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 ...

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 − ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The world-famous Body Farm – part of the Forensic Anthropology Center at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville – is getting federal funding to help law enforcement find hidden graves and study ...

GARY -- A Gary police investigator is taking part in a nationally acclaimed training course for evidence collection as crime scenes. Cheryl A. Stanley is attending the National Forensic Academy in ...

The CSI TV shows are among the most watched in the world. But forensic science is hitting a little close to home for some Texas property owners, who oppose plans for a nearby “body farm,” where ...

Reader question: Did Fox Valley Technical College ever create a cold-weather body farm? Answer: FVTC's intent to create an all-season body farm at its $34.8 million Public Safety Training Center in ...

Together, the duo write under the name Jefferson Bass, and have published two nonfiction books about the body farm, as well as six fictional tomes about a forensic scientist who solves murder cases, ...