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>> you ever walk in the country? >> i did. >> 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 h...

Like they do in the movies. and he said i left it a hump. >> mac jumped into the hole. >> the first time all day long i grabbed the shovel with another trooper and we're digging and my second shovel i wrenched the dirt back and up popped this bone. >> for the anthropologist, it was the moment. >> he picked up the bone and holds it like this and said mac, do you know what this is? and i think i'm in a state of shock at this time, and i says, no, i don't. he said well, it's a bone, a tibia bone to an adolescent child. and i says, how do you know that? he goes, well, one, i'm an anthropologist, a...

>> why'd you pick this spot? >> you ever walk in the country? >> i did. >> 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...

>> bye, little girl. >> it really puts a fire under you to realize, you know, what we can do as investigators. you know, it lets other perpetrators know if you think you committed a perfect crime, you didn't leave dna or fibers or habs behind, they're still going to get you. >> and yet mac hasn't entirely closed out the case file. he believes art ream may have buried more bodies by that riverbank. he's opened two investigations. >> pandora's box still has a few things in it, so. >> yeah. >> whatever happens in the future, mac says getting justice for cindy was not just the case of a lifetime, ...

Was about to stand trial for her murder. even if he wouldn't admit it to his persistent interrogators. cindy's sister connie was prepared to testify. >> it was very stressful on our family. i mean, we've already wondered what happened for 22 years and we have to relive it on the stand. we know he did it. we just need the jury to know he did it too. >> remarkably, cindy's dad was still holding out for a miracle. >> i was still hoping. >> still hoping that she's alive? >> yes. >> this family and this case is exactly why we started this cold case unit. >> the police on the case had gotten some ex...