Victim or Torturer? The Curious Case of Cindy James (8 photos)
The events of this strange story began to develop rapidly after the divorce of Vancouver resident Cindy James from her husband Roy Makepeace. 
They married in 1966 when young Cindy graduated from high school. nurses. The girl was only 19 years old, and the chosen one was a psychiatrist Roy Makepeace is already 37.
Simultaneously with the main work, she took up counseling for children. Perhaps this is how Cindy realized her mother's instinct, since the couple did not have their own children. 
Cindy
After the dissolution of the marriage, the nurse began to tell that is constantly confronted with manifestations of violence - psychological and even sometimes physical by an unknown man. First he called and whispered her name into the phone, accompanied by threats.
Then stalking became more frequent. And the nurse began to talk about a person who wandered around the house at night. Such cases have been recorded over a hundred because Cindy went to the police. next step became a broken lantern, a cut telephone wire and notes with threats on the doorstep.
Yes, the police first came to the call. But nothing found. Accordingly, a reasonable explanation was the desire of a lonely women to attention.
A friend who arrived in early 1983, Agnes Woodcock found Cindy in the corner of the garage. She trembled and whispered that the unknown attacked her, grabbed her from behind. But she managed to escape and hide. After In this story, the woman moved, repainted the car, changed her last name. But the messages and calls kept coming.
The police did not ignore the nurse's statements. But since there were a lot of calls, the detectives treated the calls quite relaxed. And the woman hired a private detective and part-time Ozzy Caban's bodyguard. 
Notes-collages
But this measure did not help. Whole notes were added to the usual notes collages made from newspaper clippings. By mail several times parcels with rotten meat came. One day, Cindy discovered that the trees in the yard are decorated with terrible "decorations": someone hung them on branches of stray cats. But one corpse had a note with the words "You next". 
Roy Makepeace
One night, the detective heard a noise on his walkie-talkie and rushed to client home. Ozzy found his employer on the kitchen floor without consciousness. Pinned to the palm of the hand with a knife was a note with a similar content.
The ambulance arrived and recorded the injection mark and the wound on head. But the doctors said that the wounds are not protective.
The next time the woman was found at a distance of 8 kilometers from home in a ditch unconscious and with a woman's stocking around his neck. On the nurse had rubber gloves and, for some reason, men's boots.
A worried friend took Cindy to live with her. Soon there was another incident: when everyone went to their bedrooms, it caught fire basement of the house. Tom Woodcock ran outside to call for help. AND told his wife Agnes to call the fire department. The line is expected to be cut off. And near the house, a man found a man who rushed run away as soon as Tom turned to him for help. 
Bodyguard Ozzy Caban
The fire was extinguished. But for a number of signs, including dusty windows and window sills in the basement, it was clear that the arson had been set from within. After this incident, the woman was placed in a psychiatric hospital. She She blamed her ex-husband for what was happening. After all, Roy was a psychiatrist and well knew how to influence the human psyche. Later patient stated that there were several pursuers.
After a few months of treatment, the patient was discharged. To put an end to the story, a detective moved into her house Pat McBride. There are no calls or notes during his presence. was.
Soon, the ex-husband's answering machine received an anonymous threatening message. The man tried to change his voice, but the experts proved that the woman called. 
Cindy with her husband
The police came to the conclusion that the persecution mania is the result of mental disorder. And the woman needs treatment. Cindy agreed and took a leave of absence from work to improve her health. Released in store on May 25, 1989 and disappeared. Been looking for her for two weeksparents, friends, police.
In June, the body of a woman was discovered in the courtyard of an abandoned house in Richmond. The arms wound behind the back were tied and connected to the leg. On his neck was left with a strangulation mark and a black nylon stocking.
An autopsy revealed traces of morphine and other drugs. Coroner as the cause of death he named not asphyxia, but other causes. Died woman, most likely on the day she disappeared. The police assumed that James injected the morphine somewhere else, got rid of the syringe, and came to this house. Then she tied her own hands and died from action of a cocktail of drugs. 
But not all experts supported the version, since in such state, it would not have passed even 10 minutes. Not to mention bonding. TO In addition, the man who discovered the body stated that every day he committed run this route. And no woman, living or dead, in the house saw. This was also confirmed by teenagers who used the abandoned parties. During another party less than a week ago, signs there was no other person's presence, let alone a body, in the house.
Cindy's father, Otto Hack, told the press that immediately after the release from the psychiatric hospital, his daughter told him that she had found out who pursuer. And she will deal with him. 
The most common version of what happened is a bifurcation personality that Cindy suffered. Her male part pursued and tortured a woman. As soon as the woman guessed, she decided to do away with these torments, stretching for 7 years. The only possible effective way.
Moreover, not a single more or less suitable the suspect was never found. Surveillance showed no signs outsiders, and expertise - someone else's fingerprints.
Do you think it was a mentally ill suicide? women? Or was the ex-husband-psychiatrist still involved in the case?
