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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, and two, the bone hasn't been...

By the killer. >> she's down by the river, she's 25 feet to the west of the bridge. >> how surreal it was for mac when he got to the scene, he remembered back to what the psychic had said. he was amazed that the area was so much as the psychic had described it. >> one of the first things that popped into my head was when we first got out there, you know, the bridge. the banks of the river. the field of flowers. it was unbelievable. >> the tranquility of the river and woods on that july day in 2008 was in stark contrast to what the searchers hoped they'd find there, the burial site of cindy zar...

Prosecutor, to make a deal. >> my first inclination was, 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 ch...

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...

>> 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...