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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 adolescent child. and i says...

By the killer. >> shes down by the river, shes 25 feet to the west of the bridge. >> how surreal it was for mac when he got to the scene, he remembered back to what the psychic had said. he was amazed that the area was so much as the psychic had described it. >> one of the first things that popped into my head was when we first got out there, you know, the bridge. the banks of the river. the field of flowers. it was unbelievable. >> the tranquility of the river and woods on that july day in 2008...

Prosecutor, to make a deal. >> my first inclination was, hell, no, im going to make sure he goes to prison for the rest of his life. the idea that the defendant thinks he can take control of this process and use this poor 13-year-old girls body as a bargaining chip, may be the lowest thing ive ever seen in a criminal case. >> ream held one trump card, cindys body. and the zarzyckis wanted that above anything else, even a conviction. the family found itself taking art reams side in the plea talks...

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...

>> 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. ...

Hell, no, im going to make sure he goes to prison for the rest of his life. the idea that the defendant thinks he can take control of this process and use this poor 13-year-old girls body as a bargaining chip, may be the lowest thing ive ever seen in a criminal case. >> ream held one trump card, cindys body. and the zarzyckis wanted that above anything else, even a conviction. the family found itself taking art reams side in the plea talks. >> it was all about finding cindy. that was the thing r...

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...

Couple interrogation team, the conviction was only half the battle. >> 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 we...

And conviction, and that prompted ream to allegedly declare to an accomplice, "if i ever do this again, ill kill the next victim." two rulings from the bench that were two strikes against the prosecution. >> the case is diminished. it would be like entering a gunfight with only part of your arsenal. >> the prosecutor began his case by knocking down the runaway theory. older sister connie testified that cindy would never have done a runner without packing a bag. >> i have a photographic memory an...

Im looking at it and i remember asking art when he buried cindy, i said did you flatten out her grave or leave it like a hump 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 with the moment. >> he picked up the bone and holds it like this and said mac, do you know what ...