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You're listening to part two of Unexplained,

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Season five, episode three, End

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Game. After

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the second apparent serious assault

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on Cindy in her home, though some

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in the force were beginning to seriously doubt

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her credibility, attention turned

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briefly again to doctor Roy Makepeace.

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In the following days, he was pulled

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in for extensive questioning. During

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an intense six hour interview, Makepeace

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conceded that he had physically hurt

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Cindy in the past, but would never think

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of doing anything remotely like what appeared

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to have been done to her. It was then

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suggested by Makepeace that maybe

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someone connected to Cindy's line of work,

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being as she was a care of for troubled

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children, had been responsible an

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angry relative of one of the children. Perhaps

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his theory wasn't pursued. In

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June nineteen eighty three, Cindy's

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private investigator, Ozzi Kaban, was

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alerted to another break in at Cindy's

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home. After racing to her

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apartment, he found a deeply upset

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Cindy poring over yet another distressing

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note that she'd apparently received.

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As she explained she'd returned

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home after work earlier that day

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to find the back door left open again.

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Hearing her dog, Heidi, whimpering

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in pain from inside, she rushed

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in to find her badly beaten and tied

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up to the kitchen table. She

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found the note next to Heidi. It

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read last day's warning death

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Happy Birthday, Cindy. Cindy's

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birthday was June fourteenth.

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It was more evidence to Kaban that her

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attacker was someone she knew.

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Then, late one evening in July,

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a resident of West thirty third Avenue

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in Vancouver, some two miles

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away from Cindy's apartment, heard

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what sounded like someone trying to get

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in through their front door, keeping

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the chain on the latch. He pulled the

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door open and was startled to find

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a distressed and disorientated woman

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stumbling about on his doorstep, clawing

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at something tied tightly around

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her neck. It was Cindy.

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When police received the calls that Cindy

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had been attacked again, Detective

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David Bowyer Smythe was swiftly

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dispatched to investigate Ozzi.

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Kaban was also quick to arrive on

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the scene. Cindy

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had told Kaban earlier that night that

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she was heading out to Dunbar Park, located

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between west thirty first and thirty

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third Avenue, just a few blocks from

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where she was found to take Heidi

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for a walk. They'd been there

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roughly thirty minutes before she decided

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to head home. It was while

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walking westwards on thirty third Avenue

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that a dark green van with a blurred

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out window apparently pulled up alongside

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her. Though she couldn't be sure,

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she believed there were two figures in the front,

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one she described as a white, bearded

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male and the other a female,

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also white, with long blonde hair.

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The driver had asked for directions, and

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the next thing she knew, she was being

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dragged somewhere before later coming

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too in some bushes by the side

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of the road. When Caban

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and Bowyer Smythe first arrived to speak

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with Cindy, she appeared unusually drowsy,

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as if she had been drugged, and had twigs

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and leaves wedged inside her trousers.

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Her dog, Hidi was nowhere to be

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seen. Caban would

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find her later wandering around aimlessly

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a few blocks away. As

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perplexed as ever detected. Bowyer

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Smythe headed straight out to Dunbar

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Community Center car park and promptly

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located Cindy's car where she

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said it would be. Next

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he made his way to the spot where she claimed

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she was momentarily abducted. The

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detective flicked on his flashlight and

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shot it toward the ground, moving

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it about in the dark as the occasional

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car drove by on the road behind him.

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He suddenly came to a stop. There

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under the light of the torch, he saw

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what appeared to be recently made

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drag marks in the dirt, as

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if a body had been suddenly dragged

4:30

off the pavement at that precise spot.

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It was enough to convince Detective Bowyer

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Smythe to have Cindy's case passed

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up to the RCMP made

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a crime's unit for

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Cindy's family and friends. It seemed

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like the police were now beginning to take her

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claims more seriously, giving them

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reason to hope that they might finally

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start to get some solid answers. But

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things were only about to get even

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more peculiar. Gray

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clouds hang low in the sky. She

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is standing by the water's edge on

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a mild summer's day as a light

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rain begins to fall. Roy

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is with her. They are getting into

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a boat and pushing off from Thormonby

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Island, a small island located

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just off the mainland about forty miles

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west of Vancouver. Now

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they are dropping anchor somewhere Buccaneer

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Bay. She thinks a small cove

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on the northwest shore of South Thormonby.

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At least that's where they stayed on the first

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night of the trip. It

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was January nineteen eighty five, and Cindy

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is sitting with her eyes closed in the office

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of hypnotherapist Carl Booker, recounting

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a trip she'd taken with her husband back

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in July of nineteen eighty one. The

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sessions had been Ozzikaban's idea

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and had begun in August, three

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weeks after the last apparent attack on

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Cindy. Frustrated

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by the police's inability to make any

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inroads into identifying a perpetrator,

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Kaban had suggested visiting a hypnotherapist

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to see if it might jog her memory and help

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provide more information about her assailants.

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At the first session, Cindy added

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that she had in fact been dragged into the van

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and injected in the arm by the man, who,

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on reflection, she thought might have been

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wearing a mask. At the time. She

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also described how her blouse had been

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ripped in the assault, and how she'd heard

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one of the attackers use the word hembagosh,

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an Afrikan's word which translates

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to be careful in English,

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something Cindy had heard her estranged husband's

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Roy use on many occasions. In

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the second session, Cindy provided

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a more detailed description of the van, but

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little else, and

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that's how things would have ended had Cindy

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not got in touch with Kaban a few weeks later,

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claiming to be suffering from apparent nightmares

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and flashbacks that she thought might

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relate to something horrific she'd experienced

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but had since suppressed. In

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January eighty five, Kaban took

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Cindy to see cal Booker again to

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find out what the flashbacks might relate

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to. Detective BOYA. Smythe

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and Staff Sergeant Crisp Jornerude

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from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police accompanied

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them. It is fair to say that

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nobody was quite prepared for

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what happened next. Cindy's

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regression continued. The

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day after arriving on Thornmonby Island

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had been a sunny one, so she and Roy

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decided to have a barbecue and just spend

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the day relaxing outside. Their

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friend Old Joe even stops by

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to join them. That's

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good, said Booker. Now what

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happened on the Wednesday? Cindy

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seemed to hesitate for a moment. Go

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on, Booker urged again. They

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set off early, she says, with Roy

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rowing the boat again. There is fishing

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gear with them now. She doesn't

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know where they're going, something about

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a property that Roy wants to take a look

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at, but she doesn't want to go. Doesn't

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know what they need another property for, but

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Roy insists. They

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turn left out of the bay when she'd

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expected them to go right. She

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hasn't been this way before. Cindy

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shifted in the chair and seemed to grow

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more and more uncomfortable. They're

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approaching a different island now, she says,

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not one she recognizes, and

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draw up to a log jetty of some sort.

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A wooden cabin lies just off the water.

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There are some other houses dotted about, but

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not much else. Roy

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tells her to stay in the boat as he steps

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onto the jetty and heads toward the cabin

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closest to them. It

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has a log roof and a small front

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porch. She

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feels anxious. Left alone in the boat,

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She calls out to Roy, but he doesn't

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reply, and now

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she is stepping off the boat and making

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her way toward the cabin. She

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knocks on the door, suddenly

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feeling a little silly.

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Roy is nowhere to be seen. She

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tries the handle and finds the door

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unlocked. She

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pushes it open and

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said Booker, what did you

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see inside kaban?

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And the two officers inch forward

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in anticipation. No,

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I can't, said Cindy, her

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face screwing up in horror. But

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you must, said Booker. Cindy,

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her eyes still tightly closed, continued,

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there are two bodies on the floor, a

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man and a woman I don't recognize, and

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blood everywhere. Roy

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is standing over the bodies. He has

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a knife in his hand. He is angry,

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as Cindy then went on to detail. At

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this point, she ran out of the cabin, grabbed

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the porch rail, and vomited over the side.

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The next thing she knew, she was running

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to the boat, with Roy chasing after her,

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demanding that she listened to him. Then

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he hit her across the face, she said, telling

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her to calm down. She

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then claimed to see more blood and

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an axe swinging down imbedding

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into something she couldn't see, and

10:45

Roy telling her that her mother and sisters

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would be next if she ever told any

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one. And then they were back

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on the water, pauling two large

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bags from out of the boat and throwing them

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overboard. Booker

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brought the session to an end, Kaban

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and the detectives sat back in astonishment.

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By the end of that afternoon session, Cindy

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had effectively implicated her estranged

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husband Roy in the murder and dismemberment

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of two unknown individuals. This

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startling and unexpected revelation seemed

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to provide investigators with two possible

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insights into Cindy's situation. On

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the one hand, if Makepeace had indeed

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committed a murder, it stood to reason

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that he could also be Cindy's mysterious

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attacker. On the other hand,

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if Cindy had been doing it all to herself,

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the revelation of this trauma was at

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the very least a potential explanation

11:50

for such bizarre behavior. There

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remained, of course, the possibility that Cindy's

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recollection of her trip to Thormonby Island

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was deliberately fabricated. But

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perhaps most complicated of all, there

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was also the possibility that Cindy's

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story was in fact just a symbolic

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and metaphorical expression of her feelings

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toward her estranged husband, as

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opposed to a literal account of a horrific

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event. Either way, having

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given her account of the trip, the Royal

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Canadian Mountain Police investigators

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had little choice but to look into it further.

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As it transpired, Cindy had

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indeed gone on a trip to Thormonby Island

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with her husband around the time in question.

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However, as investigators soon discovered,

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they had also been joined by her sister Melanie,

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who had no memory of anything unto ward

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taking place. A few

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days later, Cindy was back on a

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boat in Buccaneer Bay, this

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time accompanied by Ozzi Caban

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and a Sergeant Ferguson, as they searched

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for the cabin on the small island that she

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had depicted under hypnosis. Despite

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spending the best part of the day searching for

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it, however, it remained elusive.

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Roy make Peace was once again brought

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in for questioning. Outraged that

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they would take Cindy's story seriously

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enough to quiz him about it again,

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police find nothing incriminating

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Afterwards, make Peace makes the decision

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to cut all ties with Cindy for good,

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sessions, her mental health deteriorated

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zero physical evidence link Roy

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make Peace to any murder or any

15:02

of the attacks that Cindy supposedly endured.

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What can't be ascertained is to what degree

15:07

she really believed it had happened. In

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June nineteen eighty five, Cindy

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was rushed to hospital having overdosed

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on pills in an apparent suicide

15:17

attempt. She was subsequently

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diagnosed with depression and moved

15:22

to Vancouver's Lionsgate Hospital

15:24

for her own protection and put on

15:26

a course of antidepressants. With

15:29

police yet to rule make Peace out entirely

15:32

as a suspect to a possible murder,

15:34

they arranged to have Cindy called him up so

15:37

they could listen in while she asked him

15:39

about what exactly took place on

15:41

their nineteen eighty one trip to Thormanby

15:43

Island. When she

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did, make Peace accused Cindy

15:48

of being insane and denied everything.

15:51

Both Cindy and make Peace were then placed

15:53

under twenty four hour police surveillance for

15:56

the next seven days, during which

15:58

Cindy claimed her phone line were cut again.

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The police, however, saw nothing

16:03

incriminating. The next

16:05

few months were relatively incident free,

16:08

though Cindy continued to report a number

16:10

of threatening calls and yet another

16:12

sinister note, this time in the

16:15

form of a book with a nylon stocking

16:17

placed inside it. Though

16:19

Cindy continued to confide in her friends

16:21

about it all, there were hopes that

16:24

the worst might now be behind her. On

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a freezing cold day in early December,

16:30

a resident cycling through the University

16:32

Endowment Lands, some six miles

16:35

west of Cindy's house, spotted

16:37

a woman lying unconscious in a ditch.

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Rushing to help, the cyclist was horrified

16:43

to find a black nylon stocking tied

16:46

tightly around the woman's neck. One

16:49

of her feet was exposed, while on

16:51

the other she wore a large work boot

16:53

while on her hands, she wore only one

16:56

glove. When the woman eventually

16:58

came round confirmed she

17:00

was Cindy makepeace. She

17:03

claimed not to remember anything of the

17:05

attack. Following

17:12

what was by then a fourth apparent

17:15

violent attack, Cindy was sent

17:17

for a consultation with doctor Anthony

17:20

Marcus, a forensic psychiatrist

17:22

with the University of British Columbia.

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After a couple of meetings, Marcus

17:28

came to the devastating conclusion that

17:30

Cindy was indeed her own stalker,

17:33

as many in the police force had come to

17:35

suspect. However,

17:37

it wasn't simply that she was deliberately faking

17:40

the attacks or lying about the phone

17:42

calls. He suggested. Instead,

17:45

it was his belief that Cindy was intermittently

17:48

falling in and out of a psychogenic

17:50

fugue state. If this

17:52

were the case, she would have no recollection

17:54

of what she was doing to herself, and

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as a result, have every reason to

17:59

believe that she really was being attacked.

18:02

According to doctor Marcus's diagnosis,

18:05

this could well have been brought on as a consequence

18:07

of a severe trauma that Cindy

18:09

had previously suffered. Though

18:12

close friends and family as well as her

18:14

private investigator Ozzy Caban, remained

18:17

convinced that Cindy truly was being attacked.

18:20

For many in the police, Marcus's

18:22

assessment was effectively the end

18:24

of the matter. Doctor

18:26

Marcus also suggested to Cindy

18:29

that they begin regular therapy sessions

18:31

to treat the condition, but she declined

18:33

the offer because she was already visiting

18:36

a therapist at the time. Doctor

18:38

Connolly, her regular therapist, was

18:41

more sympathetic to the idea that

18:43

Cindy was genuinely under attack from

18:45

an unknown assailant. In

18:48

April nineteen eighty six, feeling

18:50

somewhat abandoned by the police and

18:53

more fearful for her life than ever, Cindy

18:55

invited her good friends Agnes and Tom

18:58

Woodcock to stay the night with her. They

19:01

were just settling down to sleep when

19:03

Cindy burst into their room in a

19:05

panic. Together,

19:07

they ran downstairs to find with horror

19:10

that the basement was on fire. As

19:12

Cindy yelled for some one to call the fire service,

19:15

Agnes ran to the phone, but when

19:17

she tried to use it, the line was

19:19

completely dead. When

19:22

Tom then ran out to alert the neighbors,

19:25

he spotted a figure in the shadows

19:27

seemingly watching the house from across

19:29

the street, but when Tom

19:31

called out to them for help, the figure

19:34

simply turned and ran off

19:36

into the darkness. Later

19:38

that evening, with the fire safely extinguished,

19:41

ARCMP investigators found a

19:44

possible point of entry for an intruder,

19:46

a bathroom window that looked to

19:48

have been forced open. On

19:51

closer inspection, however, it was

19:53

determined to have been forced open from

19:55

the inside. That, coupled

19:58

with the discovery of liquid celerant all

20:01

over the basement carpet, led

20:03

them to conclude that Cindy was the culprit.

20:06

A check on doctor Roy Matepiece's whereabouts

20:09

was made just in case, but he was

20:11

found to be in South Africa at the time.

20:15

Only two weeks previously, Agnes

20:17

and Tom had been staying at Cindy's home

20:20

when her burglar alarm was triggered. Cindy

20:23

was sat playing cards with them at the time.

20:27

When they went to investigate, they found

20:29

that part of the basement doors glass window

20:32

had been completely removed after

20:40

the fire. Cindy's misery was compounded

20:43

when her insurance company refused to pay up

20:45

for the damages, and she was served in a

20:47

fiction notice from her property. Despite

20:51

everything. Throughout it all, Cindy

20:53

had continued her work at Blenheim House, which

20:55

many believe was one of the few positives

20:58

that Cindy had to hold on to. However,

21:01

on the advice of her therapist, doctor Connolly,

21:04

Cindy took a six month leave of absence

21:06

from work and was committed to Saint

21:08

Paul's Psychiatric Hospital in Vancouver.

21:12

While at Saint Paul's, Cindy was assessed

21:14

by a number of psychologists who,

21:17

although on sure of the correct diagnosis,

21:19

all came to a similar conclusion to doctor

21:21

Anthony Marcus that Cindy had

21:24

effectively manufactured her own

21:26

stalker. After

21:28

two months, Cindy was deemed well

21:30

enough to be released, and in September

21:33

nineteen eighty seven, she moved to her

21:35

property on Claysmith Road in Richmond.

21:39

With her divorce from Roy now finalized,

21:42

Cindy changed her name from make Peace

21:44

to James. With

21:47

Cindy's life appearing to have stabilized,

21:49

she was dealt a huge blow when she was

21:51

asked to resign from her job at Blenheim

21:54

House. Some claimed

21:56

it was due to poor performance, while

21:58

others believed she was unfairly maligned.

22:00

After details about her medical history

22:03

were leaked to her superiors. Though

22:06

distraught at having to leave the job she

22:08

loved, Cindy confided in friends

22:10

that at the very least, perhaps now she'd

22:12

finally hit rock bottom, her stalker

22:15

might leave her alone rather

22:17

than wallow in it all. Incredibly,

22:20

Cindy fought hard to turn her life around,

22:22

and after enrolling again in a series

22:24

of nursing courses, she managed to secure

22:27

a new job the following year at Richmond

22:29

General Hospital, and by

22:31

the summer of nineteen eighty eight, over

22:34

a year had gone by without a sinister incident.

22:36

As a refreshed and hopeful Cindy reveled

22:39

in the freedom of her new life. For

22:42

a moment, it seemed the distresses

22:44

of the past were finally behind

22:47

her, but all that

22:49

was about to change. You've

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been listening to Unexplained Season five,

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