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Arrested, or him be the reason. or any of that. it's 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. she's 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. worked side by side with him for a decade. and who had confessed to detectives that like his and terri,...

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 carol's body. and >> he turned you down flat? >> he did. repeatedly. >> mike pleaded not guilty. the case was going to trial. and if ...

Killed carol or maybe that was dead? mike's family held their collective breath. so the prosecutor in the police did as well. >> you don't know what to expect. >> and here was mike's 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. >> i've had cases before where you walk out of the court room where the family throws their arms around. you that was not this case. >> i was very surprised that the jury wou...

Gayle and the rest of the family >> wanted most where some answers. >> it's 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, mike's 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. >> he's been a good father in a good person. if he is sent to prison to present today was i'm going to be heartbroken. it won't be th...

Why had his story changed again? >> what's the deal with that? did you hear the garage door? >> i don't 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 i'd seen that car back out of the garage many many times. when she was leaving. so, i think i just thought in my mind that's 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 would see his wife. >> i thought maybe she had gone out that night and went dancing. and stay t...