Kurt Carroll, by some estimates, was sitting at the right place at the right time when someone asked him the right questions: “Aren’t you adopted? Did you ever find your biological parents?’
The 58-year-old retired Dallas Police Department officer recalls sitting in a courtroom with his daughter and a coworker, who tagged along with her father to court sometimes.
“I was adopted in Dallas. I was born in Dallas Osteopathic Hospital,” Carroll said. “And I said, I was picked up at Sears and Roebuck right down the street here.”
A lifetime search for answers begins with a sealed adoption file
His coworker got him to a sealed file. The judge who could help him was one courtroom over. Carroll made his case to the judge, gained his favor, and began his journey looking for his parents. His adoptive family, he said, never hid his past from him…