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🗓️ 1 February 2024
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The 1986 murder of 13 year old Cindy Zarzycki of East Detroit. Ties to cases including Kim Larrow, Kellie Brownlee, Kim King, Nadine O'Dell and others.
**discussion of sexual abuse and assault, discretion advised**
Written by Nina Innsted, researched by Haley Gray and Nina Innsted.
Audio production by Bill Bert.
#Michigan #Murder #childkiller
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0:00.0 | Jennifer vanished sometime in the overnight hours. |
0:04.3 | Right now there is no trace. |
0:06.0 | Investigators say evidence leaves them to believe that she's dead. |
0:09.6 | Stick my nose back on the trail. |
0:11.6 | That's all I can do. This is already gone. |
0:16.0 | Already gone. Today's case takes us back almost 40 years to the mid-1980's to a simpler time, |
0:32.0 | before cell phones, before the internet, when big hair and |
0:35.8 | mixtapes were all the rage. Come with me to the spring of 1986 when 13-year-old Cindy Zarziki walked away from her home and |
0:46.6 | would not be seen again. Cynthia Jocelyn Zarziki, best known as Cindy, was born June 8th, 1972 to parents Alice and Ed. |
1:10.2 | Her parents were high school sweethearts who were married more than a decade before they divorced in 1981. |
1:16.0 | After the divorce, Ed gained custody of the kids since Alice worked the night shift. |
1:22.0 | Ed would tell Dateline that his daughter Cindy was a joy. |
1:26.1 | She never gave him any problems. She was an outgoing girl who enjoyed life. |
1:31.6 | Cindy always had a smile. In Cindy was athletic. She played first |
1:36.5 | base on a softball team out of St. Basil's Catholic Church in East Detroit. And yes, |
1:42.2 | the city of East Detroit will later be called East Detroit. And yes, the city of East Detroit will later be called East Point, but we're not there, |
1:46.9 | not yet. |
1:48.1 | That won't happen until 1992. |
1:50.6 | Cindy loved Muses. 92. She also loved pop music. |
2:03.0 | Cindy and her older sister, Connie, would sing along to the Madonna song |
2:08.0 | borderline and mimic Madonna's dance moves. |
2:11.0 | Cindy was such a music lover that she kept mixtapes in her purse, |
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