Identified! NY - Skeletal, basement of home of missing owner in 1961, Long Island, 31 Oct 2018 - George Carroll

[Laughing]

RIP, Mr. Carroll, and thank you for your service to our country!

 

[Deleted member 162919]

is there an autopsy report yet?

 

[Deleted member 162919]

I'd like to know if Richard Darress was married to the widow until her death and then went to mexico after her death possibly fearing he might be arrested. Just seems odd he went to a country he couldn't be extradited from and when he moved back he stayed close to the border

 

[unmused]

I'd like to know if Richard Darress was married to the widow until her death and then went to mexico after her death possibly fearing he might be arrested. Just seems odd he went to a country he couldn't be extradited from and when he moved back he stayed close to the border

You can be extradited from Mexico, we've had extradition relationships with Mexico since the the 19th century. It's reputation as a safe haven for criminals is not because people can't be extradited, but rather they're harder to find... which isn't the case here since Darress's location was known.

 

[Valiant]

You can be extradited from Mexico, we've had extradition relationships with Mexico since the the 19th century. It's reputation as a safe haven for criminals is not because people can't be extradited, but rather they're harder to find... which isn't the case here since Darress's location was known.

Mexico will refuse extradition if the death penalty is involved.

 

[Caring1]

For anyone who may be interested in watching the new documentary about the search for George Carroll and how his children were able to gain closure after he was found buried in the basement of the family home after 55 years.

ID’s THE SECRETS WE BURY premieres Tuesday, December 16 at 9/8c on ID and will be available to stream on HBO Max.

December 5, 2025

• 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

Mom Told Her Kids That Their Dad Abandoned Them. 55 Years Later, They Found His Body Buried in the Basement

The children of George Carroll, a Korean War veteran, were told their father went out for cigarettes and never returned. He was actually a homicide victim

www.aol.com

 

[Susikatze]

For anyone who may be interested in watching the new documentary about the search for George Carroll and how his children were able to gain closure after he was found buried in the basement of the family home after 55 years.

ID’s THE SECRETS WE BURY premieres Tuesday, December 16 at 9/8c on ID and will be available to stream on HBO Max.

December 5, 2025

• 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

Mom Told Her Kids That Their Dad Abandoned Them. 55 Years Later, They Found His Body Buried in the Basement

The children of George Carroll, a Korean War veteran, were told their father went out for cigarettes and never returned. He was actually a homicide victim

www.aol.com

Hmm if this was a missing mom, who “just walked out” and dad remarried shortly after, it would be clear who is the suspect. I dont think this is any different. Likely mom had an affair and her lover killed dad while doing basement work and conveniently buried him there. Went as savior to the poor “deserted” woman and her kids and married her.
But I dont think this can ever be solved since everyone involved has passed.
Very sad.

jmoo

 

[summergirl1]

Man uncovers missing father’s bones buried beneath family home, unleashing ‘a thousand' other secrets

True-crime documentary "Secrets We Bury" explores a family's quest to find missing father George Carroll, uncovering dark secrets buried in a Long Island home's basement.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Maat99]

Dbm.

 

[summergirl1]

How a psychic unearthed a missing father buried under the family home

One day in 1961, father of four and Korean War veteran George Carroll went out to buy a packet of cigarettes. He never came home again.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Lebowski]

A very bizarre case. Putting together a timeline from the links above.

1961-George Carol disappears while his house is under construction. His disappearance isn't reported. Someone finished building the house.

"Shortly after" Richard Darress moves in with the mother and children.

1960s thru 1990's- The children learned of a family suspicion that George might have hit his head while the house was under construction and somehow been buried in the basement.

1980s-one of the sons took over the house and still owns it.

1998-The mother tells her children about what happened, just before she dies.

2018-Richard Darress dies.

2018-The children start digging up the basement to find their father's remains.

I guess they didn't want Darress to be investigated for the murder. Possibly their mother had made them promise, or they cared about him.

I wonder whether the house stayed in the family because of who was buried there.

bbm

boy, that is an awfully specific "family suspicion". and oddly close to what happened, yet conveniently accidental. ...and why would you suspect that of all things if he had gone out for cigarettes and never returned?

if this "family suspicion" came from mom or the stepdad, it was so the kids would be primed to believe a cover story if and when they found his skeleton. probably more about wanting the grown children to remember them well after they died, than about any law enforcement action, which after some point was unlikely to happen while they were alive. no missing person report filed, mom and FIL owned the property... nothing could have triggered the police to go looking in the basement, and the owners weren't going to say yes without a warrant, which there would be little or no probable cause to obtain. nah, they knew it wasn't going to come out until after they died, if ever.

moo