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DNA experts at UNT Health Science Center announced this week that they had identified the remains of a 14-year-old boy buried more than 70 years ago at a now-closed reform school in Florida.

It is one of the oldest DNA associations ever made at UNTHSC and the first positive ID made from 55 sets of human remains excavated from unmarked graves at the now-closed Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Fla.

Media coverage of the identification:

• WFAA-TV Remains from Fla. mass grave identified thanks to UNT Health Science Center work

• Star-Telegram Health science center team IDs remains from Florida reformatory

• CBS 11 Remains identified from Florida school by UNTHSC scientists

• KERA-FM (NPR) Fort Worth experts identify first remains from Dozier boys school graves

• CNN Boy missing since 1940 ID’d at shuttered Florida boys school

• Tampa Bay Times First remains from Dozier graves identified as 14-year-old boy

• WJXT-TV (Jacksonville, Fla.) Researchers ID boy buried at Dozier School for Boys in 1940

• CW 33 Bodies of evidence: UNT researchers ID school of horror remains

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