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And i go -- and she goes, no, the piece of paper here. >> the torn paper was an old direct mail sales coupon for a construction glass on one side and on the other, a "have you seen me notice" for cindy zarzycki, with her picture and a 1-800 call line for leads. >> we're ecstatic. we're sitting there, why would this guy have this on his property? >> maybe because his son was involved and it was the girlfriend and maybe the son had put it in there. >> we were thinking the same way. we're going, man this is probably scott's, they're going to say this is scott's stuff, you know. and then we looked...

>> seriously flawed and botched from the get-go. >> now two decades later, mac asked theresa to come down to the eastpointe p.d. and go over her story yet again. this time it was a different experience. >> i knew right away walking in there that he was listening to what i was saying. very intently. >> the story that the two friends told had for some reason never made it into the police files. it had to do with a surprise birthday party for scott and a planned meeting at the dairy queen. cindy had been over at kathy's house that saturday evening. cindy said she was going to hook up with scott's...

>> he'd mapped out a place where he used to keep bees. >> how large is the area? that you actually dug out for her? >> did you go pretty deep? >> probably four feet. >> even if he was telling the truth, locating cindy's body would be extremely difficult. it had been 22 years, she'd been buried by a river known for flooding its banks. maybe her bones had carried downstream. even though mac had promised her father, maybe poor cindy was just destined to remain missing. coming up, a dramatic journey, a killer taken in chains to the place where he says he buried cindy. >> i'll tell you, she -- sh...

>> mac, the father of three daughters and a son, asked the couple to understand his situation. >> i said, listen, i said, i'm going to do everything i can, but i'm kind of limited to what i can do, because of my workload now. linda was great. she even said i'll do anything. i've got secretarial skills, i can help you file, type up things, do this and do that, just so i could spend more time dealing with her family's case. >> linda zarzycki, the stepmother, would go to the eastpointe police station on her lunch hour to pore through the case files. she'd suggest theorys to mac. >> and he'd say, ...

Officers. >> he was actually even joking a lot with us on the way home. yelling at the truckers for not driving well and laughing with us. >> jen may have been the one in the car intrigued most by psychology and the criminal mind, but it was mac who had the idea for the head game they were about to play on art ream. they'd make a stop before the police station at the cemetery where ream's son, scott, had been buried 13 years before. mac told his partner to pull over at a flower shop, he bought a dozen daisies, and threw them in the backseat. >> he gets out of the car, we've got him in belly ch...