that was pretty much it. 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 go t
the family home. 13-year-old cindy zarzycki the media picked it up and interest in the fate of the missing teen was revived, with cindy s face popping up on have you seen me mailings like this one. connie, there was a message to the police here, wasn t it? we re still here, we haven t gone away? right. and you need to get this going again. right. and i had written a poem, i actually had that poem published. do you remember a few lines of it? cindy jo, where did you go? and it talked about looking for her. my poem was mostly that she s out there and i ll find her. that s when the family recalled one of cindy s favorite songs from the old mix tapes. cyndi lauper s time after time. the chorus spoke to them. if you look, you will find me, time after time. and if cindy came looking for them, the family made sure that the old home phone number never got changed.
without someone going with me. but i think she really wanted to see scott and she would ve done just about anything maybe. it was truly amazing what they were telling me. it had taken more than 20 years, but police had finally stitched together a time line for what was certainly cindy s final weekend. the bait, a chance to be with the puppy love boyfriend scott, the boy s father waiting in his white van at the dairy queen. i remember him specifically saying to her on the phone, this was one of the conversations she told me about. that he didn t understand why ed zarzycki would ground her from walking home from the mall because it was no big deal. i think he was trying to make her feel comfortable with him. the story told by both girls, now adults, absolutely floored mac. various cops over the years, even mac had talked to them, but somehow didn t hear it or didn t extract it, or maybe it wasn t offered in the same way. despite his excitement, mac had one nagging question. was i
fast-moving firefighters. this is time lapse video shot saturday over six hours. those fires cover 6,000 acres. more news later. c?]v vn[ñmçsnykóó?y=xs9ññm9ívnw5yzo=zoywuç/g?oñ?o+zoí= hurricane igor intensified detective derek actually it wasn t until a few years after he d been ordered to solve the cindy case that detective derek mclaughlin, mac, actually sat down with the missing girl s father. ed zarzycki by then had remarried a woman named linda. she would become the family s principal contact with the police, because she knew it wasn t in ed s quiet nature to even talk much anymore about cindy. when her birthday came or the anniversary of her death came or christmas came i could feel she became my child, as well.
is told, right? right now? yeah. at first, it seemed like ream wasn t taking the bait. the two sparred. if it doesn t matter what happened, it doesn t matter. it doesn t. it does matter. why would it matter? if you don t care, the family don t care nobody cares, you, you know - no, we didn t say we didn t care, we just said we have closure. mac stuck to the game plan, pretend like it s all old history. i said i m fine with it, i m going to move on, and this guy was like hanging on to my i m trying to get up. i said art you ve got five minutes to write me out a map. the ploy was working. ream could sense the curtain was coming down, and he didn t like not being center stage anymore. i don t have closure, so how the hell can they have closure? because that s the type of people they are. do they want their daughter back? of course they do. he took his trump card, it was perfect. art had no more control, he couldn t be the puppet master. mac took it from him.