exactly. we asked them to i.d. this, and no one could. but linda bronson knew what it was. art had wore that anchor chain all the time. so what we re thinking is what art did, after he put cindy in the grave he put his necklace around her neck and then buried her. what do you make of that? a possession-type thing. just as he d kept a missing persons flier of cindy as a trophy. it is the sentence of this court that you be incarcerated in the michigan department of corrections that you serve a life sentence. at his sentencing, mandatory life, ream was still trying to keep his grip on the family he devastated for more than two decades. he offered to tell cindy s dad explicit details of what happened after he and cindy met up at the dairy queen. i would like to ask the father if i could get his permission to write him and
scott ream, 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. i knew that 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 information to offer and detective davis was listening. she was very interested in it. she believed me. she whole-heartedly believed me, at least i felt she did.
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
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 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 pour through the case files. she d suggest theorys 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
closure, you laid your son to rest. can t you do the same for the zarzyckis? can t you give them that same peace? and he was quiet and i looked at him, and i said, art, where s cindy? and he looked at me and he shook his head and just said, that s a low blow. later, inside the interview room at the eastpointe cop shop with another concealed camera rolling, mac and engine came at art ream for the next eight hours. not confrontational, more like friends talking. they had all the time in the world for him and his ramblings. i think at this point i hope you understand, we re really just trying to find cindy. so far i m surprised to be honest with you. what do you mean? your attitudes and, you know, your treatment. you re saying it s better or worse than you thought? it can t be worse, so it s got to be better, you know. well, we re just we re nice people. and we know that there s another side to art ream. some of these things that people are saying about me ma