Reactions to Dozier Decision: 'Today Somebody Pulled Us Up Out of That Hole'
The excavation will soon begin to unearth the remains of boys believed to have died from alleged abuse at the Dozier School for Boys. The Florida Cabinet today approved the request of USF researchers...
View ArticleUSF Researchers to Dig at Dozier This Weekend
University of South Florida researchers are expected to start digging for human remains buried on the grounds of the Dozier School for Boys at the end of the week. Several families have been waiting...
View ArticleUSF Researchers Receive $423K Federal Grant for Dozier Work
University of South Florida researchers are scheduled to begin exhuming human remains on the grounds of the Dozier School for Boys this weekend. Now comes word that they'll be getting some assistance...
View ArticleDozier Exhumations Finally Begin
University of South Florida researchers began work to exhume dozens of graves Saturday at a former Panhandle reform school in hopes of identifying the boys buried there and learning how they died. USF...
View ArticleSlow Work, but Progress, in Dozier Search
On the second day of an excavation project, University of South Florida researchers worked Sunday on two graves at a former reform school in the Florida Panhandle where students say they were abused...
View ArticleSee Video of Dozier Exhumation Work
USF anthropology assistant professor Erin Kimmerle talked to reporters as exhumations began at the Boot Hill cemetery at the Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, FL Saturday. USF researchers are...
View ArticleNPR's Greg Allen Speaks to USF's Erin Kimmerle about Dozier Exhumations
Researchers have begun exhuming remains from unmarked graves at a now-closed Florida reform school. Former residents of the school say brutal beatings were routine, and they believe many boys died as a...
View ArticleUSF Researchers Finish 1st Phase Of Dozier Exhumations
University of South Florida researchers unearthed the remains of two children buried at a former Panhandle reform school that had a history of extreme abuse, and the bones will be analyzed in hopes of...
View ArticleUSF Researchers Dig for Answers at Dozier, Find More Questions
A shirt button, a plaque saying “at rest” and a stone marble found in what’s believed to have been the coffin of a 6-year-old boy are just some of the almost ten thousand artifacts USF researchers have...
View ArticleDozier Exhumation Request Heads to Pennsylvania Governor
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, is asking the governor of Pennsylvania to have state police there work with a team of Florida researchers investigating the circumstances surrounding a young boy’s...
View ArticleDozier Update: DNA Tests, Facial Composite & A Second Graveyard?
As is fitting for a case that dates back to the early 1900's, progress is slow in coming for researchers looking at the mysteries found on the grounds of the Dozier School for Boys - but it is being...
View ArticleGiving Dozier Victims Their Names Back
Ovell Krell was only 12 years old when her brother died -- but what she remembers most about him was his musical ability. "He could walk into a music store and pick up any instrument they've ever made...
View ArticleTwo More Dozier Families Get Answers
WUSFs Mark Schreiner reports on the latest developments in University of South Florida researchers investigation of graves found at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, FL. In 1934,...
View ArticlePutnam Asks FDLE for Further Dozier Investigation
Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam is asking the head of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to evaluate new findings in the history of students at the former Arthur G. Dozier school for boys....
View ArticleScott, Cabinet Start Talks on Dozier Site Future
Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet began discussions Tuesday on the future of the shuttered Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, a former state-run reform school where children are alleged to have...
View ArticleIn Final Report, Experts Identify Remains At Notorious Reform School
Florida's Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys was a horror tale come to life. "There's just too many stories," Roger Kiser, who was at the school in the 1950s, told NPR in 2012. "I know of one [boy] that...
View ArticleLoose Ends Remain After USF Issues Report on Dozier
University of South Florida researchers presented their final report on the Robert G. Dozier School for Boys to the state cabinet Thursday, and even though this closes one chapter in a lengthy saga, a...
View ArticleWith New Law In Place, Some Look Toward Next Chapter In Dozier Saga
A new Florida law allows the state to pay for the reburial of boys’ remains found on the grounds of the now-defunct Dozier School for Boys as well as helps take care of the unclaimed remains. Some...
View ArticleGov. Scott Signs Bill Into Law Creating Dozier Memorials, Reburying Unclaimed...
Governor Rick Scott has signed a bill into law allowing for the creation of memorials for boys who died from the abuse at the now-closed Dozier School for Boys as well as the abuse survivors.
View ArticleBill Price, One Of Dozier School's 'White House Boys,' Dies
A leader of a group of former students that spoke out about the violence at the Dozier School for Boys has died.
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