cadaver dogs didn t find anything. we weren t exactly sure where it was. i knew she was there. but it was still trying to find a needle in a haystack. so mac got permission to spring ream from prison to narrow down the search. he lumbered in convict s chains to the place where he thought he dumped the murdered 13-year-old 22 years before. when he came out with us, he more or less, he couldn t remember exactly where the where he had put cindy. the pedophile killer poked about here and there as though he were trying to select a picnic spot. it s an experience, it s so difficult to describe because you re out there with evil personified, you re walking through this beautiful forest, along a river, and here is the defendant in chains, and then at some point the chains were released because he had to cross a bridge that had been taken out by floods and years of neglect, just walking around. going, yeah, i remember these trees. i think i was over here. it could be over here.
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 that i have 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 theories 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 firm in chicago where mac
what they d found. mac, he said, you ve got a winner here. i think i can work with this. coming up and work they did. trying to get art ream to reveal what happened to cindy. bui m not going to tell you what you want to know. playing cat-and-mouse with a suspect. when disappearance at the dairy queen continues. [ male announcer ] the most headroom per dollar of any car in america. from $10,990. the all-new nissan versa sedan. innovation upsized. innovation for all. walk, little walk small talk, big thoughts, gonna tell them all [ male announcer ] the most legroom per dollar of any car in america. from $10,990. the all-new nissan versa sedan. innovation upsized. innovation for all. ok, people. show me the best way to design a vacation on a budget with expedia. make it work. booking a flight by itself is an uh-oh.
yeah. it went against mac s gut to play nonchalant about what he cared for most, finding cindy s body, but he went with his boss suggestion to find a new tactic. be brusque and dismissive. he hoped ream would get flustered and produce a new map. and that would lead to cindy. a few weeks after the trial and conviction, mac had a jailhouse meeting with ream in a visitor s room by himself. the detective recorded the interview with a camera concealed inside a plastic bottle. right away, mac laid down the new law. the case is done. i have closure with it. the family has closure. do we want cindy back? absolutely. but everybody s okay. so all i want to do today is basically get information as to where cindy s remains are. i don t want to talk about anything else today. ream, as he had so often before, tried to change the conversation. so you really don t care what happened? you re happy with the story that
search forensic anthropologists, guided only by a crude map drawn by the killer. she s down by the river, she s 25 feet to the west of the bridge. how surreal it was for mac when he got to the scene, he remembered back to what the psychic had said. he was amazed that the area was so much as the psychic had described it. one of the first things that popped into my head was when we first got out there, you know, the bridge. the banks of the river. the field of flowers. it was unbelievable. the tranquility of the river and woods on that july day in 2008 was in stark contrast to what the searchers hoped they d find there, the burial site of cindy zarzycki. art ream had dug a grave site in what turned out to be a floodplain. maybe all trace of cindy had been washed away.