gunman. tim geithner told the president he ll stay on as treasury secretary. michelle bachmann called for geithner s resignation on friday. now back to disappearance at the dairy queen. it wasn t until a few years after he d been ordered to solve the cindy case that detective derek mclaughlin, mac, actually sat down with the missing girl s father. ed zarzycki by then had remarried a woman named linda. she would become the family s principal contact with the police, because she knew it wasn t in ed s quiet nature to even talk much anymore about cindy. when her birthday came or the anniversary of her death came or christmas came i could feel i could feel his pain. she became my child, as well.
scott riehm by then 22 years old, was located and agreed to a police interview right after the upcoming fourth of july holiday. it never happened. scott ream was killed by a drunk driver first. so there was nothing that could be done, but that did start part of the ball rolling. one person reading those fresh news stories about the missing girl, it turned out, was scott ream s mother. a woman named linda bronson. she was divorced from scott s father. the mother, linda bronson, was upset by what she read as innuendo in the news stories that her now-dead son had somehow been responsible for cindy s disappearance. and i knew that just couldn t be true. that s why i was contacted daniel davis. but linda bronson wasn t calling just to clear her son s name. she had some information to offer. detect davis was listening. she was very interested in it. she believed me. she wholeheartedly believed me. at least i thought she did.
art ream s four ex-wives he learned more about 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
and at the dairy queen, she disappeared. they just assumed she ran away, open and closed. her loved ones would not stop looking. we never forgot her. someone else would not forget. a veteran detective. he says you ve been looking for her a long time. and a young volunteer. there was a sense of injustice there. they found new information. art was involved in this girl s disappearance. i.d. d a suspect. it makes me sound like a monster. you ve been our own personal hannibal lecter. no matter what, they would not give up till they brought her home. we were not going to leave without her letting us know where she was. cracked, the case of the girl who never came home. good evening and welcome to dateline. i m ann curry. what happens after a family refuses to let the case of a missing child go unsolved. this family s passion was matched by the dedication of a veteran policeman and a young intern, who working together, were finally able to uncove