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developing scene 30 miles from detroit at this hour. the fbi on the scene as they dig for up to six missing girls. abc's eva pilgrim is there. >> reporter: tonight, a cold case turned red hot. investigators digging in the woods of macomb township, michigan, searching for the remains of kimberly king, who vanished in 1979. the 12-year-old last seen in her best friend's backyard. >> kim actually, like, hopped the back fence and didn't go home, and then i just went in my house. >> reporter: nearly 40 years later, police are confident they're close to finding king and possibly up to five other girls they believe were killed by arthur ream. the child predator is already in jail for the 1986 kidnap and murder of 13-year-old cindy zarzycki. this 2008 video from wdiv shows ream pointing police to the location of the remains. >> all she had to do was go up north avenue and it's right there. >> reporter: zarzycki found in
cindy zarzycki became one of those "have you seen this child" faces on the back of store coupons. forever 13 years old. she'd walked off to dairy queen on a sunday morning in 1986 and was never seen again. >> she looked up to me. i let her down. >> why do you say that? >> because i wasn't there. >> cindy's older sister, connie, had been away from the house that weekend. her kid brother eddie was also tortured with guilt. >> i wish i'd been there and out. >> you wish you would have
daughter. >> and theresa, the best friend was obsessed as everyone else in trying to find out what had happened to cindy zarzycki. >> we'd look and hang up posters, we did that for a long time. we never forgot her. >> but what did you really think? >> i knew she was dead the whole time. coming up, just when it seemed she'd never be found, a new detective takes the case. and takes it personally. >> as i got to know him better, he wasn't going to work on the case, he was going to find cindy. >> what would he find? when "disappearance at the dairy queen" continues.
cindy zarzycki became one of those "have you seen this child" faces on the back of store coupons. forever 13 years old. she'd walked off to dairy queen on a sunday morning in 1986 and was never seen again. >> she looked up to me. i let her down. >> why do you say that? >> because i wasn't there. >> cindy's older sister, connie, had been away from the house that weekend. her kid brother eddie was also tortured with guilt. >> we should have been there and helped her out. >> you should have tagged along? >> yep. >> we have seen how that the power of love has healed. >> in 1994, eight years after her disappearance and commemorating cindy's 21st birthday, the zarzyckis held a candlelight vigil in front of the family home.
must have been like, to watch her friends grow up around him every day and not have his daughter. >> and theresa, the best friend was obsessed as everyone else in trying to find out what had happened to cindy zarzycki. >> we'd look and hang up posters, we did that for a long time. we never forgot her. >> but what did you really think? >> i knew she was dead the whole time. coming up, just when it seemed she'd never be found, a new detective takes the case. and takes it personally. >> as i got to know him better, he wasn't going to work on the case, he was going to find cindy. >> what would he find? when "disappearance at the dairy queen" continues. s adhesives. they help your denture hold strong more like natural teeth. and you can eat even tough food.
if she had come back from the dairy queen and lived, cindy zarzycki would have been 35 years old. but she didn't. and now art ream the father of her long-ago teenaged boyfriend was about to stand trial. cindy's sister connie was prepared to testify. >> it's very stressful on our family. we already wondered what happened for 22 years. we know he did it. we just need the jury. to know he did it too. cindy's da was till still holding out for a miracle. >> i was still hoping. >> still hoping. >> yes. this family. >> the police on this case had gotten some extra investigative help from the county prosecutor's office. chief prosecutor eric smith has made it a signature of his term in office of going after the hard-to-solve cases like cindy's. >> from the first meeting with
>> you know, as a prosecutor you see the things in the courtroom, and is see them after they're found. to be out there on the spot where, you know, the last time cindy zarzycki was above-ground this monster was with her really brought a lot of things home for all of us out there. >> that's a clavicle. >> mac and the anthropology team were bringing up more remains. >> jewelry? >> recovering personal items that maybe the girl's family could identify. >> would that be clothing? >> what he was finding was enough for mac to make a phone call he'd always wanted to make. >> calls up about 5:30 and said can you be here? >> more painstaking digging, still nothing unmistakably cindy. until -- >> looks like the purse. >> the purse. >> as the investigators carefully removed the purse's contents, they found something that almost declared, yes, i am cindy zarzycki's remains.
so your business can get back to business. sounds like my ride's ready. don't get stuck on hold. reach an expert fast. comcast business. built for business. 13-year-old cindy zarzycki was headed to the dairy queen a few blocks from her home on a sunday morning. that's what she told her kid brother eddie when she wheeled and barked at him to go back home, not follow her. cindy had been going to the same dairy queen since she was in her mother's womb. she had been divorced from her father, ed, since 1981. the two of them had been getting cones and sundaes there from junior high days together. married and pregnant, they still stopped by. >> i remember when i was
see the things in the courtroom, and is see them after they're found. to be out there on the spot where, you know, the last time cindy zarzycki was above-ground this monster was with her really brought a lot of things home for all of us out there. >> that's a clavicle. >> mac and the anthropology team were bringing up more remains. >> jewelry? >> recovering personal items that maybe the girl's family could identify. >> would that be clothing? >> what he was finding was enough for mac to make a phone call he'd always wanted to make. >> calls up about 5:30 and said can you be here? >> more painstaking digging, still nothing unmistakably cindy. until -- >> looks like the purse. >> the purse. >> as the investigators carefully removed the purse's contents, they found something that almost declared, yes, i am cindy zarzycki's remains.