Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales by William M. Bass, Jon Jefferson

Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales

William M. Bass, Jon Jefferson

345 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction science true crime informative slow-paced
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In 1981 Dr William Bass founded the Anthropology Research facility at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, the world's only laboratory devoted to the study of human corpses. This is his personal account of the real Body Farm.

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