Page 4 - Mike Thinking News Today

There. >> mike sr. told carols dad that carol demanded he sign papers to sell their house, and he didnt want to, and she got mad, and they argued. he went to bed. when he woke up in the morning, she was just gone. >> we just assumed she needed to get away for a few days. as the days went on, we got extremely worried. >> nearly a week after carol departed, her red audi fox showed up in the parking lot of the red onion, dusty, as if it had been there a while. >> i remember being upset. she was gon...

More than a week after carol disparks peered, there was -- disappeared, there was still absolutely no sign of her. and then something strange happened here at the house -- something very strange. could it be that carol unbeknownst to anyone sneaked back in 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 sur...

Family wanted most were some answers. >> not so much that i want mike to pay for what he did. i just want to know what happened to my sister. >> and in the sentencing hearing in december of 2012, mikes own son echoed those sentences. >> guilt or innocence, i never wanted my faither to go to prison. i just want to know if he knows anything. >> and then he made a heartbreaking plea to court. >> hes been a good father and good person. if he is sent to prison today, i want him to know im going to mi...

Detective. >> shes not looking for herself. shes dead. >> or a farmers wife in uruguay who doesnt go on the computer much? >> maybe. >> lots of people are not on facebook. >> right -- >> dont check or google things -- it doesnt mean that she is dead for sure. >> absolutely. >> it just means you have a fair good case for it. >> in this large, cumulative thing were looking at, its another piece that points to the same conclusion. >> reporter: if carol was dead, if mike killed her, taking the accus...

Brought her into the fold. >> we were happy that mike was going on with life. >> and so they did all go on with life. and many years went by. until the morning in a whole new millennium when a torrance detective happened on the case of the missing young mother, and somewhere in the back of his brain, a little light turned on. >> i had a hunch that this didnt sound right to me. decades after her appearance, detectives turned to a surprising source to help solve the mystery. coming up -- >> wh...

Believed the idea that mike could have murdered carol was ludicrous. >> well, he was a member of our family, you know. and nobody wanted to see him be arrested or him be the reason or -- 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 sr.s family members, perhaps no...

Mike killed carol or even that she was dead? mikes family held its collective breath. so did the prosecutor and the police. >> you know, you dont know what to expect. >> and now, here was mikes fate. >> we the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant, michael clark lubahn, sr., guilty. >> guilty of second degree murder. mike lubahn was going to prison. a long-time detective jim wallace found surrounded by a very unfamiliar reaction. >> ive had cases before where you get down and you ...

The car long gone now, so we did this up to look like it. quite often shed get in her little car and go roaring off to school or to meat markets like the local red onion was back then. >> i know she was going to the red onion. i never went with her, so i dont know what she was like. >> and then that night in march, kids off to bed. their son, mike jr., was just a boy, 10 years old. >> i was in bed. i had just got a new stereo for my 10th birthday and was listening to the headphones. ♪ >> from ...

>> because i think over the years, i thought about this night so many times. i had seen that car back out of the driveway many, many times when she was leaving. i think i thought repeatedly in my mind thats what i thought -- i saw the car. i can see it right now. >> he never thought for a moment, he said, it would be the last time hed see his wife. >> i thought maybe she had gone out dancing and stayed the night with a friend. >> what did happen to her? mike insisted he simply didnt know. >> did...

Down with a sender block tied to her body. it was a shock, of course, a big shock. for so long, the family believed mike. and now in this very public way, they finally knew that carol was dead, and he, their sweet mike, killed her. but the whole truth, was it actually not there somewhere? and so on that cold and foggy january day, mike, surrounded by cops and lawyers, floated out in the mist to find carol, or whatever was left. >> did they find the cinder block, that will give me half the closur...