Michael Carroll and his three siblings grew up hearing the same story about their dad. Their mother Dorothy said George walked out the door one day in 1961 and never came back. For over 50 years, the kids had no idea what really happened to their father, who had served in the Korean War.
According to The People, Michael was only eight months old when his dad went missing. His older siblings Patricia, Jean, and Steven were still very young too. Every time the kids tried to ask their mom about what happened, she would refuse to talk about it. “I was always told, ‘Don’t ask,'” Michael told the New York Post. “So I stopped asking.”
