19 unmarked graves found at Florida boys' reform school where students were 'beaten with leather straps, raped and murdered'

Scientists have discovered 19 previously unknown grave shafts on the grounds of a Florida boys' school where students were allegedly brutally beaten with leather straps, raped and murdered. A cemetery at Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida holds 31 white crosses - some for children who died in a fire and influenza outbreak in the early 1900s - yet researchers have found 50 shafts. In total, scientists believe as many as 96 boys died between 1911 and the 1973 at the infamous state reform school in the Florida Panhandle, with many of the burials going undocumented. And there could be even more victims: Researchers do not have access to records after 1960 because of privacy laws, and overgrowth on the grounds has hindered them from full searches.

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