his primary suspect s stomach-churning history. a pedophile who had been imprisoned in the 70s for taking indecent liberties with a minor. that s tame-sounding legal language for what the victim, a hitchhiker, said he actually did, abducted her, raped her in his car and then tossed her out the door. linda had two children with ream, scott and another boy. children thought the ex who were useful to ream s appetite when the boys became young teens. they attracted young girls and art liked having the young girls around. i think that was why he liked having scott there because he knew that girls would be attracted to him. and you know, he d have this chance to do whatever he wanted to do or whatever he thought he could get away with. he d entice them with alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes, and he would be he d be their friend and he d be the cool dad around, you know. by 2007, with everything mac was learning about art ream, the theory that cindy was merely a teenage runaway was as o
the business about the crush on scott jumped out to 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 been convicted and locked up for three years for taking indecent liberties with a minor.
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
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
that personally called me. what was your gut telling you? well, you had to check it out because you just never knew. and i checked every one of them out. cindy s family recognized this new detective on the case was different. he was taking it to heart, just as they did. as i got to know him better, he wasn t going to work on the case, he was going to find cindy. and finding cindy or her body if it came to that was paramount to a family frozen in uncertainty, unable to mourn and move ahead. could mac find connie s sister? it wasn t even a case number to him. she was my sister, his sister, my dad and mom s daughter. after a few years on the case, mac got a call from art ream s ex-wife, linda. she had some news. art ream was back in prison for raping a child. this time he was convicted of criminal sexual conduct. ream was going nowhere. the detective would have time to come up with a strategy for