The Dozier School for Boys

Forensics, Survivors, and a Painful Past

Media Type:Audiobook
Genre(s):Drama
Social Issues
Narrator(s):Steve Wojtas
ISBN:9781666565812
Publish Date:12/31/2019
Run Time:2 Hours, 43 Minutes
Language:English
Publisher:Dreamscape Media

Audiobook

Some true crimes reveal themselves in bits and pieces over time. One such case is the Florida School for Boys, a.k.a. the Dozier School, a place where—rather than reforming the children in their care—school officials tortured, raped, and killed them. Opened in 1900, the school closed in 2011 after a Department of Justice investigation substantiated allegations of routine beatings and killings made by about one-hundred survivors. Thus far, forensic anthropologist Dr. Erin Kimmerle and her team from the University of South Florida have uncovered fifty-five sets of human remains. Follow this story of institutional abuse, the brave survivors who spoke their truth, and the scientists and others who brought it to light.