way, by interrogation and gamesmanship. all right, art. got a new partner with me. this is detective mclaughlin. mac s first meeting with the man he suspected of abducting and murdering cindy came in early 2007. a prison interrogation of ream had been arranged and two senior members of jen s consulting firm, interviewers skilled in psychological techniques, would be working with mac. and coming to town with them was jen leibow, the detective and the young researcher who wanted so badly to be in on the case, met for the first time after years of telephone calls and e-mails. as soon as she walked out of the elevator, i knew that was her. it was a good meeting, it was long overdue. but the business at hand was at hand. into the prison for an eight-hour grilling of art ream. at this point, he s 58 years old, he s been in prison for the past ten years. you do know where she s at, art, that s the problem here. that s the whole problem of this whole investigation. the initial st
he says, you must be the seeker. he says, you ve been looking for her killer for a long time. and i said, yeah. and he said, well, he s incarcerated, in fact, you re going to be seeing this guy in a few weeks. so at this point, my hair s rising on the back of my neck. the psychic had no way of knowing that mac was, indeed, going to have his first meeting with ream just a few weeks hence in the muskegon prison where he was serving out his second sex crime conviction. the psychic turned more cards. he s telling me a lot of things. he s saying that she s buried by a river. in the banks of a river. by a bridge. and by a big field of purple flowers. so where was this riverside grave? the cards didn t say. if art ream knew, mac was going to have to get it out of his suspect s head the old-fashioned
i knew that he didn t like police officers. he didn t like to talk to them, so i had to figure out a way how i could talk to this guy. if art ream turned out to be a hannibal lecter, he was going to need a clarice starling to help bring him down. coming up i read the file and it was contagious. a surprising young partner for the veteran cop helps his investigation take a new turn. it was truly amazing what they were telling her. when disappearance at the dairy queen continues. ívwróñ?nr;zzçovto[gohowvuçñc?]v
didn t capture anything useful from ream. he was blithely shooting the breeze with his arresting officers. he was actually even joking a lot with us on the way home. yelling at the truckers for not driving well and laughing with us. jen may have been the one in the car intrigued most by psychology and the criminal mind, but it was mac who had the idea for the head game they were about to play on art ream. they d make a stop before the police station at the cemetery where ream s son, scott, had been buried 13 years before. mac told his partner to pull over at a flower shop, he bought a dozen daisies, and threw them in the backseat. he gets out of the car, we ve got him in belly chains and leg irons, and he s scuffling up there to the grave site, and he starts crying. i said here, why don t you put some flowers on your kid s grave, make it look nice. we saw he was sort of at a weak point there, emotional, sad, and we re standing over his son s grave. and i said art, you could bur
arrest warrant immediately. so he crossed his fingers and showed an assistant prosecutor named steve kaplan what he had. mac, he says, you ve got a winner here. i think i can work with this. you got a green light? got a green light. how do you feel? i couldn t wait to get i couldn t wait to go up there and see art. on january 8th, 2008, jen, mac, and his regular partner drove an unmarked police car up wintry roads to muskegon. they were going to arrest ream and bring him back to their police station for one more interview, their last crack at him before he lawyered up. ream was waiting in a prison holding cell. i said, well, i have a warrant for your arrest for the murder of cindy zarzycki. it was almost eerie, his lack of reaction. it was like, we just charged you with the first and second-degree murder of a 15-year-old girl. they rigged off a concealed camera in the police car but