The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys was a well-guarded secret in Florida for over a century until reports of cruelty, abuse, and unexplained deaths shut the institution down in 2011. Established in 1900, the juvenile reform school accepted children as young as five years of age for crimes as harmless as truancy or trespassing. The boys sent there, many of whom were Black, were subject to abuse, routinely hired out to local farmers by the school's management as indentured laborers, and died either at the school or while attempting to escape its brutal conditions. In the wake of the school's shutdown, Erin Kimmerle, a leading forensic anthropologist, stepped in to investigate the graveyard on its grounds to determine the number of graves and begin the process of reuniting the boys with their families through DNA testing. The school's poorly kept accounting suggested some thirty-one boys were buried among the rusty pipe crosses in a remote field on the property. The real number was nearly twice that. Kimmerle's work did not go unnoticed. There were those who sought to obstruct her efforts in their eagerness to suppress the truth as she was caught in the media and political headwinds around the case.