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>> mac, the father of three daughters and a son, asked the couple to understand his situation. >> i said, listen, i said, im going to do everything i can, but im kind of limited to what i can do, because of my workload now. linda was great. she even said ill do anything. ive got secretarial skills, i can help you file, type up things, do this and do that, just so i could spend more time dealing with her familys case. >> linda zarzycki, the stepmother, would go to the eastpointe police station on...

Police department began looking at the cindy case as something other than a possible runaway. the detective, danielle davis began piecing together a time line of cindys last weekend home. chasing down old witnesses. but after that flurry of fresh energy came a new setback. detective davis left the department. once again, the cindy cold case file would be passed on to a new set of investigative eyes. in may of 1995, an eastpointe cop named derek mclaughlin, mac to one and all, got promoted to the...

Receipt in the case files all along, proving fleming was at walt disney world with his children when the murder was committed in new york. >> whats it like to be outside on a beautiful day in central park? >> wonderful feeling. >> reporter: but there are challenges adjusting to a brave new world. >> even in the cars they got the gpa they call it, the gps, that tell you where to go and everything. im amazed by all of that. >> reporter: repairing lost relationships and then theres money. >> i had ...

There have been four detectives assigned to the case. >> the fbi looked at it. smart panels had been done. three times they brought in investigators who have never seen the case files who have never been through the evidence and they put them in the room and they were locked there for hours. >> i would say hundreds of detectives have looked at jennifers case. >> is there any question she just walked off? >> no. >> to be honest? absolute honest to the core response to that is, if she wanted to le...

Investigator darryl carlson to visit gloria. >> she said i dont want you doing. this ive had enough. i dont want it anymore. i cant handle it. >> i think she didnt want to get her hopes up needlessly. and she didnt want to see me waste my money. i did have some inheritance money from my father which i went through rather quickly. i just thought it was worth the expense. >> over glorias objections, joyce hired carlson who soon found a note in the case files revealing clelands unorthodox relations...

Happened to me. i told her. i told her the whole thing. >> after all these years, im a pretty good judge of people. people generally believe if a person is in prison, she deserves to be there. thats not necessarily the case. >> joyce sent private investigator darryl carlson to visit gloria. >> she said i dont want you doing. this ive had enough. i dont want it anymore. i cant handle it. >> i think she didnt want to get her hopes up needlessly. and she didnt want to see me waste my money. i did h...

I told her. i told her the whole thing. >> after all these years, im a pretty good judge of people. people generally believe if a person is in prison, she deserves to be there. thats not necessarily the case. >> joyce sent private investigator darryl carlson to visit gloria. >> she said i dont want you doing. this ive had enough. i dont want it anymore. i cant handle it. >> i think she didnt want to get her hopes up needlessly. and she didnt want to see me waste my money. i did have some inherit...

>> joyce sent private investigator darryl to visit gloria. >> she said i dont want you doing. this ive had enough. i cant handle it. >> i think she didnt want to get her hope up needlessly. she didnt want to see me waste my money. i did have some inheritance money from my father which i went through rather quickly. i just thought it was worth the expense. >> over glorias objections, joyce hired carlson who soon found a note in the case files revealing clelands unorthodox relationship with his st...

No evidence from diane maxwells murder. the crime scene photos were gone. the victims clothing had been discarded. the only eyewitness had died. and the killers fingerprints were missing, presumably misfiled in one of the thousands of open case files in the houston police department. >> everybody at some point in time was looking for that case. so it wasnt like okay well well just do it in our spare time. somebody every day was looking for that case. >> i guarantee, they went through many, many ...

Paul wants to know who he really is. hes working with ancestory.com and they have apparently located a couple distant cousins that hes going to meet with and then they went into the vaults here in chicago, they found the old case files, they are going to start making phone calls and they feel they have physical evidence that they are going to use as well. hopefully to solve this mystery. >> ted rowlands in chicago, thank you, ted. well be right back, everybody. ♪