Ep. - 1490 - THE SECRETS WE BURY
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.4 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In 1961, George Carroll, a 30-year-old U.S. Army veteran and father of six, vanished without a trace from his family’s Long Island home on Olive Street, leaving behind a wife and young children, including his eight-month-old son Michael. For decades, the Carroll children were told their father had abandoned them, but unanswered questions lingered as the family endured years of silence, abuse, and buried secrets after their mother, Dorothy Carroll, remarried the family’s handyman, Richard Darress.
Driven by a lifelong search for truth, Michael Carroll eventually bought the family home and, alongside his sister Jean, pursued answers through neighbors, rumors, and even psychics—until a chilling revelation led Michael’s sons, Mike Carroll Jr. and Chris Carroll, to dig beneath the basement floor in 2018. Six feet below the house, they uncovered human remains later confirmed to be George Carroll’s, transforming a decades-old disappearance into an active homicide investigation.
Kate is joined by director Patricia Gillespie, and Mike Carroll Jr. and Chris Carroll.
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| 0:46.9 | Welcome back for another episode of Reality Life with Kate Casey. |
| 0:52.1 | Today's episode is about the secrets we bury, an ID discovery true crime documentary. |
| 0:57.0 | In 1961, Long Island was a place built on certainty. |
| 1:00.5 | Tree-lined streets, modest homes with trimmed hedges, |
| 1:02.8 | neighbors who would wave from their driveways, |
| 1:05.8 | and expected tomorrow to look very much like today. |
| 1:08.2 | This was post-war America, |
| 1:10.1 | where fathers went to work, |
| 1:12.0 | mothers kept the home, and children rode their bikes until the street lights flickered on. On Olive Street, life followed that rhythm. |
| 1:18.2 | The Carroll family lived in a house like so many others in their town. It wasn't grand, but it was |
| 1:23.1 | full. Children, a young mother, and a father who had already seen more of the world than most men his age. |
| 1:30.9 | George Carroll was 30 years old, a U.S. Army veteran, a Korean War servicemen, a husband, a provider. |
| 1:38.3 | And then one day, he was gone. |
| 1:41.3 | And in 1961, that story was allowed to stand, because that was a time when questions, |
| 1:46.4 | especially uncomfortable ones, were rarely asked. A time when family matters stayed inside the home. |
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