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You're happy with the story that is told, right? >> right now? yeah. >> at first, it seemed like ream wasn't taking the bait. the two sparred. >> if it doesn't matter what happened, it doesn't matter. it doesn't. >> it does matter. >> why would it matter? if you don't care, the family don't care? nobody cares -- >> no, we didn't say we didn't care, we just said we have closure. >> mac stuck to the game plan, pretend like it's all old history. >> i said i'm fine with it, i'm going to move on, and this guy was like hanging on to my -- i'm trying to get up. i said art you've got five minutes to w...

>> the young investigator alone with a manipulative convict with a monstrous history. yes, she thought the same thing. she'd walked into a scene from "silence of the lambs." she was playing clarice starling to arms ream's hannibal lecter. >> he even said to me during part of that interview, i'm not hannibal lecter. and i'm thinking, he's been our own personal hannibal lecter on this case. that's exactly who he is. >> she played along as the non-threatening young female. he'd sexually devoured young women, hadn't been close to one in years. >> so i'm going really easy with him, having conversat...

>> it went against mac's gut to play nonchalant about what he cared for most, finding cindy's body, but he went with his boss' suggestion to find a new tactic. be brusque and dismissive. he hoped ream would get flustered and produce a new map. and that would lead to cindy. a few weeks after the trial and conviction, mac had a jailhouse meeting with ream in a visitor's room by himself. the detective recorded the interview with a camera concealed inside a plastic bottle. right away, mac laid down the new law. >> the case is done. i have closure with it. the family has closure. do we want cindy b...

To get justice. >> trial prosecutor steve kaplan had successfully handled every cold case, gaining convictions or plea bargains in all 21 of them, but he knew case number 22, the cindy case, was full of holes. >> we did not have a body, we did not have an eyewitness to her being with anybody, kidnapped or ambushed, we had no physical evidence against anybody. >> and in pre-trial wrangling, this wholly circumstantial case got much dicier. much of art and jen's marathon interrogation with art ream was tossed out because he had no lawyer present. the judge also ruled inadmissible, could not hear ...

Accused killer in court too. because of a dramatic event right before closing arguments. art ream was talking a plea, courtroom top secret. >> they cleared out the courtroom, told us all to leave and i just happened to notice that the judge said to one of the bailiffs, you need to make sure that the entire back room is cleared out, nobody can be in my chambers, nobody can overhear this. and then i put two and two together. >> amber hunt figured it out and would later be the first to report that an 11th hour plea deal had been in the works. lawyers from both sides and the zarzycki family were s...