it was a very early-on crush. whatever it was, cindy didn t let it out as she played her mix tapes and tried on her mother s clothes that saturday afternoon. she asked if she could spend the night. i would have loved to have been able to say yes, but i had to work and i had to tell her no. restless, cindy then made that unauthorized visit to her girlfriend, cathy s house, where she used the phone to finalize plans for what was supposed to be a surprise birthday party for scott the following day, the sunday. cindy hadn t said anything about a party to her mom. it s always troubled me that i didn t have her stay. i wondered what kind of a secret that she was trying to get around to telling me. by 3:00 sunday afternoon, cindy was getting into big trouble with her father. i got a phone call from ed, and he said would you tell cindy to come back home now. and i said well cindy was over yesterday, but she s not here today. he said, she isn t home.
you ve got the little music going and you know there s something. it s, we re just making a mountain out of a mole hill, it ll be over, we ll find her, everything will be all right. monday morning first thing, ed zarzycki went down to the small town police station to report his daughter officially a missing person. he says the officer taking the report told him she was probably just a runaway. did it make sense to you when they suggested that? i was hoping that was it. but when someone hasn t run away and always is in contact, you maybe have a feeling there might be something wrong. two town cops were assigned the cindy zarzycki case, and by 10:00 a.m., they d pulled cindy s friend, cathy, out of history class. they asked me some questions. i told them, specifically, who she was going with. you told them the story about i talked to her and she said i m going to the dairy queen yes. theresa was interviewed by the officers at her home after
all i remember is she used to come home from school and write boys names like 50 times. i love scott or i love dave. the boys names she was writing the most that spring, filling notebooks, was scott. theresa olechowski, cindy s best friend since the second grade, like sisters in their matching too- cool for school white boots with buckles we wore those shoes everywhere. was at the mall the day cindy s crush on scott began. scott had a couple of friends with him and we passed by, started talking to them, they started talking to us. and i think they had a lot of the same interests. cathy was cindy s other great friend from school and sleepovers. she was really, really head over heels in love with him, but it wasn t anything like a long, deep relationship. just puppy love infatuation? exactly. but the place with puppy love bombed at the mall would a pew weeks later get cindy in hot water wither father. this mall was about seven miles from cindy s house and she ha
it s, we re just making a mountain out of a mole hill, it ll be over, we ll find her, everything will be all right. monday morning first thing, ed zarzycki went down to the small town police station to report his daughter officially a missing person. he says the officer taking the report told him she was probably just a runaway. did it make sense to you when they suggested that? i was hoping that was it. but when someone hasn t run away and always is in contact, you maybe have a feeling there might be something wrong. two town cops were assigned the cindy zarzycki case, and by 10:00 a.m., they d pulled cindy s friend, cathy, out of history class. they asked me some questions. i told them, specifically, who she was going with. you told them the story about i talked to her and she said i m going to the dairy queen yes. theresa was interviewed by the officers at her home after school. like cathy, she told the cops about cindy s plans to meet
from cindy s house and she had standing orders from her dad never to walk home, but she did. and a single dad raising a teenager needed his rules followed. and so i had grounded her which meant what? come home right after school? right after school and to stay at the house. grounded. no mall, no scott. they went to different schools. i think she was probably frustrated like any 13-year-old would be when grounded, but then at that time, the most important thing on her mind was scott, you know. how am i going to talk to scott? how am i going to see scott? after school friday, april 18th, 1986, cindy said good-bye to her friends cathy and theresa and reported directly home as per her father s punishment. but the next evening, saturday, cindy bolted from house arrest. well, she called me and wanted to come over, and she escaped her house, came over to my house between 6:00 and 6:30. she wasn t supposed to be there? no. the two girls talked about, what else, scott.