Exhumations resume for DNA to ID Tulsa Race Massacre victims

Some of the 19 bodies exhumed for testing in an effort to identify victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and then reburied in an Oklahoma cemetery will be removed again starting Wednesday to gather more DNA.
The latest exhumations of bodies, some of which were taken last year from Oaklawn Cemetery, will be followed by another excavation for additional remains.
City spokesperson Michelle Brooks said, “There were 14 of the 19 that fit the criteria for further DNA analysis. These are the ones that will be re-exhumed.”
The 14 sets of remains were sent to Intermountain Forensics in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Brooks said two sets have enough DNA recovered to begin sequencing.
Brooks said, it wasn’t immediately clear how many of the 14 will be exhumed a second time.