Researchers get green light to exhume bodies at Fla. reform school

(CBS News) MARIANNA, Fla. -- The governor of Florida and his cabinet have given the go-ahead for researchers to begin a grim project.

Richard Varnadoe

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They will be digging up the grounds of a former reform school in the Panhandle, searching for the remains of boys who were sent to the school between 1900 and the 1950s.

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On the grounds of the school are a series of crosses, a modest tribute to the 96 boys who died in state custody at the Arthur G. Dozier Reform School. Troubled boys from across Florida were sent there, but often never came back.

Richard Varnadoe's 13-year-old brother Thomas was sent to Dozier in 1934. He died a month later.

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