09-26-2014, 02:53 PM
Duchess from what I've been able to gather so far a lot of the boys were orphans or run aways , so the school just buried them in unmarked graves.The boys that had family who were murdered were buried and the explanation given was pneumonia or other natural causes etc.
A man named Roger Dean Kiser, who was there between the ages if 12 and 15 wrote a book about it called The White House Boys:An American Tragedy.The White House Boys us a group he formed along with other former Dozier classmates.The group pushed to have the bodies exhumed and have the deaths investigated.
Link to the interview with Kiser:
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/08/21/di...ys-florida
Snip of the interview:
Of the many employees the now grown students accuse of torturing and killing boys, only one is alive. A class action suit was brought against Troy Tidwell, but a court found the statute of limitations had run out. That suit was thrown out. And after that an attempt was made to pass a bill in the Florida legislature giving compensation to the victims and their families, but that proposal never made it to a vote.
Another snip of the interview:
YOUNG: Well, and pushed to have Dozier looked at. The state finally agreed to send investigators in. The press found out about these unmarked graves that were on the campus, and the ball starts rolling to where we are today. Investigators found records indicating how people died, 96 people died, all young people except for two adults, disease, trauma, drowning. Seven young boys died trying to escape. One 16-year-old was shot.
Now we have anthropologists from the University of South Florida going to exhume the bodies. What do you hope that they find?
KISER: Well, I know what they're going to find. They're going to find a heck of a lot more bodies than what they think are up there. They're going to find a couple hundred bodies. They're going to find them in the dump. Some bodies they'll never find.
YOUNG: How validating has this been for you?
KISER: I was before the Senate when they made the vote with the governor, and I suppose I went a little numb when they voted, and I knew that the truth was finally going to come out. But what meant a lot to me was we received - after they voted, we received a standing ovation. The policemen stood up, the military people stood up, everybody stood up and clapped.
And it almost brought me to tears because through the years, we have been called nothing but a bunch of liars, a bunch of former juvenile delinquents who were after nothing but money, to put money in our pocket or to sell books. We were called by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement nothing but a bunch of old soldiers who couldn't get their war stories straight.
So that's what meant a lot to me. That was the vindication I got.
A man named Roger Dean Kiser, who was there between the ages if 12 and 15 wrote a book about it called The White House Boys:An American Tragedy.The White House Boys us a group he formed along with other former Dozier classmates.The group pushed to have the bodies exhumed and have the deaths investigated.
Link to the interview with Kiser:
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/08/21/di...ys-florida
Snip of the interview:
Of the many employees the now grown students accuse of torturing and killing boys, only one is alive. A class action suit was brought against Troy Tidwell, but a court found the statute of limitations had run out. That suit was thrown out. And after that an attempt was made to pass a bill in the Florida legislature giving compensation to the victims and their families, but that proposal never made it to a vote.
Another snip of the interview:
YOUNG: Well, and pushed to have Dozier looked at. The state finally agreed to send investigators in. The press found out about these unmarked graves that were on the campus, and the ball starts rolling to where we are today. Investigators found records indicating how people died, 96 people died, all young people except for two adults, disease, trauma, drowning. Seven young boys died trying to escape. One 16-year-old was shot.
Now we have anthropologists from the University of South Florida going to exhume the bodies. What do you hope that they find?
KISER: Well, I know what they're going to find. They're going to find a heck of a lot more bodies than what they think are up there. They're going to find a couple hundred bodies. They're going to find them in the dump. Some bodies they'll never find.
YOUNG: How validating has this been for you?
KISER: I was before the Senate when they made the vote with the governor, and I suppose I went a little numb when they voted, and I knew that the truth was finally going to come out. But what meant a lot to me was we received - after they voted, we received a standing ovation. The policemen stood up, the military people stood up, everybody stood up and clapped.
And it almost brought me to tears because through the years, we have been called nothing but a bunch of liars, a bunch of former juvenile delinquents who were after nothing but money, to put money in our pocket or to sell books. We were called by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement nothing but a bunch of old soldiers who couldn't get their war stories straight.
So that's what meant a lot to me. That was the vindication I got.