Unsolved Mysteries: Death of Cindy James - What happened to Cindy James? Disturbing details of the 1989 case, revealed 

A recent episode of Unsolved Mysteries once again brought to the limelight the strange and horrific case of Cindy James. As revealed by Unsolved Mysteries, Cindy James was found dead in the yard of an abandoned building in the otherwise peaceful Canadian suburb of Richmond, near Vancouver. Cindy James was forty-four years old at the time of her death, and her lifeless corpse was discovered in a shocking state, with a black stocking tied tightly around her neck and her hands and feet tied behind her back.

Unsolved Mysteries further recounted that the most bizarre turn in the case was the fact that prior to her death, Cindy James had reported almost a hundred cases of assault and harassment over a seven-year period, and yet her death was ruled by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as either suicide or an accident.

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Unsolved Mysteries: Cindy James reported being harassed right after divorcing her husband

The Unsolved Mysteries episode revealed that James studied to be a nurse and then went on to work at a preschool for children with behavioral issues. She began receiving threatening calls and notes from unknown assailants four months after divorcing her husband, Roy Makepeace. This subsequently gave way to a seven-year ordeal during which she reported nearly a hundred instances of being harassed and assaulted, with five instances of serious physical assault. Her father, Otto Hack, had commented at the time:

"The police did not investigate the possibility of homicide, of somebody murdering her, but zeroed in on trying to prove that she committed suicide. Of course, I think that we should add a qualifier there that she was very, very reluctant to talk about this right to the end, and our feeling was that she was withholding something extremely vital.”

Similarly, her mother, Tillie Hack, had stated:

"She said it was just a voice. Sometimes it would change, the sound, and sometimes it was just whispering. Sometimes it was just nothing, just silence.”

The instances of assault began with suspicious phone calls threatening Cindy, and she was unable to recognize the voice at the other end of the line. Soon her porch lights were vandalized, phone lines cut, and she was assaulted and recovered in a semi-conscious state numerous times. As the years passed on, the police began suspecting that not all of the cases of harassment were true, leading them to believe that maybe James was staging them herself.

Unsolved Mysteries: Cindy James' bizarre disappearance

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James mysteriously disappeared on May 25, 1989, and her car was found in the parking lot of a nearby shopping plaza. Blood was discovered on the driver's seat door, and the contents of her wallet were found under the car. There were groceries inside and a wrapped gift. Two weeks later, James' former husband, Roy Makepeace, discovered her body at an abandoned house about one kilometer from the shopping plaza.

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