Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
Language: English
Published by Berkley, 2022
- Softcover
- New
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- Title
- Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
- Author
- Bass, William; Jefferson, Jon
- Publisher
- Berkley
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0593441389
- ISBN 13
- 9780593441381
On a patch of land in the Tennessee hills, human corpses decompose in the open air, aided by insects, bacteria, and birds, unhindered by coffins or mausoleums. This is Bill Bass’s “Body Farm,” where nature takes its course as bodies buried in shallow graves, submerged in water, or locked in car trunks serve the needs of science and the cause of justice.
In Death’s Acre, Bass invites readers on an unprecedented journey behind the gates of the Body Farm where he revolutionized forensic anthropology. A master scientist and an engaging storyteller, Bass reveals his most intriguing cases for the first time. He revisits the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder, explores the mystery of a headless corpse whose identity astonished police, divulges how the telltale traces of an insect sent a murderous grandfather to death row—and much more.
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About the Author
Jon Jefferson is a veteran journalist, science writer, and documentary filmmaker. His writing has been featured by The New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, and Popular Science.
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