The remains of a 12-year-old girl missing for nearly 40 years may be buried at a vacant Michigan farm that police fear could be a potential serial killer’s burial site for at least six other teens.
Police have been digging at the remote property in Warren, north of Detroit, on Monday and Tuesday in the search for Kimberly King’s remains.
Kimberly was reported missing from the same area back in September 1979 while she was staying with her grandparents.
Police started digging at the remote property in Warren, north of Detroit, on Monday in the search for remains of Kimberly King – a 12-year-old girl who vanished from the area in 1979
Local police, the sheriff’s office and FBI officials launched a major excavation on Monday as crews used backhoes and shovels to dig through the area.
In addition to Kimberly’s remains, officials believe the bodies of up to six other teen girls may also be buried on the property.
‘There’s maybe four to six other girls that have been reported missing that are buried there,’ Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer told WJBK-TV.
‘(Police) certainly are convinced we have the right area.’
They fear the site could potentially be a burial site for victims of convicted child murderer Arthur Nelson Ream.
It is the same area where the body of 13-year-old Cindy Zarzycki was found in 2008 after she was murdered by Ream 22 years earlier.
Ream, who is now 68 and is serving a life sentence for killing Zarzycki, ended up leading police to where he buried her body in a shallow grave.
He had tricked Zarzycki into meeting him at a local Dairy Queen after telling her he was planning a surprise birthday for his son. Zarzycki had been dating Ream’s son at the time of her disappearance.
Police started digging at the remote property in Warren, north of Detroit, on Monday in the search for Kimberly King’s remains
Officials believe the bodies of four other teen girls may also be buried on the property and they fear they could be victims of convicted child murderer Arthur Nelson Ream
It is the same area where the body of 13-year-old Cindy Zarzycki (right) was found in 2008 after she was murdered by Arthur Nelson Ream (left) 22 years earlier
Ream was already in prison serving a sentence for raping a 15-year-old girl when he was convicted of Zarzycki’s death in 2008.
While police would not reveal what led police to the area in the search for Kimberly’s remains, authorities did say they had interviewed Ream in prison before starting the investigation, Fox News reports.
Ream’s ex-wife was also at the search site on Monday but police would not reveal why.
Police said while Reams had a sick obsession with young girls, they are not yet certain if he had anything to do with Kimberly King’s disappearance.
King vanished in September 1979 but Reams wasn’t released from prison – after being jailed for another child sex assault – until 1980.
Police are investigating if Ream had anything to do with the disappearance of Kellie Brownlee, from Novi, in 1982, and Kim Larrow, from Canton in 1981.
Authorities continued to search the wooded area on Tuesday as part of their investigation.
