the glove save no one in cindy s family could remember a gold necklace with a charm on it, an anchor. found it around her neck area. and her family didn t know what to make of that. exactly. we asked them if they could i.d. this, and nobody could. but linda bronson, one of art ream s ex-wives, said she knew what it was. art had worn that anchor chain all the time. we re thinking after he put cindy in the grave he put his necklace around her neck. what do you make of that? a possession type of thing. just as he kept a missing persons flyer of cindy as a trophy. it is the sense of this court that you be incarcerated in the michigan department of corrections to 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 when he and cindy met up at the dairy queen.
accused killer in court too. because of a dramatic event right before closing arguments. art ream was talking a plea, courtroom top secret. they cleared out the courtroom, told us all to leave and i just happened to notice that the judge said to one of the bailiffs, you need to make sure that the entire back room is cleared out, nobody can be in my chambers, nobody can overhear this. and then i put two and two together. amber hunt figured it out and would later be the first to report that an 11th hour plea deal had been in the works. lawyers from both sides and the zarzycki family were summoned to judge s chambers. we want to talk to you. he wants to make an agreement. ream told his lawyer he didn t murder cindy, but he could reveal where she was buried in exchange for a reduced charge and a lesser sentence. he doesn t tell me where it is, but he tells me that he knows. defense attorney kohler then asked mclaughlin for help. i said you ve got to work the deal, though. t
by the killer. she s down by the river, she s 25 feet to the west of the bridge. how surreal it was for mac when he got to the scene, he remembered back to what the psychic had said. he was amazed that the area was so much as the psychic had described it. one of the first things that popped into my head was when we first got out there, you know, the bridge. the banks of the river. the field of flowers. it was unbelievable. the tranquility of the river and woods on that july day in 2008 was in stark contrast to what the searchers hoped they d find there, the burial site of cindy zarzycki. art ream had dug a grave site in what turned out to be a floodplain. maybe all trace of cindy had been washed away. cadaver dogs didn t find anything. we weren t exactly sure where it was. i knew she was there. but it was still trying to find a needle in a haystack.
prosecutor eric smith whose cold case unit had put ream away for the rest of his life was made crazy by ream s casual banter. to the point where i just said, stop, just shut up. the fact that he could stand out there knowing full well the last time, maybe the last time he was here he s burying cindy zarzycki and he s walking around as though he doesn t have a care in the world. maybe it was that i m a father, but that got to me in a hurry. ream was then hustled back to prison, but not before mac took him to a suspicious spot that earlier the detective had had a cadaver dog sniff at. he looked at the spot, he said, no, he says, i think it s closer to the river. meanwhile, about an hour northeast in the retirement cottage by lake huron, ed and linda zarzycki were well aware that the search for cindy had started but mac spared them the agony. you stay put. and i promise when we find her remains, we ll call you.
raise your right hand, please. do you swear from the testimony you re about to give will be the truth? yes, i do. it was one of those tv movie moments when a witness surfaces just before trial. the relentless lead detective derek mclaughlin, had recently found this man, a former employee of art ream in the carpet business. the ex-employee testified that he d requested time off to attend to some business, in texas. he told me that the only way i d be able to get that time off was if i took scott with me down to south texas and he would pay the airfare and expenses for scott if i would take him with me. how long were you and scott away? we left on the friday, which would have been the 18th, and we were back nine to ten days later. so your theory is this arthur ream has been grooming his son s girlfriend and gets the son out of the way so he can carry out his molestation? yes, he gets the son out of dodge in texas.