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A forensic anthropologist believes the recent discovery of 19 surnames possibly connected to human remains in a Tulsa cemetery may help identify victims of the 1921 Race Massacre.
"We get closer to figuring out who was buried in that cemetery and when," said forensic anthropologist Phoebe Stubblefield.
Tulsa's search for graves of 192 Race Massacre victims takes a step forward. On Wednesday, Mayor G.T. Bynum announced that the remains of six people exhumed at Oaklawn Cemetery have yielded DNA profiles traceable to people currently alive.
A forensic anthropologist believes investigators are a step closer to identifying victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
The work is part of a years-long effort to get an accurate count of how many people were killed when a white mob decimated the city's prosperous Greenwood enclave, leaving upward of 300 people dead.