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Crying Wolf: The Brutal Death of Cindy James
On June 28, 1989, in the quiet city of Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia, the community was shocked that a body was found lying in the yard of an abandoned house.
The victim was a forty-four-year-old nurse Cynthia “Cindy” James. She had been drugged and strangled, her hands and feet tied behind her back.
Her tale was that of a Stephen King novel with the psychological twists of a horror flick.
Cindy was the middle child of six children and the oldest daughter of Otto and Tillie Hack. Otto was a retired Airforce colonel and her mother was a homemaker. Cindy graduated from nursing school in 1966 and worked as a Pediatric nurse. She later accepted a position as an administrator for a preschool for children with emotional and behavioral issues. During the twelve years she worked there she earned the respect of her colleagues and the psychiatrists for her kindness, professionalism, and competence.
In December 1966, she married South-African-born Dr. Roy Makepeace, twenty years her senior, and had no children of her own. Makepeace was a psychiatrist and both had worked at Vancouver General Hospital where they met…
