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Even if the 27 anomalies don’t end up being human remains, ground-penetrating radar will map the entire campus to end the speculation once and for all.
The Department of State, which has closed the site to the public, anticipates the latest investigation could take six months to a year. The resumption of fieldwork was announced last month.
Ummppfff, this sounds like a setting for a horror movie. Beating a 16 year old to death X 40 or more?? I've heard that "reform schools" were very tuff places, especially back in the 1940's and -5o's, but not deaths even then. Am I that naive?
Many thanks, @stygianowl, for the article. Absolutely chilling. SMH. I am still having a tuff time getting myself to breathe at a normal rate.
bbmI dread what they will find !!
Appalling for that one family who opened their son's coffin, to find boards inside and no body.
What was that "school" hiding ?
I don't consider a lot of these kids really bad kids. Most of them were runaways running away from a bad home life or truancy. Some were as young as 6 years old. Unbelievable how a little six year old could be sent to reform school in our country.
>>>> rsbm <<<<
I pray that The White House Boys get all of this exposed once and for all. They have fought a long honorable fight. None of these boys should be buried there at this house of horrors. They either need to be returned to their families or a special cemetery should be made just for them so they can finally rest in peace.
May the truth finally come to light.
I would think a lot of those bones would be fragmented -- because the boys' spines, arms, legs, knees, you-name-it would have been horribly broken during those horrible and probably frequent beatings. And I don't see those ba****ds taking the time to separate the bones from one boy to the proper boy's grave for burial. OTOH, I would think that some boys' sets of bones would not be totally destroyed, and those bones would be essentially in one grave.BBM
I find the bolded statement odd. Why would the bones be fragmented if they were interned right after they died? Had the bones been fragmented or fractured before death I wonder?
Scientists have found bodies that were centuries old and the full skeletons were still intact.
IMO
After reading these posts I am sick!!! What is it with Florida and not identifying people? I know from our own experiences how tightly they circle the wagons and I am hoping this time they are forced to identify every body that is buried there. Oh those poor poor children..............
Wikipedia
Marianna - City in Florida
Description
Marianna is a city in Jackson County, Florida, United States. The population was 6,102 at the 2010 census. In 2017 the estimated population was 7,293. It is the county seat of Jackson County and is home to Chipola College. The official nickname of Marianna is "The City of Southern Charm".
^^^^^Marianna is about 80 miles from my hometown & in the late 50s & maybe early 60s I remember our family going to the "Florida Boys School" to see the Christmas decorations. The residents worked year-round to build elaborate displays through which there was a driving tour. What happens behind the closed gates of such a facility can be very different from the public image.
I doubt Florida is the only state where there was abuse in institutions. However, just 25 miles east of Marianna is the state mental hospital in Chattahoochee. There was a book & 1989 movie "Chattahoochee", about horrific mistreatment of patients who were caged, unclothed & unwashed, just occasionally hosed down by firehoses.... worse conditions than anyone would tolerate for animals.
Isn't it frightening how inhumane people can be? It's too late for those in charge to be made accountable.... most are dead. Financial compensation to former residents can do little to repay their scarred lives now, but I think having the abuse exposed will validate their pain & help them to move forward.
Sad, sad, sad!