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>> had a birthday cake and nobody to blow out the candles. >> obsessed with finding cindy, their runaway, looking at the mall, on the street, how many times did a young blond teen with a similar build catch their eye for just a moment? once late at night, the authorities in detroit called ed. >> a body had come up at the morgue and asked if i would come down and identify because it had similarities of cindy. >> were you relieved when you left the morgue that day and it wasn't your cindy? >> yes. yes. >> so there was still a flicker of hope out there? >> yes. >> cindy's best friend from the sec...

>> 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. mac tried the old buddy-buddy approach. >> i says, art, you're not a...

>> it was turning into a frustrating day. four holes came up empty. she could be anywhere. still, the searchers pushed on as the july day became a scorcher. they were doing it for the girl's father and for mac. >> you had promised the father. you said ed, i'm going to get you your girl's body back. >> and that's something that i should have never done, but i did. that's one thing a law enforcement person shouldn't do is promise somebody that they're going to get their deceased daughter back. they were genuine people who missed their daughter. if it was me, i would want someone working the case...

>> by then it was getting late in the day. >> and it's getting dark, it's hot, mosquitos. >> outside the dig area, cindy's brother and sister were waiting for any news. the shadows getting longer. >> what happens when it becomes dark? are they going to bring lights out there and keep searching? and i said that's when we pray. and i prayed. my exact prayer was that, if they are going to find her, lord, tonight, let them do it now. >> mac and the chief anthropologist had been ready to call it quits, but they decided to look one more time at the very spot ream had dismissed earlier because it was...

If she had come back from the dairy queen and lived, cindy zarzycki would have been 35 years old. but she didn't. and now art ream the father of her long-ago teenaged boyfriend was about to stand trial. cindy's sister connie was prepared to testify. >> it's very stressful on our family. we already wondered what happened for 22 years. we know he did it. we just need the jury. to know he did it too. cindy's da was till still holding out for a miracle. >> i was still hoping. >> still hoping. >> yes. this family. >> the police on this case had gotten some extra investigative help from the county p...