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Shortly after mike sr.'s second wife left him. >> he talked about my stepmother constantly for years. was nonstop. >> and why was that so significant to you? >> because he never talked 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, i never wanted my father to go to jail. i just wanted to know. it was so important to me the truth behind that evening. >> to get the truth and avoid a trial, prosecutor john lewen was willing to make a deal. >> we had offered h...

Was different. and that's the hallmark of deception. >> sure. but the mind plays tricks. the mind invents things. and -- and inserts them into your memory, and you believe them as strenuously as if they actually happened. >> that's an interesting theory. i don't think it's really supported. memories can be lost. but memories don't increase in details over the years, and they don't increase in different details. that's a sign of what we call a lie. i had version of what happened from the start made no sense to any of us. >> this is what makes the case -- >> and why would mike lie? to the cold-c...

Cared deeply for the defendant? >> yes. >> and younger sister, terri, even though she had suspected mike for years -- >> do you still think of mike lubahn sr. as a part of your family? >> yes. >> but most anguished of all -- mike and carol's son, mike jr. >> is there anything about the way that you remember your mom that would make you think or made you feel that she would leave you and never come back and never say good-bye? >> no. >> he loved his dad, but also secretly doubted him, something he never revealed until now. >> i was sweating so profusely during that whole trial. he never knew i ...

Vanished, leaving for parts unknown, leaving not just her husband mike but her son, mike jr., just 10-years-old. >> i never felt that my mother abandoned mean. i never was upset with her never. i never thought she did. i don't know why. i was upset she wasn't there. i thought she would be there to show up at a graduation or something. >> but she didn't. and at family gatherings as the years went by, thanksgiving, christmases, that awful question why would she leave them remained the unmentionable elephant in the room. >> when it came to my family, i think they didn't talk about it because they...

Mother did not disappear voluntarily. but actual evidence of a crime? just wasn't any. finally in 2010, 29 years after carol supposedly walked out on her family and never came back, delcine decided it was time for a surprise visit to michael luban. he went over with a sergeant. >> 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 i'd now heard from everybody in the family how mike's a good guy. >> so together they went over again the details of that last night back in marc...