• Missing Since 04/09/1977
• Missing From Rossville, Georgia
• Classification Endangered Missing
• Sex Female
• Race White
• Age 26 years old
• Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian female.

Details of Disappearance

Carol disappeared from Rossville, Georgia on April 9, 1977. She and her husband of one year, James Ronald Skidmore, and her five-year-old son Lynn Dale Mahaffey, had left their Texas home to visit James's parents in Rossville on March 29, in order to "put their marriage back together." All three of them disappeared together.

On May 5, Lynn's body was found in Parksville Lake in Cleveland, Texas. He'd been there for several weeks. The child was the victim of a homicide; his body was found wrapped in a plastic bag and weighted with a forty-pound rock. It wasn't identified until June 13. By then, his stepfather had also been found deceased: James was found dead of a drug overdose in a hotel room in Harrison, Arkansas on June 1. He had died by suicide. He wrote a letter to his former wife, telling her he was going to take his own life because "things weren't working out for him."

In 2025, Carol's remains were identified. They'd been found by hunters in a shallow grave by three hunters about a half mile west of Highway 231, north of Fountain, Florida in 1980.