Who Killed Cindy James: A Woman's Story of Persecution and Terror

Janet McCreadie is a Dunnville-based freelance editor and writer.

On a spring day in May 1989, former nurse Cindy James disappeared. Less
than one month later her body was found in a vacant lot in suburban
Vancouver. Police first investigated the case as murder, but later
claimed it was suicide. A coroner’s jury could not determine the cause
of her death.

Mulgrew chronicles the years of nightmares the former social worker
went through. He shows how some individuals can slip through the system
and not get the help they may be desperately seeking. The book is a sad
commentary on the social institutions of the late twentieth century.

From difficult relationships in the home to the indifference of
psychiatrists and members of the police force, James’s tragedy
embodies a nightmare women everywhere share.