The Official White House Boys Organization. TAMPA BAY TIMESCRIME & COURTS Lingering question from Dozier school report: What to do with remains. University of South Florida researchers found the remains of 5. Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna. By Jeff Schweers. Tribune/Naples Daily News Capital Bureau Published: January 2. Updated: January 2. AMScott OKs bill to pay for Dozier school reburials. TALLAHASSEE — A University of South Florida team of anthropologists has dug up its last body at the former Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, but the task of identifying them all and finding their surviving family members could take years. Also ahead are questions of what to do with the bodies that haven’t been identified, what kind of memorial to build for the boys of Dozier, getting state money to help with the burials, and deciding what to do with the land, which turns out to be laced with contaminants.“We are finished with the field work and lab work, but we are still working on some identification issues,” said Erin Kimmerle, a University of South Florida forensic anthropologist who began the project of finding and identifying the bodies at the 1,4. Kimmerle delivered the team’s final report to the Florida Cabinet on Thursday, presenting Gov. Rick Scott, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater and Agricultural Commissioner Adam Putnam with photographs and artifacts of the dig.“I don’t think it takes an act of the Legislature to say what needs saying, but I’m really sorry for what those boys endured as wards of the state,” Putnam said. Also at the hearing were Marianna and Jackson County officials and civic leaders, relatives of former inmates, and members of the White House Boys — a group of former inmates at Dozier who get their name from a building where they were taken to be whipped. Putnam encouraged them all to get together with the Departments of State and Environmental Protection to come up with an appropriate memorial.“We need to remember these victims and have an opportunity to heal by doing something with that property,” he said. Over three years, a team that included more than 1. Boot Hill Burial Ground, marked by 3. They found 5. 1 bodies, but three were charred too present any usable DNA remains, Kimmerle said. To identify the remains, the USF team exhausted every credible lead, all developed by examining ledgers, talking to witnesses and pursuing stories, Kimmerle said.“At this point, we have gone down all those different paths and have no more information to say we need to look here,” she said. The relatives include Robert Stephens, whose paternal nephew was traced to Tampa. The three other bodies are pending “repatriation,” Kimmerle said, including the two most recently identified — Loyd Dutton of Lee County and Grady Huff of St. Dutton, who died in 1. About The Boy Scouts of America is one of the nation's largest and most prominent values-based youth development organizations. The BSA provides a program for young people that builds character, trains them in the responsibilities of participating citizenship, and. Dallas Cowboys Schedule, News, Roster and Stats. On the bye week, we can’t plug in new numbers for Dak and Zeke, so it seemed like a fun exercise to compare their current pace against the best quarterback and running back rookie seasons of the. Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt . Official site includes news, biographies, contact information, photo galleries, tour dates, discography, interviews, links, video and sound files, games, fan club, and message board. DNA sample found, she said. Investigators traced his DNA to a great grand- nephew. His time of death coincided with an influenza outbreak at the school, but the cause of death is unknown. Huff died in 1. 93. Dozier. They matched his DNA remains to a maternal cousin and three other cousins.“We don’t even know who these children are except through scientific and DNA analysis,” said Jerry Cooper, president of the White House Boys. Thomas first worked with the USF anthropologist on a 2. Plant City. Kimmerle identified the body as missing lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigated the Panhandle reform school in 2. Boot Hill were all accounted for and were not victims of foul play. The school was shut down in 2. Kimmerle and her team found otherwise. Assembled with the financial assistance of the Legislature, the USF provost’s office, the National Institute of Justice, and private donations, the team set out to locate and identify missing children buried at the 1,4. Dozier campus. The team found 2. They need to continue to search,” said Peggy Marx of Lake City, widow of Frank Marx, one of the White House Boys. Some died in the 1. Family members and former students who are now adults have said for decades that children were killed by guards or disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Andrew Puel, who co- authored several books with Roger Dean Kiser, founder of the White House Boys, told the Cabinet about an inmate who worked in the kitchen and saw a boy chased into the woods by an employee who drew his pistol and shot the boy. The USF investigation didn’t address those reports. A lack of documentation and incomplete records made proving cause of death nearly impossible, researchers said, and “many questions persist about who is buried at the school and the circumstances surrounding their deaths.”The investigation also found that three- quarters of the unnamed missing children were African- American. Back in the late 1960s, Mr. Henry, a turkey insemination expert, became partners with T. Johnson, the larger-than-life owner of this ranch. With the government’s blessing, the rancher was running a for-profit program that took in young men from state institutions. Ed Narain, D- Tampa, to preserve records, archives, artifacts and other historical resources, maintain a memorial to the victims, and provide money to help families to reinter the bodies of their loved ones once they are identified. USF anthropology professor Christian Wells, the lead archaeologist on the investigative team, said soil samples uncovered a potentially deadly chemical contamination on the Dozier campus. His samples found traces of mercury, lead, arsenic and asbestos.“Some portions of the campus could be very unhealthy and needs an environmental assessment,” Wells said. The cabinet, sitting as the Internal Improvement Trust Fund, needs to decide how to move forward, said Jon Steverson, secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection. The ball may be in DEP’s court next.“It seems like the direction was to take a look at the environmental situation,” said David Clark, director of the department’s Office of Cabinet Affairs.
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