end result is, just the fact that we're going back and trying 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 about his history as a pedophile and sex crimes and then threw out a chilling statement from the hitchhiker case, when ream had abducted and raped a young girl, then tossed her from his car. >> the victim, it turned out, remembered a license plate number leading to ream's arrest and conviction, and that prompted ream to allegedly