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. isn t it true that carol lived her last breath in that bathtub when you murdered her? when dateline continues. when dateline continues not actors, who ve got their eczema under control.
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 in her permnalty to be fair. made since then. then there were mysterious phone calls. we d get the phone calls on special days. her birthday. my birthday.
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 into the fold. we were happy that mike was going on with life. so they did all go on with life and many years went by. until the morning in a whole new
my ly millenium. this didn t sound right to me. detectives turned to a surprising source to help solve the mystery. coming up. why don t you establish a facebook account for carol. when dateline continues. arol when dateline continues is skincare from around the world better than olay? to find out, olay faced the world. we tested our vitamin b3 formula and beat japan s top moisturizers. and even the $400 french cream. olay regenerist faced 131 premium products from 12 countries, over 10 years. olay s hydration was unbeaten every time.
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 garage door was open and the car was gone. in earlier versions, didn t ma mike say he heard the garage door go up and saw tail heights. why has his story changed again. what s the deal with that?