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Turning red hot. authorities digging for the remains of six young girls missing in michigan since the 1970s and 80s. kimberly king and four to six other girls may have been killed by arthur ream who is serving a life sentence for killing a 13-year-old girl whose body was found in the same area ten years ago. rob: and 11-year-old girl makes a dramatic escape out of a moving suv with a carjacking behind the wheel. her father was pumping gas, took off with her inside. this was happening just outsid...

These woods ten years ago, but that site not fully searched. kimberly kings sister, connie, has never stopped looking. >> its the most important thing in my life. until we find her, it will always be the most important thing in my life. >> reporter: david, police reopened this case late last year. they have interviewed arthur ream several times since, and say he failed a polygraph. david? >> eva, thank you. when we come back, the plant explosion, the pictures coming in. and the alarming head...

Developing scene 30 miles from detroit at this hour. the fbi on the scene as they dig for up to six missing girls. abcs eva pilgrim is there. >> reporter: tonight, a cold case turned red hot. investigators digging in the woods of macomb township, michigan, searching for the remains of kimberly king, who vanished in 1979. the 12-year-old last seen in her best friends backyard. >> kim actually, like, hopped the back fence and didnt go home, and then i just went in my house. >> reporter: nearly 40 ...

>> it was turning into a frustrating day. four holes came up empty. she could be anywhere. still, the searchers pushed on as the july day became a scorcher. they were doing it for the girls father and for mac. >> you had promised the father. you said ed, im going to get you your girls body back. >> and thats something that i should have never done, but i did. thats one thing a law enforcement person shouldnt do is promise somebody that theyre going to get their deceased daughter back. they were ...

>> well, from the time i got this case, i had a daughter that was 13. the same aged daughter that cindy was when she disappeared. >> now it was up to prosecutor smith. >> it was a lot of heated discussions about this. >> and youve got this delicate situation of trying to broker the peoples interests versus the familys passionate desire. >> and you cant say no. theyve lived this for more than 20 years. so with myself and the father and the family came to sort of a middle ground, and i agreed to r...

>> i would like to ask the father if i could get his permission to write him and maybe it would help us both if -mcñóoéomvnów+géçñk>ógçu?tkó he knew everything. óóo+cmsmn8/ñkgñwsóg?=?/ññwñwó=mñcgoçñy] >> but ed zarzycki said no way. ñóñsñzzkólñnñvñ]zwn[wññ he and his family really had >?;ñ;ómroñ.o moved on thanks to detective mclaughlin after years of police failure. q=çwf cindys mother, alice, said locating her daughters remains had given them all closure. oo...

Emotionally about someone shed only learned about from pictures and family stories. >> darling cindy, i love you even though we never met because youre the aunt i never got to know. >> the next day the casket bearing cindys remains was brought to the cemetery that would be her final resting place. cindys long-suffering father welcomed her home after 22 years of paralyzing uncertainty. ed zarzycki had bought the burial plot for her two years before. his faith told him that someday cindy would be ...

Kathy bouford and theresa olechowski. they both told the jury, as they said they told the police back in 1986, about cindys plans to meet her boyfriends father, art ream. >> they were making plans, they were going to go down and meet at dairy queen. >> she told me she would be meeting arthur ream, scotts father, at the dairy queen, because he was going to take her to a surprise birthday party for scott in pontiac. >> but the party was a reduce, ruse, later testimony would reveal. scotts birthday...

Looking for a lost piece of jewelry. >> prosecutor eric smith whose cold case unit had put ream away for the rest of his life was made crazy by reams casual banter. to the point where i just said, stop, just shut up. the fact that he could stand out there knowing full well the last time, maybe the last time he was here hes burying cindy zarzycki and hes walking around as though he doesnt have a care in the world. maybe it was that im a father, but that got to me in a hurry. >> ream was then hust...

>> raise your right hand, please. do you swear from the testimony youre about to give will be the truth? >> yes, i do. >> it was one of those tv movie moments when a witness surfaces just before trial. >> the relentless lead detective derek mclaughlin, had recently found this man, a former employee of art ream in the carpet business. the ex-employee testified that hed requested time off to attend to some business, in texas. >> he told me that the only way id be able to get that time off was if i...