TAMPA, FLORIDA—The first set of remains of the children buried at the notorious Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys has been identified. Records from the reform school, which closed in 2011, listed only 31 burials on the property, but additional graves were found under roads and overgrown trees, away from the crosses that marked the recorded graves. George Owen Smith was 14 years old when he disappeared from the school in 1940. His remains, wrapped in a shroud and buried in an unmarked grave, were identified through a DNA match to his sister. “We may never know the full circumstances of what happened to Owen or why his case was handled the way it was. But we do know that he now will be buried under his own name and beside family members who longed for answers,” Erin Kimmerle of the University of South Florida told CBS News.
