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 ...

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 ...

Mexican forensic officials practice excavating a grave at the University of Tennessee's Forensic Anthropology Center, better known as the Body Farm. (Kate Linthicum / Los Angeles Times) On a chilly ...

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Recently, human bones were sent to the Knox County Regional Forensic Center after an off-trail hiker found the remains at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Park rangers said the remains ...

That's a question the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Anthropological Research Facility—better known as the Body Farm—hopes to find out. Research at the Body Farm, where donated bodies are ...

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 − ...

Editor's Note: WBIR is reporting this week on the evolution of the University of Tennessee's Body Farm. This is the third installment. The bones can tell you what happened. They offer clues about who ...

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 ...

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 ...