Arthur Nelson Ream (MDOC photo)
Arthur Nelson Ream says he's a misunderstood and thinks Warren Police should apologize to him.
In a one-hour phone interview from state prison with the Detroit Free Press, he acknowledges raping a teenage hitchhiker in the 1970s, having sex with underage girls and burying 13-year-old Cindy Zarzycki in an unmarked grave.
But he insists he didn't kill Zarzycki or anyone else, and he says he deserves an apology from Warren police who have called him a suspected serial killer.
"I’ve never had anything to do with any of them," Ream tells the paper. "There’s absolutely no connection between me and them at all.”
Police say Ream could be responsible for four to six murders and they spent several days earlier this month digging unsuccessfully for bones on property near the intersection of 23 Mile and North Avenue in Macomb Township, writes John Wisely,Christina Hall and Elisha Anderson of the Detroit Free Press. The missing girls range in age from 12 to 17 and disappeared between 1970 and 1982.
Ream said police should apologize to taxpayers for the money spent on the search and to the families of the missing girls.
"He owes them a big apology for getting their hopes up in this case," he said. "He owes Cindy Zarzycki’s family a big apology for bringing up bad memories. And he owes me an apology for just getting me dragged into this..”
"To be honest with ya, on one hand I was laughing my ass off and on the other hand, I was pissed off," Ream said. "So, you take it for what it is. There's no bodies there that I know of."
He acknowledges playing mind games with investigators.
The Freep reports:
Police said they began the search in Macomb Township after talking to Ream's fellow inmates, reviewing his FBI profile and watching him fail a polygraph test.
What's more, Ream had a history with that property. It was there that he buried 13-year-old Cindy Zarzycki in 1986. Twenty-two years later, he was convicted of murdering her and he led investigators there to recover her remains.
