"He was there all the time": the son of a man long gone speaks of the discovery of the bones of the basement, a family mystery

A son of a Long Island man who disappeared in 1961, leaving his wife and children alone struggling with the mystery of his disappearance for decades, said he was relieved by the discovery of bone in the same focus this Halloween.

"We felt abandoned in childhood, but he was here all the time," said Steven Carroll, barely five years old when his father, George, disappeared at News 4 on Thursday.

Steven Carroll and his brother Michael came across a skeleton in their basement on Wednesday; the bones that they believe belong to their long-lost father.

Steven Carroll said that his mother had said very little about what had happened just before his death in 1998, no more than his death.

He and his siblings all have different theories about their father's disappearance, Carroll said, though he refused to share some of the differences in speculation.

Although they never knew what had happened to their father, the police say that for reasons still unknown, the family had always thought that it could be buried in the house he lived in on Olive Street in Lake Grove. This house is now owned by Michael Carroll, Steven's brother. And it's this bizarre presentiment that has pushed the next generation – George Carroll's grandchildren – to start digging in the basement. It was an excavation project that took months and touched the remains, which were under the concrete, the scariest day of the year.

Police say that a DNA test will have to be performed to confirm that the body in the basement is George Carroll, but they suspect a criminal act of death of the one who was found in this cellar after so many deaths. ; years.

The family believes that it is George Carroll for sure. If that proves to be the case, his sons want to give their father, a Korean war veteran, an appropriate burial at Calverton National Cemetery, said Steven Carroll.