prosecute prosecutor lewin was. i m sitting right here mr. we lubahn is going to have a chance. please for your family, for your kids, just let it go. tell us what happened. can we just have a moment? the judge granted a recess so my could speak to his attorney in private. did he actually have something to confess? but they returned a few moments later and were. war asking to continue the sentencing. the judge pushed back the sentencing by a month. my hope was he would tell us what happened, that he would tell us what he did with carole and that it would be honest about both. for almost four weeks they waited until january 7th 2013, all eyes were on mike lubahn as he entered the courtroom. and then shifted as one lewin to prosecutor
that the last place that carol lived her last breath was taken in that bathtub when you murdered her? we know. why are you looking at the judge? because i m waiting for you to correct him. no, i didn t murder her. sorry. in the bathtub? mr. lubahn, if you had murdered her, you would tell us today that you did? i would ve admitted it. you would have admitted admitted on the stand today? yes. do you think that statement is believable? i think so. i m done. of course, believability was a question for the jury to decide. and decided they did. though as you ll see, that was in the end of the story. not by a mile. coming up a final push for the truth.
i m craig melvin. detectives believed mike lubahn was on the verge of confessing to the murder of his wife, carol. but then, he refused to talk and the investigation hit a wall. without a body, how could they prove there was a murder at all? the answer would send investigators in an unexpected direction. could facebook help them find out what really happened to carol? here again is keith morrison with secrets in the mist . the deputy da john lewin and the torrance police department believed mike lubahn killed his wife, carol, back in 1981. but they had one big problem, they couldn t prove carol was dead. the biggest assumption is got to be she s not just out of the country, or across the country. or changed her identity. kind of an important
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 would take your kids with. you and so, when you began to suspect it she wouldn t leave her children, what did that mean to you? that something happened to her. in 1996, 15 years since they had heard from carol, the police came around again. this time, they scanned the lubahn s backyard with ground penetrating radar radar. even dug up the ground. didn t find anything. funny thing though, about four months later the local paper, the the daily breeze did a story. interviewed mike and this time his memory was slightly different. he remembered that on that terrible morning when carol left, he heard the garage door go up before she drove away. just one more little detail,
but deputy da john lewin, went ahead anyway. well i m going to be able to prove beyond any reasonable doubt, ladies and gentlemen, is that despite the fact that mike lubahn is a decent man, he murdered his wife. of course, lewin knew that to prove a murder had occurred, he had to show the victim was in fact, no longer a life. for that he turned to detective wallace, who explained to the jury that facebook and social media presents he created for carol. and turned up a whole lot of nothing. have you been contacted by anybody? either by phone, email, in writing, who says you know what, i ve seen carol lubahn after the day she disappeared? no. though as lewin and his team also let the jury here, family members like carol s sister gail believed what mike told them. that carol had run off.