SAWMILLS, N.C. (AP) — Forty-three years ago, Pamela Shook Kolbe’s father went out one night for a date and never came home. Now, her family may finally have a chance to bury him after a discovery at the bottom of a lake.
On that night in 1972, the then-teenage daughter returned to an empty house around 8 p.m. after hanging out with friends. She eventually drifted off to sleep thinking that her father, Amos Shook, would be there when she awoke.
“I went to bed, and I didn’t think much of it, not until the next morning when I woke up,” said Kolbe.