Bones discovered in Long Island basement identified as murdered father

Long Island man, 57, who dug up a skeleton in his childhood home on Halloween discovers it’s his murdered FATHER who vanished in 1961 after ghost hunters told him his dad was buried in the basement

  • Long Island man Mike Carroll, 57, dug up his basement hoping to find the remains of his long lost father on Halloween and found an intact skeleton
  • The remains were identified as that of his father George Carroll on Wednesday
  • George Carroll disappeared in 1961 without a trace, leaving his four young kids
  • Mike’s mother Dorothy said he went out for cigarettes and never returned
  • The autopsy revealed he died of blunt force trauma to the skull
  • Mike Carroll revealed that a psychic told him his father was buried in the basement of the home and that he died of blunt force trauma 
  • Mike and his siblings are planning a military burial for their Korean War veteran father at Calverton National Cemetery
  • Cops ruled death a homicide but the murderer may never be caught as people who could be questioned, like Dorothy and her second husband, are dead  

The buried bones discovered in the basement of a Long Island man’s home have been identified as his long-lost father’s and police have ruled his mysterious death a homicide.

Mike Carroll, 57, always wondered what happened to his father, Korean War veteran George Carroll, who disappeared in 60 years ago in 1961, when Mike was just eight months old. 

He hired ghost hunters and psychics to help him solve the mystery and they said his father was buried in the basement of the home. 

Officials confirmed that the intact skeleton indeed belonged to the family patriarch on Wednesday.

‘I’m happy to learn that that is my dad. This is a deep and very emotional thing and everybody is dealing with this in different ways. This has broken up my family,’ Mike told Newsday.  

‘I tell my sons … we hit a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth, two outs. We found our dad, so we win,’ he added. 

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On Halloween Long Island man Mike Carroll, 57, found a human skeleton buried six feet below his basement. On Wednesday those remains were identified as that of his father George Carroll, who disappeared in 1961 without a trace 

The remains were dug up in Carroll’s Lake Grove home where he grew up in and purchased from his mother before her death in 1998. Family members always shared rumors that his father George was buried in the basement 

The autopsy revealed the George Carroll died of blunt force trauma to the skull, something psychic had already told Mike Carroll

‘How does something like this happen? How do you dispose of someone and bury them in the basement and pour concrete over them and nobody knows about it?’ his brother Steven Carroll, 61, said.  

The veteran’s death is being now probed as a homicide. But cops say they may never know just who was behind his death. 

Mike’s mother Dorothy, provided vague details about how his father just left one day for a pack of cigarettes and never returned. Mike says his family never filed a missing persons report and moved on with their lives. 

If she had any secrets, she took them to the grave with her when she passed away in 1998. 

Mike said a person who could have known something about his father’s death would have been Richard Darress, his mother’s second husband who moved in not long after George Carroll died. 

However Darress later moved to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico and passed away in June at the age of 77. Mike said: ‘I’m trying to avoid pointing a finger at this point’. 

Cops ruled George Carroll’s death a homicide. Mike’s mother Dorothy told her four kids that George went out for cigarettes then never returned home. If she had any secrets on his death, she took them to the grave when she passed away in 1998 

Police and Mike Carroll say that Dorothy’s second husband Richard Darress, who moved in not long after George Carroll died, would have been a good person to question. He passed away earlier this year 

Mike purchased the Suffolk County home before his mother died and employed the help of ghost hunters and psychics to see if the mystery of his father could be solved. 

They pointed to an energy sensed in the basement of the Lake Grove home. Carroll said there were always family rumors that his father might be buried there.

Digging with his two adult sons on Halloween of this year, the family made the spooky discovery of an intact skeleton and they suspected the bones belonged to  his father George Carroll. 


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‘How does something like this happen? How do you dispose of someone and bury them in the basement and pour concrete over them and nobody knows about it,’ Steven Carroll, 61, said after the bones were identified as his father’s

According to the autopsy, the cause of death was ‘blunt force trauma’, something a psychic had already predicted to Carroll. Officials say the trauma could have been inflicted after death, according to NBC. 

‘I was told by the psychic it was blunt force trauma. She actually said to me that it was a pipe, that he got hit in the head by a pipe and he was buried alive,’ Mike said to the New York Post. 

‘We were able to determine that the cause of death included blunt impacts to the head with fractures of the skull and brain injury, although there may be other injuries that are no longer detectable,’ Suffolk County Medical Examiner Michael Caplan said.

‘The DNA was extremely well-preserved within the skeletal remains, even after almost 60 years,’ he added.  

But now the mystery remains as to how he got there – buried six to seven feet under the earth and covered in concrete.       

Mike Carroll dug up the bones with his two adult sons Michael Jr (right) and Christopher (left)

George would have been in his 20s at the time of his death. 

His children were also very young at the time of his disappearance. His daughter Patricia was nine, Jean, seven, and sons Steven, five, and Mike eight months.   

Police say that Dorothy Carroll never have a straight answer about what happened to her husband to her four children.

She also never alerted police about her missing husband. 

Suffolk County police confirmed no one ever filed a missing-persons report for George Carroll. 

But for Mike, finding his father’s remains is enough closure. 

‘There will be no justice. The justice happened when we dug him up because we just interrupted the perfect crime — they almost got away with this,’ he said.   

The family will arrange a military burial for the late George Carroll’s remains at Calverton National Cemetery. 

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