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He never knew i had these feelings. so on the stand publicly, i had to basically say, yeah, im thinking maybe there are somewhere things about your story. and it was the first time that my father really would have known i felt that way. so, i was really, really stressed out about that. >> how hard is it for you to be here today? >> very. >> do you want to believe that your dad is responsible for your mothers disappearance? >> do i want to believe it? no. >> lets assume that your dad, in fact, di...

But deputy da john lewin, went ahead anyway. >> well im going to be able to prove beyond any reasonable doubt, ladies and gentlemen, is that despite the fact that mike lubahn is a decent man, he murdered his wife. >> of course, lewin knew that to prove a murder had occurred, he had to show the victim was in fact, no longer a life. for that he turned to detective wallace, who explained to the jury that facebook and social media presents he created for carol. and turned up a whole lot of nothing. ...

And nobody when nobody else was around? imagine what it was like back then in that little house? mike, thinking things over. on a hunch he said he placed tape on carols dresser drawers. a little trap. one day he took the kids to universal studios and sure enough, when they returned, he noticed the tape was broken. and some mail on the counter was moved as well. a few weeks later, a happened again. some ofs clothes went missing. along with somebody from a place no burglar would know to look. unde...

After carol vanished, the torrance police department revisited the case. and time seemed to have altered mics memory a little. a few more details had come back to him. remember soon after carol vanish, mike said they argued. he went to sleep alone. woke up in the morning, early. she was gone. but in 1987, he remembered they argued, went to bed together, she got up at 5:30 in the morning to go to the bathroom. he woke up, then drifted back to sleep. and will cup to the sound of a car engine start...

Mike took over the house painting business from carols dad and went on to marry carrie and have two more sons. gail and terri raised their own families and it was having babies started to change terris way of looking at her sisters disappearance. >> as unhappy as you might be in your life, you might leave your husband, you would take your kids with you. >> and so when you began to suspect that she wouldnt leave her children, what did that mean to you? >> that something happened to her. >> report...

Months later, the local paper did a story, interviewed mike. and this time his memory was slightly different. he remembered that on that terrible morning when carol left, he heard the garage door go up before she drove away. just one more little detail, though nothing profoundly different. and, of course, no evidence whatsoever of any crime. the case went away again. and then one day in 2002, a detective named walt was rummaging through some cabinets behind his sergeants desk. >> i was just bein...

Onion was back then. >> i know she was going to the red onion. i never went there with her, so i dont know what she was like. >> and then that night in march, kids off to bed. their son mike junior was just a boy, ten years old. >> i was in bed. i had just got a new stereo for my tenth birthday and i was listening through headphones. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> from his bed, he could see something happening out in the hallway. >> i remember them getting into an argument which was unusual. >> because they jus...