More DNA sought from remains of possible Tulsa race massacre victims
CBSN
Scientists consulting with a public oversight committee investigating the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre are seeking to identify additional victims of the attacks as part of an ongoing effort to connect them to living descendants. They shared updated recommendations and plans this week to extract more DNA from recently reburied remains and search new sites for additional bodies.
Remains found and exhumed from Oaklawn Cemetery last year and temporarily reburied there will be exhumed again for additional DNA samples in an effort to identify them, according to a report issued Tuesday to the 1921 Graves Investigation Public Oversight Committee.
The remains will then reburied in the same location, according to the report by state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck and forensic anthropologist Phoebe Stubblefield.
