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Hell, no, i'm going to make sure he goes to prison for the rest of his life. the idea that the defendant thinks he can take control of this process and use this poor 13-year-old girl's body as a bargaining chip, may be the lowest thing i've ever seen in a criminal case. >> ream held one trump card, cindy's body. and the zarzyckis wanted that above anything else, even a conviction. the family found itself taking art ream's side in the plea talks. >> it was all about finding cindy. that was the thing right from day one. >> they'd had no chance to say good-bye and knew nothing of cindy's whereabo...

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...

Couple interrogation team, the conviction was only half the battle. >> the second we're done with all of the official proceedings, i mean, mac just took off and he went to go talk to art because i think the same thing was in both of our minds -- now it's time to find the body. >> he says, ed, don't have a memorial service. i'm going to find cindy. >> it was a promise mac had made to cindy's father and the rest of the family. cindy's case would stay open on his desk until her body was found. >> so i went and talked to art. >> art had just been convicted, he was still in the courthouse lock-up. ...

And conviction, and that prompted ream to allegedly declare to an accomplice, "if i ever do this again, i'll kill the next victim." two rulings from the bench that were two strikes against the prosecution. >> the case is diminished. it would be like entering a gunfight with only part of your arsenal. >> the prosecutor began his case by knocking down the runaway theory. older sister connie testified that cindy would never have done a runner without packing a bag. >> i have a photographic memory and i know her stuff was still there. she didn't take makeup or clothes or anything. >> what was her ...

I'm looking at it and i remember asking art when he buried cindy, i said did you flatten out her grave or leave it like a hump 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 with 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, ...