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 out there somewhere? and so, on that cold and foggy january day, mike, surrounded by cops and lawyers, floated out into the midst to find carol, find whatever was left. if they find the cinder block in the ocean after the search, if they find that, that will give me half of the closure i need. she didn t get it, because after the boat ride, mike admitted his ocean tale was one more lie. and perhaps it was finally for the sake of his son, the son who never abandoned him, that he finally passed a polygraph and led investigators to the place he said mike s mother had actually been all these many years. police searched the area, but once again were unable to locate carol s remains and give the
lucky break. no really. and i was laying in bed and my wife came in and unfortunately when you work these cases all you talk about is we re a dedicated cold case team. you re talking about the case you were working. i m sure she was tired of hearing it. but she said why don t you establish a facebook account for carol? i thought that could actually accomplish a great deal. of course back in 1981 is when carol disappeared facebook creator mark zuckerberg wasn t even born yet. but he knew social media s ability to connect people around the globe instantly could determine whether carol was alive or dead. we know that it s a place where we say here i am. it s also a place where you could find people. surely if carol was still alive, someone on facebook or twitter would know something. of course he also knew carol would look fastly different so
was dead. detectives hooked lubahn up to a polygraph machine. how much of this was true? after the polygraph, the test was done, he confronts him and says you didn t pass. now the defendant changes his story and he says, okay, i punched her in the head and i punched her hard, but he said only one time. then he told lewin what he did with carol s body. after he killed her, he put her in the garage behind some carpet. he took her car the next morning to the red onion parking lot, dumped it there. at some point, she was placed in the trunk of mr. lubahn s vehicle. and then he said he took her to the ocean, put her on a raft, paddled out to sea and dropped her down, a cinder block tied to her body. it was a shock, of course, a big shock. for so long, the family, or most of it, believed mike.
her. it had nothing to do with that. did you catch what mike said? it had nothing to do with that. when you just look at sentence structure and how people talk and communicate, it wasn t about that. what is the it. you gave that great significance, didn t you? oh, absolutely. so they kept at mike and at one point it seemed to them he was on the verge of confessing. listen, why don t you give me a few days or something to think about all of it. we ll come back. but when he came back, he didn t give them anything and they were right back where they started. suspicion, sure, but no evidence of a crime. no way to even prove carol was dead. jim wallace was a detective that finally hit on an idea. to use a tool that didn t even exist when she fought her husband on a march night in
he found an age progression artist to create an image of what she might look like today and then he placed that photo and others like it on facebook or other sites. it was a great point of contact for me to contact 350 friends and family of carol. and we said has anybody seen carol? and we discovered immediately that nobody had seen carol since the night she disappeared. if he googled her own name she would find herself at his website. but that never happened which meant something very significant said the detective. she s not looking for herself. she s dead. or a farmer s wife in uruguay. lots of people are not on facebook. don t check or google things. it doesn t mean she is dead for sure. you just have a fairly good case for it. in this large cumulative thing we re looking at its another piece that points to the