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Don't increase in different details and that's a sign of what we saw a lie. >> his version of what happened from the start made no sense to any of us. >> why would mike lie? to the cold case team it seemed obvious. >> he killed her that night. she stopped living that night and everything else that doesn't make sense is all because it's a lie. if you know it's a lie, then it all lines up. >> remarkably he continued to talk to them, three more times of his own free will. very frankly without an attorney. he even let the prosecutor take a crack at it chl. >> if you were me in my position, tell me...

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 to know the truth behind the evening. >> to get the truth and avoid the trial, the prosecutor 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 didn't believe mike did it, what would a jury think? >> coming up, being accused on the stand....

Then in that little house. mike thinking things over. on a hunch he said he placed tape on her dresser drawers. a little trap. one day he took the kids to universal studios and sure enough when they returned he 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 they kept $100 in emergency cash and now $60 was missing. just like carol. >> she would have not taken all of it. that was i...

My grandmother we would get calls. >> sounds on the other end. what did you do? >> we'd say carol, we love 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 she vanished the detective put it in the inactive file. in his report he wrote no foul play involve d. >> i remember thinking about her all the time and playing records over and over that she liked. >> eventually mike started dating a 19-year-old named carrie. brought her i...

The defense might have stopped right there. instead they decided to gamble. mike was a nice guy and the jury should see that. and if the details had been a little different each time he was asked to tell the story, here was his chance to straighten it all 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. >> also slightly different, the way he discovered she was gone. >> i opened the front door and went out and the gar...