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The Body Farm
Veteran journalist Jon Jefferson, who lives in Tennessee, wrote and produced a two-part documentary about "death's acre" for the National Geographic Society entitled, "Biography of a Corpse," and "Anatomy of a Corpse." In Part One, he shows what happens to a single body from the moment it arrives at the facility to the final boxing of the bones. Then in "Anatomy of a Corpse," he features several professionals who have studied with Bass or have used the Body Farm's facilities for carrying on their own area of expertise. Steve Symes, for example, was an anthropologist on staff for the Memphis, Tennessee Medical Examiner's Office at the time of the filming, who received his training under Bass's direction. A top bone trauma specialist, he can tell from a "signature" left on bone what kind of sharp-bladed implement might have been used, from knives to tree saw to chainsaws.
Jefferson, a documentary film-maker for such networks as A&E, the History Channel, and the National Geographic Channel, had previously worked as a staff science writer at Oak Ridge National
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William M. Bass
American forensic anthropologist
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William Marvin Bass III (born August 30, 1928) is an American forensic anthropologist, best known for his research on human osteology and human decomposition. He has also assisted federal, local, and non-U.S. authorities in the identification of human remains. He taught at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and founded the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, the first such facility in the world. The facility is more popularly known as "The Body Farm", a name used by crime author Patricia Cornwell in a novel of the same name,[2] which drew inspiration from Bass and his work. Bass has also described the body farm as "Death's Acre" – the title of the book on his life and career, co-written with journalist Jon Jefferson. Jefferson and Bass, under the pen name "Jefferson Bass", have also written several fictional works: Carved In Bone, Flesh and Bone, The Devil's Bones, Bones of Betrayal, The Bone Thief, The Bone Yard, The Inquisitor's Key, Cu AGD Speaker Program Copyright ©dewpant.pages.dev 2025•
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"World-renowned forensic anthropologist Bill Bass is the founder and former director of the University of Tennessee's Forensic Anthropology Center (FAC), known colloquially as The Body Farma two-acre compound where human remains are left to decay in various natural and controlled environments. At the FACthe world's only laboratory devoted to the study of human decompositionBass's research has helped crime scene investigators determine, among myriad other details, the cause and time of death in cases where police are working with victims' skeletal remains. His research has also yielded unexpected resultsfor example, Bass found that the smell of cancer victims' corpses is distinctly different from the scent of victims of other natural causes, and that maggots feeding on the body of recreational drug users can be chemically distinguished from maggots feeding on abstainers. Along with Jon Jefferson, Bass is the author the New York Times best-selling Body Farm mystery novels, the latest of which is The Inqui