Graves Identified at Boys Reform School

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'A five-month Florida state investigation has found no evidence to support claims by former students of a state boys reform school that students were killed by abusive staff members or that the school covered up student deaths.
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The state investigation found that most of the 31 graves were filled with teens or staff who died in a 1914 dormitory fire, from an influenza epidemic or from other accidents. One student was murdered by a group of other students in 1944 after he learned of an escape plan, the report said. Five people, who were buried between 1919 and 1925, had no listed cause of death, the investigation found.
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But, several former students said they were not convinced by the report. One man who says he buried a friend of his when they were both at the school in the 1950s said he does not believe that school officials were not involved in the boy's death.
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Officials at the school and the state Department of Juvenile Justice have not disputed that some abuse took place and recently dedicated a memorial to the White House Boys.

"The beatings were ungodly. I thought they were going to kill me," Roger Kiser, who said he was sent to the reform school from an orphanage in late 1958, said in an earlier interview with ABC News. "They would beat you for anything."'