Once again, let’s look twenty years into the past: After Cindy’s May 1989 death, one of her now deceased friends, Marion, recounted to my parents that Cindy had told her about attempted break-ins in the month leading up to Cindy’s death (on April 9th 1989 Cindy’s alarm was set off and a note was left […]

In July 1982, my sister, Cindy James, separated from her husband and moved into a smallish two-bedroom gray stucco house in Vancouver’s East End. It was in that home’s concrete stairwell that led into the basement directly below her back door wooden steps, that Cindy endured the first of five major physical assaults—she was found […]

Let’s look into my crystal ball and take a peek into the past…into a home on the afternoon of May 20th, 1989 in Richmond, then a suburb of Vancouver on Canada’s west coast… After her 2pm appointment with Dr. Friesen and before bathing and preparing for the 4:30pm arrival of Marion, a friend who will […]

Let me explain how grieving is like an initiation into insight—if you can become aware of what is happening, you can be awakened to a greater understanding of life (you can have an insight into the truth of life). Yes, death is a stepping-stone in our journey of awareness—an opportunity for insight. We contemplate the […]

Although I didn’t know it at the time, Cindy’s case (already on the “best of” or “most infamous murder cases of our time” CD by UM, under the category of Bizarre Murders) was recently re-aired on TV by Unsolved Mysteries. (When my stats showed a sharp increase in hits, visits, returns and bookmarkings to my […]

I wasn’t offended, but I was curious, when I heard there was a debate (well, Ok, a discussion) about what song should be dedicated to ‘The Cindy James case.’ Here are some of the songs people have said they would dedicate: “One Way Or Another,” by Blondie and, “I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me,” […]

A few days ago someone wrote to me and said her local newspaper was featuring cold cases…and Cindy’s name came up along with a reference to me and my website. Thank you for that! Did you know Cindy’s case has been touted as one of the most controversial cases Unsolved Mysteries ever did? —Not necessarily […]

Not so long ago I inherited some things from my parents. Tucked away in what was obviously a special box my mother kept, I found several untitled poems in my now deceased sister’s, Cindy James, handwriting (there is no reference to the author of the poems—had Cindy created them?) Here is one of the poems: […]

You may have noticed I recently placed a Facebook link on the right-hand side of my Blog page…check it out…I only joined that “social utility” on July 27th 2008! After my vacation I’ll be giving all my friends and fans an opportunity to be involved in another fascinating book I’m compiling…so think about joining Facebook […]

If I had any wish…any wish in the world…it would be that no one would ever have to go through what my sister, Cindy James, experienced for seven years and encountered on the day of May 25th, 1989, what my family has endured since and must carry with us the rest of our lives. Melanie […]