No bodies found yet in search for Tulsa massacre victims

 


TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Archaeologists resumed searching a Tulsa cemetery on Tuesday but found no signs of human remains from victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, state Archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck said.

The search of Tulsa's Oaklawn Cemetery had thus far turned up only common household items such as broken bottles, in addition to a shell casing that is likely not related to the massacre, Stackelbeck said.

"I know that anything to do with firearms is going to be of interest," but "shell casings ar going to something that is found at the scene of the crime, not the scene of the burial," Stack...



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