audio, stills, text and or video: Go to http://www.zReportage.com to see more - ''A Vietnam vet told me he would rather do another tour than go back to the white house,'' said Robert Straley who was 13 when he entered the Florida School for Boys in the early 1960s. ''There wasn't one of them -- homeless people, drunks, rich people and business people -- who didn't break down and cry. I realized six months ago that you can never go back to Marianna as a man, you only go back as that little boy you were.'' In 2008, after decades of silence, a group of former students went public with stories of physical and sexual abuse in the 1950s and 1960s at the school. As their numbers grew into the hundreds, stories surfaced of classmates who disappeared and of ruthless guards who beat them bloody in a squat building on campus called the White House. The children in unmarked graves at a notorious Florida reform school will finally be allowed to tell their stories.
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May 16, 2012 - Marianna, Florida, U.S. - USF biology Ph.D. student JAMIE GLUVNA, 25, displays a look of shock as she enters a dilapidated former dormitory at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. Gluvna is part of a team from the University of South Florida that is investigating various sites at the now-closed reform school.
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May 16, 2012 - Marianna, Florida, U.S. - University of South Florida graduate anthropology student MEREDITH TISE measures the depth of a trench dug at the site of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys cemetery. Even though there are no headstones or markers near this particular trench, ground-penetrating radar showed anomalies in the soil beneath the surface.
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University of South Florida biology Ph.D. student JAMIE GLUVNA, USF Asst. Professor of Anthropology ERIN KIMMERLE, and Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office crime scene investigators JASON BRANDO and BRANNON DOUGLAS search a desk in an abandoned dormitory at the now-closed Arthur G. Dozier School for boys.
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May 17, 2012 - Marianna, Florida, U.S. - A document discovered in an abandoned building at the now-closed Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys lists the positive benefits of using psyhcotropic drugs to treat juveniles housed at the facility.
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March 27, 2013 - Marianna, Florida, U.S. - Marks on a wall in a building at the now-closed Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys known as ''The White House'' resemble a bloody finger streaks. Many men who were kept at the school as children have said that they were horribly beaten in this building.
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March 27, 2013 - Marianna, Florida, U.S. - University of South Florida Assistant Professor of Anthropology ERIN KIMMERLE tours a building at the now-closed Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys known as ''The White House.''
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March 27, 2013 - Marianna, Florida, U.S. - A discarded book at the now-closed Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys is suggestive of the type of change boys were supposed to undergo at the school. Many men who were kept at the school as children have said that they were horribly abused there and that it scarred them for the rest of their lives.
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March 27, 2013 - Marianna, Florida, U.S. - An empty pantry in the former black dining hall at the now-closed Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.
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March 27, 2013 - Marianna, Florida, U.S. - The dining hall once used for black children at the now-closed Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys is littered with piles of items used while the facility was in operation.
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June 14, 2013 - Tampa, Florida, U.S. - Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office Forensic Investigator JASON BRANDO swabs the inside of OVELL KRELL'S mouth at the University of South Florida. Krell's brother George Owen Smith died at the Dozier School and his remains were never returned to his family.
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June 14, 2013 - Tampa, Florida, U.S. - DNA evidence sits between the feet of Hillsborough County Sheriffs Office Forensic Investigator JASON BRANDO at the University of South Florida. An anthropologist at the University of South Florida, will use the DNA to try to match the remains of boys' bodies at the now-closed reform school with their descendants.
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June 14, 2013 - Tampa, Florida, U.S. - SALLY and RICHARD VARNADOE walk to a press conference at the University of South Florida. Two of Varnadoe's brothers were sent to the Arthur Dozier School for Boys. Only one returned and over the last few years Varnadoe and his relatives have been vocal about wanting their relatives remains returned to them for proper burial. On Friday, relatives of boys who disappeared at the Dozier School for Boys donated DNA samples to help with the current investigations into graves on the school's campus. Dr. Erin Kimmerle, an anthropologist at the University of South Florida, will ultimately use the DNA to try to match the remains of boys' bodies at the now-closed reform school with their descendants. This will allow their relatives to give them proper burial.
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Aug. 30, 2013 - Marianna, Florida, U.S. - University of South Florida Professor of Anthropology Dr. ERIN KIMMERLE walks the grounds of the Boot Hill Cemetery at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. Thirty one metal crosses mark a cemetery on the property, but ground penetrating radar shows 19 possible burial sites that are unmarked.
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University of South Florida PhD student ASHLEY MAXWELL, 27, masters student CRISTINA KELBAUGH, 22, and PhD student MEREDITH TISE, 27, search for markers that indicate grave sites in thick underbrush at the Boot Hill Cemetery at the now-closed Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.
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Aug. 30, 2013 - Marianna, Florida, U.S. - A team of anthropologists from the University of South Florida began making preparations to exhume suspected graves at the now closed Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. Thirty one metal crosses mark a cemetery on the property, but ground penetrating radar shows 19 possible burial sites that are unmarked.
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Aug. 31, 2013 - Marianna, Florida, U.S. - USF assistant professor Dr. ERIN KIMMERLE hugs ELMORE BRYANT on the site of the Boot Hill cemetery.
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Aug. 31, 2013 - Marianna, Florida, U.S. - JOHN DUE, 78, of Atlanta, leaves the Boot Hill Cemetery at the Arthur Dozier School for Boys with his daughter TANANARIVE DUE, 47, after a short memorial ceremony. Due's wife's uncle was Robert Stephens, who died at the school in 1937 when he was stabbed by another student.
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STEVEN BARNES, 61, of Smyrna, Ga., his son JASON DUE-BARNES, 9, wife TANANARIVE DUE, 47, and her father JOHN DUE, 78, of Atlanta, embrace during a memorial ceremony at the Boot Hill cemetery at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. John Due's wife's uncle died at the school in 1937 after he was stabbed by another student.
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Aug. 31, 2013 - Marianna, Florida, U.S. - A team of anthropologists from the University of South Florida began exhuming suspected graves at the now closed Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. Thirty one metal crosses mark a cemetery on the property, but ground penetrating radar shows 19 possible burial sites that are unmarked.
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Aug. 31, 2013 - Marianna, Florida, U.S. - A University of South Florida anthropology student display a human tooth that was discovered late at night in a shallow unmarked grave in the Boot Hill cemetery of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.
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Sept. 1, 2013 - Marianna, Florida, U.S. - University of South Florida student ASHLEY MAXWELL works in an unmarked grave at the Boot Hill cemetery on the campus of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. Anthropologists from the University of South Florida continued exhuming grave sites after discovering human remains buried in an unmarked grave.
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Sept. 1, 2013 - Marianna, Florida, U.S. - Anthropologists from the University of South Florida continued exhuming gravesites at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys after discovering human remains buried in an unmarked grave the night before. The area covered by the trash bag contains skull fragments. The anthropologists are attempting to uncover the rest of the remains.
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Sept. 1, 2013 - Marianna, Florida, U.S. - A fragment of bone is seen with a burial shroud pin in a shallow, unmarked gravesite unearthed by anthropologists from the University of South Florida.
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Sept. 2, 2013 - Marianna, Florida, U.S. - Anthropologists from the University of South Florida removed the first remains from the cemetery at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. For decades, stories of questionable deaths and disappearances of boys have surrounded the closed former reform school.
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JASON BYRD helps University of South Florida assistant professor ERIN KIMMERLE and assistant professor CHRISTIAN WELLS remove remains from the cemetery at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.
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Sept. 2, 2013 - Marianna, Florida, U.S. - University of South Florida Associate Professor CHRISTIAN WELLS cleans away dirt from a coffin handle at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.
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Sept. 3, 2013 - Marianna, Florida, U.S. - JASON BYRD, Commander of the Florida Emergency Mortuary Operations Response System, uses a front-end loader to refill a hole dug to exhume human remains from a grave at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.
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