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
the house she knew stayed in the family, just in case one happy day, she turned up at the front door. one thing that had changed by the early 90s was the name of the town. gritty sounding east detroit had been re-dubbed the more upscale, eastpointe. in the police station, though, nothing had much changed with the cindy cold case file. it had been handed down to officer to officer over the years for only defrosting, mostly chasing down tips of cindy sightings around the country that went nowhere. but after the family s candlelight vigil spurred media interest, a new detective named daniel davis took a look at the file and decided to reclassify it as a possible murder. and officially, that would allow it to be opened. one of detective davis first questions was to find out what cindy s teen crush back then, the boy named scott, knew about her disappearance. scott ream, by then 22 years old, was located and agreed to a
liberties with a minor. for detective mclaughlin, the cold case was now showing signs of a pulse. the person of interest at this time was art ream, the father of scott ream. the boyfriend, the father, he s got a rap sheet. that s right. but even though ream had moved to the top of the case file, authorities had nothing to charge him with and no evidence whatsoever of a crime. at the dairy queen or any place else. at the same time, i was getting a whole lot of leads coming in at this time. missing exploiting children out of new york. well, you had to check it out, because you just never know. and i checked every one of them that called in personally. so dead or alive, you can t answer the basic question at this point. right. you re still hearing from missing and exploited childrens kinds of agencies, maybe this is her. maybe she s this kid in florida. maybe this is her in ohio? that s correct. yes. do you have to run those down? i tried running a lot of them down.
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. now, for the first time in eight years, the eastpointe police department began looking