The Freeman Ranch is part of Texas State University’s Forensic Anthropology Research Facility (FARF). The “body farm” at ...

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. In 1994, when Patricia Cornwell published her best-selling mystery novel "The Body Farm," few people outside Tennessee had ever ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The University of Tennessee announced the Body Farm is getting more than half a million dollars in federal grants to fund two new research projects aimed at helping forensic ...

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 ...

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Putting together a podcast is a lot more organic than you might think. You have an idea, and then that idea percolates in your brain giving birth to more ideas or new paths you might explore. This is ...

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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 ...

In 1994, when Patricia Cornwell published her best-selling mystery novel "The Body Farm," few people outside Tennessee had ever heard the term, let alone knew what a "body farm" was. The Body Farm − ...