developing scene 30 miles from detroit at this hour. the fbi on the scene as they dig for up to six missing girls. abc s 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 friend s backyard. kim actually, like, hopped the back fence and didn t go home, and then i just went in my house. reporter: nearly 40 years later, police are confident they re close to finding king and possibly up to five other girls they believe were killed by arthur ream. the child predator is already in jail for the 1986 kidnap and murder of 13-year-old cindy zarzycki. this 2008 video from wdiv shows ream pointing police to the location of the remains. all she had to do was go up north avenue and it s right there. reporter: zarzycki found in
cindy zarzycki became one of those have you seen this child faces on the back of store coupons. forever 13 years old. she d walked off to dairy queen on a sunday morning in 1986 and was never seen again. she looked up to me. i let her down. why do you say that? because i wasn t there. cindy s older sister, connie, had been away from the house that weekend. her kid brother eddie was also tortured with guilt. i wish i d been there and out. you wish you would have
daughter. and theresa, the best friend was obsessed as everyone else in trying to find out what had happened to cindy zarzycki. we d look and hang up posters, we did that for a long time. we never forgot her. but what did you really think? i knew she was dead the whole time. coming up, just when it seemed she d never be found, a new detective takes the case. and takes it personally. as i got to know him better, he wasn t going to work on the case, he was going to find cindy. what would he find? when disappearance at the dairy queen continues.
cindy zarzycki became one of those have you seen this child faces on the back of store coupons. forever 13 years old. she d walked off to dairy queen on a sunday morning in 1986 and was never seen again. she looked up to me. i let her down. why do you say that? because i wasn t there. cindy s older sister, connie, had been away from the house that weekend. her kid brother eddie was also tortured with guilt. we should have been there and helped her out. you should have tagged along? yep. we have seen how that the power of love has healed. in 1994, eight years after her disappearance and commemorating cindy s 21st birthday, the zarzyckis held a candlelight vigil in front of the family home.