you ever walk in the country? i did. he d mapped out a place where he used to keep bees. how large is the area? that you actually dug out for her? did you go pretty deep? probably four feet. even if he was telling the truth, locating cindy s body would be extremely difficult. it had been 22 years, she d been buried by a river known for flooding its banks. maybe her bones had carried downstream. even though mac had promised her father, maybe poor cindy was just destined to remain missing. coming up, a dramatic journey, a killer taken in chains to the place where he says he buried cindy. i ll tell you, she she was calling to us. and we weren t going to leave that area without her letting us know where she was.
i think the only thing that i got from it was it was a very peaceful spot, you know, by the river. ígzuços7o6xwy%?ewmw3 and when we left, it almost felt like her spirit went with us. and she was with family again. he is holy good and just and so we trust in god in november 2008, with dna lab results finally confirming what everyone knew, cindy s remains were returned to her family for a memorial service. hundreds of mourners filled with funeral home in eastwick. her pastor from the 1980s remembered cindy. a great girl, just right on the edge of being a kid sometimes and being a young lady some other times. one of sister connie s daughters read a poem of remembrance, speaking emotionally about someone she d
like they do in the movies. 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 fused yet. so i said okay, so it s not an animal bone? i think i m still in a state of shock. and he goes no, cindy s right below us. you d found cindy? yeah. after all of those years?
why d you pick this spot? you ever walk in the country? i did. he d mapped out a place where he used to keep bees. how large is the area? that you actually dug out for her? did you go pretty deep? probably four feet. even if he was telling the truth, locating cindy s body would be extremely difficult. it had been 22 years, she d been buried by a river known for flooding its banks. maybe her bones had carried downstream. even though mac had promised her father, maybe poor cindy was just destined to remain missing. coming up, a dramatic journey, a killer taken in chains to the place where he says he buried cindy. i ll tell you, she she was calling to us.
bye, little girl. it really puts a fire under you to realize, you know, what we can do as investigators. you know, it lets other perpetrators know if you think you committed a perfect crime, you didn t leave dna or fibers or habs behind, they re still going to get you. and yet mac hasn t entirely closed out the case file. he believes art ream may have buried more bodies by that riverbank. he s opened two investigations. pandora s box still has a few things in it, so. yeah. whatever happens in the future, mac says getting justice for cindy was not just the case of a lifetime, it was a lifetime s satisfaction. this is the best thing that s ever happened to me, and that s including even the birth of my kids. to be able to give something of this magnitude back to a family.