him like a happy, normal kid, not a potential runaway. the business about the crush on scott jumped out at him as essential to about what he needed to find out to advance the case. and the whole case really intrigued me. why? i read all of the statements that detective davis had filled out. all of the interviews she conducted. there was some things that were popping out at me that were substantial. one thing really stood out, the lead that linda bronson, the mother of cindy s boyfriend, had given detective davis. it was a bombshell. after thinking about it for a short time, i realized that art was involved in this girl s disappearance. and who was art? he was scott ream s father and linda bronson s ex-husband, a carpet installer with a warehouse business. but what he also was according to the ex was a man who preyed on young girls. a search of the records revealed a sex crime in art ream s past, 20 years earlier in 1975, he d
got changed. the house she knew stayed in the family, just in case one happy day, she turned up at the front door. one thing that had changed by the early 90s was the name of the town. gritty sounding east detroit had been re-dubbed the more upscale, eastpointe. in the police station, though, nothing had much changed with the cindy cold case file. it had been handed down to officer to officer over the years for a little defrosting, mostly chasing down tips of cindy sightings around the country that went nowhere. but after the family s candlelight vigil spurred media interest, a new detective named daniel davis took a look at the file and decided to reclassify it as a possible murder. and officially, that would allow it to be opened. one of detective davis first questions was to find out what cindy s teen crush back then, the boy named scott, knew about her disappearance.
now for the first time in eight years, the eastpointe police department began looking at the cindy case as something other than a possible runaway. the detective danielle davis, began piecing together a timeline of cindy s last weekend home, chasing down old witnesses. but after that flury of fresh energy came a new setback. detective davis left the department. once again, the cindy cold case file would be passed on to a new set of investigative eyes. in may of 1995, an eastpointe cop named derek mclaughlin, mac to one and all, got promoted to the detective division s youth handled 40 to 50 juvenile cases a month. my chief came down and threw this box on my desk. he says, this is an old file. he says, it s still an open case. he says, i want you to solve it. solve it? solve it. mac stayed late that night, reading the yellowing case files. in cindy s old snapshots, in her diary, she looked and sounded to