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Mike stepped up and married her after the baby was born. >> he was a really good mifathe. he seemed to really enjoy his kids. >> enjoyed carol's family, too, especially her dad, milt. milt brought young mike into the family bhousepainting business. >> just took to him immediately. he was always a very likeable person. >> friendly, loyal, but not exactly ambitious. he didn't seem to mind at all settling down to a modest existence, them and the two kids all cramped up in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in torrance, but carol did mind it very much. she'd had a secret affair by then, maybe more than...

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 and a demand they sell their tin...

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? >>...

Unbeknownst to anyone sneaked back in when nobody else was around? imagine what it w 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 theyst returned, h 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...

-- or any of that. it's like another nightmare on top of the first nightmare. >> this was a case where i think the family would have been more than happy to believe that carol is still out there somewhere. she's not dead. and their beloved son-in-law is not a killer. >> but of all mike sr.'s family members, perhaps no one was as torn as his namesake first-born son, mike jr., who loved his father unreservedly. followed him into the family painting business, worked side by side with him for decades, and who had confessed to detectives that like his aunt terri, he, too, had doubts about his fathe...