What has been missed in the reporting?
~Ken MacQueen, Maclean’s magazine (Question to Melanie Hack)

Oh so much! I can’t possibly share it all here.
Before the inquest, the newspaper reports contained some errors and I realized that what we were hearing in the media on any given day was not always accurate.
During the inquest I would sit in the courtroom listening to evidence and then read inaccurate representations in the next day’s newspaper reports; knowing even the slightest alteration in wording has misrepresented what was actually said and given a different connotation. And by that point I would feel the media was sensationalizing Cindy’s story by reporting lurid details that had little to do with her death.

On June 6, 1989, the Vancouver Sun newspaper stated, “Richmond R.C.M.P. S. Sgt. Ron DeRoon said there has been no trace of the woman since she went missing. He added there is nothing to suggest foul play.” Given Cindy’s history of harassment I did not understand how the police could say that.
Did they think the blood on her car door was normal?

Coming soon… “What should I know?”
~Ken MacQueen, Maclean’s magazine

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My Friend
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