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>> exactly. we asked them to i.d. this, and no one could. >> but linda bronson knew what it was. art had wore that anchor chain all the time. >> so what we're thinking is what art did, after he put cindy in the grave he put his necklace around her neck and then buried her. >> what do you make of that? >> a possession-type thing. >> just as he'd kept a missing persons flier of cindy as a trophy. >> it is the sentence of this court that you be incarcerated in the michigan department of corrections that you serve a life sentence. >> at his sentencing, mandatory life, ream was still trying to keep...

>> yeah. >> 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 wan...

In question april 20th? not in michigan, according to a late-addition witness. >> raise your right hand, please. do you swear from the testimony you're about to give will be the truth? >> yes, i do. >> it was one of those tv movie moments when a witness surfaces just before trial. >> the relentless lead detective derek mclaughlin, had recently found this man, a former employee of art ream in the carpet business. the ex-employee testified that he'd requested time off to attend to some business, in texas. >> he told me that the only way i'd be able to get that time off was if i took scott with m...

Your case file. >> 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 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 conve...

>> so you really don't care what happened? 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 ...