Long Island Man Found His Father's Bones Buried in His Basement Decades After He Vanished

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George Carroll's children were told he had left to buy cigarettes and never returned, but the mystery persisted for decades

In 2018, Carroll's remains were shockingly found buried below the basement of his family home on Long Island

The story is the focus of a new ID documentary, The Secrets We Bury, premiering Dec. 16

George Carroll's children had always been told their father had left to get cigarettes and never returned.

For decades, Mike Carroll — living in his childhood home in Lake Grove, N.Y., on Long Island — and his siblings were desperate for answers as to what happened to their father.

The mystery seemed unsolvable after their mother died in 1998, having revealed very little about her former husband, a Korean War veteran who hadn't been seen since the early