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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s work is far ...

TORONTO (Reuters Life!) - It's known as the "Body Farm," a three-acre plot of land in Tennessee surrounded by a chain-link fence and filled with more than 1,000 human corpses and skeletons. Sign up ...

The serviceable eighth Body Farm novel (after 2012's The Bones of Avignon) from the writing team of Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson is a prequel. Forensic anthropologist Bass created the world's first ...

Jessica Beihl, the forensic science teacher at Spring Mills High School, created a unique project for her students. In an old flower bed behind the school, she set up what she called a "body farm," ...

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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s work is far from done. There are more murder mysteries left for the medical examiner ...