The internet is still fighting about this... | Unsolvable Mysteries Part 2

a woman was viciously harassed for seven years when it all came to a head the police blamed one person and the victim's family and friends blamed another and to this day the internet remains totally divided on whether blame was appropriately placed but before we get into today's bizarre story if you're a fan of the strange dark and mysterious delivered in story format then you come to the right channel because that's all we do and we upload three or four times every week so if that's of interest to you please sneak into the like button's house and steal the little plastic clip on their vacuum that keeps the cord neatly tucked up after use also please subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads alright let's get into today's story in june of 1982 38 year old cindy hack divorced her husband roy as soon as she moved into another home in vancouver canada she felt this wave of relief come over her their marriage had become abusive and toxic years ago but her newfound happiness would be short-lived only four months after leaving her husband cindy's waking nightmare would begin it all started with a late night phone call on october 7 1982. when she answered the voice on the other side was raspy and angry sounding it addressed cindy by name and quickly told her that they planned on hurting her and before cindy could do anything the caller had hung up cindy was horrified and didn't know what to do so she did nothing and then over the next few days she received more calls from this phantom caller and each of them began with this person addressing her by name and then threatening violence and cindy began to convince herself that this had to be some terrible prank and so she continued to do nothing about it one night cindy couldn't help but feel like she was being watched and she looked into her living room and she noticed one of her windows was still open at night she would draw all the curtains in her house and so she walked over to the window and she pressed her face up against the glass to look outside and she didn't see anybody out there and so she drew the curtains turned around and began walking back towards the kitchen when her phone rang she hesitated but eventually picked the phone up and on the other side of the call was the mystery caller who in a mocking tone told her that curtains weren't going to protect her that they knew when she was home this incident pushed her over the edge and she knew this could not be some bad prank this was real and so she contacted the police who made a house visit but there wasn't any sign of a break-in or any sign of a crime being committed and so after walking her property and feeling confident that she was safe they told her that you know you should really consider getting an unlisted telephone number that way this mystery person can't keep contacting you and so cindy thanked them and would go on to get an unlisted telephone number but not only would the calls continue they would become more frequent and in fact the harassment in general only began to escalate three days later on october 15th cindy and her good friend agnes were coming back from dinner to cindy's house and when they got there they noticed that one of the front windows had been broken and so they carefully walked onto the porch and realized the front door was actually unlocked and slightly ajar they considered immediately leaving the property and just calling police but they sat there for a minute and didn't hear anything inside the house and so they decided they would just poke their head in and investigate and so when they went inside all the lights were off and there was no sign of a disturbance it was totally quiet but when they went upstairs they found feathers all over the hall and they followed those feathers all the way to cindy's room and in her room all of her pillows had been ripped apart and the key to her front door was laying conspicuously on her bedside table the women fled the house and called police but when they showed up there really wasn't much they could do despite knowing about cindy's threatening phone calls she was getting there was just no clear sign of who broke into her house and cut up her pillows and so they told her that the best thing she can do is change her locks make sure everything in her house stays locked at all times when she's home and if she notices anything out of the ordinary to call back over the following few days cindy got more threatening phone calls and began waking up to threatening notes laying on her front porch that had been made from newspaper and magazine clippings this led to the police launching a larger investigation into the matter an officer named pat mcbride who had been on the force for eight years began checking in on cindy almost daily and very quickly pat and cindy developed a romantic relationship and pat actually moved into cindy's house while he was investigating this case as soon as pat moved in the harassment seemed to stop but just a couple of weeks later in early november pat woke up one morning at cindy's house and discovered that her phone lines were dead when he went outside to investigate he discovered that the lines had actually been cut and he found a pair of wire cutters laying on the ground over the following month in addition to the threatening phone calls and notes left on her porch cindy began hearing somebody walking around outside her house at night but she was always too terrified to go to the window and look outside to see who it was she began finding raw meat sitting outside of her door in the morning and she would find pictures of dead bodies tucked under her windshield wiper on her car one day she walked into her backyard and she discovered three dead cats hanging in her garden cindy who was a bubbly happy person before the harassment started had become a totally anxious and paranoid mess but despite her obvious distress the local police were starting to doubt her claims that the stalker was even real every time she called them claiming stalker activity they would go to her house and look around but they could never find any evidence to suggest that anyone besides her her friends or her boyfriend had been there and speaking of her boyfriend police officer pat mcbride he would tell his co-workers that he was never home when the stalker called and he never heard anybody walking around outside of her house he said the only reason he knew about these things is because cindy told him after the fact upset that the police were not taking her seriously cindy broke up with pat and decided she needed to move and start over in another town just days before cindy was supposed to relocate her friend agnes stopped by when she went to the front door and knocked and there was no answer she walked around to the back and she found her friend crouched down behind the stairs as if she was hiding from something she ran over to her and noticed she had this black nylon stocking wrapped tightly around her neck but cindy seemed to be totally unfazed by it and just kept looking out towards her shed and so agnes runs over to cindy and says cindy what are you doing what's on your neck and cindy turned to look at her and her eyes were super wide and she was panicked and she told agnes that just minutes ago she had been walking out to her shed to get something when a man leapt out of the shadows and wrapped this nylon around her neck and began choking her and threatened that if she turned around to look at him he would attack her family so cindy and this man struggled for a minute until agnes's car approached which spooked the man and he ran off agnes was shocked and she grabbed her friend and picked her up she pulled the nylon off of her neck and the two of them ran inside and locked all the doors and windows and then at that point cindy called the police but when the police showed up the only evidence of this attack was cindy's first-hand account and this nylon stocking but the police believed the nylon stocking was cindy's and she'd staged the whole event and she'd tied it around her neck herself a few days later in january of 1983 cindy moved into a new home in a town called richmond which is a suburb of vancouver canada and as soon as she got there she painted her car a new color and she actually changed her last name to james for months she didn't see or hear from her stalker but in october of that year she found another dead cat on her property with a note next to it that just said you're next fearing for her life she called the richmond police who set up a surveillance operation on her property but for months despite dozens of officers watching her house at practically all hours they never ever saw any stalker activity but as soon as the officers left for any amount of time when there was a gap in surveillance cindy would call the police and report stalker activity in time this town's police department also began to suspect that cindy was fabricating the stalker story and they told her as much now blatantly knowing the police were not taking her seriously cindy hired a local private detective named ozzy caban to look into her case immediately he installed floodlights all around her property and he gave her a two-way radio to place inside of her house that constantly broadcast back to ozzy that way if she was in trouble he would know about it even if she couldn't get to the radio to actually tell him he also installed a panic button inside of her house that would send an alarm to him as well as to the police in january of 1984 after only being on the case for a couple of weeks ozzy heard some strange sounds coming across the two-way radio it sounded like there was some sort of struggle happening in cindy's house and so he tried radioing her to ask what was going on but he didn't get a response and so he flew over to her house he knocked on the door but there was no answer and so he kicked the door down and found cindy lying in the hallway motionless with a note on top of her hand that was held in place by a paring knife that had been stabbed through the note and then threw her hand the note said you're dead lady cindy also had a black nylon stocking wrapped around her neck and so initially ozzy believed cindy was dead but he managed to find a pulse and so he brought her to the hospital and when she regained consciousness all she could recall was feeling someone inject her arm with a needle and then after that she had no memory of the attack the police believing cindy had staged the attack did not bother to take fingerprints at her home or on the knife or on the note ozzie on the other hand believed his client was telling the truth he didn't believe cindy was physically capable of injecting herself in the area where the needle had entered her body the angle was nearly impossible to achieve on her own once she was released from the hospital the police despite believing she was lying continued their surveillance operation of her property but like always nothing ever happened when any of the officers were on duty the stalker activity only was reported after they had left life went on like this for over a year and during that time cindy's mental health continued to decline rapidly she lived in constant fear of the stalker and she was deeply embarrassed that the police believe she was lying on december 11 1985 cindy was attacked again but the details on this are incredibly scant someone found her lying in a ditch six miles away from her home she was wearing a single work boot and a single glove she was suffering from hypothermia and she had cuts and bruises all over her body and she had a black nylon stocking wrapped around her neck she had no memory of the attack the police told her that they believed this was yet another staged event and so they did not do any significant follow-up after a few days in the hospital she was sent home but she was terrified to be alone so she reached out to her friend agnes and asked if she and her husband tom would stay with her for a couple of days and they agreed the first night they were there cindy woke up in the middle of the night and heard strange sounds coming from the basement she woke up agnes and tom and they heard the sounds too and so they went down to the first floor they opened up the door to the basement and they looked downstairs and very clearly there was a fire raging in her basement and so cindy immediately ran to the phone to call 9-1-1 but they discovered the phone lines had been cut and so tom ran outside to try to find a neighbor to call 9-1-1 for them and when he went outside he found a man just standing there in front of the house watching it and tom yelled them hey you need to call 9-1-1 this house is on fire and this man without saying a word just turned and ran down the street and that man was never identified finally tom did get a neighbor to call 9-1-1 the fire department arrived and they put out the fire and then after an investigation they determined that the fire had been set intentionally this was an act of arson and the police said there was no signs of forced entry anywhere around the house which means someone who was already in the house had to have started the fire and they specifically said cindy had to have started the fire because she stages these events all the time because of this stalker delusion she has agnes and tom denied this claim saying they never heard cindy walking around at night and she would never jeopardize their lives after this event cindy became extremely depressed and had to be hospitalized and for 10 weeks she was under intense psychiatric care but at the end of those 10 weeks the doctors determined that she was not a threat to herself or to anyone else and so she was sent home it was at this time that cindy went to the police and said that she thinks roy her ex-husband was behind all of the attacks police immediately brought roy in for questioning and he emphatically denied all allegations saying he had nothing to do with it and in fact he had been the victim of this stalker that was going after his ex-wife he said he got a number of these threatening phone calls and one time when they called they left him a voicemail and he played it for the police [Music] after speaking with roy and confirming his various alibis the police ruled him out as a suspect for the next three and a half years cindy continued to receive threatening phone calls and messages at her house but no one besides cindy ever saw the stuff happen live while her private investigator ozzy still believed every bit of her story the richmond police department had grown tired of her and stopped responding to her calls on the evening of may 25th 1989 agnes showed up at cindy's house for their scheduled game of bridge when she knocked on the door there was no answer and because agnes and cindy were very close agnes tried the front door it was unlocked and so she let herself in thinking cindy must be upstairs taking a shower but when she stepped inside the house was totally silent and after a couple of minutes of no commotion upstairs agnes began searching the house for her friend and she discovered that cindy wasn't there and so she called the police the police launched a search and very quickly found cindy's car in a parking lot at a local supermarket and when investigators went over the car they discovered there was blood on the outside of the driver's side door the contents of cindy's purse including her credit cards and id were scattered about on the ground near the car and then in the trunk of the vehicle were the groceries that cindy had recently purchased but despite her car being found there was really no indication of where she went next her friends and family believed she had been kidnapped by her stalker and the police believed she was staging yet another event but regardless no one could find her two weeks after her disappearance and one and a half miles away from where her car had been found a road worker had drank too much coffee and needed to use the bathroom but where they were working they did not have a portage on and they were not near any local businesses that might offer public restrooms the only area that offered any privacy was the abandoned building that was right near their work site and so this worker told his crew where he was headed he turned and began walking across the totally overgrown front yard of this property and as he began walking around the side of this building he smelled this horrific smell like one of the worst smells he'd ever smelled in his life and he assumed that because this property was abandoned maybe people were dumping their trash on it somewhere and it's a hot day and that's why it smells but either way he wrote it off he walked around to the back of this building he found a good spot he relieved himself he turned around and began walking back along the side to go back to the road when he stopped because he saw something lying near the side of the house that he was surprised he hadn't noticed on his way in he couldn't really see what it was because the tall grass was obscuring his view and so he took a couple steps forward to get a better look and when he could see clearly what it was he stopped because laying in front of him was a clearly deceased woman laying on her side with her hands and feet bound behind her back and around her neck was a black nylon stocking it was the body of cindy james despite the nylon around her neck the autopsy revealed she did not die from strangulation she died from an overdose of morphine and other drugs the police brought in a knot expert who was easily able to put himself in the same position that cindy was in and tie himself up with this information combined with their belief that cindy was a pathological liar they concluded that this had to have been self-inflicted that she injected herself with the lethal dose and then dropped down to the ground and tied herself up to stage the epic conclusion to this stalker delusion to cover their bases the police did re-interview roy the ex-husband but his alibi checked out and realistically he was never actually a suspect it's not listed online whether pat mcbride the police officer ex-boyfriend was ever investigated while the police were very confident in their theory of what happened to cindy there were some discrepancies the medical examiner did not agree with the ruling that this was a suicide he said that you can't conclude that there's not enough evidence during the autopsy it was discovered that cindy did have an injection mark in her arm but they could never find the needle anywhere near her body or anywhere between her and her parked car considering the extremely high dosage of narcotic that was found in cindy's system if this had been a suicide as soon as she injected herself she would have had to immediately shift gears get down on the ground and start hog tying herself before she became too intoxicated to function meaning the needle should have been right around where she was found but it wasn't also missing from the crime scene were cindy's shoes and socks and interestingly her bare feet were totally clean despite the fact that in order to get where she was found she would have had to cover a distance of at least a mile and a half from her parked car but again there was no dirt or any markings on the underside of her feet also it was strange that she wasn't discovered faster than two weeks although she was found near this abandoned house that was totally overgrown the house was actually frequented by teenagers and there was a walking trail nearby that would have had a line of sight on her body these discrepancies have led many people to believe that cindy did have a stalker and this stalker kidnapped her in the supermarket parking lot they tied her up they injected her with the lethal dose of morphine and then after she had died they dumped her near this abandoned property right before she was found and they had left that black nylon tied around her neck because that was the stalker's signature some have taken this a step further and said pat mcbride the police officer was behind the attacks because he would have known when surveillance was set up on her house and could have very easily avoided detection but the most bizarre and fascinating theory of what happened to cindy is that she had disassociative identity disorder or did this is where someone maintains at least two distinct personalities and when one of those personalities is active the other kind of fades and has no memory of this experience creating these huge memory gaps and so the theory goes one of cindy's personalities was effectively stalking herself or more specifically one of her personalities hated herself and wanted to do herself harm and so that personality would do things like stab her own hand or run six miles away into some ditch and leave herself for dead and then cindy's other personality would take back over and she would suddenly come too having no memory of how she became injured or how she wound up in the stitch and so when she went to police to tell them that someone is stalking as harassing is attacking me she was telling the truth but that someone that stalker was actually her she just didn't know it but roy her ex-husband was a psychiatrist and in their 16 years of marriage he never noticed this condition and when cindy was in that psychiatric ward for 10 weeks following one of her stalker attacks none of the doctors or psychiatrists ever noticed or diagnosed her with this condition it's still possible she had did and it just came on later in life and it didn't present itself enough to be noticed during those 10 weeks of psychiatric care but realistically this reduces the chances of d.i.d being behind this whole thing to date her death is still considered a suicide and no one has ever been charged in connection with her death so that's gonna do it guys if you found the secret in today's episode let us know in the comments what it is and where you found it and if you're the first to do that we will pin you at the top of the comment section if you enjoyed today's video and you haven't done this already please sneak into the like button's house and steal the little plastic clip on their vacuum that keeps the cord nicely tucked up after use also please subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly three or four video uploads if you want to get in touch with me you can direct message me on instagram or on twitter my username for both platforms is the same it's john ballen416 i also have a ton of content over on tick tock where my username is mr ballen i also have a second youtube channel called mr ball and shorts where i post short videos if you have a story suggestion please submit it to our 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Length: 20min 19sec (1219 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 11 2021