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Believed the idea that mike could have murdered carol was ludicrous. >> well, he was a member of our family, you know. and nobody wanted to see him be arrested or him be the reason or -- 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. fol...

Mike killed carol or even that she was dead? mike's family held its collective breath. so did the prosecutor and the police. >> you know, you don't know what to expect. >> and now, here was mike's fate. >> we the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant, michael clark lubahn, sr., guilty. >> guilty of second degree murder. mike lubahn was going to prison. a long-time detective jim wallace found surrounded by a very unfamiliar reaction. >> i've had cases before where you get down and you walk out and the family throws their arms around you and they're so grateful. that's not this ca...

The car long gone now, so we did this up to look like it. quite often she'd get in her little car and go roaring off to school or to meat markets like the local red onion was back then. >> i know she was going to the red onion. i never went with her, so i don't know what she was like. >> and then that night in march, kids off to bed. their son, mike jr., was just a boy, 10 years old. >> i was in bed. i had just got a new stereo for my 10th birthday and was listening to the headphones. ♪ >> from his bed, he could see something happening out in the hallway. >> i remember them getting into an a...

>> because i think over the years, i thought about this night so many times. i had seen that car back out of the driveway many, many times when she was leaving. i think i thought repeatedly in my mind that's what i thought -- i saw the car. i can see it right now. >> he never thought for a moment, he said, it would be the last time he'd see his wife. >> i thought maybe she had gone out dancing and stayed the night with a friend. >> what did happen to her? mike insisted he simply didn't know. >> did you have anything to do with killing her? >> no. >> did you have anything to do with her disappe...

Down with a sender block tied to her body. it was a shock, of course, a big shock. for so long, the family believed mike. and now in this very public way, they finally knew that carol was dead, and he, their sweet mike, killed her. but the whole truth, was it actually not there somewhere? and so on that cold and foggy january day, mike, surrounded by cops and lawyers, floated out in the mist to find carol, or whatever was left. >> did they find the cinder block, that will give me half the closure i need. >> she didn't get it, because after the boat ride, mike admitted his ocean tale was one mo...