While I was researching for my book Who Killed My Sister, My Friend I came across some interesting things:

· The receipt for the groceries Cindy purchased on the day she died. (Police never found that receipt. They speculated she had purchased the nylon stockings that were wrapped around her neck at death—the receipt shows she didn’t. And it shows where she purchased the groceries—and it wasn’t where the police thought she had.)

· Three 81/2 x 11-inch pages of her writing—Cindy wrote about how several deaths affected her in her lifetime. She also wrote about the loss of her job at Blenheim House, her fear of sleeping in the dark, and her experience of standing frozen in the back yard when the man came through her gate in the second attack (at the end of January 1984). And she wrote about her private investigator, her ex-husband, and another doctor.

· I also found 11 pages of handwritten accounts by Cindy (never seen before) that she had squirreled away in a safe place. (I found them by accident.) The undated papers of varying sizes appear written at different times by Cindy and I speculate she must have hidden them inside the picture frame of a photo of our parents, from where they fell out of, for safe keeping. Cindy wrote about some of the major attacks and the sailing trip of July 1981.

· And more …

I will remember her always; her voice, the love in her eyes, her embrace. I am glad she is not suffering anymore.

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My Friend
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