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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 ....
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. ....
Deal with him as though it were a gift, that everyone in that interview room knew ream had something to do with cindy s disappearance and now was the time to explain it all. if you could put closure to this thing right now today. and help a family out. you think about it right now, you need some paper, i ll get you some paper you can write it down. i m not going to write it down. why not? my spelling s not that good. in that first interview, ream controlled the game, just as the psychological detectives had feared. mac suggested he could do himself some good by giving up the location of cindy s body. i can t make any promises, but the prosecutors, do the judges listen to me? of course they do. then the accusations took a harder edge. you ve got information that will tell me where this girl is, and you re not saying nothing. and i just think that s bull [ bleep ]. he just sits there, doesn t deny it, doesn t refute it, doesn t do anything but sit there and nod his head ....
seriously flawed and botched from the get-go. now two decades later, mac asked theresa to come down to the eastpointe p.d. and go over her story yet again. this time it was a different experience. i knew right away walking in there that he was listening to what i was saying. very intently. the story that the two friends told had for some reason never made it into the police files. it had to do with a surprise birthday party for scott and a planned meeting at the dairy queen. cindy had been over at kathy s house that saturday evening. cindy said she was going to hook up with scott s father in the morning. and she had mentioned that she was going to go to this belated birthday party. she was supposed to meet art at the dairy queen the next day, sunday. how d she talk about this person, art? she was just very, you know, very friendly with them. that was pretty much it. ....
Taken courses on how to interrogate criminals. immediately, the young intern was fascinated by cindy s case file. she picked it off her boss desk when he wasn t looking. i ve since admitted it to my boss, i read the file, and it really was contagious. i took that file home with me almost every single night and just kept rereading it. jen leibow, was at the time, an undergrad studying for a communications degree. she quickly became obsessed with suburban detroit teenager who disappeared when she herself was only 4. and then i brought it up to my bosses and they allowed me to call mac and see if, you know, i can be an extra set of hands for him. anything he needed. you know, as a new investigator, i could learn from him, but i could also help him out. and the phone relationship would remain for the next 2 1/2 years. mac, back in eastpointe, doing the shoe-leather investigating, as he had time for, and jen leibow going digital, diving into a stuff that was mostly a ....