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The tragic and bizarre case of Cindy James, who claimed to be stalked for seven years until ultimately being found lifeless and bound. Yet despite being tied up, investigators still had reason to believe that she had committed suicide. Why?

For seven agonizing years, a nurse from Vancouver endured over a hundred anonymous calls, arson, threatening letters, and physical attacks. Despite 24 hour police surveillance, her stalker remained completely untraceable. Then, one night, she vanished, only to be found bound and deceased outside an abandoned house. Was she the victim of a ruthless stalker who managed to escape without evidence, or is there more to this story? Today, we unpack the dark and perplexing death of Cindy James.

Submitted by Task Force member Kat B.

Sensitive topics: Stalking, harassment, sexual violence & abuse, domestic/spousal abuse, animal cruelty, mental illness, suicide & self-harm

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Tsume Shiro

Suicide just like the whistle blowers with 3 bullet wounds to the back of their head. Police never seeing anyone and zero leads or evidence makes me lean to it BEING someone with the police doing it. Cops committing domestic abuse is so common it feels like its a requirement to be a cop.

Dirk Van Daele

I live in Europe AKA de rest of the world. I have never seen a gun in real life except on the hip of a police officer. If I hear a burglar at night I know the chance the burglar is armed not zero, but low. I only need to make noise and light to make the burglar flee. If you look up the law enforcement killed in the line of duty, most are killed in traffic accidents. If you look for officers killed by some other way, for the USA you get a number per year. In Europe you get the year of the last death with a name. That is the difference between the USA and Europe. I prefer Europe and no, it is not complicated.

Cindy&Rico

Getting a fire arm in Canada isn't anywhere near as easy as in the USA. This case is from my hometown.

Shimozu

I know these "real" ones are tough on the psyche, but I appreciate y'all for still making them sometimes. The completely made up stuff like Mel's hole, or paranormal stuff with no evidence anything actually took place like ourang madan just don't cut it for me. I need at least some part of it to have factually happened, explainable or not (like forgotten languages, great episode indeed).

Gabrielle Lewis

Listened to this one at work and got jump scared twice by people coming up to my desk while I was in the zone of this case 😂

Kat Hedgecoth

This story reminds me of one I heard on YT a few days ago about a woman that was being harrassed by an ex from middle school after reconnecting on FB. He stalked her for 2 years & had so much current private info on her & she couldn't figure out how. Turned out it was her husband pretending to be the ex. Makes me wonder if maybe Cindy's stalker was none other than her friend & the friend's husband. It would explain how Cindy's stalker seemed to be every where no matter where she went & knew so much about her life. It could have also been someone she worked with that she never thought or knew. It's wild to think how many people we are around, sometimes daily, that we never notice, but may notice us. No matter what though, the poor thing didn't deserve what happened to her & it's a shame the person responsible was never caught & punished.

matt bennett

I had not heard of this one. You would think it would be in every major true crime collection. That James Patterson, Ann Rule, or the Mindhunter guy would have a full book about it. This is the most...is successful the right word?...stalking case I've ever heard of, but it was unknown to me until now

Carl Weezer

After hearing about all the cops using flock cameras to stalk their exes in the news I could only think one thing at the mention of a 24/7 police detail missing the stalker.

Lifeisntcereal

If it were a suicide and she fabricated the stalking: 1. Why can’t the police provide concrete evidence that she staged everything; they had enough confidence in their surveillance to claim there was no stalker. 7 years of fabricating stalking should have been caught under this intense surveillance. 2. Why are we taking the word of a knot expert who did not see the body (Chisnall) over that of someone who actually observed the body (Carlyle’s observation of Cindy’s nail cutting through her own skin)? — also an expert managed it but could a normal person tie themselves that quickly? We bring up Occam's razor a lot and it might apply here. Through personal experience and study, I personally think a rough childhood and some mental health distress (that was not significant until after her stalking began) do not stand well as evidence for someone doing this to themselves. While I do believe Cindy was suicidal (she don went through it man), and she had faults and some inconsistencies I find it far fetched that she would kill herself IN THIS WAY. It’s simply more likely that the police preferred a closed case.