worried, ed? probably about 5:00 or 6:00, it was dinner time and they re usually all home for dinner and she wasn t around. what d you do? i went to the police station. and they told me that i had to wait 24 hours to file a report. she should have been home. she s not home. now we re calling friends, trying to find out where she s at. we went to like the different parks and there was a carnival and not far away, so we went to different places looking for her. what are you thinking? she maybe got hurt? she s in a hospital somewhere? i didn t know. i had no idea. i mean, anything bad wasn t even in the picture. so it was still, boy, is she going to get a talking to when she comes home? yeah. and i figured she d be home. cindy s brother, sister, mother, and father divided the search. two to stay by the phones, the
commemorating cindy s 21st birthday, the zarzyckis held a candlelight vigil in front of the family home. 13-year-old cindy zarzycki the media picked it up and interest in the fate of the missing teen was revived, with cindy s face popping up on have you seen me mailings like this one. connie, there was a message to the police here, wasn t it? we re still here, we haven t gone away? right. and you need to get this going again. right. and i had written a poem, i actually had that poem published. do you remember a few lines of it? cindy jo, where did you go? and it talked about looking for her. my poem was mostly that she s out there and i ll find her. that s when the family recalled one of cindy s favorite songs from the old mix tapes. cyndi lauper s time after time. the chorus spoke to them. if you look, you will find me, time after time. and if cindy came looking for