what got him. her friends always said she wore them even wintertime in gym. when i saw the socks, i i d that s it. for best friend teresa, there were the white boots with the buttons. only one was found. the other were swept away. her shoes were what did it for me. i had got an pair for christmas, and cindy desperately wanted them. she nagged her grandmother for these shoes. her grandmother finally broke down and got her the shoes. the tapes, cindy always carried around the tapes for music. for her older sister, connie, the mixed tape cassettes coming from cindy s purse was all the confirmation that she would need. had the tapes just maybe been cindy s birthday present for scott, her boyfriend? connie says she and cindy gave away mixed tapes as gifts all the time. we would pick their favorite songs or something that had meaning to us to show how much we cared for that person. but there was one item from the glove save no one in cindy s
she had no mental illnesses, she is the last 13-year-old that would run away. what had happened to her then was suggested by the testimony of her two best friends, kathy buford and creasa. they told the jury as they said they told police in 1986 about cindy s plans to meet her boyfriend s father art ream. they were making plans, they were going to go down meet at dairy queen. she told me that she would be meeting meeting meeting arthur ream scott s father. at the dairy queen because he was going to take her to a surprise birthday party for scott in pontiac. but the party was a ruse. scott s birthday had been in january, not april when cindy disappeared. the invitation kaplan argued was merely a employ to lure cindy to the dairy queen, and then into ream s van. and she hadn t been seen since. i know that cindy is in a much better place, she s not on earth right now. she didn t run away. i believe she s with the lord.
did she talk to this art at your house on the phone? yes. she called art to confirm the plans of the next day. cathy heard cindy tell the person on the phone that she d look for his white van between 10:00 and 11:00 the next morning. cindy told her girlfriend she had a birthday present for scott. she asked cathy to please come along with her. cathy said her mother wouldn t let her. when she was leaving my house, she turned around to me and she said, will you please just show up? just say you re going to be there. like a reassuring, like she needed someone to really truly be there, and i said i ll see what i can do and that was it. cindy called her other friend theresa sunday morning, same story. a surprise party for scott in pontiac, michigan. she was getting her ride at the dairy queen in a few minutes. she did ask me to go. and she knew right away when she asked me that i wouldn t be coming because absolutely my mother didn t let me leave and
kathy bouford and theresa olechowski. they both told the jury, as they said they told the police back in 1986, about cindy s plans to meet her boyfriend s father, art ream. they were making plans, they were going to go down and meet at dairy queen. she told me she would be meeting arthur ream, scott s father, at the dairy queen, because he was going to take her to a surprise birthday party for scott in pontiac. but the party was a reduce, ruse, later testimony would reveal. scott s birthday had been in january, not april when cindy disappeared. the invitation, kaplan argued, was merely a ploy to lure cindy to the dairy queen and then into ream s van and she hadn t been seen since. i know that cindy is in a much better place. she s not on earth right now. she didn t run away. i believe she s with the lord. and where was cindy s boyfriend scott on that sunday in question april 20th? not in michigan, according to a late-addition witness.
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.