90: LOST & FOUND: New York’s secret mass grave site | Dark History with Bailey Sarian
Dark History
The AIDS Epidemic in New York City
In 1981, AIDS hit New York City and it was a very similar story. When people died of AIDS, even the coroners and morticians didn't want to touch them. So they turned to the one place they knew they could bury people no matter what. The first documented burial on Heart Island of people who died of complications from AIDS happened in 1985. They were buried at the furthest possible point in the island, away and quarantined from all the other bodies.
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