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You're listening to an Ono Media Podcast. Hi everyone and welcome back to the into the Dark podcast. I'm your host Peyton Moreland. I'm so happy that you are here and listening or watching today's episode of this true crime podcast that also dives into everything dark, spooky, haunted, tinfoil tale. Honestly, all of the scaries. Okay, that is what we are doing over here. Thank you guys so much for your continued love and support. Honestly, it means more than you will ever know, especially over here on into the Dark. I've said it before but this was a scary venture for me to start on my own and I just appreciate all of you coming back week after week getting into my 10 seconds. You're watching and you're like peyton, I think you've worn that Cardigan for like 10 episodes. I have, I have. You're not wrong. But something about my current state of being is that there's like four Pieces of clothing, maybe that feel okay on my skin, on my body, like in so many different ways. The feeling, the fit, everything. And so I just rewear. I just re wear over and over and over again. So if this is, I guess this is the pregnancy cardigan, I don't know what to tell you. It is so insanely hot where I am. You combine that with all of the fires that we've had recently. It is dry, the air quality is worse than it's ever been, and I am feeling it. I have a humidifier in my room and the other night I went to sleep with it. At a certain percentage, humidifier kept going and when I woke up, it had dropped 6% in my bedroom, dropped 6% humidity with my humidifier going.
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When I tell you. It took all I had not to lean over and bang my head right against my nightstand. But I didn't. I didn't. I just took a breath and said, screw this air. We had record bait, record breaking temperatures yesterday. 110 degrees where I am and I don't live in Arizona. So what the helly is going on? I guess. I guess we have the answer. But I'm not gonna go on my tree and climate rant right now. But just know I'm ranting inside. All right, let's get into today's case. I think it's natural to want to know more about the world around us. That is why we love true stories, documentaries and non fiction videos and podcasts. They're honestly a great way to learn. And it's also very common for people to want to know things that aren't so easy, easy to research or confirm, like what happens to us after we die. And do Bigfoot monsters or aliens actually exist? And what does the future hold? Well, it might be good that we don't have all the answers as humans, because sometimes it can be dangerous to know too much. Except I want to be clear. There's nothing wrong with wanting to learn or getting an education or improving your awareness of the world around yourself. And back in 1981, a woman named Cynthia Anderson seemed to kind of have it all figured out, which was a good thing. See, Cynthia, who went by Cindy at this point in the 80s, was 20 years old. She was close to her family. She still lived in her hometown, which was a tiny Michigan community near the border of Ohio. Now, she had a boyfriend who she was getting pretty serious with in her young 20s, and she had a strong faith life. Cindy was actually an evangelical Christian and had grown up in a Very devout family. She was planning to enroll in a Bible college that fall so she could learn more about her beliefs. And her boyfriend was actually attending this same program. The plan was for them to get closer to each other and closer to God, all while they were surrounded by people who loved and supported them. And even better, her college plans gave her an excuse to quit her job. And, and I think it's safe to say at this point, Cindy was ready to get away from her workplace. Up until recently, she had liked it. But all through the early 1980s, strange things had been happening at work that made her uncomfortable. See, Cindy was a legal secretary, and she had a job at a small firm not too far from her home. It was in the suburbs of Toledo, Ohio, which was still close enough for her to commute from her family's house every day. And she sat in the front office by a big window that looked out to a strip mall. Now, the law firm didn't have many walk in clients, and they usually kept the front door locked, so Cindy really didn't have to be face to face with the public very often. But she did let in the mail person and other deliveries. And she also answered the phones and met clients when they had appointments. And then sometime In October of 1980, Cindy saw something through her work office window that left her feeling disturbed. It was graffiti painted on a wall which read, quote, I love you, Cindy by G.W. now, Cindy doesn't know anyone with the initials G.W. and she didn't know anyone who loved her or who was trying to communicate that love in such a public and permanent way. After all, if someone really did feel so strongly about her, they could have just talked to her in person on the phone instead of literally graffiti ing a wall. Or they could at least tell her their full name so she wouldn't have to wonder. And every time she came to work, Cindy then had to pass this message. And obviously, this is creepy. This feels stalkerish. She actually complained to the people who manage the strip mall. They said they'd paint over it, but then they dragged their feet. They put it off for a long time. So six months passed between the day when the message first appeared and then when it was finally covered up. But they do put a fresh coat of paint over it. And then a couple of weeks go by, but the message reappears. It wasn't in the same place. It was on a different wall now, but it has the exact same message. Okay, six months and it's repainted. I love you, Cindy by GW now, the Graffiti was still fully visible through Cindy's window, and it was much bigger now, almost like the artist was working even harder to get her attention after the first time was covered up. Now, I think it's safe to say this would make anyone vulnerable, and it made her feel vulnerable. And it seemed like the situation was definitely getting to her. In fact, one day around this time, she was having breakfast with her family, and her mother noticed that Cindy looked tired. She admitted while she hadn't been sleeping really well, she'd actually been having really terrible nightmares for weeks. Cindy said the dreams were always the same thing, night after night, that she was at work. And then a man came to the front door, and she had to unlock it and let him in. Except as soon as the guy was inside her office, he drew a knife and kidnapped her and then murdered her. And Cindy actually died in her dreams. And she understood exactly how it felt to lose her life. She's like, I. I feel die. I die in my dreams. Now. This was all extremely disturbing for her and for the rest of her family. But once she realized how everyone was worried about her, she kind of laughed it off. She insisted they're just bad dreams. It's not a big deal. That's why I haven't even brought it up. It's not worth worrying about. Except she secretly did have a lot to worry about. Cindy then started getting creepy phone calls around the spring or summer of 1981. So this was not too long after the second graffiti message appeared. And the calls always came through at work, not at home. It's hard to say much more than that, because Cindy didn't really tell anyone. She thought it was her professional responsibility to deal with these prank calls on her own, especially because they were coming into her work. She didn't want to get in trouble. She didn't want to cause drama. But on August 3, 1981, a client named Larry Mullins was at the office. He had to pay for some services, and it was easier to just drop off a check than to put it in the mail. And while Cindy was processing the payment, the phone rang. She answered, and then she hung up right away. Within seconds, a few more moments go by. The phone rings again. Cindy hesitated. She didn't want to answer, but obviously, it's her job, like, it's literally her job to answer this phone. So she picks it up, and Larry, the client, couldn't hear what the caller said, but he's watching this whole thing, and he sees Cindy's face go completely pale. And then she slammed the Receiver down to hang up. Larry could obviously tell Cindy was disturbed, even frightened. So he asked her what had happened. And she kind of just brushes it off, stays professional, says it's no big deal. She's like, someone's just, you know, been bothering me lately. I've been getting a lot of these inappropriate phone calls. But she doesn't give much detail. And her reaction was so strong and so emotional. Larry didn't feel good about ignoring the call or what he had seen. So after he left the law office, he actually calls the police to say he's worried about this, this worker, this employee at his local law firm. Now, the officers never followed up. It's impossible to say if they investigated the harassment or what they learned. All we know for sure is that the entire situation was creepy and uncomfortable enough that a random stranger reported it. And then finally, Cindy was like, I don't need to deal with this. At work, she went to her bosses. She's like, I'm being harassed. They couldn't do anything about the graffiti or the phone calls because they didn't know who was responsible for them. But they did everything else they could to make the office feel safe. To Cindy, this meant installing some kind of buzzer or an intercom. The reporting from the time isn't super clear on, like, what they installed or how it worked. But apparently there was a button on Cindy's desk that she could push if anything or anyone was bothering her. And this would notify employees at a store next door that something was going on and they could come over and help her. So her bosses set it up this way because had a lot of meetings out of office. Sometimes Cindy spent a lot of time alone there. So the people in the next door store were the closest ones who could come to help her if it was necessary. And then aside from that, Cindy still kept the office doors locked at all times. She sat right next to the phone so she could, you know, dial 911 if she had to. And overall, it felt like she had a lot of tools to keep herself safe once all of this weird stuff started happening. But in spite of all that, by mid July, she's like, it's time to quit. She didn't want to work full time while she was in college because that seemed like a big responsibility. So she gave her two weeks notice. It was a huge relief to her to know that she wasn't going to have to go to the office again. She'd never have to look at the graffiti or answer the inappropriate phone calls. And by August 4th, Cindy only had about 10 more days left at this office job. She was in her home stretch. Now, that day, the lawyer Cindy worked for had a bunch of meetings off site. So all morning she was alone in the office like usual. Now, at about 10 till 9, a maintenance worker was taking care of some tasks around the strip mall. And he walked by the front doors of the law firm, and he. He sees Cindy at her desk inside, hard at work like always. There were no signs she was in trouble. Now, an hour or so later, at 9:45, a couple of customers came up and knocked on the door. Now, to be clear, when I say customers, I don't mean they were the law firm's clients. They actually had appointments at a spa that was also in the strip mall. And they hadn't worn their watches that day. They weren't sure if they'd arrived too early for their booking. And when they saw Cindy at the front desk, they knocked on the door just to ask for the time. They weren't actually needing anything. Except Cindy doesn't get up. She doesn't get up from the desk and come. Which makes sense because, again, she's careful about not letting anyone in unless, you know, she knows they're supposed to be. So eventually, the spa customers wandered off to see if someone else could give them the time. And right around that same time, so roughly 9:45 or so, Cindy's desk phone rang, but she doesn't answer. The caller was her mom. She was just checking in. And she knew it was very unusual for Cindy not to pick up, but she figured, okay, maybe her daughter just stepped away from her desk to run errands or use the bathroom. In fact, Cindy had actually been running late that morning when she'd left the house to go to work, she'd spent a little too much time on her hair and makeup. She didn't even have time to eat breakfast. So her mom figured Cindy might have taken a break to, you know, go pick up some food. Even she figured, my daughter will call me back in a few minutes. Except at 10:30, Cindy's brother and father both dial the work number. And once again, there's no answer. And when her boss, a man named James Rabbit, who got back to the office at about noon, Cindy was gone.
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He did notice Cindy's purse and keys were gone. But then he sees her car was still parked near the law firm so she hadn't driven away. On top of that, Cindy had actually left behind a romance novel. It was lying face down on her desk, not closed with a bookmark. And when James picked it up, he noticed that he, Cindy had been reading a scene where the main character was kidnapped at knifepoint. Now this was a really bizarre coincidence because this particular book didn't have much violence in it. This was the only part where anyone was in danger or any crimes were committed. But as James picks this up and reads the passage about kidnappers, Weapons, violence, and terror, he starts to just feel a sinking feeling in his gut. It's his intuition. It seemed irrational, but he almost felt like the book was some kind of clue about where Cindy was. Perhaps just like the main character, she had been kidnapped. So right away, James starts investigating, and he actually decides to just report her missing. And the police begin investigating. They took statements from employees at the store next door, but all of them were like, no, she has a button to push, like, if she needs help. And she didn't push it. And there were no signs that she'd been in any kind of trouble. Still, the officers keep looking. They talked to Cindy's coworkers, Friends, and family members, Trying to identify a suspect or anyone with motive to hurt her. So at this point, her family knows she's also been reported missing. And when they spoke with Cindy's sister, Christine, she shared a somewhat odd theory. She told the officers, Cindy's been having these bad dreams. And she speculated maybe Cindy had been seeing her own future. Perhaps she'd known she was going to be kidnapped thanks to these nightmares. Now, the police had no way of knowing if this was true. They're obviously not paranormal investigators. They just want to find Cindy. But already this case is off to, like, a strange start. Police kind of just brush her sister off, like, okay, we don't really care about visions or future telling. We just need to find your sister. Frankly, it also seemed impossible that nothing supernatural was going on. Cindy was probably nervous about working in her office when she got harassing phone calls and saw upsetting graffiti. It's possible that stressed her out and her anxiety and her anxiety had caused these bad dreams or visions. So the officers tried to ignore theories about magic or visions and just focus on the concrete facts, like how apparently, Cindy's father, michael, Claimed she'd been acting different in the weeks before her disappearance. According to michael, Cindy had recently become pretty interested in hair and makeup every day. She started spending a lot of time on her appearance. Now, like I mentioned before, she'd been so focused on it the day of her disappearance, she had missed breakfast. Plus, she'd been going out with her friends A lot more than she'd used to. And this bothered her father, michael, because the entire family was very religious. He didn't think it was a good look for women to focus too much on their looks. And. And Michael wondered why Cindy was just acting different now. Whether maybe she'd made new friends who didn't share her values, or maybe she was trying to get more attention from men, even though she was already in a relationship. Perhaps she'd gotten too close to someone who wanted to hurt her, or a man in her social circle might have fallen for her. It's possible she could have been kidnapped by someone who actually was her stalker. The graffiti, you know, the graffiti guy, the phone calls. The problem is, all of this history on her doesn't give police much more to work on. But when they talk to Cindy's friends, they kind of argue with what her dad, Michael had said. They're like, no, she hasn't met anyone new. She's not talking to more boys than usual. She actually has a boyfriend. And no one in their circle had been acting suspicious. So all of this leads to a dead end. And since Cindy's family and friends didn't have any real leads, the officers turned to the public to ask for help. By early September of 1981, Cindy was still missing. She just disappeared from work. And there were no major leads. But around that time, an anonymous caller reached out through the tip line. Now, she didn't give her name, but she had a woman's voice. She sounded a little scared. She was talking quietly, almost like whispering, like she was afraid of being overheard. And the tipster said she knew where Cindy was, namely that Cindy was alive but being held captive in the basement of a white house in Toledo. The woman wouldn't give the police the address or specify what neighborhood or what house, but she said there were two white houses right next to each other in this Toledo neighborhood, both of which were owned by the same family. She added, the owners were currently out of town on vacation, and their son had stayed behind, was currently living in one of the homes, and he was the person who had kidnapped Cindy. And now she was being held hostage of the. Of course, when police hear this tip, they have a lot of questions. Who's this guy? Who did it? How does the tipster even know this? But she hung up before they could even ask anything. And a few minutes later, the same woman called back again. The officer who answered said he wanted to put a higher ranking detective on the line with her. Hopefully they could get some more concrete information. But the woman hung up again before the call could be transferred. And she never contacted police after that. Still, this was the first break they had had in a month. So they take the tip seriously. Investigators pulled property records for the entire city of Toledo. They Scoured the files looking for side by side houses owned by the same family that happened to be white homes. Now, other officers drove around in squad cars looking for this pair of white houses, but unfortunately, the police couldn't find any homes that fit the caller's description. So they eventually conclude it was probably a prank. The tipster probably had no idea what had happened to Cindy. But even if it was a hoax, there seemed to be a tiny grain of truth to this tip. Namely, as the months went on and Cindy never came home, the police became more convinced that she probably had been taken by a stranger that day, not by a friend or a lover or willingly disappeared. They think she may have even been the victim of a random crime. After all, the office where she worked was in a pretty bad neighborhood. One woman who worked in the same strip mall was actually murdered around the same time of Cindy's disappearance. Eventually, police linked that homicide to a pair of serial killers. Their names were Anthony and Nathaniel Cook. They were brothers who just killed together. And throughout the 1980s, they took the lives of nine different women, one of them being a woman in the same place where Cindy worked. Now, Cindy fit the profile. Like their victims, she was young, pretty, and friendly. Plus, since the brothers had already killed one woman who worked in her complex, police are like, maybe they hurt her as well. Except Anthony and Nathaniel eventually got caught. And in an interrogation, they made voluntary confessions to their murders. But they denied having anything to do with Cindy's disappearance. They admitted that they had killed a lot of women. They really had nothing to hide. So there was no reason, once they were caught, for them to deny involvement in Cindy's disappearance unless they really didn't do it. Plus, there was nothing concrete to link them to her case, Just the fact that they were active in her area around the time. So it was at this point that the investigators soon learned that one apparently major piece of evidence was completely unrelated to her. And it was that graffiti that had been bothering her so much. They had been trying to track this down. And in 1985, about four years after Cindy's disappearance. Okay, she still hasn't been found. A tipster reached out. Her name was Cindy, and while I don't know her last name, I'm just going to refer to her as other Cindy. She said, that message that I've been seeing about this graffiti being tied to this girl's disappearance, that was for me. According to other Cindy, back in 1980 and 81, she had been dating her high school sweetheart, a guy named Greg Wikzinski, who You'll notice has the initials GW now, according to other Cindy, Greg and her were in love. Greg liked to show off his passion by graffiti about his girlfriend all over town. Again, they're young. They're dumb. The two of them actually lived pretty close to the law office where Cindy Anderson worked, where she went missing from. So when Greg wrote I love you, Cindy by GW it was actually for his girlfriend. He had no idea who Cindy Anderson was or that this message had been bothering her and making her uncomfortable. The entire situation was actually complete coincidence. And it took police a long time to learn this because it took a long time for other Cindy to realize that. That this had been tied to a disappearance. So, basically, for two years, police were trying to figure out who had written the graffiti message because they thought maybe this unknown stalker had to be a suspect. And then the other Cindy came forward. She said she was at home and saw a TV episode about the case, and she was like, holy crap. Like, this is about me and Greg. So she called the investigators to explain everything away. So good, so good, so good. New summer arrivals are at Nordstrom Rack stores.
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Is it possible that they had put away a bad person who was now taking revenge out on the law firm? They do dig up some dirt on some of the lawyers, you know, that worked at the firm, maybe some cases where things had been handled a little sketchy. And that was when they discovered that this. They actually get a tip, a random tip that said, I think Cindy got kidnapped and killed because of her job. See, Cindy had multiple bosses. I mentioned one earlier, James Rabbit, who first reported her missing. But there was another lawyer at the firm, a man named Richard Kneller. And around the time of Cindy's disappearance, Richard was representing a client who had been accused of drug dealing with his name was Jose Rodriguez Jr. Now, everyone is considered innocent until they're proven guilty. And everyone has a legal right to a lawyer, even people who have committed crimes. But while Richard the lawyer was representing Jose, he crossed some lines and broke some rules. He gave Jose advice on how to cover up evidence and get away with it, which lawyers are not supposed to do. Allegedly, Richard even helped Jose sell drugs, rob his competitors, and do other illegal things. This actually ends up with both Richard and Jose getting caught in this little lawyer criminal scheme, and Jose was convicted and sent to prison. Now, don't ask me why Richard didn't go to prison. We probably know, but doesn't have much to do with this part of the story. So while Jose was behind bars, he made a confession to his cellmate. He said, you know the law firm I worked with, you know, Richard the lawyer? There was actually a girl who worked at the law firm named Cindy, and she knew about this conspiracy that we had. She wasn't in on it, but apparently she'd overheard them talking in the office. And reportedly, Richard the lawyer was very nervous about this. He feared that the secretary was going to turn him in and get him into trouble. So one day, according to Jose telling his cellmate this, he ordered Jose to kill her so she could never talk about what she knew. And to hear Jose tell it that day in prison, that's exactly what he did. He knew Cindy was going to be alone in the office on August 3, 1981. So that morning, he went to the front door. Cindy recognized him as a client. So she got up, unlocked the door, let him in, he said. Then he pulled a gun, abducted her, and shot her. Jose also said he dumped Cindy's body in a pond near his house and that he'd gotten away with it because no one ever found her remains or linked her disappearance to. To him. And Richard, well, when the cellmate reported what he had heard, the police actually take it seriously. They launch a huge investigation. They search the pond by Jose's old house, and they find Nothing. No sign of Cindy's remains or any other evidence tying Jose to her disappearance. I will also note the cellmate who came forward with the story had a history of lying. He learned that if he cooperated with the police and shared tips, he got perks. And so he would do this kind of all the time. He developed a habit of making up tips in hopes that he would get released earlier. So it's possible he completely lied about Jose murdering Cindy. Maybe Jose just said, oh, yeah, the. The secretary at the law firm actually went missing. I think it's safe to say that if a gun had been pulled on her, she probably, probably also would have pushed the button. Unless she wasn't near her desk. Plus, there was a very small window of time for her to go missing. I kind of discussed this, but I haven't, like, put it out on the table. Only a few minutes went by between when the spa clients knocked on the front door and saw Cindy, and then when her mother called, but she didn't answer. I mean, you would think the spa customers would notice if Cindy was being kidnapped at gunpoint or something else was wrong. They think she just kind of sat there and ignored them. Plus, Cindy had already said she was going to leave the job and quit. So why would Jose and Richard need to kill her? She was already getting out of there. I don't know. All to say, the police had a lot of theories, but not much hard evidence. They still didn't know what had happened to Cindy or if she was even alive or dead. They couldn't completely rule out suspects like Richard, Jose, or even the serial killers, Nathaniel and Anthony. I mean, just because they said they didn't do it doesn't mean they didn't. But they couldn't prove any of them guilty, either. More years go by in which investigators never make an arrest. You never name a suspect. In fact, they couldn't even say for sure that Cindy had even been a victim of a crime. I mean, another option is that she ran away. It seems unlikely, because she never took any money out of the bank after her disappearance. Never even took her own car. Plus, everyone who knew Cindy said she did love her life. She was excited to go start college again, doing it with her boyfriend, getting pretty serious, and there was no reason for her to just take off without a word. However, some people thought that in spite of this, she might have disappeared on purpose and staged the scene to look like a kidnapping. After all, months before she vanished, she told her mother that she'd been having nightmares about being abducted and Murdered from work. So it is a little eerie that she then goes missing. Maybe she had been, you know, foreshadowing or putting all of this out on the table. So when she really did run away, people would just not look into it that much. And then there was the novel that was left on a page about being kidnapped and murdered. I don't know. Some people are like. They feel like maybe she was trying to just put things in people's heads so that she could run away without anyone really chasing her. But again, people are like, they think all of this is just a coincidence. It just so happened that Cindy was reading about a kidnapping when she vanished and that she had been having these scary dreams about getting kidnapped when she actually vanished. But there wasn't enough evidence to say anything for sure. Even her loved ones were never able to learn anything new. In 1983, Cindy's mother actually died of cancer. It had only been two years since Cindy had gone missing, and her mom never learned what had happened to her. Instead, she was buried on Cindy's 22nd birthday. And for years afterward, Cindy's father, Michael, refused to give up hope. Anytime he spoke to the media about her disappearance, he said he believed that she was actually still alive. Maybe she had amnesia. Maybe something was just preventing her from coming home. But every morning, he says, he would wake up and tell himself maybe this was the day. Maybe he would see his daughter again. So Michael never moved out of the house where he had once lived with Cindy, Just in case she did come back. He made it a point to keep the same phone number. So if Cindy did try to call and he absolutely refused to organize a memorial service or have her legally declared dead. But then he passes away in 2007, and sadly, Cindy's disappearance is still unsolved to this day. I know. No, this is not what you want to hear. I'm shedding light on an unsolved case. If Cindy is still alive, she's 65 years old. Now, Cindy was five foot four at the time of her disappearance. She weighed 115 pounds. She had brown hair, brown eyes, and a chickenpox scar on her forehead. She was last seen in a white and pink striped dress, Brown pantyhose, and sandals. Tip line is actually still open where the Toledo police department is collecting information about Cindy. That number is 419-245-3340. Safe to say that her loved ones deserve to know what happened and why. And in fairness, a lot of the people who never met her are curious, too. Her case is mysterious. It's unforgettable and and it may even have had a dash of the supernatural too. Again, the dreams, were they possibly visions predicting her own future? Others think it's very telling that she was reading a violent scene about a kidnapping in her book. Maybe this was like, you know, some kind of final destination where this was an omen. Still, we have no idea what actually happened to Cindy or if there was something she knew or didn't know. And that is the unsolved disappearance of Cindy. Cynthia Anderson thank you guys so much for listening to this episode. I know sometimes unsolved cases are so frustrating, but it is important that we cover them because people out there deserve closure. Thank you again and I will see you next time as we go further into the dark together. Goodbye. 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