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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 carol's 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 carol's clothes went missing. along with some money from a place no burglar would know to look -- under the butter dish in the refrigerator where mike said he an...

>> we'd get the calls on special days, her birthday, my birthday. my grandmother would get calls. >> and just silence on the other end? >> yeah. >> what did you do? >> we would 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 carol vanished, the detective handling her case put it in the inactive file. in his report he wrote, "no foul play involved." >> i remember thinking about her all the time. i used to...

>> it just means you have a fair good case for it. >> in this large, cumulative thing we're looking at, it's another piece that points to the same conclusion. >> reporter: if carol was dead, if mike killed her, taking the accusation to court would be risky. totally circumstantial, of course, no body, an unclear motive, a sympathetic defendant. but prosecutor lewen decided to roll the dice. 30 years after carol lubahn vanished from her family's life on, april 13th, 2011, mike was arrested for carol's murder. when you went to the family and said "we're going to charge him," what was their reacti...

In march of 1981, carol luban, a lonely mother of two, 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...

He woke up, drifted to sleep, and woke up to the sound of a car engine starting and driving away. odd. but memories do play tricks. anyway it didn't seem terribly significant. so the case went back into the file and got colder. mike took over the house-painting business from carol's 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 terri's way of looking at her sister's disappearance. >> as unhappy as you might be in your life, you might leave your husband, you'd take your kids with you. >> and so wh...