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Arrested, or him be the reason. or any of that. its like another nightmare on top of the first nightmare. >> this was a case where i think the family would have been more than happy to believe that carol is still out there, somewhere. shes not dead. and their beloved son in law is not a killer. >> but of all mike seniors family members, perhaps no one was as torn as his namesake first born son, mike junior. who loved his father. unreservedly. followed him into the family painting business. worke...

About my mother. >> at all? >> never. >> but mike never confronted his father. i >> just knew in the back of my mind that this could be a possibility. and i really, honestly, at that time, never wanted my father to go to jail. i just wanted to know it. it was so important to me to know your truth behind that evening. >> to get the truth and avoid a trial, prosecutor john lewin was willing to make a deal. >> we had offered him voluntary manslaughter if he gave us carols body. and >> he turned you...

Killed carol or maybe that was dead? mikes family held their collective breath. so the prosecutor in the police did as well. >> you dont know what to expect. >> and here was mikes fate. >> we the jury both encounter action find the defendant michael clark lubahn senior guilty. >> guilty of second degree murder. mike lubahn was going to prison. and long detective jim well lewin felt surrounded by an unfamiliar reaction. >> ive had cases before where you walk out of the court room where the family...

Gayle and the rest of the family >> wanted most where some answers. >> its not so much that i want mike to pay for what he did i want to know what happened to my sister. >> and at the sentencing hearing into thousand and 12, mikes own son echoed those sentiments. >> gilts or innocence aside, i never want my father to go to prison. i just want to ask that if he knows anything to please let me know. >> and then mike junior made a heartbreaking plea to the court. >> hes been a good father in a good...

Why had his story changed again? >> whats the deal with that? did you hear the garage door? >> i dont think so. >> why do you think that now? what has dogged your memory? >> because i think over the years, i thought about this night so many times. and id seen that car back out of the garage many many times. when she was leaving. so, i think i just thought in my mind thats what happened. i saw the car. i can see it right now. >> he never thought for a moment, he said, it would be the last time he...

>> has it been hard for you to accept the possibility that she maybe did? >> oh, yes. >> it is it made even more difficult by the fact that you care deeply for the defendant? >> yes. >> and younger sister, terri? even though she had suspected mike for years -- >> do you still think as of mike lubahn sr. as a part of your family? >> yes. >> but most anguished of all? mike and carols son, mike jr.. >> is there anything about the way you remember your mom that would make you think or made you feel ...

Where mikes mother had actually been. police searched the area but once again were unable to locate carols remains and give the family what they hope for most, the chance to say goodbye. but >> i dont really know why getting her back is the ultimate bookend for me. i want to know that she is properly buried or cremated, or whatever we choose to do. why >> is it so important? >> i think what its the ultimate answer was, this is it there is no wondering. >> no, none about that. but his mother and ...

Out on her family never came back, he decided it was a surprise time for a surprise visit to michael lubahn. >> he invited us in, we did catch him unexpectedly, but that was the plan. >> but was mike upset or thrown off? not at all. >> very nice like i anticipated he would be because ive now heard from everyone in the family how mics a good guy. >> so, together, they went over again over the details of that last night back in march 1981. and right away, mike remembered a little more about the ni...

Still interested in this case. >> how much did that have to do with you driving ahead on this case? that conversation? >> a lot. im a father of three daughters as well. i thought, well if this was my middle daughter? >> milt died one month later, never knowing what happened to his beautiful middle daughter. but when terri went to her fathers funeral and saw mike there, a private thought eat at her. mike must know something. >> i didnt say anything. i tried to keep away. he was of course, paid hi...

Maybe. but now the downside. hed have to answer questions from john lewin. >> do you lie sometimes? >> no. >> you never lie? >> i wouldnt say never. maybe a white lie. who knows? >> im asking, have you ever lied about something serious that was a white lie in your life? >> no. >> in your entire life, youve never lied once about anything that wasnt a white like? >> ill just see, not that i can remember. >> in fact, mike had a hard time remembering a lot of things prosecutor lewin asked about. >> ...