MACOMB TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on police excavations in Detroit area as part of cold case investigation (all times local): 
 
 11:20 a.m. 
 
 Authorities believe up to half a dozen bodies of missing girls could be buried in a wooded area northeast of Detroit. 
 
 Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer tells WJBK-TV that officers are excavating Tuesday at the site in Macomb Township for the remains of 12-year-old Kimberly King who last was seen in 1979. 
 
 Dwyer says "there's maybe four to six other girls that have been reported missing that are buried there" and that police "certainly are convinced we have the right area." 
 
 King lived in the Detroit suburb of Warren as did 13-year-old Cindy Zarzycki who disappeared in 1986 after being lured to a Dairy Queen. Arthur Ream led police to the area and Zarzycki's remains in 1986. Zarzycki had been dating Ream's son at the time of her disappearance. 
 
 Ream was convicted in her murder and is serving life in prison. 
 
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 11 a.m. 
 
 Police are digging in woods northeast of Detroit near where the body of a 13-year-old girl who went missing in 1986 was found more than a decade ago. 
 
 Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer says his department has probable cause to conduct the search, but declined to say what officers are trying to find. 
 
 Officers using shovels and excavation equipment began digging at the Macomb Township site Monday. Dwyer has said they are prepared to continue the work throughout the week. 
 
 In 2008, Arthur Ream led police to the area and the remains of Cindy Zarzycki who disappeared in 1986 after being lured to a Dairy Queen. Zarzycki had been dating Ream's son at the time of her disappearance. 
 
 Ream was convicted of her murder and is serving life in prison. 
 
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 Information from: The Macomb Daily, http://www.macombdaily.com 

 - Several law enforcement agencies are searching a Macomb Township property for clues related to Kimberly King, a girl who was 12 when she went missing in 1979, according to police sources. 
 
 The Warren Police Department was the lead agency on the search in Macomb Township, which included crews using a backhoe, shovels and more to dig through the property just south of 23 Mile near North Avenue. 
 
 According to sources, they're searching for the body of Kimberly King, a girl who went missing from Warren when she was 12 in 1979. Sources also say other bodies may be in the field as well. 
 
 “That doesn’t make you feel very good about any tragedy like that if there’s any unfortunate thing that happened there,” said nearby property owner Ron Dehondt, who's very familiar with the property and its past. 
 
 “There was a family who lived there but they’ve been out of there at least 20 something years. The front part was farm up until few years ago; the back part is open but I think it’s not being developed right now. There’s a river that runs through it, the north branch of the Clinton River.” 
 
 Sources say information on the case of 12-year-old King prompted investigators to go to the property. 
 
 In that same area, the remains of a 13-year-old girl, Cindy Zarzycki, were found in 2008 after convicted child killer Arthur Nelson Ream led police to that spot. 
 
 Ream was convicted in the murder Zarzycki, who went missing in April 1986 after agreeing to meet Ream at a Dairy Queen in Eastpointe. 
 
 In the 19 years since Zarzycki went missing, Ream had been convicted of raping a 15-year-old girl. He led investigators to the field where they found Zarzycki's body in a shallow grave. 
 
 Ream was convicted of her death in June 2008 and is currently serving a life sentence. 
 
 FOX 2 spoke to some of Ream's former neighbors, who remember someone far from a convicted child killer. 
 
 "Typical single father with two boys," said Chuck Corbin. 
 
 "Out there mowing his lawn, fixing his porch. That what we do; my dad did block and brick work for a living, but he insisted on doing his own work," Harold Burgett said. 
 
 Hearing Ream's name being possibly connected to more bodies buried on this property, they say, is just as surprising as it was 10 years ago. 
 
 But for some, it doesn't quite add up. According to Michigan Department of Corrections, Ream was serving time, convicted of molesting a child at the time of King's disappearance. Released from prison in February of 1980, King disappeared in September of 1979. 
 
 FOX 2 also learned that Ream's ex-wife spent some time with investigators at the search site Monday, but authorities didn't elaborate on why she was there. 
 
 Sources say it’s not only information on King’s disappearance that they are looking for, but that the vacant property could be serving as a gruesome grave site for multiple bodies. 
 
 “That will be a surprise a unfortunate certainly for any victims found,” Dehondt said. 
 
 Authorities began their search again Tuesday morning. 
 
 Meanwhile, a boil water advisory is in effect after a water main break for those living in the area, on 23 Mile Road between North Avenue and the eastern township border. That includes all residents of Pinnacle Woods subdivision. 
 
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 This is a developing story. Stay with FOX 2 for updates. 

 Authorities who resumed digging Tuesday morning in a wooded area of Macomb Township are looking for the remains of four to six young girls who were victims of a serial killer, Warren’s top police official reported. 
 
 Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer confirmed four agencies working together south of 23 Mile Road, west of North Avenue, are trying to find the remains of Kimberly Alice King, 12, who went missing in September 1979 while visiting her grandparents in Warren. 
 
 Dwyer also revealed Tuesday morning that officials also suspect the wooded area is where a 15-year-old Canton girl missing since 1981 and a 17-year-old girl who was last seen at Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi in May 1982 are buried. The police commissioner did not provide the names of those teenagers or the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of other girls that officials believe may be buried in the same location near 23 Mile Road and North Avenue in Macomb Township. 
 
 A task force composed of the FBI, the Warren Police Department, Michigan State Police and the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office are conducting the investigation. Warren is the lead agency. 
 
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 The wooded area of the search is along the North Branch of the Clinton River, between 23 Mile and an unplanted crop field just north of The Park at Riverside residential subdivision, just west of North Avenue. 
 
 Law enforcers began arriving at approximately 7:30 a.m. Monday. They spent most of the daylight hours prepping the site for an FBI evidence recovery team and the Michigan State Police missing persons unit, Dwyer said. 
 
 Several Warren detectives and evidence technicians from the other three agencies returned to the site at 8 a.m. Tuesday. Dwyer said the team may be working in the wooded area for two or three more days. 
 
 Law enforcers are focused on that area after a Warren detective began revisiting some cold case files several months ago, Dwyer said. 
 
 The woods are near the area where investigators in 2008 were led by Arthur Ream to the buried body of Cindy Zarzycki, 13, of Warren, who was reported missing April 20, 1986. 
 
 Ream was convicted of first-degree murder in Zarzycki’s death and is imprisoned at the Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility in Muskegon Heights. At the time, Ream already had been convicted and imprisoned for raping a 15-year-old girl. He drew a map of where he buried Zarzycki in a shallow grave in a field on 23 Mile Road, west of North Avenue. 
 
 Police said Zarzycki had planned to meet Ream at a Dairy Queen on Nine Mile Road in Eastpointe, near where she lived. Ream, who turns 69 Wednesday, is the father of a boy who knew Zarzycki. He told her that he was going to drive her to a surprise birthday party for the boy. 
 
 Dwyer on Tuesday described Ream as a “person of interest” in the disappearance of Kimberly King and the other girls. Ream has not been charged with any crimes involving those missing females. 
 
 Before the current search for remains, a detective interviewed Ream in prison several months ago. Investigators also developed other, unspecified information, Dwyer said. 
 
 Before being charged with Zarzycki’s murder, Ream was charged with taking indecent liberties with a minor in Shelby Township and third-degree criminal sexual conduct in Bay City. 
 
 The commissioner said officials believe whatever number of victims they may find buried in the wooded area, that all were killed by the same person. While gruesome discoveries could help law enforcers solve cases that have been cold for decades, it would bring closure to families who have wondered for years about the whereabouts of loved ones. 
 
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– Authorities believe up to half a dozen bodies of missing girls could be buried in a wooded area northeast of Detroit. Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer tells WJBK-TV that officers are excavating Tuesday at the site in Macomb Township for the remains of 12-year-old Kimberly King, who last was seen in 1979. Dwyer says police believe "there's maybe four to six other girls that have been reported missing that are buried there" and that police "certainly are convinced we have the right area." Kimberly lived in the Detroit suburb of Warren as did 13-year-old Cindy Zarzycki, who disappeared in 1986 after being lured to a Dairy Queen, reports the AP. In 2008, Arthur Ream led police to the area and Cindy's remains. The teen had been dating Ream's son at the time of her disappearance. Ream was convicted of her murder and is serving life in prison. The Macomb Daily provides more specifics on some of the missing girls: a 15-year-old who vanished in 1981 and a 17-year-old last seen at Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi a year later. It reports authorities zeroed in on the area after recently resurrecting cold case files. Dwyer on Tuesday referred to Ream as a "person of interest" in the girls' disappearances, though he has not been charged. Authorities say they believe any bodies they find were all put there by the same killer. But WJBK-TV adds one wrinkle: It cites Michigan Department of Correction records that say Ream was in prison at the time of Kimberly's disappearance.