Editor's Note: WBIR is reporting this week on the evolution of the University of Tennessee's Body Farm. This is the first installment. It all started because Dr. Bill Bass needed a place to keep the ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The University of Tennessee announced the Body Farm is getting more than half a million dollars in federal grants to fund two new research projects aimed at helping forensic ...
News of Canada’s first body farm, set to open this spring in Becancour, Que., has inspired a flood of volunteers to donate their eventual remains. The response has been so overwhelming that Shari ...
About an hour north of Tampa, Florida is a plain field, surrounded by a fence. It may look like ordinary land, but the fenced-in area is a burial lot for bodies donated in the name of science. The ...
In 1994, when Patricia Cornwell published her best-selling mystery novel "The Body Farm," few people outside Tennessee had ever heard the term, let alone knew what a "body farm" was. The Body Farm − ...
A University of Tennessee professor is using her Body Farm research to help investigate a pre-Civil Rights-era cold case. Dr. Amy Mundorff is an anthropology professor who pioneered research to find ...
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) -- A professor at the University of Northern Iowa says he still wants to create a body farm where the decomposition of the human body can be studied, he just doesn't have any ...
The U.S. government brought Mexican coroners to America to learn how to detect fatal overdoses, hoping to show that fentanyl kills in Mexico, too. The U.S. government brought Mexican coroners to ...