little obsessed. he had many other more pressing cases, but something kept pulling him back to carol lubon. i actually would shove some of my work away. i got in a little trouble for that sometimes. for years the detective chipped away until finally, in 2010, eight years after he found that musty old blue file, he decided to pay a surprise visit to mike lubon. his colleagues thought he was nuts. there were those that thought, you think he s going to admit it to you? well, i played enough sports in my time. i know you ll not get anywhere if you don t try. detective delsigne. we want to talk about carol. what story would mike tell this time? turns out this version would be straight out of 007. coming up think i did that james bond thing with the paper on the door? but one detail did ring true.
welcome back. detective walt delsigne could not let go of the carol lubon cold case. after the california mom disappeared, police found no evidence of a crime. but over the years, carol s husband mike had made a few slight changes to his story about the night his wife vanished. now the detective was determined to dig into those inconsistencies. and mike was about to share a chilling new detail. what he told investigators would send the case into overdrive. here s keith morrison. for eight years, torrance police detective walt delsigne worried away at the carol lubon file, drawn by an irresistible hunch, that this young mother did not day peer voluntarily. but actual evidence of a crime? just wasn t any. so finally in 2010, 29 years
did remember some other traps he had set. even more elaborate. i would take like baby powder and put it right inside the door so if somebody stepped in it, i would see baby powder? okay. and what else. anything else? i think i did that james bonding thing with the paper on the door. that s about it. by now, detective delsigne was working with colleague jim wallace and the deputy da john lewin. he specializes in tackling the most difficult of cold cases. do you remember when you saw the results of that interview, what you thought? yeah, i thought his memory had grown in areas where it shouldn t and in areas where he should be saying the same story it was different. and that s the hallmark of deception. but the mind plays tricks. the mind invents things, and inserts them into your memory and you believe them as