family could remember -- a gold necklace with a charm on it, an anchor. >> found it around her neck area. >> and her family didn't know what to make of that. >> exactly. we asked them if they could i.d. this, and nobody could. >> but linda bronson, one of art ream's ex-wives, said she knew what it was. art had worn that anchor chain all the time. >> we're thinking after he put cindy in the grave he put his necklace around her neck. >> what do you make of that? >> a possession type of thing. >> just as he kept a missing persons flyer of cindy as a trophy. >> it is the sense of this court that you be incarcerated in the michigan department of corrections to serve a life sentence. >> at his sentencing, mandatory life, ream was still trying to keep his grip on the family he devastated for more than two decades. he offered to tell cindy's dad explicit details of what happened when he and cindy met up at the dairy queen.