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 summoned to judge s chambers. we want to talk to you. he wants to make an agreement. ream told his lawyer he didn t murder cindy, but he could reveal where she was buried in exchange for a reduced charge and a lesser sentence. he doesn t tell me where it is, but he tells me that he knows. defense attorney kohler then asked mclaughlin for help. i said you ve got to work the deal, though. the defense lawyer needed mac as a negotiating ally to prod eric smith, the elected county
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
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 summoned to judge s chambers. we want to talk to you. he wants to make an agreement. ream told his lawyer he didn t murder cindy, but he could reveal where she was buried in exchange for a reduced charge and a lesser sentence. he doesn t tell me where it is, but he tells me that he knows. defense attorney kohler then asked mclaughlin for help. i said you ve got to work the deal, though. t
come at that point, it almost doesn t matter to them what the 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 a lot 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 some potentially devastating evidence. first, she ruled the jury could not hear about his history as a pedophile and sex crime and the hitchhiker when he abducted and raped a girl and tossed her from the car.
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 summoned to judge s chambers. we want to talk to you. he wants to make an agreement. ream told his lawyer he didn t murder cindy, but he could reveal where she was buried in exchange for a reduced charge and a lesser sentence. he doesn t tell me where it is, but he tells me that he knows. defense attorney kohler then asked mclaughlin for help. i said you ve got to work the deal, though. the defense lawyer needed mac as a negotiating ally to prod eric smith, the elected county