Boy missing since 1940 ID'd story has come after a long wait from the missing boy's now 85-year-old sister. The boy had been missing for over 70 years, according to The Examiner. He will finally be reunited once again with his parents, even though it would be from their graves since it's only now that the boy missing since 1940 ID'd happened.
According to Bayou Buzz News on Aug. 9, the boy missing since 1940 ID'd was back then sent to the notorious Arthur G. Dozier School for boys for stealing a car when he was 14.
The boy missing since 1940 ID'd happened as according to WFLA, researchers from the University of South Florida announced the new development on Thursday.
Apparently, the USF group of researchers have been long working to identify other remains found at the old school in the Florida panhandle, including the boy missing since 1940 ID'd.
Reports say that over the years, former students and families have already complained and made allegations of abuse done by the institution.
Because of the story of the boy missing since 1940 ID'd, the school's notorious past was once again brought to light. It has been through the hard work of USF researchers and archaeologists that all this has been possible. They have been hard at work digging the grounds and hoping to identify the bodies in the graves filled with boys who died at the school.
The boy missing since 1940 ID'd is George Owen Smith.
Nicknamed by his family as Owen, he was 14 years old when the school told his family that he ran away and was found dead under a house, reports WFLA. Unfortunately, the grave that the school showed them was unmarked, therefore Owen's death had never been registered - probably until now.
Parents of the boy missing since 1940 ID'd was told that the boy had run away and that he was found dead of pneumonia after he allegedly hid under a vacant house in town.
Ovell Krell, sister of the boy missing since 1940 ID'd, said she never believed for once, that those claims had been true and that her brother had died of pneumonia, reports Click On Detroit news site.
The Examiner said that the team doing the excavation is led by Erin Kimmerle, a forensic anthropologist from the University of South Florida. In 2012, Kimmerle led a team that unearthed the remains where the boy missing since 1940 ID'd had been found.
Reports say Owen's body was found by the team last month. The boy missing since 1940 ID'd was the first individual to be pulled out of the ground.
Kimmerle said, 'We hope it's the first of many identifications to come.'
According to the USF, the remains of the boy were found in a hastily-buried grave, and that he was positively identified by DNA match through his sister in Polk County.
Apparently, while they were still alive, Krell promised her parents that she would not lose hope searching for her brother. According to CNN News, she also promised to bury him with her parents if he was dead.
Krell said after learning his brother, boy missing since 1940 ID'd, 'I was totally dumbstruck.'
Krell had been waiting for over 73 years to find him. Meanwhile, Krell described Kimmerle as her guardian angel.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday at the announcement, 'All she wanted was to find her big brother.'
The Examiner reports that Krell was one of many families that offered up their DNA trying to find a match to the remains of their family members.
Boy missing since 1940 ID'd, and up to now, it's still unclear as to how Smith had died.
Kimmerle began the dig in hopes of identifying all the boys remains who were put in the graves decades ago without informing their families and friends.
According to The Examiner, the Dozier School for Boys closed in 2011 because of financial issues. Still it closed and left with it a 111-year legacy of brutality.
Boy missing since 1940 ID'd and along with it, the team also found 55 graves which had been buried under 31 rusty white crosses in the field around the buildings.
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