UNSOLVED - A True Crime Podcast · Kristy Kramer

Episode 16 Part 2 … Who is Arthur Ream, and who did he kill?

·1 hr 5 min·4 clips

Police said the warehouse search turned up evidence tied to a 30-year-old case and a probable gravesite.

Christy Kramer opens part two with a direct welcome back. She says this part centers on the 2018 raid at the abandoned warehouse, why police say it happened, and what they believed they took from that day. She also reintroduces the case for anyone who needs the setup. Arthur Ream is serving a life sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Cindy Zarzycki in 1986, though he was not convicted until 2008. Kramer goes back to Ream's written claim that he was not there when Cindy died. In that account, Ream said his son Scott was there and helped bury Cindy's body. Kramer points out the problem with that story. When Cindy died and was buried, Scott was out of town. The episode then moves into the reporting around Cindy's parents and the calls they said they received. On April 1, Cindy's parents claimed she called twice within a two-hour window, and they were not sure which call came first. Kramer sits with that uncertainty and with how unsettling it would be for any parent to get a call from a missing child months later. She notes that some officials believed the calls came from Detroit. She also says she does not know how that was determined. A later call, on May 5, was described by the parents as a ransom or extortion call. The details of that call were not made public. The episode keeps coming back to what can and cannot actually be proven. Kramer also spends time on the emotional weight of the case and on why the unanswered parts still matter. The closing is a tribute to Cindy Zarzycki and to the other women connected to Ream's case, along with thanks to the families, investigators, volunteers, and local newsrooms that kept pushing the story forward. The result is a patient, mournful episode that stays with the unanswered parts instead of rushing past them.

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A patient, personal return to the Arthur Ream case, with the abandoned-warehouse raid and its unanswered questions front and center.

Part two of the Arthur Ream case moves past the conviction and into the 2018 raid at the abandoned warehouse, why police went there, and what they say they took from that day.

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Follow part two of the Arthur Ream story, where the 2018 abandoned-warehouse raid and the calls tied to Cindy Zarzycki's case take center stage.

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