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>> exactly. we asked them to i.d. this, and no one could. >> but linda bronson knew what it was. art had wore that anchor chain all the time. >> so what were thinking is what art did, after he put cindy in the grave he put his necklace around her neck and then buried her. >> what do you make of that? >> a possession-type thing. >> just as hed kept a missing persons flier of cindy as a trophy. >> it is the sentence of this court that you be incarcerated in the michigan department of corrections t...

>> yeah. >> 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 ...

In question april 20th? not in michigan, according to a late-addition witness. >> 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 ...

Your case file. >> the young investigator alone with a manipulative convict with a monstrous history. yes, she thought the same thing. shed walked into a scene from "silence of the lambs." she was playing clarice starling to hannibal lecter. >> he even said to me during part of that interview, im not hannibal lecter. and im thinking, hes been our own personal hannibal lecter on this case. thats exactly who he is. >> she played along as the non-threatening young female. hed sexually devoured youn...

>> so you really dont care what happened? youre happy with the story that is told, right? >> right now? yeah. >> at first, it seemed like ream wasnt taking the bait. the two sparred. >> if it doesnt matter what happened, it doesnt matter. it doesnt. >> it does matter. >> why would it matter? if you dont care, the family dont care? nobody cares -- >> no, we didnt say we didnt care, we just said we have closure. >> mac stuck to the game plan, pretend like its all old history. >> i said im fine wit...

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 an 11th hour plea deal had been in the works. lawyers from both sides and the zarzycki fa...

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...

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