she s not looking for herself. she s dead. or, a farmer s wife and your wife who doesn t use the computer much. maybe. lots of people are not on facebook. right. i don t check our google things. doesn t mean that she is dead for sure. it just means, there s a fairly good case for. in this large, cumulative thing that we re looking at, as yet another piece that points to the same conclusion. if carol was dead, if mike killed her, taking the accusation to court would be risky. totally circumstantial, of course. nobody. unclear motive. a sympathetic defendant. the prosecutor lewin decided to roll the the dice. 30 years after carol lubahn vanished from her family s life, on april 13th, 2011, mike was arrested for carol s murder. and when you went to the family and said, we re going to charge him, what was their reaction? mixed, at best. mixed? such a mild word. how about, upset.
good case for. in this large, cumulative thing that we re looking at, as yet another piece that points to the same conclusion. if carol was dead, if mike killed her, taking the accusation to court would be risky. totally circumstantial, of course. nobody. unclear motive. a sympathetic defendant. the prosecutor lewin decided to roll the the dice. 30 years after carol lubahn vanished from her family s life, on april 13th, 2011, mike was arrested for carol s murder. and when you went to the family and said, we re going to charge him, what was their reaction? mixed, at best. mixed? such a mild word. how about, upset. horrified. mystified. in fact, most of carol s family members believe the idea that my could have murder carol was just ludicrous. he was a member of our family. nobody wanted to see him the
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
he never knew i had these feelings. so on the stand publicly, i had to basically say, yeah, i m thinking maybe there are somewhere things about your story. and it was the first time that my father really would have known i felt that way. so, i was really, really stressed out about that. how hard is it for you to be here today? very. do you want to believe that your dad is responsible for your mother s disappearance? do i want to believe it? no. let s assume that your dad, in fact, did kill your mom. would you want to see him punished for it? no, not particularly. prosecutor lewin knew the ambulance of these family members did not help his case. but in the end, my job isn t to make sure that the family members get that what they want. my job is to make sure that carol s killer is held responsible. but was mike a killer?
and at the sentencing hearing in december 2012, mike s own son echoed those sentiments. guilt or innocence aside, i ve never wanted my father to go to prison. i ve only asked that if he knows anything to please let me know. and then, mike jr. made a heartbreaking plea to the court. he s been a good father and a good person. if he s sent to prison today, i want him to know i m going to miss our time together. it s going to be hard to see the world change without him. i humbly stand before the court today to request leniency for my father when giving his sentence. thank you for the opportunity to speak. after that, well, then the strange tale of the much-loved convicted killer took quite a remarkable turn. it happened that very day in court. prosecutor lewin. i m asking right now as we sit here, mr. lubahn s going to have a chance. please, for your family, for