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>> 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...

>> 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 jogged your memory? >> because i think over the years, i thought about this night so many times. i had seen that car back out of the driveway many, many times when she was leaving. i think i thought repeatedly in my mind that's what i thought -- 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'd see his wife. >> i thought maybe she had gone out dancing and stayed the night with a friend. >> what did happen to her? ...

Days, her birthday, my birthday. my grandmother would get calls. >> and just silence on the other end? >> yeah. >> what did younc do? >> we would t say, "carol, we le 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 carollm vanished, the detective handling her case put itva in t inactive file. in his report he wrote, "no foul play involved." >> i remember thinking about her all the time. i used to play records over and over t...

She was dead? mike's family held its breath. so did the prosecutor and the police. and now here was mike's fate. >> we the juror in the above entitled action find the defendant michael clark guilty. >> guilty of second degree murder. mike was going to prison. >> i've had cases before where you get done and you walk out of the courtroom and the family throws their arms around you. they're so grateful. that's not this case. >> i was surprised the jury would convict him on such little evidence. i don't think any of us are happy to see mike go to jail. >> and you still believe mike is a nice guy, ...

Bathroom. 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. >>...