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Dont increase in different details and thats a sign of what we saw a lie. >> his version of what happened from the start made no sense to any of us. >> why would mike lie? to the cold case team it seemed obvious. >> he killed her that night. she stopped living that night and everything else that doesnt make sense is all because its a lie. if you know its a lie, then it all lines up. >> remarkably he continued to talk to them, three more times of his own free will. very frankly without an attorne...

Mind that this could be a possibility and i really honestly at that time, i never wanted my father to go to jail. i just wanted to know. it was so important to me to know the truth behind the evening. >> to get the truth and avoid the trial, the prosecutor was willing to make a deal. >> we had offered him voluntary manslaughter if he gave us carols body. >> and he turned you down flat. >> he did. repeatedly. >> mike pleaded not guilty. the case was going to trial and if members of carols own fam...

Then in that little house. mike thinking things over. on a hunch he said he placed tape on her 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, it happened again. some of carols clothes went missing along with some money from a place no burglar would know to look. under the butter dish in the refrigerator where they kept $100 in emergen...

My grandmother we would get calls. >> sounds on the other end. what did you do? >> wed say carol, we love you. we hope you come back. we felt like she was finding a happier life somewhere. >> and understood that to make that successful she might have to make a complete and total break. >> yeah. >> almost three months after she vanished the detective put it in the inactive file. in his report he wrote no foul play involve d. >> i remember thinking about her all the time and playing records over a...

The defense might have stopped right there. instead they decided to gamble. mike was a nice guy and the jury should see that. and if the details had been a little different each time he was asked to tell the story, here was his chance to straighten it all out for the jury. how odd then that mike under oath now amended his story, just a little again. like when he added the detail that carol was in the bathtub when she said something mean to him. >> she said you make my skin crawl. >> also slightl...

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, it happened again. some of carols clothes went missing, along with some money from a place no burglar would know to look, under the butter dish in the refrige...

The harsh words, the car roaring away. and its an old story anyway -- pretty girl gets pregnant at 15, marries the guy. pretty soon shes a 20-something with two kids and a hankering to live, really live, for a change. and this particular pretty girl -- >> she was fun. she was outgoing. she had a lot of friends. >> she had two sisters -- terri was the younger one. gail the older. >> we were very close and made each other laugh all the time. >> but carol lubon wasnt laughing the end of march, 81. ...

Significant. so the case went back into the file and got colder. mike took over the house-painting business from carols dad and went on to marry carrie and have two more sons. gail and teri raised their own families, and it was having babies that 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, youd take your kids with you. >> and so when you began to suspect that she wouldnt leave her children, what d...

Instead, they decided to gamble. mike was a nice guy. the jury should see that. >> do you solemnly swear -- >> if the details had been a little different each time he was asked to tell the story, here was his chance to straighten it out for the jury. how odd then that mike, under oath now, amended his story just a little again. like when he added the detail that carol was in the bathtub when she said something mean to him. >> she said, "you make my skin crawl." >> also slightly different, the wa...

He said mikes mother had actually been all these many years. police searched the area, but once again unable to locate carols remains and give the family what they hoped for most, the chance to say goodbye. >> i dont really know why getting her back is the ultimate book end for me. i want to know that shes properly buried or created or whatever we choose to do with her. >> why is that so important? >> i think its just the ultimate answer. this is it. theres no more wondering. >> no, not about th...