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The house she knew stayed in the family, just in case one happy day, she turned up at the front door. one thing that had changed by the early '90s was the name of the town. gritty sounding east detroit had been re-dubbed the more upscale, eastpointe. in the police station, though, nothing had much changed with the cindy cold case file. it had been handed down to officer to officer over the years for only defrosting, mostly chasing down tips of cindy sightings around the country that went nowhere. but after the family's candlelight vigil spurred media interest, a new detective named daniel davi...

Police department began looking at the cindy case as something other than a possible runaway. the detective, danielle davis began piecing together a time line of cindy's last weekend home. chasing down old witnesses. but after that flurry of fresh energy came a new setback. detective davis left the department. once again, the cindy cold case file would be passed on to a new set of investigative eyes. in may of 1995, an eastpointe cop named derek mclaughlin, mac to one and all, got promoted to the detective division's youth bureau, handling 40 to 50 juvenile cases a month. >> my chief came down...

>> 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 where 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...

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 summoned to judge's chambers. >> we want to talk to you. he wants to make an agreement. >> ream told his lawyer he didn...

This was a murder investigation. and the detective's thinking followed two paths. could he make the boyfriend's father or others for the crime? and secondly, did he have any way of finding cindy's remains? as a sign of either how desperate mac was or how wide he was willing to throw his net, he paid a call on a psychic. the mystic had a strip mall storefront, sandwiched between a dry cleaner and a chicken joint. a cousin of cindy said she was weirded out when she heard him give a reading on the missing teenager at a party. mac figured he had nothing to lose. >> well, at this point, i'll try an...