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

4.0

This book makes clear exactly how little we knew about the human decomposition process prior to the founding of the Body Farm. Bass walks the reader through the series of scenarios in his career that led up to the final founding of the facility. He also details the kinds of discoveries made through research there, and some of the controversies that arose from different groups that disagreed with some of the circumstances of the research and location.

Death's Acre was fascinating, and gruesome in a scientific way. I ripped through it in a day. It's a must-read for anybody interested in the science of forensic anthropology.