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>> dr. spitz doesnt find any evidence to back up arthur reams story that cindy died in an accident. >> i didnt see any indication of blunt trauma. while i cant be definitive, the most likely situation is that this was some type of asphyxiation or strangulation. >> cindys dental records are not available to match her identity. instead, a bone is shipped to a lab for dna tests. even before the tests come back arthur ream is sentenced to life in prison for cindys murder. >> without any possibility ...

He finds disintegrated strips of clothes. >> fabric is almost reduced to like thin paper. >> and bones. >> were going to start with carefully cleaning off these bones. these are ribs and fragments of ribs. all the bones were covered in dirt. the skull was completely filled with hard dirt, vegetation, roots, all types of things were growing through all the different orifices of the skull. >> also recovered, a purse with belongings. its an important clue. >> this is probably the most interesting p...

Tell her that i love her and miss her. if she wasnt we can put her to rest with our own family. >> in 1995, detective derek mclaughlin of the east point police department reopens the case which has been cold for ten years. >> my chief at the time came up to me with this box filled with binders and notes and things of that nature and he said, this was the zarzycki case, solve it. >> detective mclaughlins re-examination leads to arthur ream, the father of cindys boyfriend, scott. >> art asked her ...

>> she was supposed to meet a friend at the dairy queen and they were going to go to church together. that was the last time i seen her. >> ed zarzycki reports his daughter missing that night. >> there was something wrong. i had went to the police station to report it. they thought maybe she ran away. they hadnt connected maybe something bad could have happened. >> cindys family searches for her but she is gone without a trace. their family is never the same. >> you spend most of your whole life...

>> guilty in the first degree. >> cindys family is relieved her killer is finally brought to justice. they are still eager to locate her remains and bury cindy on their own terms. >> thats important. to be able to put her where we want to put her. not for somebody else. and close to home. >> before reams sentencing detective mclaughlin visits the convicted killer in his cell. >> i says, im here for one thing. and i says, i need a map. i need a map. you draw where she is so i can go find her. giv...

>> dr. spitz doesnt find any evidence to back up arthur reams story that cindy died from an accident. >> i didnt see any indication of blunt trauma. while i cant be definitive, the most likely situation is that this was some type of asphyxiation or strangulation. >> cindys dental records are not available to match her identity. instead a bone is shipped to a lab for dna tests. even before tests come back, arthur ream is sentenced to life in prison for cindys murder. >> without any possibility of...

If she wasnt we can put her to rest with our own family. >> in 1995, detective derek mclaughlin of the east point police department reopens the case which has been cold for ten years. >> my chief at the time came up to me with this box filled with binders and notes and things of that nature and he said, this was the zarzycki case, solve it. >> detective mclaughlins re-examination leads to arthur ream, the father of cindys boyfriend, scott. >> art asked her to meet him at the dairy queen for a su...

He served 1975 to 1978, he served three years in prison. after that he was out and about all the way up until 1997, when he was convicted of the rape of a 13-year-old girl. >> detective mclaughlin believes hes found cindys killer. >> im theorizing he picked her up, taken her to a place, went to go rape her, she resisted, tried to get herself out of that situation, couldnt, and he killed her. >> but with no body it takes 13 years of tenacious police work to finally build a strong enough case to c...

Office. we brought the bones in addition to her personal belongings which included clothing, shoes, a purse, which contained a variety of personal items, and we began to do our own excavation here at the office. obviously, its very disintegrated being in the ground for over 20 years. theres a bra as well as some type of thin jacket with a zipper. >> investigators believe these are the remains of cindy zarzycki, a 13-year-old girl whos been missing since 1986. >> she just disappeared. it felt lik...

Autopsy table. he finds disintegrated strips of clothes. >> the fabric is almost reduced to like thin paper. >> and bones. >> were going to start with just carefully cleaning off these bones, these are all ribs and fragments of ribs. >> all the bones were covered in dirt. the skull was completely filled with hard dirt. vegetation, roots, all types of things were growing through all the different orifices of the skull. >> also recovered, a purse with belongings. its an important clue. >> this is ...