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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...

Officers. >> he was actually even joking a lot with us on the way home. yelling at the truckers for not driving well and laughing with us. >> jen may have been the one in the car intrigued most by psychology and the criminal mind, but it was mac who had the idea for the head game they were about to play on art ream. theyd make a stop before the police station at the cemetery where reams son, scott, had been buried 13 years before. mac told his partner to pull over at a flower shop, he bought a d...

>> raise your right hand, please. do you swear and affirm the testimony youre rabbit to give is 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...

Yelling at the truckers for not driving well and laughing with us. >> jen may have been the one in the car intrigued most by psychology and the criminal mind, but it was mac who had the idea for the head game they were about to play on art ream. theyd make a stop before the police station at the cemetery where reams son, scott, had been buried 13 years before. mac told his partner to pull over at a flower shop, he bought a dozen daisies, and threw them in the backseat. >> he gets out of the car,...

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...

Have with the victims family and you tell them were going to pick up their case, you see the relief, you see the tears come -- at that point, it almost doesnt matter to them what the end result is, just the fact that were going back and trying to get justice. >> trial prosecutor steve kaplan had successfully handled every cold case, gaining convictions or plea bargains in all 21 of them, but he knew case number 22, the cindy case, was full of holes. >> we did not have a body, we did not have an ...

Buried on our own terms than some killer like in the middle of the night. >> detective mclaughlin was also arguing for a deal. after all, hed promised the family hed bring cindy home. >> well, from the time i got this case, i had a daughter that was 13. the same aged daughter that cindy was when she disappeared. >> now it was up to prosecutor smith. >> it was a lot of heated discussions about this. >> and youve got this delicate situation of trying to broker the peoples interests versus the fami...

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 hustled back to prison, but not ...

Deal, though. >> the defense lawyer needed mac as a negotiating ally to prod eric smith, the elected county 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 ...