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In march of 1981 a young mother unhappy in her marriage vanished leaving behind not only her husband but her son mike junior. >> i never felt my mother abandoned me. i was never upset with her. >> really. >> i never thought she did. i don't know why. i was just upset she wasn't there. i thought she would show up at a graduation or something. >> but she didn't and at family gatherings as the years went by, thanksgiving, christmass, that awful question, why would she leave them remained the unmentionable elephant in the room. >> when it came to my family i think they didn't talk about it because...

Onion. >> i know she was going to the red onion. i never went there with her so i don't know what she was like. >> then that night in march. kids off to bed. mike junior was just a boy. 10 years old. >> i had just got a new stereo for my tenth birthday and i was listening to the headphones. >> from his bed, he could see something happening out in the hallway. >> i remember them getting into an argument, which was unusual. >> because they just didn't. >> not that i knew of. i remember her marching past and going out the front door and slamming the door. >> you heard the slam. >> i heard the sla...

Your kids, just let it go. tell us what happened. >> can i just have a moment? >> the judge granted a recess so mike could speak with his attorney privately. did he actually have something to confess? he returned a few minutes later. >> and we're asking to continue the sentencing. >> time to think? the judge pushed back sentencing by a month. >> my hope was that he would tell us what happened, that he would tell us what he did with carol, and that he would be honest about both. >> for almost four weeks they waited, until january 7th, 2013. all eyes were on mike lubahn as he entered the courtro...

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. >> he knew the ambivalence of the family members didn't help his case. >> in the end my job isn't to make sure that the family m...

Subtle changes in mike's story chl. >> and i thought that's strange. i wouldn't think you'd forget the last time that you saw your wife. >> so he went to see carol's parents. her mom and her dad. >> and he looked up at me and he was starting to cry and i'm like milt, are you okay? and he said oh, i'm 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? >> a lot. i'm the father of three daughters as well and i thought what if this was my middle daughter. >> milt died one month later. ne...