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>> and the prosecutor said there was one more circumstantial sign of art reams connection to cindy. and it was the only physical evidence of significance produced in the case. exhibit number ten. >> exhibit ten is a mailer coupon that has a missing picture of cindy zarzycki. >> in 2007 you remember, detective mclaughlin had uncovered the curious item tucked away in a jewelry box in reams old carpet warehouse. why in the world would ream have it there, the prosecutor asked the detective? >> theyr...

>> it went against macs gut to play nonchalant about what he cared for most, finding cindys body, but he went with his boss suggestion to find a new tactic. be brusque and dismissive. he hoped ream would get flustered and produce a new map. and that would lead to cindy. a few weeks after the trial and conviction, mac had a jailhouse meeting with ream in a visitors room by himself. the detective recorded the interview with a camera concealed inside a plastic bottle. right away, mac laid down the ...

Accused killer in court too. because of a dramatic event right before closing arguments. art ream was talking a plea, courtroom top secret. >> they cleared out the courtroom, told us all to leave and i just happened to notice that the judge said to one of the bailiffs, you need to make sure that the entire back room is cleared out, nobody can be in my chambers, nobody can overhear this. and then i put two and two together. >> amber hunt figured it out and would later be the first to report that ...

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...

The house she knew stayed in the family, just in case one happy day, she turned up at the front door. one thing that had changed by the early 90s was the name of the town. gritty sounding east detroit had been re-dubbed the more upscale, eastpointe. in the police station, though, nothing had much changed with the cindy cold case file. it had been handed down to officer to officer over the years for only defrosting, mostly chasing down tips of cindy sightings around the country that went nowhere....

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...

>> 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 where 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 ...

Courtroom top secret. >> they cleared out the courtroom, told us all to leave and i just happened to notice that the judge said to one of the bailiffs, you need to make sure that the entire back room is cleared out, nobody can be in my chambers, nobody can overhear this. and then i put two and two together. >> amber hunt figured it out and would later be the first to report that an 11th hour plea deal had been in the works. lawyers from both sides and the zarzycki family were summoned to judges ...

This was a murder investigation. and the detectives thinking followed two paths. could he make the boyfriends father or others for the crime? and secondly, did he have any way of finding cindys remains? as a sign of either how desperate mac was or how wide he was willing to throw his net, he paid a call on a psychic. the mystic had a strip mall storefront, sandwiched between a dry cleaner and a chicken joint. a cousin of cindy said she was weirded out when she heard him give a reading on the mis...