Exhumations will resume; effort to identify victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre
Starting on Wednesday, some of the 19 bodies removed from a Tulsa cemetery and later reburied, which may contain the remains of those who perished in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, will be exhumed once again in an effort to collect additional DNA for potential identification. A second dig for more remains will be conducted after the most recent exhumation of corpses, some of which were removed from Oaklawn Cemetery in northeastern Oklahoma City last year. According to municipal spokeswoman Michelle Brooks, “there were 14 of the 19 (corpses) that meet the threshold for additional DNA analysis.” “These will be re-exhumed,” the person said. Intermountain Forensics in Salt Lake City, Utah, received the 14 sets of remains in an effort to identify them. Two sets, according to Brooks, have enough DNA to start the sequencing process. How many of the 14 will be dug up again isn’t yet known, according to Brooks. The bodies will be reburied in Oaklawn, the site of the first rebur...