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Think they didn't talk about it because they figured it would upset me or my sister. >> my family is pretty closed to talking about heavy things, so something like that rarely talked about. >> it was an ultimate heavy thing. >> yeah. >> could you see it in your mother's eyes or your father's? >> in my father's for sure. >> what would you see there? >> a lot of emotion. a lot of sadness. i'm going to cry thinking about it. >> in 1987, almost six years after carol vanished, the torrance police department revisited the case. time seemed to have altered mike's mind a little. details came back to t...

>> i think the police are just wrong. >> no forensics, no witnesses, not even a body. the defense might have stopped right there. 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." >> a...

Missing. >> of course she was. so again he read through the police reports. couldn't help but notice the subtle changes in mike's story. >> and i thought that was kind of strange because i wouldn't think you would forget the last time you saw your wife. >> so he went to see carol's parents, her mom, melba, her dad, milt. >> and he looked up at me. he was starting to cry. i'm like, milt, are you okay some and he said, he goes, i just -- so happy, i can't believe you guys are still interested in this case. >> how much did that have to do with you driving ahead on this case, that conversation? >>...

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 march, '81. and right away, mike remembered a little more about the night carol presented him with a real estate contract a...

Maybe. but now the downside. he'd have to answer questions from john lewin. >> do you lie sometimes? >> no. >> you never lie? >> i wouldn't say never. i mean, a white lie, who knows? >> have you ever lie good something serious in your life? >> no. >> in your entire life you've never lied once about anything that wasn't a white lie? >> i'll just say not that i can remember. >> in fact, mike had a hard time remembering a lot of things prosecutor lewin asked about. >> i don't remember. i don't remember going to bed. i don't remember saying that. i don't know. >> but how on earth, asked lewin, cou...