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Looking for a lost piece of jewelry. 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. ....
Coming season. it was kind of exciting because it was something that, as a father, i could connect with her. it hadn t been easy for cindy s father, raising a son and two daughters by himself after the marriage broke up. ed was a school custodian and what exactly to do with a young daughter, other than love her, perplexed him a bit. so this new softball connection was a welcome one between father and daughter. i mean, i had no problems with her. it was a joy to watch her come home from school and that because she had so much enthusiasm and she always had a smile. and not at all a shy kid. there was that time the summer before on a family camping trip across the river in canada. middle of the night and the bonfire was going and at that time, had that song, proud to be an american, and she was just singing that song just as loud that was the kind of person, she just enjoyed life. and in the last couple of years, she discovered boys. ....
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. ....
we brought the bones back here to the medical examiner s office. we brought the bones in addition to her personal belongings which included clothing, shoes, a purse, which contained a variety of personal items, and we began to do our own excavation here at the office. obviously, it s very disintegrated being in the ground for over 20 years. there s a bra as well as some type of thin jacket with a zipper. investigators believe these are the remains of cindy zarzycki, a 13-year-old girl who s been missing since 1986. she just disappeared. it tell felt like an arm is ripped off you. cindy is last seen by her parents, ed and alice, on a sunday morning. she tells them she is on her way to this dairy queen. ....
dr. spitz doesn t find any evidence to back up arthur ream s story that cindy died in an accident. i didn t see any indication of blunt trauma. while i can t be definitive, the most likely situation is that this was some type of asphyxiation or strangulation. cindy s dental records are not available to match her identity. instead, a bone is shipped to a lab for dna tests. even before the tests come back arthur ream is sentenced to life in prison for cindy s murder. without any possibility of parole. tests eventually prove the remains are cindy s. and after 22 long years, ed gets his daughter back. it takes a lot of pressure off 22 years of not knowing and looking and waiting, being able to have a funeral. other tests help solve more cases. ....