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and start feeling great. You're

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listening to part three of Unexplained

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Season five, episode three, End

1:16

Game, as

1:23

well as the two way radio. Ozzie

1:25

Caban gave Cindy a panic button, which

1:28

she made a habit of carrying with her wherever

1:30

she went. The button

1:32

set off an alarm in Coban's office, which

1:35

would then in turn alert Coband to

1:37

notify the police that she was in trouble. In

1:40

October nineteen eighty eight, Cindy

1:43

triggered the alarm.

1:45

When police arrived at her home minutes later,

1:48

they found her car parked up in the garage,

1:50

with Cindy unconscious in the driver's

1:52

seat, partially naked from the waist

1:54

down, with her legs dangling

1:57

out of the open door. Duct

2:00

tape had been stuck over her mouth, and

2:03

yet another pair of black nylon stockings

2:06

had been tied around her neck. Her

2:08

hands had also been tied behind her

2:10

back. By the time

2:12

she made it to hospital, Cindy

2:15

was in a coma when

2:18

she finally woke up. All

2:20

she seemed to remember of the incident was

2:22

returning home in the car that afternoon,

2:25

and then being attacked by one or two

2:27

men just as she was about to get out

2:29

of it. Once again.

2:31

Police made a thorough search of the crime scene,

2:34

and once again they found nothing

2:36

to suggest that anyone else had been involved

2:39

in the apparent attack. By

2:41

the spring of nineteen eighty nine, Cindy

2:44

had triggered her panic alarm four more times.

2:47

She also received another intimidating

2:49

note, this time left on her

2:51

car windscreen and discovered by

2:53

a security guard at Richmond Hospital where

2:55

she worked. It read simply

2:59

Soon Cindy. One

3:07

afternoon in May nineteen eighty nine,

3:10

Cindy met with her friend and colleague Anne

3:12

in the canteen at the hospital where they worked.

3:15

Looking back on the meeting, Anne

3:17

recalled that Cindy was in a buoyant mood

3:20

and eagerly awaiting the five days leave

3:22

she had coming up. On

3:24

Thursday, May twenty fifth, Cindy

3:26

spoke with another good friend, Marion Christensen,

3:29

on the phone. Marion,

3:31

who often made the effort to check in with Cindy

3:34

to make sure she was doing okay, had

3:36

called to tell Cindy that she was planning a trip

3:38

to Vancouver Island in the next few days.

3:41

She hoped that they might be able to see each other.

3:44

On the call, Cindy told Marion

3:47

about her fears that things were beginning to

3:49

escalate again after months without incident,

3:52

and that she'd sometimes felt too scared to

3:54

even leave the house. In

3:57

spite of this, however, overall, she'd

3:59

seen happy and was looking forward

4:01

to attending her friend's son's ate the birthday

4:04

party that weekend. It

4:06

was shortly after that call that Cindy

4:08

drove out to Blundell Shopping Center on

4:11

Blundell Road to get some advice

4:13

about what skincare products she could use

4:15

to combat a problem that had recently

4:17

flared up on her face. After

4:20

that, she headed back to work to

4:22

collect her paycheck. Arriving

4:24

a little early, she met her friend

4:27

Diane for a quick coffee. Diane

4:29

remembered the moment well, especially

4:32

how good Cindy looked after her visit to the

4:34

moor, which she complimented her on. The

4:37

pair spoke a bit about the recent break

4:39

ins at Cindy's house and how Cindy

4:42

was otherwise in good spirits. However,

4:45

she also remembered Cindy being worried

4:47

that things might be too quiet, as

4:50

if something terrible was about to happen.

4:53

The pair arranged to have dinner the following evening

4:55

before saying their goodbyes. Cindy

4:59

picked up her page shortly after. Her

5:01

colleague Tammy, who handed it to her, later

5:04

remembered thinking it was the happiest she'd seen

5:06

Cindy in a while. Soon

5:09

after, at the home of Cindy's friends, Agnes

5:11

and Tom Woodcock, Agnes received

5:13

a call from Cindy. She was

5:15

back at the Blundell Center hoping to

5:18

find a present for her friend's son's upcoming

5:20

birthday. The pair spoke

5:22

for a short time, making arrangements

5:25

to meet at Cindy's apartment later that evening

5:27

to play bridge and stay the night. It

5:30

was the last time Agnes would ever speak

5:33

to her friend. As

5:41

they had arranged, the Woodcocks

5:43

arrived at Cindy's home on Claysmith Road

5:45

at ten pm. Normally,

5:48

Agnes liked to beat the horn when they drove

5:50

up to let Cindy know. They derived

5:53

Cindy would always appear at the window to wave

5:55

hello. That night, however,

5:58

she never appeared. As

6:01

Agnes and Tom drew up to the door, they

6:03

noticed too that Cindy's blue Chevrolet's

6:06

Citation wasn't in the drive. Having

6:09

got no response from knocking on the door, they

6:11

tried Cindy's neighbor, but he

6:13

hadn't seen her since she headed off to the shopping

6:16

mall six hours earlier. Agnes

6:19

and Tom returned to their car and waited.

6:23

When they'd spoken on the phone earlier, Cindy

6:25

said she'd be home before dark, and it

6:28

wasn't like her to be late. After

6:31

twenty minutes, the couple decided

6:33

to head home and call the police, but first

6:35

drive to the Blundell Center just in

6:37

case she might still be there. The

6:40

center had long since closed when the Woodcocks

6:43

pulled up into the parking lot, which

6:45

they found completely empty except

6:47

for one car parked up in the middle

6:49

of it, Cindy Chevrolet.

6:53

Pulling up to it, Agnes left the

6:55

headlights on as she and Tom went over

6:58

to check it out. Inside,

7:00

they spotted some bags of groceries on the front

7:02

seat, but no sign of Cindy. Now

7:06

deeply concerned, the Woodcocks drove

7:08

straight to the nearest police station, arriving

7:10

around eleven p m.

7:13

Heading straight to the front desk, they

7:15

reported to the staffer on duty that

7:18

Cindy had seemingly disappeared. However,

7:21

since it hadn't been twenty four hours, the

7:24

officer told them to go away and come

7:26

back the following day. Recently,

7:29

a constable named Jerry Anderson had

7:31

taken on Cindy's file and had

7:33

told her or her friends to contact him

7:36

if ever anything suspicious occurred.

7:38

Since Andersen wasn't working that night, there

7:41

was nothing the staffer would do for Agnes and

7:43

Tom, not even allow them

7:45

to speak to another officer to explain the

7:47

situation. Not

7:50

taking no for an answer, the couple

7:52

refused to leave the station until finally

7:54

another officer appeared mercifully

7:57

after the Woodcock explained everything too,

7:59

they despatched a patrol

8:01

car immediately to the Blundell Center

8:11

At twelve thirty am. Constable

8:13

Jerry Anderson had just got into bed when

8:15

the station rang to inform him that Cindy's

8:18

car had been found seemingly abandoned.

8:21

But more than that, the attending officer

8:23

had also found blood on the door and

8:25

Cindy's bank and ID cards scattered

8:28

underneath it. Anderson got

8:30

dressed and headed straight to the police station.

8:34

Two weeks prior to her disappearance, Cindy

8:37

had written a letter to Constable Anderson's

8:39

department bemoaning the lack of trust

8:41

she'd felt in most of her dealings with the police.

8:44

Constable Anderson, who she described

8:46

as the only officer she could trust and feel

8:49

comfortable with, was the exception. Later

8:52

that night, after briefing his staff

8:54

on the situation, Anderson called

8:56

Cindy's parents to let them know she

8:58

was missing. As

9:01

forensics dusted the car for Prince, two

9:04

mounties were sent to search Cindy's house

9:06

for clues. Inside,

9:08

they found a clean and well looked after home.

9:11

A deck of playing cards and a score pat

9:13

were set up on the table in preparation

9:16

for the card game that Cindy had been due to

9:18

play with Agnes and Tom.

9:20

An hour later, Cindy's car

9:23

was being loaded onto the back of a truck and

9:26

taken to the police impound lot to

9:28

be examined the following day. Aside

9:31

from the smear of blood on the door, forensics

9:34

had found nothing else of note on the outside

9:36

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Constable Anderson sent two officers

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police had yet to find a solid reason to

11:19

suspect that Makepeace had anything to

11:22

do with all that Cindy had supposedly

11:24

been experiencing, they also

11:26

hadn't been able to rule it out. It

11:29

had just gone three am when Constable's

11:31

Bowl and Strand arrived at the apartment

11:34

block where he lived near Kitsilano

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Beach. Spotting another resident

11:38

entering the building, the two Mounties

11:40

took the opportunity to let themselves in

11:43

and head up to make Peace's apartment.

11:46

When they tried to speak to make Peace, however,

11:49

the doctor refused to let them in.

11:52

Instead, he phoned the building manager,

11:54

who arrived soon after to see what all the

11:57

fuss was about. Only

11:59

after the officers had shown their id to

12:01

the manager did Makepeace finally

12:03

grant them access to his flat. Appearing

12:07

on edge, Makepeace told the Mounties

12:09

to keep their distance and to go into

12:11

the living room where he could see them better. The

12:15

officers cautiously complied, casting

12:17

their eyes over the apartment as they went.

12:20

Makepeace then went on to explain that

12:23

his nervousness was to do with a series

12:25

of strange things that had happened recently

12:27

in the area that had left him on shore

12:29

of who to trust. He'd even been

12:32

keeping a gun in the apartment, he told them

12:34

for his own protection, and even

12:36

pulled it out to show them.

12:39

When asked to account for his recent whereabouts

12:41

in the last twenty four hours, Makepeace

12:43

explained that he'd cycled to Richmond and

12:45

then headed back to Vancouver for dinner with

12:47

a friend. He then spent the evening

12:50

helping to install a stereo system at his

12:52

friend's house before returning to

12:54

his apartment at midnight. His

12:56

friend would later confirm this. So

13:00

in Richmond yesterday afternoon, said

13:02

Constable bowl Why,

13:04

asked Makepeace, what's going on.

13:08

The officers then explained that Cindy's

13:10

car had been found at the Blundell shopping

13:12

Center, but there was no sign of Cindy.

13:16

Makepeace stood shaking his head. My

13:19

god, she's dead. She's dead,

13:21

he said. Collecting

13:23

himself, Makepeace told the officers

13:26

that he had something they might want to listen

13:28

to. Two messages he'd

13:30

received on his answering machine the previous

13:32

October. It was hard to say

13:35

which was the more strange one

13:38

delivered in a raspy voice said

13:40

more smack more downers another

13:43

grand after we waste no

13:45

more deal, and the other

13:48

was this one.

14:04

Makepeace thought the voice had said Sunday

14:07

dead meat soon. Since the

14:09

Sunday before he got the message, he'd

14:11

seen two characters who seemed out of place

14:13

to him hanging outside his apartment

14:16

block. The men walked away

14:18

when they noticed that Makepeace was eyeing them

14:20

from his car on the other side of the road.

14:23

The doctor wondered if they'd been the same men,

14:25

perhaps that attacked Cindy, looking

14:28

to hurt him too. When

14:30

he played the message to a friend, however, they

14:33

realized the voice wasn't saying Sunday

14:35

dead meat soon, but Cindy

14:38

dead meat soon. Makepeace

14:41

said he hadn't told the police about the takes before

14:44

because he'd grown distrustful of them after

14:46

all the years of being considered a suspect

14:48

in the attacks on his ex wife. The

14:57

morning after Cindy's disappearance, her

15:00

sister Melanie received a letter from

15:02

Cindy in the post. It

15:04

read, this is just a wee

15:07

note on this beautiful paper to say hi,

15:09

hope all is well with you and thanks

15:11

for the interesting mail you've sent. In the last while,

15:15

I've been busy in the garden whenever I can,

15:17

getting it slowly in shape. We've

15:19

had some really nice weather lately. I'm

15:22

still getting harassed from time to time by

15:24

some one trying to break in here. But I

15:26

think we've come up with the solution. If it doesn't

15:28

cost too much. Goud is going

15:31

to wire in a censer for me, so hopefully

15:33

we'll know when someone enters the back yard and

15:36

we can quietly call the police while he's busy

15:38

doing his thing. I'm

15:40

really hopeful we might actually catch him soon.

15:43

Wouldn't that be wonderful. I

15:45

could actually start living a normal life again.

15:48

I've almost forgotten what that feels like. The

15:51

police have been pretty useless, so

15:54

it would be wonderful to hand him over on

15:56

a silver platter. Well,

15:58

I must bathe and get ready for Marion to pick

16:01

me up. Hope to hear from you soon.

16:04

By the afternoon, an extensive

16:06

search by Richmond Police, including

16:09

searching the shoreline and interviewing

16:11

anyone within a half block radius at the Blundell

16:14

Center, had turned up nothing. Shortly

16:17

after five pm, Constable Anderson

16:20

arrived at the police compound to examine

16:22

Cindy's car. Cindy's

16:24

black purse was found on the front passenger

16:26

seat between two brown paper bags

16:29

of groceries, with another two bags

16:31

of groceries on the floor. On

16:33

the back seat, they found two Seers

16:35

bags with the croquet set and some wrapping

16:38

paper, the gift Cindy had

16:40

bought for her friend's son. A

16:42

Bank of Montreal deposit slip revealed

16:45

that she deposited her paycheck at the Center

16:47

at seven fifty eight PM,

16:50

the last of her known whereabouts. Curiously,

16:54

police also found a pad of paper in

16:56

the glove compartment with the words

16:59

small silver and KdV

17:01

seven eighty four written on it, as

17:04

if Cindy had at some point noted down

17:06

a suspicious vehicle she'd seen. The

17:09

plate was checked against all known plates in

17:11

British Columbia, but again nothing

17:14

turned up. The handheld

17:16

alarm that Ozzie Caban had given her, which

17:18

she made sure to take with her wherever she

17:20

went, was also found in the

17:22

glove box. A

17:25

few days after Cindy's body was found,

17:28

Richard Johnston, a life insurance

17:30

agent who'd sold Cindia policy,

17:33

recently called Constable Anderson

17:35

to let him know that a man had

17:37

contacted his office requesting details

17:40

about the policy, claiming to be Cindy's

17:42

father, He denied all knowledge

17:44

of the call. Around

17:47

the same time, the words some

17:50

bitch died here were graffitied

17:52

onto a fuel tank beside the house

17:54

where Cindy's body was found. Presumably

17:57

the same person had also painted a

18:00

rude outline of a body in orange

18:02

paint on the ground. As

18:05

Cindy's death began to hit the news, so

18:08

too did stories begin to emerge about

18:10

the bizarre circumstances leading up

18:12

to her disappearance. With Cindy's

18:14

father Otto acting as the family spokesperson,

18:17

it was often up to him to outline to the

18:20

press the extent of the almost

18:22

seven years of harassment at attacks

18:24

that Cindy had apparently suffered in the lead

18:26

up to her death, while decrying the

18:28

police's inability to find a perpetrator.

18:33

As a result, the police were inundated

18:35

with tips and suggestions by members of

18:37

the public as to what might have happened,

18:40

but no genuine leads came out of it.

18:43

Ozzie Caban, who was on holiday at the time,

18:45

learned as Cindy's death the day after her

18:48

body was found After getting

18:50

the first fight home, he went straight

18:52

to the morgue to inspect the body for himself.

18:55

After learning that it had been found on

18:57

its right hand side, he was surprised

18:59

to find blotching and signs of lividity

19:02

the pooling of blood on the left

19:04

hand side. Kaban

19:07

also thought it strange that the skin was

19:09

so dry considering the shady

19:11

and damp area where the body had been found,

19:14

nor did it seem to have been much damaged

19:16

by other animals, all

19:19

of which suggested that perhaps Cindy had

19:21

died elsewhere and the body taken

19:23

to the place it was found. Later On,

19:33

on June twelfth, nineteen eighty nine,

19:35

and what would have been Cindy's forty fifth

19:37

birthday, friends and family gathered

19:39

at her apartment to mourn her death. At

19:43

her funeral two days later, the

19:45

police used hidden cameras to record the

19:47

faces and license plate numbers of

19:49

all who attended. Doctor roy

19:51

Makepeace was a notable absentee,

19:55

since it had never been a particularly well

19:57

kept secret. It wasn't long before

19:59

the press what wind of what many in the police

20:01

force really felt about Cindy's death.

20:04

Within days, articles were already

20:07

circulating questioning both Cindy's

20:09

mental health and the veracity of all

20:11

those harassment claims, for which there

20:13

were almost a hundred in total. Cindy's

20:16

family were incensed by the speculation.

20:20

Twenty days after the body was found, despite

20:23

being discovered with a stocking around her neck,

20:26

toxicology results revealed that Cindy

20:28

had most likely died from an overdose

20:30

of the sedative florazepam. Dangerous

20:33

levels of one other sedative and morphine

20:36

were also present. With

20:38

so many unanswered questions, the

20:40

inquest into Cindy's death began in April

20:43

the following year and evolved eighty

20:45

witnesses as well as a number of expert

20:47

testimonies. Some psychiatrists

20:50

argued that perhaps Cindy had been suffering

20:52

from some kind of multiple personality

20:55

disorder, while others disputed

20:57

this possibility. This diagnosis,

21:00

now referred to as dissociative identity

21:02

disorder, remains a deeply controversial

21:05

and much contested one. Though

21:08

some argued that Cindy couldn't possibly

21:10

have tied her own hands and feet behind her

21:12

back in the manner in which her body was

21:14

found, a not specialist was

21:16

asked to attempt it themselves for the inquest,

21:19

they found they were able to achieve something similar

21:22

in just under fifteen minutes, enough

21:24

time perhaps for Cindy to drug herself

21:27

and then make it to where her body was eventually

21:29

found. Ozzie

21:31

Kaban, for one, didn't believe that

21:34

Cindy would have been able to stage that kind

21:36

of death on her own. Detective

21:38

Bowyer Smythe had also remained

21:41

convinced throughout that Cindy had

21:43

been the victim of a terrifying harassment

21:45

campaign. When asked

21:47

at the inquest to point to who he thought

21:49

was responsible, he pointed to

21:52

doctor Roy makepeace. After

21:56

thirty days, the inquest was brought

21:58

to an end on May twenty, nineteen

22:01

ninety, a year to the day that Cindy

22:03

died. In the end,

22:06

the jury were unable to rule whether the death

22:08

was an accident, a murder, or

22:10

suicide. Katherine

22:13

Kinahan, who summed up at the inquest,

22:15

said, the Vancouver Police Department's

22:18

position is that Cindy's death was

22:20

suicide or accident. The

22:22

proper verdict is the so called open

22:24

ended verdict. It would be pointless

22:27

to reopen the investigation at this stage.

22:30

It's not going to solve the case. There

22:32

is no more evidence to be found. The

22:36

Vancouver Sun reporter Neil Hall,

22:39

whose nineteen ninety one book The Deaths

22:41

of Cindy provides extensive coverage

22:44

of the case, called it the

22:46

most baffling case that he'd ever come across.

22:49

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22:51

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22:55

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22:57

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