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So on the stand publicly, i had to basically say, yeah, i'm thinking maybe there's some weird things about your story. and it was the first time that my father really would have known i felt that way. so i was really, really stressed out about that. >> how hard is it for you to be here today? >> very. >> do you want to believe that your dad is responsible for your mother's disappearance? >> do i want to believe it? >> yes. >> no. >> let's assume that your dad, in fact, did kill your mom, would you want to see him punished for it? >> no. not particularly. >> prosecutor lewin knew the ambivalenc...

Place he said mike's mother had actually been all these many years. police searched the area but once again were oh unable to locate carol's remains and give the family what they hoped for most, the chance to say good-bye. >> i don't know why getting her back is the ultimate bookend for me. i want to know that she's properly buried or cremated or whatever we would choose to do with her. >> why is that so important? >> i think it just is the ultimate answer. this is it. there's no more wondering. >> no, not about that. but his father in prison 15 years. when we last spoke to mike, it was clear ...

>> 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 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 members of carol's own family...

>> 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 reaction? >> mixed at best. >> mixed? that's a mild word....

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 plpd revisolice depart revisited the case. time seemed to have altered mike's mind a little. details came back to them. remember before she va...