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 By Janelle Griffith 
  
 Human bones discovered in the basement of a New York home have been identified as those of a man who had been missing for nearly six decades, authorities said Wednesday. His death is now being investigated as a homicide. 
  
 Police say George Carroll's son and two grandsons found his remains on Oct. 30 while excavating the basement of the home in Lake Grove, New York. 
  
 Autopsy results released this week confirmed the remains were of George Carroll and found that his skull had been fractured by blunt force trauma, which may have occurred posthumously, authorities said. 
  
 Carroll's son, Michael, 57, is the current homeowner of the property once owned by his father and mother, Dorothy Carroll, who died in 1998. There had long been rumors in the family that George Carroll might be buried in the basement, the police said, citing Carroll family members. 
  
 Carroll, a Korean War veteran, had been missing since 1961, authorities said. Dorothy Carroll never gave her four children a straight answer about what happened to their father before her death, police said. 
  
 Suffolk County police said no one ever filed a missing-persons report for George Carroll. 
  
 Michael Carroll and his two adults sons excavated the basement of the home on suspicion they might find the remains there. ||||| Human remains discovered under the basement of a Long Island home have officially been identified as the homeowner who went missing 57 years ago.Police say George Carroll's adult son and his two grandchildren found his remains while excavating the basement of the home on Olive Street in Lake Grove in October.Carroll had been missing since 1961, six years after the family bought the home.Officials said Wednesday that the remains have been identified as Carroll, and his death is being investigated as a homicide.The victim's son, Michael Carroll, told Eyewitness News in October that it had been rumored in the family for years that his father may have been buried in the basement. He disappeared when Michael was 8 months old, and the apparent story was he left "to do something" and never returned."It didn't just come up overnight, it's something that's been talked about for years," he said. "This is something as we grew up, you know. We heard multiple stories."The excavation of the basement began a few years ago, but Michael Carroll said it became too dangerous and had to be stopped. It resumed recently with better search technology, but Michael Carroll's sons Christopher and Michael Jr. took over after Michael Sr. suffered a stroke. That is when the remains were found around cement walls.Steven Carroll was just 5 years old when his father disappeared. He said the family consulted psychics over the years and interviewed people who live in the neighborhood, but it wasn't until they were adults that the search intensified."There really wasn't much talk about it," he said. "But we became curious as adults as to where he might be."DNA testing had to be used to identify the remains, so at the time when the remains were discovered, Michael couldn't say for sure it was his father. But he believed it was."I feel great that my dad is free from that crappy hole," he said.He said his dad fought in the Korean War and that he would like to bury him at Calverton National Cemetery."I want him to be a soldier," he said. "I want him to get what he needs."The remains were found about 6 to 8 feet down, and Michael said he wasn't surprised when he found them. He said he always believed his dad was in basement."In my mind, I always felt that I was going to find that," he said. "I'm glad this is over and I don't have to break up my house anymore."He said he had an idea who may be responsible. He wouldn't elaborate, but he said anyone who may have been involved is long dead.There was never a missing persons report filed for George Carroll. The mother is deceased, but family members say she didn't talk much about George. They believe it was because she was trying to protect them.Michael and Steven also have two sisters, who were 7 and 9 when their father disappeared.---------- ||||| Down in the basement of Michael Carroll’s childhood home in Lake Grove on Long Island, the psychic pointed to the cement floor. 
  
 "He went to the right spot and said, ‘The energy is here,’” Michael told the New York Post in November. 
  
 Michael was not sure he bought it. As he would explain later, he was a science guy — a respiratory therapist. But he knew the house held its own secrets. As fanciful as the clairvoyant’s premonition might sound, the otherworldly vibes would prove to be spot on. 
  
 Six feet below the basement floor of the suburban house was the answer to a family mystery that had been haunting Michael and his three siblings for decades. In 1961, when he was just 8 months old, his father, George Carroll, vanished. After decades of rumors and speculation, consultations with psychics and paranormal investigators, Michael — who had purchased the home from his mother before her death in 1998 — cracked into the basement floor about three years ago. 
  
 On Oct. 30, Michael and his two grown sons discovered a full skeleton. This week, Suffolk County officials announced the body did belong to George Carroll, Newsday reported. 
  
 “I took a chance. I could have done this whole thing and found nothing, and then I would have had a whole messed-up basement,” Michael told Long Island’s News 12. “I have a messed-up basement. But I’m really glad we found what we found. It puts my family at ease.” 
  
 But the identification only solves half of the family’s puzzle. According to the Suffolk County medical examiner, George was murdered, the victim of blunt-force trauma to the head. A missing father is now a homicide investigation. 
  
 “There’s so many open ends here,” Michael told News 12. “There’s a story behind the story behind the story.” 
  
 Time travel back to 1961: President John F. Kennedy was sworn into office. “West Side Story” splashed onto movie theater screens. The U.S.S.R.’s Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. And on Long Island, Korean War veteran George Carroll lived in a small cottage on an isolated wooded road called Olive Street with his wife, Dorothy, and four children — Patricia, 9, Jean, 7, Steven, 5, and Michael, 8 months. 
  
 Then, George was gone. His wife would say only that he walked out one day and never returned. 
  
 “It wasn’t really much talked about, but we became curious as adults as to where he might be,” Michael’s older brother, Steven, told New York’s NBC 4 in November. 
  
 “I was always told, ‘Don’t ask,’” Michael told the New York Post. “So I stopped asking.” 
  
 Rumors replaced facts for the Carroll children when it came to their father. According to Newsday, some family members said George had run away to return to Korea. Others suggested he was killed — and buried in the basement. The area was under construction around the time he went missing. 
  
 Not long after George disappeared, a man named Richard Darress moved into the Olive Street home. He eventually married Dorothy, and they had a son together. Darress and Dorothy divorced in the early 1980s, Newsday reported, and Darress moved to a Mexican city near the Texas border. He died earlier this year, according to the paper. 
  
 Michael eventually bought his childhood home. Additions were constructed onto the original cottage. Olive Street filled up with new houses. 
  
 But Michael still wondered about his missing father. Living now in the house where he grew up, he also was reminded of the old rumors about what might be under the basement. He called in a psychic and a team of paranormal investigators, he told the New York Post. Three years ago, he started digging. 
  
 He worked alone. As Michael told Newsday, he eventually used ground-penetrating radar to analyze the basement floor. The reading indicated something six feet below. The project went in fits and starts. At one point earlier this year, Michael was afraid he would upset the foundation of the whole house. But he kept going. This summer, when he was felled by a stroke, he had his two grown sons take over. 
  
 “I told my kids, ‘Guys come on over here and help me out. You’ve been watching me do this, you get in there,’” he told News 12. “I think they felt bad for me because they knew this was important to me.” 
  
 On Oct. 30, one of his sons trudged upstairs to tell Michael there was something he should see. 
  
 “It’s not easy for me to get up and down the stairs,” he explained. “I actually did get into the hole where they were digging.” 
  
 Michael recognized human remains. 
  
 “I felt total peace,” he said. “I felt vindication for my dad. I felt like he was dancing in heaven.” 
  
 The next day, after informing his family, Michael reported the find to authorities — on Halloween. 
  
 “The DNA was extremely well-preserved within the skeletal remains, even after almost 60 years,” Suffolk County Medical Examiner Michael Caplan told Newsday on Wednesday. With this week’s positive identification, Carroll says his family would like to inter his father in a graveyard with the full honor of a combat veteran. 
  
 Authorities continue to investigate the homicide. Suffolk County police say no one ever filed a missing person’s report about George’s 1961 disappearance. Law enforcement officials have also indicated they would have liked to interview the deceased Darress. The Carroll children, however, say they don’t want to speculate or theorize about how George ended up where he did. 
  
 “I feel great that my dad is finally free from that crappy hole,” Michael said. |||||
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When he was growing up, Michael Carroll's mother told him and his three siblings that their father had walked out one day in 1961 and never returned. But George Carroll was just feet away the entire time, buried more than six feet below the basement of their Long Island home. Authorities say that bones Michael Carroll and his two grown sons found while digging in the basement on Oct. 30 have been identified as George Carroll, whose death is now being treated as a homicide, NBC News reports. The Suffolk County Medical Examiner's office says he suffered blunt-force trauma to the head that fractured his skull, though the injury may been inflicted after his death. Michael Carroll, who was just eight months old when his father disappeared, bought the house from his mother in the 1980s. She died in 1998. He says that growing up, he was told not to ask about his father, though there were multiple family rumors—including one that George Carroll had been buried in the basement of the Lake Grove home, the Washington Post reports. Michael Carroll says he has an idea who might have killed his father—who was never reported missing—but anybody involved is long dead, ABC7 reports. He says he would like his father, a Korean War veteran, to be buried at Calverton National Cemetery. " I want him to be a soldier," he says. "I want him to get what he needs." (The body of another long-missing person was recently found in another Long Island basement.)