i tried running a lot of them down. there was a lot of leads that came in from other departments 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.
maybe it would help us both if he knew everything. but ed zarzycki said, no way. he and his family really had moved on, thanks to detective mclaughlin, after years of police failure. cindy s mother, alice, said locating her daughter s remains had given them all closure. if we had not found cindy s body, a piece of me, maybe, could have had one little piece of hope. maybe it s not really true, and if it wasn t really true, i d see her again. ed and his wife, linda, accepted mac s invitation to visit the riverside grave with him. did you get anything from it? i think the only thing that i got from it was, it was a very peaceful spot.
him like a happy, normal kid, not a potential runaway. 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,
distinguishing role in the company. he is now under the company s managing director. now, back to disappearance at the dairy queen. i m christina brown. 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 she became my child, as well.