after all, he d promised the family he d 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 you ve got this delicate situation of trying to broker the people s interests versus the family s passionate desire. and you can t say no. they ve lived this for more than 20 years. so with myself and the father and the family came to sort of a middle ground, and i agreed to reduce it from first-degree murder to second-degree murder. smith was also willing to downsize the sentence from mandatory life to 22 years. so would it be deal or no deal? it fell apart because he wanted a better deal. we couldn t get the number. it fell apart because we couldn t get the number. no deal. ream had insisted only a ten-year prison sentence. the d.a. wasn t going there. and when he said no, it was taken off the tab
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 you ve got this delicate situation of trying to broker the people s interests versus the family s passionate desire. and you can t say no. they ve lived this for more than 20 years. so with myself and the father and the family came to sort of a middle ground, and i agreed to reduce it from first-degree murder to second-degree murder. smith was also willing to downsize the sentence from mandatory life to 22 years. so would it be deal or no deal? it fell apart because he wanted a better deal. we couldn t get the number. it fell apart because we couldn t get the number. no deal. ream had insisted only a ten-year prison sentence. the d.a. wasn t going there. and when he said no, it was taken off the table immediately and steve ran in the court and did closings.
after all, he d promised the family he d 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 you ve got this delicate situation of trying to broker the people s interests versus the family s passionate desire. and you can t say no. they ve lived this for more than 20 years. so with myself and the father and the family came to sort of a middle ground, and i agreed to reduce it from first-degree murder to second-degree murder. smith was also willing to downsize the sentence from mandatory life to 22 years. so would it be deal or no deal? it fell apart because he wanted a better deal. we couldn t get the number. it fell apart because we couldn t get the number. no deal. ream had insisted only a ten-year prison sentence. the d.a. wasn t going there. and when he said no, it was taken off the tab
hell, no, i m 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 girl s body as a bargaining chip, may be the lowest thing i ve ever seen in a criminal case. ream held one trump card, cindy s body. and the zarzyckis wanted that above anything else, even a conviction. the family found itself taking art ream s side in the plea talks. it was all about finding cindy. that was the thing right from day one. they d had no chance to say good-bye and knew nothing of cindy s whereabouts for the past 22 years. at least now they could give her a proper burial, if only the prosecutor would make a deal with the devil. i would rather have her 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, he d promised the family he d bring cindy home. well, from the time i got
my first inclination was, hell, no, i m 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 girl s body as a bargaining chip, may be the lowest thing i ve ever seen in a criminal case. ream held one trump card, cindy s body. and the zarzyckis wanted that above anything else, even a conviction. the family found itself taking art ream s side in the plea talks. it was all about finding cindy. that was the thing right from day one. they d had no chance to say good-bye and knew nothing of cindy s whereabouts for the past 22 years. at least now they could give her a proper burial, if only the prosecutor would make a deal with the devil. i would rather have her 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, he d promised the family he d bring cindy home.