Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1994, when Patricia Cornwell published her best-selling mystery novel "The Body Farm," few people outside Tennessee had ever ...

Research at body farms—research facilities dedicated to studying what happens to human bodies after death—supplies law enforcement with valuable information about the process of decomposition in ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mexican forensic officials practice excavating a grave at the University of Tennessee's Forensic Anthropology Center, better known ...

“Wait, let me get this straight,” my 14-year old said. “Your naked body would just rot on the ground? No thank you!” This might actually be a teenager’s ...

These simple words, followed by an office and a home phone number, usher one into the quiet landscape beyond it: a couple acres of nondescript, fenced-in land, and in the distance a shed, an abandoned ...

Editor's Note: WBIR is reporting this week on the evolution of the University of Tennessee's Body Farm. This is the third installment. The bones can tell you what happened. They offer clues about who ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Editor's Note: WBIR is reporting this week on the evolution of the University of Tennessee's Body Farm. This is the fourth installment. Look beyond the queasy nature of the place ...

Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s work is far from done. There are more murder mysteries left for the medical examiner to solve, and she’ll put her deductive skills to the test in Scarpetta season 2. The Prime ...

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