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>> and the prosecutor said there was one more circumstantial sign of art ream's connection to cindy. and it was the only physical evidence of significance produced in the case. exhibit number ten. >> exhibit ten is a mailer coupon that has a missing picture of cindy zarzycki. >> in 2007 you remember, detective mclaughlin had uncovered the curious item tucked away in a jewelry box in ream's old carpet warehouse. why in the world would ream have it there, the prosecutor asked the detective? >> they're like trophies, they like to save things that the normal person wouldn't. >> in his cross-examin...

>> it went against mac's gut to play nonchalant about what he cared for most, finding cindy's 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 visitor's room by himself. the detective recorded the interview with a camera concealed inside a plastic bottle. right away, mac laid down the new law. >> the case is done. i have closure with it. the family has closure. do we want cindy b...

Accused killer in court too. because of a dramatic event right before closing arguments. 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 family were s...

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 ream's 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 he's burying cindy zarzycki and he's walking around as though he doesn't have a care in the world. maybe it was that i'm a father, but that got to me in a hurry. >> ream was then hustled back to prison, but not before mac took him to a suspicious spot that earlier the detective...

>> raise your right hand, please. do you swear from the testimony you're 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 he'd requested time off to attend to some business, in texas. >> he told me that the only way i'd be able to get that time off was if i took scott with me down to south texas and he would pay the airfare and expenses for scott if i ...