Cynthia Louise “Cindy” Stewart, 43, hadn’t missed a Bronco’s home game in the past 25 years. A lifelong dog lover, she had two dogs, Wickham and Francis. Cindy enjoyed skiing, hiking and going to the mountains.
Following graduation from Abraham Lincoln High School, Cindy attended Colorado State Teachers College in Greeley. At the time of her death she was working for Kelly Temporary Services and for six months had been assigned to Best Foods Baking where she did clerical work in the bakery’s fleet maintenance shop.
“She never met a stranger,” said her father, Jim Stewart, of Denver. “She was a nice person, very” added Chuck Monninger of Texas, her ex-husband.
Cindy was walking her chocolate Labrador a few blocks from her home near Observatory Park on the evening of July 6, 1999 when she was assaulted and stabbed several times. Her screams were heard; the attacker fled. Somehow she managed to stagger to the porch of a home about a block from the park and ring the doorbell. It was the home of an emergency physician and nurse who gave immediate aid. Before she died, Cindy described her attacker and his car. But this case remains unsolved.