Suspected serial killer Arthur Ream died in a Michigan prison hospital on August 15, 2024. He was serving a life sentence for the 1986 murder of 13-year-old Cynthia Jocelyn Zarzycki. The case was cold until 2008, when Ream, Cynthia’s boyfriend’s father, was charged with her murder. Authorities believed Ream abducted her and then killed her when she resisted his sexual advances. He later lead police to a shallow grave in Macomb Township, where he had buried her body.
He is suspected in multiple murders of missing Michigan girls, including Cynthia Coon (age 13, 1970), Donna Serra (age 17, 1972), , Nadine Jean O’Dell (age 16, 1974), Kimberly Alice King (12, 1979) Kim Marie Larrow (15, 1981), and Kellee Marie Brownlee (age 17, 1982). The monster took his secrets to the grave.
The freak was last in the news in 2018, when he demanded an apology from Warren police for callling him a suspected serial killer.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/macomb/2018/05/21/suspected-serial-killer-arthur-ream-wants-apology/618888002/ (“‘We don’t go by cost when you’re trying to bring closure to the family of victims,’ [Warren Police Commissioner] Dwyer said. ‘How can you put a cost on bringing closure to families that have suffered for 35 years for an investigation that is really our responsibility and our obligation to do?'”)
And in this sad, but unsurprising announcement, further proof of Michigan State University’s institutional cover-up regarding the sexual assaults on hundreds of women and girls by Larry Nassar:
The university’s actions and responses in this case are properly described as “consistently disdainful toward people harmed on their campus.” It is outrageous and hard to see how, with the dismissal of charges against former MSU President Lou Anna Simon for lying to police, and the inability of the law to address the withholding of documents by MSU, there is any motivation for MSU to change its practices. (See also, https://catherinebroad.blog/2024/09/09/medical-examiner-says-brendan-santos-cause-of-death-should-be-undetermined/ )
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More Michigan–Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter, a new two-part docuseries on Netflix. See https://time.com/7020856/into-the-fire-the-lost-daughter-true-story-netflix/. IN MICHIGAN. AGAIN.
An exceptional documentary. Watch it.
I will note Kimberly Alice King disappeared September 15, 1979.
In a few days, it will be 45 years.
She was age 12 and was born October 21, 1966. (One month from reaching age 13.)
(I have relatives from Macomb County. I am from Wayne County. This case came to my attention from an episode of Nina Innsted’s podcast “Already Gone.”)
Thanks, I will change the date of her disappearance. Forty-five years is a long time to miss someone and have no answers.
On the 45-year anniversary of Kimberly King’s disappearance, I came across a video published to YouTube on September 13, 2024.
This is from WXYZ–TV, the ABC-affiliated station from Detroit, Michigan.
It is titled “Family of suspected victim says there’s no closure in Arthur Ream’s death”.
The video description: “It’s been over 16 years since suspected serial killer Arthur Ream was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Cindy [Zarzycki] almost 40 years ago.”
Link:
https://youtu.be/w9GVbaKc90g
https://torontosun.com/news/world/hunter-answers-lost-after-prison-death-of-suspected-serial-killer