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. Mexican forensic officials practice excavating a grave at the University of Tennessee's Forensic Anthropology Center, better known ...

The elderly woman was sprawled on her back in the dirt, head resting to one side, elbows bent as though she was about to prop herself up. Dead three months now, her face was no longer recognizable.

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 ...

Everybody dies. When it's our time to go, some of us will be embalmed, buried, some cremated. There's a place at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where bodies still tell stories long after ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Editor's Note: WBIR is reporting this week on the evolution of the University of Tennessee's Body Farm. This is the fourth installment. Look beyond the queasy nature of the place ...

This article is part of “Solutionaries,” our continuing commitment to solutions journalism, highlighting the creative people in communities working to make the world a better place, one solution at a ...

Research at body farms—research facilities dedicated to studying what happens to human bodies after death—supplies law enforcement with valuable information about the process of decomposition in ...

Canada’s first-ever “body farm” — a research facility for scientists to study decomposition — is slated to open in the spring. The outdoor body farm in the Quebec city of Becancour will be a place for ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — On a chilly fall morning here in eastern Tennessee, Raul Robles crouched alongside an open grave, surveying the bones his team had just unearthed. He was unusually relaxed, bobbing ...