
Case 164: Cindy James
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The Inquest Into the Death of Cindy James
The inquest into the death of Cindy James was one of the most expensive and lengthy in British Columbia history. The jury failed to reach a conclusion as to whether Cindy had been murdered or had taken her own life. They determined that Cindy James died as the result of an unknown event after one vote shifted the decision from suicide to undetermined. Some thought that another person or persons were involved in the attacks orchestrated by Cindy. Others proposed that Cindy knew much more about the identity of the perpetrator than she told authorities. One forensic psychiatrist suggested that Cindy cast herself center stage as the victim in a fantastic plot of her own creation adding she was in a living nightmare. A coroner concluded Cindy James was a victim real