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Author: Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson, foreword Patricia Cornwell
Edition: Hardcover October 2003 (320 pages)
ISBN: 0399151346
Publisher: Penguin
Price: $15.72
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Nowhere is there another lab like Dr. Bass's on a hillside in Tennessee, human bodies decompose in the open air, aided by insects, bacteria, and birds, unhindered by coffins or mausoleums. At the Body Farm nature takes its course with corpses buried in shallow graves, submerged in water, locked in trunks of cars. As scientific stand-ins for murder victims, they serve the needs of science-and the cause of justice.
For thirty years, Dr. Bass's research has revolutionized the field of forensic science, particularly by pinpointing time since death in murder cases. In his riveting book, he investigates real cases and leads readers on an unprecedented journey behind the locked gates of the Body Farm. A master scientist and engaging storyteller, Bass shares his most intriguing cases his revisit of the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder fifty years later; the mystery of a headless corpse, whose identity astonished police; the telltale bugs that finally sent a murderous grandfather to death row and many more.
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