between people and care. 5;]moó]u i[30fçkmym/çovñçñgszw?wñyc=munuñ=wkóó+ w-owñi the dairy queen was where the trail went cold. cindy zarzycki s long-ago girlfriends said she d made plans to walk there on a sunday morning to meet her boyfriend s father, art. together they d ride in his white van to an out-of-town surprise birthday party for cindy s young flame, scott. it was obvious that he was very interested in young girls. when the detective, mac, talked to one of art ream s four ex-wives, he learned more about his primary suspect s stomach-churning history. a pedophile who had been
did closings. the jury, listening to closing arguments, was totally unaware of the 11th hour plea negotiations. the prosecution went first. well, cindy s not coming home, cindy s dead. this man not only killed her, but he deprived the family of a burial. and then closing from the defense. if you ve got reasonable doubt, you can come back with a verdict, and that verdict is not guilty. then the jury went behind closed doors to deliberate a first-degree murder case. and to the surprise of nearly everyone, they were back after just two hours. all right. mr. foreman, have you reached a verdict? yes, we have, your honor. would you please give it to my deputy? i remember praying and praying and praying. as to count one, your verdict is? guilty in the first degree. guilty of first-degree murder. i felt like someone punched me right in the heart, because at that moment, i knew i would have to admit that she s gone, and she s never coming back.
and i go and she goes, no, the piece of paper here. the torn paper was an old direct mail sales coupon for a construction glass on one side and on the other, a have you seen me notice for cindy zarzycki, with her picture and a 1-800 call line for leads. we re ecstatic. we re sitting there, why would this guy have this on his property? maybe because his son was involved and it was the girlfriend and maybe the son had put it in there. we were thinking the same way. we re going, man this is probably scott s, they re going to say this is scott s stuff, you know. and then we looked at the expiration date on the back of the advertisement there it was in the small print, expires june 1995. and why is that important? well, scott died july 4th of 1994. scott was dead by the time this thing was put into this keepsake box? that s correct. was this the best evidence you had to date? well, the only physical evidence we had. had mac and his partner stumbled upon a pedop
seriously flawed and botched from the get-go. now two decades later, mac asked theresa to come down to the eastpointe p.d. and go over her story yet again. this time it was a different experience. i knew right away walking in there that he was listening to what i was saying. very intently. the story that the two friends told had for some reason never made it into the police files. it had to do with a surprise birthday party for scott and a planned meeting at the dairy queen. cindy had been over at kathy s house that saturday evening. cindy said she was going to hook up with scott s father in the morning. and she had mentioned that she was going to go to this belated birthday party. she was supposed to meet art at the dairy queen the next day, sunday. how d she talk about this person, art? she was just very, you know, very friendly with them.
he d mapped out a place where he used to keep bees. how large is the area? that you actually dug out for her? did you go pretty deep? probably four feet. even if he was telling the truth, locating cindy s body would be extremely difficult. it had been 22 years, she d been buried by a river known for flooding its banks. maybe her bones had carried downstream. even though mac had promised her father, maybe poor cindy was just destined to remain missing. coming up, a dramatic journey, a killer taken in chains to the place where he says he buried cindy. i ll tell you, she she was calling to us. and we weren t going to leave that area without her letting us know where she was. would they finally find her and bring her home?