between people and care. 5;]moó]u i[30fçkmym/çovñçñgszw?wñyc=munuñ=wkóó+ w-owñi the dairy queen was where the trail went cold. cindy zarzycki s long-ago girlfriends said she d made plans to walk there on a sunday morning to meet her boyfriend s father, art. together they d ride in his white van to an out-of-town surprise birthday party for cindy s young flame, scott. it was obvious that he was very interested in young girls. when the detective, mac, talked to one of art ream s four ex-wives, he learned more about his primary suspect s stomach-churning history. a pedophile who had been
and i go and she goes, no, the piece of paper here. the torn paper was an old direct mail sales coupon for a construction glass on one side and on the other, a have you seen me notice for cindy zarzycki, with her picture and a 1-800 call line for leads. we re ecstatic. we re sitting there, why would this guy have this on his property? maybe because his son was involved and it was the girlfriend and maybe the son had put it in there. we were thinking the same way. we re going, man this is probably scott s, they re going to say this is scott s stuff, you know. and then we looked at the expiration date on the back of the advertisement there it was in the small print, expires june 1995. and why is that important? well, scott died july 4th of 1994. scott was dead by the time this thing was put into this keepsake box? that s correct. was this the best evidence you had to date? well, the only physical evidence we had. had mac and his partner stumbled upon a pedop
seriously flawed and botched from the get-go. now two decades later, mac asked theresa to come down to the eastpointe p.d. and go over her story yet again. this time it was a different experience. i knew right away walking in there that he was listening to what i was saying. very intently. the story that the two friends told had for some reason never made it into the police files. it had to do with a surprise birthday party for scott and a planned meeting at the dairy queen. cindy had been over at kathy s house that saturday evening. cindy said she was going to hook up with scott s father in the morning. and she had mentioned that she was going to go to this belated birthday party. she was supposed to meet art at the dairy queen the next day, sunday. how d she talk about this person, art? she was just very, you know, very friendly with them.
he d mapped out a place where he used to keep bees. how large is the area? that you actually dug out for her? did you go pretty deep? probably four feet. even if he was telling the truth, locating cindy s body would be extremely difficult. it had been 22 years, she d been buried by a river known for flooding its banks. maybe her bones had carried downstream. even though mac had promised her father, maybe poor cindy was just destined to remain missing. coming up, a dramatic journey, a killer taken in chains to the place where he says he buried cindy. i ll tell you, she she was calling to us. and we weren t going to leave that area without her letting us know where she was. would they finally find her and bring her home?
mac, the father of three daughters and a son, asked the couple to understand his situation. i said, listen, i said, i m going to do everything i can, but i m kind of limited to what i can do, because of my workload now. linda was great. she even said i ll do anything. i ve got secretarial skills, i can help you file, type up things, do this and do that, just so i could spend more time dealing with her family s case. linda zarzycki, the stepmother, would go to the eastpointe police station on her lunch hour to pore through the case files. she d suggest theorys to mac. and he d say, yep, he thought of that too but kept running into brick walls. he couldn t seem to make progress. but in 2004, the brick wall was about to start crumbling because a new player, a completely unlikely partner for the veteran detective, had talked herself on to the case. she wasn t even a cop, she was a 23-year-old college intern with a law enforcement consulting