Dr. Bill Bass was a leading anthropologist that found his love for the science after helping identify a woman who had been burned, buried, then exhumed exposing a leaking casket. As time went on his big mistake in time of death lead to the burning question. How to determine time of death. What can we learn from decomposition. Ultimately all roads led to the creation of a body farm. Advancing science to what we know today.

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1. Bass, Will; Jefferson, Jon. Death’s Acre. Inside the legendary forensic lab the body farm where the dead to tell tales

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