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Author:

Bass, William M., 1928-

Title:

Death's acre : inside the legendary forensic lab the Body Farm where the dead do tell tales Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson ; foreword by Patricia Cornwell.

Publisher:

Putnam

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xii, 304 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Body, Human--Identification.
Crime laboratories--Tennessee.
Forensic anthropology--Tennessee.
Forensic anthropology--United States.
Human skeleton--Identification.

Other Authors:

Jefferson, Jon.

Notes:

Foreword / Patricia Cornwell -- 1. The Bones of the Eaglet -- 2. Dead Indians and Dam Engineers -- 3. Bare Bones: Forensics 101 -- 4. The Unsavory Uncle -- 5. The Case of the Headless Corpse -- 6. The Scene of the Crime -- 7. Death's Acre: The Body Farm Is Born -- 8. A Bug for Research -- 9. Progress and Protest -- 10. Fat Sam and Cadillac Joe -- 11. Grounded in Science -- 12. The Zoo Man Murders -- 13. Parts Unknown -- 14. Art Imitates Death -- 15. More Progress, More Protest -- 16. The Backyard Barbecue -- 17. The Not-So-Accidental Tourist -- 18. The Bloody Beneficiary -- 19. Ashes to Ashes -- 20. And When I Die. Includes index.

ISBN:

9780425198322
0425198324

Locations:

YIPB062 -- Shellsburg Public Library (Shellsburg)