More coffins found in search for 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre victims

Crews searching a Tulsa cemetery for victims of the 1921 Race Massacre found five more coffins on Thursday, bringing to 20 the number of coffins found at a mass-grave feature there, city officials said. After much of the excavation and analysis is completed this week at Oaklawn Cemetery, city officials say a formal exhumation process is expected to start on Monday.

The search began last year, and researchers in October found at least 12 sets of remains in coffins, although the remains were covered back up for further study at a later date and authorities haven't yet confirmed they are those of massacre victims. State archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck has estimated as many as 30 or more bodies could be in the site.