Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science

Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science
by Bill Bass, Jon Jefferson

Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science
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Author: Bill Bass, Jon Jefferson
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2007-09-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: William Morrow

Book Reviews of Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science

Book Review: Must read follow up to Death's Acre
Summary: 5 Stars

I highly recommend this book. It is a great follow up to Death's Acre. I am currently finishing this book (should wrap up over my lunch hour today), but I have read Death's Acre and had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Bass and Mr. Jefferson a few months ago at a book signing for one of their new fiction books. I had actually purchased this book prior to the meeting, but hadn't gotten the opportunity to read it. The authors are just as interesting in person and were gracious enough to sign my book! As an aspiring prosecutor I find the information both interesting and insightful. I have gleaned information about the human body that will help me understand the questions I need to ask of potential law enforcement and other key witnesses to better develop my cases. I hope there will be another nonfiction book by the duo. I recently came back from Tennessee, traveling through some of the areas mentioned in the book- it was an interesting experience. I also highly recommend Teasing Secrets From the Dead- written by Emily Craig, one of Dr. Bass's former students mentioned in this book and Death's Acre. It too is a real treat.

Summary of Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science

There is no scientist in the world like Dr. Bill Bass. A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Bass created the world's first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition-three acres of land on a hillside in Tennessee where human bodies are left to the elements. His research at "the Body Farm" has revolutionized forensic science, helping police crack cold cases and pinpoint time of death. But during a forensics career that spans half a century, Bass and his work have ranged far beyond the gates of the Body Farm. In this riveting book, the bone sleuth explores the rise of modern forensic science, using fascinating cases from his career to take readers into the real world of C.S.I.

Some of Bill Bass's cases rely on the simplest of tools and techniques, such as reassembling-from battered torsos and a stack of severed limbs-eleven people hurled skyward by an explosion at an illegal fireworks factory. Other cases hinge on sophisticated techniques Bass could not have imagined when he began his career: harnessing scanning electron microscopy to detect trace elements in knife wounds; and extracting DNA from a long-buried corpse, only to find that the female murder victim may have been mistakenly identified a quarter-century before.

In Beyond the Body Farm, readers will follow Bass as he explores the depths of an East Tennessee lake with a twenty-first-century sonar system, in a quest for an airplane that disappeared with two people on board thirty-five years ago; see Bass exhume fifties pop star "the Big Bopper" to determine what injuries he suffered in the plane crash that killed three rock and roll legends on "the day the music died"; and join Bass as he works to decipher an ancient Persian death scene nearly three thousand years old. Witty and engaging, Bass dissects the methods used by homicide investigators every day, leading readers on an extraordinary journey into the high-tech science that it takes to crack a case.

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