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Imagine what it 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 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 mike said he and carol kept $100 in emergency cash and now $60 was missing. just like...

The harsh words, the car roaring away. and it's an old story anyway -- pretty girl gets pregnant at 15, marries the guy. pretty soon she's a 20-something with two kids and a hankering to live, really live, for a change. and this particular pretty girl -- >> she was fun. she was outgoing. she had a lot of friends. >> she had two sisters -- terri was the younger one. gail the older. >> we were very close and made each other laugh all the time. >> but carol lubon wasn't laughing the end of march, '81. for one thing, she wanted to be somebody -- her own somebody. >> i know that carol wanted to com...

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. >> and so when you began to suspect that she wouldn't leave her children, what did that mean to you? >> that something happened to her. >> in 1996, 15 years since they heard f...

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." >> also slightly different, the way he discovered she was gone. >> i opened the front door and went out, and the garage door was open,...

He said mike's mother had actually been all these many years. police searched the area, but once again unable to locate carol's remains and give the family what they hoped for most, the chance to say goodbye. >> i don't really know why getting her back is the ultimate book end for me. i want to know that she's properly buried or created or whatever we choose to do with her. >> why is that so important? >> i think it's just the ultimate answer. this is it. there's no more wondering. >> no, not about that. but his father in prison 15 to life. when we last spoke to mike, it was clear he had a goo...