On a hillside in the rolling,
tall-pine forests near the Alabama-Georgia border, a team of more than
50 searchers from nine agencies last year dug up the graves to check out
local legends and family tales of boys, mostly black, who died or
disappeared without explanation from the Dozier School for Boys early in
the last century.
The school, infamous for accounts of brutality told by former inmates, was closed by the state in 2011.
The University of South Florida was commissioned to look into deaths at
the school in the Panhandle city of Marianna, after the Florida
Department of Law Enforcement announced the presence of 31 official
grave sites in 2010.
Have the movie flash back and forth between modern times and the turn of the century as clues are slowly put together. In any case I hope they find out how those 55 people died because it sounds like a serial killer to me.
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I was there in 53-54. Thought I had come to a good place and would be taught and protected. It is now 62 years later and I still suffer from the abuse. I imagine a person might pick at random just about any man who was there when I was and you will get the same tale. Beatings at a wholesale rate. Just look at a man wrong, don't look at him any kind of way. Not answer in the correct tone of voice, or not answer loud enough, or answer too loud. It seems that there were a few employees who were always looking to 'low grade' a boy and that meant he would be beat on Saturday, after shaking and dreading it all week. Then if it was unbearable and the boy raised up on the cot or looked at the man beating him, the man would stop and start all over again. The beatings were brutal and would often injure a person for life. I am willing to take a lie detector test about my experiences in that awful place. It is almost impossible to make the tale worse than it was. I believe the cadaver dogs will find bodied of small children scattered all over the institution's property, unless every trace has been eaten by animals and insects. The smaller children were easier to mistreat and also might die from a blow a teen might survive. I could write a book about the place. In fact I did and it is called THE ICE CREAM FACTORY aka THE WHITE HOUSE and is available on Amazon. God bless all us survivors and also the ones who didn't walk away.
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