Dorothy Carroll Told Her Kids That Their Dad Abandoned Them. 55 Years Later, the Kids Found George Carroll’s Body Buried in the Basement

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George Carroll, a Korean War veteran, vanished from his Long Island home in 1963, leaving his four children searching for answers for decades

Carroll's wife, Dorothy, always told her children that their father had walked out on the family

After years of searching based on relatives' speculation and even a psychic's reading, the Carroll children finally found their father — buried under the family home

Normally stoic under pressure, Chris Carroll was pale and visibly shaken when he emerged from the basement of his family’s house in Lake Grove on Long Island, N.Y.

“Dad, I think we found something,” he told his father, Michael, in the living room. “You have to go downstairs.”

Together, Chris and his brother, Mike Jr., had been digging in the basement for months, searching f