Man serving life for teen girl’s killing dies in Michigan prison

A man sentenced to life for killing a 13-year-old girl while being a suspect in the deaths of about a half-dozen others has died in a Michigan prison A man sentenced to life for killing a 13-year-old girl while being a suspect in the deaths of about a half-dozen others has died in a Michigan prison. Arthur Ream, 75, died Aug. 15 of cancer at a prison hospital in Jackson, Michigan, the state Corrections Department said Thursday. Cindy Zarzycki was last seen on April 20, 1986, and believed to be a runaway after going to a Dairy Queen in Eastpointe, a mostly blue-collar suburb north of Detroit. The case went cold, but Ream eventually was arrested and charged. In 2008, he led investigators to Zarzycki’s remains buried in a wooded area in Macomb Township, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northeast of Detroit. In a 2008 videotaped interrogation, Ream told police, “I’m into, was into, teenage girls. OK?” In the video, he said Cindy’s death had been driving him “crazy for 22 years.” “I can’t make up for the wrong I’ve done,” he said during the interrogation. The more you hide it, the worst it gets.” His apparent admission of guilt didn’t last long. “I didn’t kill Cindy, and I’m not going to get up there and say I did,” Ream said during the same interrogation. While serving his life sentence for Zarzycki’s murder, Ream would boast to fellow prisoners about killing four to six other people, leading police in 2018 to excavate in the same Macomb Township wooded area in a search for as many as seven other girls. Other possible victims include 12-year-old Kimberly King, who disappeared in 1979 while visiting her grandmother in Warren; Kim Larrow, who was 15 when she was last seen in 1981 in Canton Township, west of Detroit; and Kellie Brownlee, who was 17 when she vanished in 1982 from suburban Novi. Attorney R. Timothy Kohler, who was appointed by a judge to represent Ream in his 2008 murder trial, has said his former client was “not a likable guy.” “I didn’t want to particularly hear his story, other than my sense that he was denying any allegation of intentionally murdering Cindy,” Kohler said in 2018. Frankly, I don’t think I was interested in knowing that.” _____ AP researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report. – This Summarize was created by Neural News AI (V1). Source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/man-serving-life-teen-girls-killing-dies-michigan-113635687