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| Stela of Skulls: Cheung Ek Killing Fields site, near Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Photo by Adam Jones) |
Excavations at a makeshift graveyard near a now-closed reform school in the Florida Panhandle have yielded remains of 55 bodies, almost twice the number official records say are there, the University of South Florida announced on Tuesday.
"This is precisely why excavation was necessary," said USF professor
Erin Kimmerle, head of the research project. "The only way to truly
establish the facts about the deaths and burials at the school is to
follow scientific processes."
On a hillside in the rolling, tall-pine forests near the
Alabama-Georgia border, a team of more than 50 searchers from nine
agencies last year dug up the graves to check out local legends and
family tales of boys, mostly black, who died or disappeared without
explanation from the Dozier School for Boys early in the last century.
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