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>> now, for the first time in eight years, the eastpointe 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, handl...

Jail for what he did. >> a mandatory life sentence. art ream had overplayed his hand. >> it took us 22 years to bring justice to her. >> but it was a bittersweet victory for the zarzyckis. they'd lost their cindy and now they'd lost their leverage with ream to get her remains back for a proper burial. >> and i told my wife, i said, we'll never know now. i probably would go to my own grave not knowing where she was. >> except for one thing. the zarzyckis still had detective mclaughlin on the case, and it wasn't over for him. coming up -- >> he says, ed, i'm going to >> the detective won't res...

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 had had a cadaver dog sniff...

>> yeah. >> 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 wan...

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