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>> you ever walk in the country? >> i did. >> hed mapped out a place where he used to keep bees. >> how large is the area? that you actually dug out for her? >> did you go pretty deep? >> probably four feet. >> even if he was telling the truth, locating cindys body would be extremely difficult. it had been 22 years, shed been buried by a river known for flooding its banks. maybe her bones had carried downstream. even though mac had promised her father, maybe poor cindy was just destined to remai...

Like they do in the movies. and he said i left it a hump. >> mac jumped into the hole. >> the first time all day long i grabbed the shovel with another trooper and were digging and my second shovel i wrenched the dirt back and up popped this bone. >> for the anthropologist, it was the moment. >> he picked up the bone and holds it like this and said mac, do you know what this is? and i think im in a state of shock at this time, and i says, no, i dont. he said well, its a bone, a tibia bone to an ...

>> whyd you pick this spot? >> you ever walk in the country? >> i did. >> hed mapped out a place where he used to keep bees. >> how large is the area? that you actually dug out for her? >> did you go pretty deep? >> probably four feet. >> even if he was telling the truth, locating cindys body would be extremely difficult. it had been 22 years, shed been buried by a river known for flooding its banks. maybe her bones had carried downstream. even though mac had promised her father, maybe poor cind...

>> bye, little girl. >> it really puts a fire under you to realize, you know, what we can do as investigators. you know, it lets other perpetrators know if you think you committed a perfect crime, you didnt leave dna or fibers or habs behind, theyre still going to get you. >> and yet mac hasnt entirely closed out the case file. he believes art ream may have buried more bodies by that riverbank. hes opened two investigations. >> pandoras box still has a few things in it, so. >> yeah. >> whatever ...

Was about to stand trial for her murder. even if he wouldnt admit it to his persistent interrogators. cindys sister connie was prepared to testify. >> it was very stressful on our family. i mean, weve already wondered what happened for 22 years and we have to relive it on the stand. we know he did it. we just need the jury to know he did it too. >> remarkably, cindys dad was still holding out for a miracle. >> i was still hoping. >> still hoping that shes alive? >> yes. >> this family and this c...

>> had a birthday cake and nobody to blow out the candles. >> obsessed with finding cindy, their runaway, looking at the mall, on the street, how many times did a young blond teen with a similar build catch their eye for just a moment? once late at night, the authorities in detroit called ed. >> a body had come up at the morgue and asked if i would come down and identify because it had similarities of cindy. >> were you relieved when you left the morgue that day and it wasnt your cindy? >> yes. ...

>> the second were done with all of the official proceedings, i mean, mac just took off and he went to go talk to art because i think the same thing was in both of our minds -- now its time to find the body. >> he says, ed, dont have a memorial service. im going to find cindy. >> it was a promise mac had made to cindys father and the rest of the family. cindys case would stay open on his desk until her body was found. >> so i went and talked to art. >> art had just been convicted, he was still i...

>> 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 ...

>> by then it was getting late in the day. >> and its getting dark, its hot, mosquitos. >> outside the dig area, cindys brother and sister were waiting for any news. the shadows getting longer. >> what happens when it becomes dark? are they going to bring lights out there and keep searching? and i said thats when we pray. and i prayed. my exact prayer was that, if they are going to find her, lord, tonight, let them do it now. >> mac and the chief anthropologist had been ready to call it quits, b...

If she had come back from the dairy queen and lived, cindy zarzycki would have been 35 years old. but she didnt. and now art ream the father of her long-ago teenaged boyfriend was about to stand trial. cindys sister connie was prepared to testify. >> its very stressful on our family. we already wondered what happened for 22 years. we know he did it. we just need the jury. to know he did it too. cindys da was till still holding out for a miracle. >> i was still hoping. >> still hoping. >> yes. th...