Melanie Hack shares healing thoughts


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 website and Blog, I should have known that was why! – Thanks to all of you who brought the re-airing to my attention!)

Even almost twenty years after her death, the interest in Cindy’s case is HUGE…and growing! And I can’t believe how many of you took the leap to contact me in order to share your remembrances, insights, thoughts and new facts about Cindy and her case. (It’s partially because of new information over the past year or so that my book has been delayed.)

I’m grateful to UM for keeping Cindy’s story “out there”.

And I’m delighted to now have contact with Cindy’s friends from days of old…from before she went to nurses training – from a period of time before I knew Cindy well (because of our 17-year age difference).

And I appreciate the contact from professionals in the psychiatric community, the nursing profession, police enforcement, and so on!

Isn’t modern technology helpful sometimes!

So to other families wrapped in confusion over the death of a loved one, take heart—given time, there is the possibility for you to gather information not immediately available upon death, if you just keep searching and leave doors open! Use whatever resources you can.

And to those of you who have not contacted me yet…my door is always open! 

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend
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March 5th, 2009 at 7:08 am
One Response to “Do You Have Something To Share About Cindy James Or Her Case”
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    Kris Says:

    Hi Melanie…. I will start by saying that I have come across your blog tonight by Googling Who Killed Cindy, and not as a result of UM airing her story recently. Although I did origianlly learn about Cindy by watching UM years and years ago, it prompted me to buy the original book Who killed Cindy James. I guess I googled her tonight because even as a young teen I was smart enough to think this was no suicide!! I never bought it, and it scared the hell out of me because I live close to Richmond and have actually lived blocks from where Cindy was found….. I was hoping to see that her case had been re-opened, perhaps since you have my email address you could email and let me know what the status is? Is the case open? I would love to hear from you..also do you know when your book might be released? Thanks