Some true crimes reveal themselves in bits and pieces over time. One such case is the Florida School for Boys a.k.a. the Dozier School a place where?rather than reforming the children in their care?school officials tortured raped and killed them. Opened in 1900 the school closed in 2011 after a Department of Justice investigation substantiated allegations of routine beatings and killings made by about one-hundred survivors. Thus far forensic anthropologist Dr. Erin Kimmerle and her team from the University of South Florida have uncovered fifty-five sets of human remains.
Follow this story of institutional abuse the brave survivors who spoke their truth and the scientists and others who brought it to light.