By the discovery of a human skeleton in a home in the New York Lake Grove, is a loss, after 57 years solved. Michael Carroll received in 1961 from his mother heard that the father of the George family in the had abandoned, and with the thin air had left. He lay all that time in the cellar to be buried.

The police of a crime and is still launched an investigation. Michael (57) and his two adult sons met on 30 October to work on the house the human remains. Officers charged with the forensic investigation yesterday confirmed that it is indeed the case, George Carroll.

The cause of death is still not clear, however, brought a autopsy a schedeltrauma to the light. It is not excluded that the injuries to the skull posthumously have been made.

Michael, his father George, a veteran of the war in Korea, never known. As the youngest of four children, he was only eight months old when his father suddenly disappeared. The disappearance was in the family a taboo topic. His mother, who in 1998 died, didn’t much about it. There were different stories circulating. George would have returned to South Korea,, other rumors suggested that he was buried in the basement of his own house.

Not much later, after the disappearance taught his mother Richard Darress know. A marriage quickly followed. The new couple got a son, but went in the eighties from each other. Know Darress more? It is not possible to discover. After the huwelijksbreuk he moved to a Mexican city near the Us border, where earlier this year he died.

Michael bought his home in the mid-eighties. The loss of his father grew almost to an autopsy. He seemed more and more convinced that his father below the house lay buried. He retired three years ago psychics. Later grondradarbeelden indicated that there is ‘something’ buried. Michael went on his own careful work to foundations are not damaged. When he was felled by heart problems put his sons to work further. This led at the end of October to the invention. According to investigators proved DNA-traces very well preserved. Michael is excited about the breakthrough. He wants his father with the necessary military honours once again at the grave to carry on a military cemetery.