SEALY, Texas — A sheriff's office in Florida announced that skeletal remains discovered 45 years ago in the Florida panhandle have been identified as Carol Sue Skidmore, who disappeared from Sealy, Texas, in 1977, bringing closure to a decades-old missing person case.

Carol Skidmore, her husband James Ronald Skidmore, and their 5-year-old son Lynn Dale Mahaffy left their home in Sealy on March 29, 1977, to visit James' parents in Rossville, Georgia. The couple wanted to "put their marriage back together," according to investigators with the Austin County Sheriff's Office. Carol contacted her parents on April 9, 1977, telling them she wasn't sure when they would be returning, which became the last contact with Carol.

The case took a tragic turn in May 1977 when the child's body was found

See Full Page