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Prove beyond any reasonable doubt, ladies and gentlemen, is that despite the fact that mike luhbahn is a decent man, he murdered his wife. of course he knew that to prove a murder had occurred he had to show the victim was, in fact, no longer alive. for that he turned to detective wallace that explained the facebook and social media presence he created for carol turned up a whole lot of nothing. >> had you been contacted by anybody either by phone, e-mail, in writing who says, you know what, i've seen carol after the day she disappeared? >> no. >> though as he and his team also let the jury he...

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's family members no one was as torn as his name sake first son mike junior who loved his father, unreservedly. followed him into the family painting business and worked side by side with him for decades an confessed to detectives that like his aunt terry, he too had doubts about his father. doubts that had taken route shortly after mike senior's second wife left...

Same conclusion. >> if carol was dead, if mike killed her, taking the accusation to court would be risky. circumstantial. no clear motive, a sympathetic defendant. but he decided to roll the dice. 30 years after carol 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 the reaction? >> mixed at best. >> mixed. that's a mild word. how about upset, horrified, mist identified. in fact, most of carol's family members believed the idea that mike could have murdered carol with you just ...

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 terry raised their own families and having babies started to change terry'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. >> so when you began to suspect it she wouldn't leave her children, what did that mean to you? >> that something hap...

Murder of his wife carol but then he refused to talk and the investigation hit a wall. without a body, how could they prove there was a murder at all? the answer would send investigators in an unexpected direction. could facebook help them find out what really happened to carol? here again is keith morrison with secrets in the mist. >> deputy d.a. and the torrence police department cold case team believed mike killed his wife carol back in 1981. but they had one big problem. they couldn't prove carol was dead. >> the biggest assumption is going to be well how do you know she's not just out of ...