Cindy James, a 44-year-old nurse from British Columbia, spent seven years reporting over 100 incidents of harassment, violent attacks, and threats from an alleged anonymous stalker. Despite police investigations and media coverage, no assailant was ever identified, and Cindy was repeatedly found injured or drugged under bizarre circumstances—sometimes hogtied or with needle marks—only to survive each event.
In 1989, her body was discovered in the yard of an abandoned house, hogtied with a nylon stocking around her neck and a fatal dose of morphine and sedatives in her system. No weapon or injection tools were found at the scene. A coroner's inquest ruled her death as an "unknown event," unable to determine whether it was suicide, homicide, or accidental. The case remains one of Canada’s most baffling mysteries, dividing opinion on whether Cindy was a victim of a cunning stalker or the architect of an elaborate and ultimately fatal psychological struggle.
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