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 by her window; less than two weeks later a plant room window was broken and her seedlings were trampled; a week later the laundry window was broken; and on May 10th the kitchen window was forced open) with the build up of pressure from those break-ins indicating something was going to happen soon, with Cindy adding that nothing (no phone calls, notes or attempted B&E’s) had happened since May 10th.
After the inquest, my parents came up to the Yukon to visit me, bringing with them all six or so black binders of information and exhibit evidence our lawyer had possession of during the inquest. But it wasn’t until years later, when I went over all the exhibit evidence with a fine-toothed comb for my book research that I scrutinized Cindy’s calendars…including the one for 1989.
For May 23, 1989 Cindy had written in pencil, “Hang-up call at 10:45pm.”
She never told anyone about that call.
Nor did she tell anyone about the hang-up call she received two days later…on the morning of her disappearance.
Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend
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