Carol Lubahn: A Search Across Decades
Her life, the missing-person record and a family’s long wait.
Abstract
California’s Department of Justice records March 31, 1981 as Carol Jeanne Lubahn’s Date Last Seen, at the Red Onion in Redondo Beach.1
Case Record
The DOJ entry identifies Torrance Police Department case 817319. It supplies a date and place, but not the underlying observation record.1
Person and Family
A January 2013 City News Service report described Carol and her husband as North High School graduates in Torrance, married about ten years and parents of two children.2
Penny Arévalo’s September 2014 report, credited to City News Service, identified Carol as an El Camino College student. She was 26 when she disappeared.3
Sourced Accounts and Questions
Here’s where you come in. Can you find a dated public account explaining what observation supports the March 31 restaurant entry?1
Can you distinguish a reported search location from a documented recovery? Keep dates, attribution and unresolved points in a Research File in Almost Solved.2,3
Show later developments and reported outcomes
Later Proceedings and Searches
City News Service reported that Michael Lubahn Clark was sentenced in January 2013 to fifteen years to life after his October 2012 second-degree murder conviction.2
That report attributed planned coastal search details to Deputy District Attorney John Lewin. A proposed search site does not independently establish where Carol’s remains were located.2
The September 2014 report said the appeals court had upheld the conviction and the coastal search had not found her body. These are dated reported outcomes; the underlying judgment and search files were not inspected here.3
The 2014 article also described Carol’s car being found at a Redondo Beach restaurant. A vehicle finding is separate from a documented observation of Carol there.3
Scope and Method
Current agency status unverified.
Prepared with AI assistance. Sources and references checked against the cited public materials. This paper is an original synthesis of the identified public sources; it does not reproduce article bodies, transcripts, or an investigative file.
Footnote References
- California DOJ, Carol Jeanne Lubahn; reviewed November 2026.
- City News Service, Patch, January 8–9, 2013.
- Penny Arévalo, Patch, September 3, 2014.