09-26-2014, 01:34 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/25/us/remains...?c=&page=1
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(CNN) - A research team has identified two more sets of remains from unmarked graves at a former reformatory in Marianna, Florida, reported the University of South Florida.
Thomas Varnadoe and Earl Wilson were the second and third students at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys identified through a DNA match, USF said in a press release issued Thursday. Wilson was the first African-American student identified
For years, stories circulated that boys were beaten, tortured and murdered at the school about 65 miles west of Tallahassee, Florida, but nobody was ever prosecuted. The school opened in 1900 and closed in 2011 for budgetary reasons.
Records about who died at the school are sketchy, authorities have said, so an effort to locate and identify remains began several years ago.
Investigators now say there's evidence 98 boys died at the school. Remains have been excavated from 55 unmarked graves, USF says.
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Wasn't sure in which thread to post this.Not sure if it belonged in the abused/murdered children thread or if that thread is for more recent cases.
This reminds me of that school Jack and Wolf are sent to in The Talisman by Stephen King.
Hope at least some of the surviving family membrs can have some closure.
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(CNN) - A research team has identified two more sets of remains from unmarked graves at a former reformatory in Marianna, Florida, reported the University of South Florida.
Thomas Varnadoe and Earl Wilson were the second and third students at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys identified through a DNA match, USF said in a press release issued Thursday. Wilson was the first African-American student identified
For years, stories circulated that boys were beaten, tortured and murdered at the school about 65 miles west of Tallahassee, Florida, but nobody was ever prosecuted. The school opened in 1900 and closed in 2011 for budgetary reasons.
Records about who died at the school are sketchy, authorities have said, so an effort to locate and identify remains began several years ago.
Investigators now say there's evidence 98 boys died at the school. Remains have been excavated from 55 unmarked graves, USF says.
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Wasn't sure in which thread to post this.Not sure if it belonged in the abused/murdered children thread or if that thread is for more recent cases.
This reminds me of that school Jack and Wolf are sent to in The Talisman by Stephen King.
Hope at least some of the surviving family membrs can have some closure.