scary because I don't know. It
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: also just makes you uneasy too, because I don't know,
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: people are kind of fucked up.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: I like, how you just you're so angry with this
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: case that you get halfway through a sentence and you're like,
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know, well.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: I know. I even lately have been watching these shows
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: on Netflix too that I think I need to watch
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: something that's just I don't know, gives you a sense
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: that human nature or humans are not terrible people. Yeah, basically,
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: because right now I'm just like, oh my god, these
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: two bastards are doing this to her, and I'm just, yeah,
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: I'm kind of on Cindy side.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Actually, I feel like maybe we should watch some Disney movies.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: How's that?
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: M hmm.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Get a little bit more cheer going on. Yeah, Well,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: thank you guys for being here. Hopefully that you enjoyed this,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you in Part two. Where Yeah,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: we go through the rest of this and wrap up
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: the case. And trust me when I say, there is
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: a lot to this and that's what the fuck feeling
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: will be there through it all. But I still hope
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: you're enjoying this.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Nichole's not no I am. I'm just like I have
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: to go through my day now like this, wondering what
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: the hell I'm going to be testing Ben, I'll find
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: out the deeps. I'll post them on Instagram, just kidding,
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: just kidding.
• 44:46
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• 44:48
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• 44:50
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• 44:52
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• 44:55
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• 44:57
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• 44:59
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• 45:01
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• 45:04
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• 45:07
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• 45:08
  Speaker 1: And until next time, stay wicked.