(WTXL) - University of South Florida Researchers are expected to appear at a news conference Thursday to o announce the identification of two sets of remains found at the site of a former northwest Florida reform school.
Researchers said last month they had identified the remains of George Owen Smith, who went to the Arthur G. Dozier school for boys in 1940.
U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, who helped get U.S. Department of Justice funding for DNA research, is expected to take part in the news conference on Thursday.
University researchers began digging for remains last year at the site of the former reform school, which operated for decades in the Jackson county community of Marianna.
