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The world's first human decomposition laboratory
Founded “Body Farm”
The Amazing Records of a Forensic Anthropologist
On a farm in Tennessee, human corpses decompose outdoors, undisturbed, with the help of insects, bacteria and scavengers.
This is the 'Body Farm', the world's first research institute dedicated to studying the natural processes of decomposition, whether buried in shallow graves, submerged in water, or stuffed in car trunks, for the sake of science and justice.
This book is a fascinating non-fiction piece that follows the author's experiences over 50 years, as he founded a body farm and developed the field of forensic anthropology from a mere "bone detective."
People often have life-changing experiences from chance choices.
The author of this book, Dr. William Bass, also majored in counseling and dreamed of becoming a counselor, but a liberal arts anthropology class he took purely for fun turned his life around 180 degrees.
At the suggestion of an anthropology professor, he was so fascinated by the process of identifying victims using burned and broken bones and solving long-standing cold cases that he ended up changing his major to anthropology.
Since then, the author has helped solve hundreds of cases for law enforcement agencies ranging from small-town sheriffs to the FBI by exhuming over 5,000 Native American remains, identifying the remains of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping that made headlines around the world, and identifying the remains of those who were murdered, buried, or dismembered in secret.
The book's greatest virtue is that, through the author's sad and wonderful experiences, we learn about the newly pioneered fields of forensic anthropology, such as bone anatomy, forensic entomology, and the study of human decomposition, and the development of research into the type of death, the elapsed time since death, and the circumstances of death experienced by deceased people.
Additionally, after reading the author's description of bone anatomy and the skeletal illustrations in the appendix, readers will also gain a forensic 'culture' that will enable them to determine the age, race, gender, and height of the victim.
Founded “Body Farm”
The Amazing Records of a Forensic Anthropologist
On a farm in Tennessee, human corpses decompose outdoors, undisturbed, with the help of insects, bacteria and scavengers.
This is the 'Body Farm', the world's first research institute dedicated to studying the natural processes of decomposition, whether buried in shallow graves, submerged in water, or stuffed in car trunks, for the sake of science and justice.
This book is a fascinating non-fiction piece that follows the author's experiences over 50 years, as he founded a body farm and developed the field of forensic anthropology from a mere "bone detective."
People often have life-changing experiences from chance choices.
The author of this book, Dr. William Bass, also majored in counseling and dreamed of becoming a counselor, but a liberal arts anthropology class he took purely for fun turned his life around 180 degrees.
At the suggestion of an anthropology professor, he was so fascinated by the process of identifying victims using burned and broken bones and solving long-standing cold cases that he ended up changing his major to anthropology.
Since then, the author has helped solve hundreds of cases for law enforcement agencies ranging from small-town sheriffs to the FBI by exhuming over 5,000 Native American remains, identifying the remains of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping that made headlines around the world, and identifying the remains of those who were murdered, buried, or dismembered in secret.
The book's greatest virtue is that, through the author's sad and wonderful experiences, we learn about the newly pioneered fields of forensic anthropology, such as bone anatomy, forensic entomology, and the study of human decomposition, and the development of research into the type of death, the elapsed time since death, and the circumstances of death experienced by deceased people.
Additionally, after reading the author's description of bone anatomy and the skeletal illustrations in the appendix, readers will also gain a forensic 'culture' that will enable them to determine the age, race, gender, and height of the victim.
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Prologue | The Land of the Dead... 008
1.
12 small bones... 012
2.
The Indian Who Waited for 2000 Years... 030
3.
The Testimony of Bones: An Introduction to Forensic Anthropology ··· 059
4.
A Child Left Alone in the Meadow... 077
5.
Headless Corpse... 094
6.
The Truth Revealed by a Burned House... 112
7.
The Birth of a Corpse Farm... 134
8.
The maggot knows... 148
9.
The Streets Where the Stench of Death Pervades... 166
10.
Fat Sam and Cadillac Joe... 179
11.
Man Buried Under His Own Floor... 194
12.
The Zookeeper Serial Murders... 212
13.
Burned bodies, shattered bones... 251
14.
Art Imitating Death... 277
15.
Body farms embroiled in controversy... 290
16.
The Death of a Wife... 302
17.
The Designer Disguised as Chance... 322
18.
The Abyss of Pure Evil... 343
19.
Corpses that were not reclaimed... 368
20.
And the day I die... 397
Appendix I | Bones that Make Up the Human Skeleton... 404
Appendix II | Glossary of Forensic Anthropology Terms... 407
Acknowledgments | ··· 414
Week | ··· 419
1.
12 small bones... 012
2.
The Indian Who Waited for 2000 Years... 030
3.
The Testimony of Bones: An Introduction to Forensic Anthropology ··· 059
4.
A Child Left Alone in the Meadow... 077
5.
Headless Corpse... 094
6.
The Truth Revealed by a Burned House... 112
7.
The Birth of a Corpse Farm... 134
8.
The maggot knows... 148
9.
The Streets Where the Stench of Death Pervades... 166
10.
Fat Sam and Cadillac Joe... 179
11.
Man Buried Under His Own Floor... 194
12.
The Zookeeper Serial Murders... 212
13.
Burned bodies, shattered bones... 251
14.
Art Imitating Death... 277
15.
Body farms embroiled in controversy... 290
16.
The Death of a Wife... 302
17.
The Designer Disguised as Chance... 322
18.
The Abyss of Pure Evil... 343
19.
Corpses that were not reclaimed... 368
20.
And the day I die... 397
Appendix I | Bones that Make Up the Human Skeleton... 404
Appendix II | Glossary of Forensic Anthropology Terms... 407
Acknowledgments | ··· 414
Week | ··· 419
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Into the book
Welcome to Dr. William Bass's Body Farm.
This corpse farm exists even now, in a deadly forest behind a hospital nestled in the hills of Tennessee.
Many of his silent guests arrive here by their own altruistic choice (often they reserve months, even years, in advance to donate their bodies to Dr. Bass's extraordinary research).
Every day, wounded and tattered corpses dissolve into the soil and disappear, to be devoured by birds, insects, and other predators.
These animals are simply fulfilling their role as part of the food chain.
--- From the "Prologue"
During her lifetime, Mary Louise probably never strayed far from Acheson, nor did she accomplish anything of note.
But in death, he traveled halfway around the world, taught thousands of students, and helped train hundreds of forensic anthropologists, homicide investigators, forensic lab technicians, and medical examiners.
Mary Louise's killer will probably never be caught.
But thanks to her, other killers will be caught.
There are probably already criminals caught.
That alone makes her an amazing woman to me, a heroine of forensics.
There is no doubt about this.
--- 「3.
From "The Testimony of Bones: An Introduction to Forensic Anthropology"
His last question was the very one I was afraid would come out of his mouth.
“Is there any chance this body could be Colonel Shai?” “I’m beginning to think so.” I had to admit.
I was glad he didn't see my face turn red with embarrassment.
“There are still some questions that need to be answered.
For example, did rubber bands like the ones in those shoes even exist in 1864? But it seems increasingly likely.”
--- 「5.
From "Headless Corpse"
Despite its destructive power, fire leaves behind a surprisingly large amount of information.
But you need to know where and how to find that evidence.
In fact, I've come to enjoy the scientific puzzle of mentally reconstructing what a fire scene might have looked like before it burned down.
Buried in the ashes are buttons, snaps, hook-and-loop fasteners, brass rivets, and zippers? Easy.
There must have been a chest of drawers full of clothes like shirts, bras, and jeans.
A pile of broken glass and shards of ceramic next to a charred chandelier? That must have been the kitchen cabinet.
--- 「6.
From "The Truth Told by the Burned House"
The next morning, a few graduate students and I laid body 1-81 on the concrete slab we had poured months earlier.
One student took a picture.
The body was covered with a wooden frame lined with wire mesh to protect it from rodents or small predators that might sneak in through the gaps in the fence.
We filed out through the chain-link fence, one by one.
And I closed the door and put a padlock on the latch.
A fly flew past my ear.
The Institute of Anthropology was thus initiating its first research project.
The land where the corpses live has finally opened its doors.
It was the birth of a corpse farm.
--- 「7.
From "Birth of a Corpse Farm"
After completing the excavation, collecting soil samples, and packing everything into boxes to return to Knoxville, the graduate students were forced to face a harsh reality.
They placed the remains, clothing, and soil samples in cardboard specimen boxes.
It was a box about 30 centimeters wide and 30 centimeters long and 1 meter high.
As Samantha emerged from the crawlspace carrying the box, Robert Ramsberg began to approach her.
Samantha looked at Bill, not knowing what to do, and whispered:
“What if he wants to see these remains?” said Bill.
“This is investigative evidence.
I can't show you.
Don't say anything.
“Don’t even look at me.” Samantha walked towards the truck with her eyes down at the ground.
Through her gaze, directed to the floor, and her pained expression, Robert Ramsberg could sense what was inside the box.
He was right.
It was his son
--- 「11.
From "The Man Buried in the Floor of His Own House"
If a gun leaves such marks as evidence, why wouldn't a saw do the same? Steve and I were certain it would.
But at the time, it seemed like only a few people thought that way.
Until then, it was common sense that each time a saw passed by, the traces left behind from the previous passage were erased.
In other words, the saw covers up the traces it leaves behind.
Steve was determined to prove otherwise.
There is a world within it that we need to look into more closely, a world that we need to collect more evidence about.
--- 「13.
Among the "Burnt Corpses, Dismembered Bones"
It's hard to say that Patty Rogers, murdered and burned by her husband, would be grateful, even after death, that she was found.
But as a forensic anthropologist, I am grateful that I was able to help find her, identify her, and at least get some minimal justice for her.
Her story wasn't as fragmented and fragmented as I initially feared.
No matter how hard you try to imagine, this can't be called a happy ending.
But I think it's a satisfying, albeit dark, ending.
Because in a murder case, this is the best happy ending we can get.
--- 「16.
From "The Death of a Wife"
Goodwin quickly called for a recess to give us time to discuss.
I excitedly explained to him what I had found in the photo.
It was the empty pupa shell I had been searching for all along.
It was the shell left behind by maggots as they completed their life cycle and transformed into flies.
Just as a butterfly larva creates a cocoon and emerges as a butterfly, a maggot makes a nest with its own secretions and settles in it, waiting for its wings to sprout.
It's quite paradoxical.
We think caterpillars are cute and butterflies are beautiful, but we think maggots are disgusting and flies are horrible.
But in my view, maggots and flies have their own beauty.
This was especially true in this case.
They appeared before me in court as an answer to prayer.
This corpse farm exists even now, in a deadly forest behind a hospital nestled in the hills of Tennessee.
Many of his silent guests arrive here by their own altruistic choice (often they reserve months, even years, in advance to donate their bodies to Dr. Bass's extraordinary research).
Every day, wounded and tattered corpses dissolve into the soil and disappear, to be devoured by birds, insects, and other predators.
These animals are simply fulfilling their role as part of the food chain.
--- From the "Prologue"
During her lifetime, Mary Louise probably never strayed far from Acheson, nor did she accomplish anything of note.
But in death, he traveled halfway around the world, taught thousands of students, and helped train hundreds of forensic anthropologists, homicide investigators, forensic lab technicians, and medical examiners.
Mary Louise's killer will probably never be caught.
But thanks to her, other killers will be caught.
There are probably already criminals caught.
That alone makes her an amazing woman to me, a heroine of forensics.
There is no doubt about this.
--- 「3.
From "The Testimony of Bones: An Introduction to Forensic Anthropology"
His last question was the very one I was afraid would come out of his mouth.
“Is there any chance this body could be Colonel Shai?” “I’m beginning to think so.” I had to admit.
I was glad he didn't see my face turn red with embarrassment.
“There are still some questions that need to be answered.
For example, did rubber bands like the ones in those shoes even exist in 1864? But it seems increasingly likely.”
--- 「5.
From "Headless Corpse"
Despite its destructive power, fire leaves behind a surprisingly large amount of information.
But you need to know where and how to find that evidence.
In fact, I've come to enjoy the scientific puzzle of mentally reconstructing what a fire scene might have looked like before it burned down.
Buried in the ashes are buttons, snaps, hook-and-loop fasteners, brass rivets, and zippers? Easy.
There must have been a chest of drawers full of clothes like shirts, bras, and jeans.
A pile of broken glass and shards of ceramic next to a charred chandelier? That must have been the kitchen cabinet.
--- 「6.
From "The Truth Told by the Burned House"
The next morning, a few graduate students and I laid body 1-81 on the concrete slab we had poured months earlier.
One student took a picture.
The body was covered with a wooden frame lined with wire mesh to protect it from rodents or small predators that might sneak in through the gaps in the fence.
We filed out through the chain-link fence, one by one.
And I closed the door and put a padlock on the latch.
A fly flew past my ear.
The Institute of Anthropology was thus initiating its first research project.
The land where the corpses live has finally opened its doors.
It was the birth of a corpse farm.
--- 「7.
From "Birth of a Corpse Farm"
After completing the excavation, collecting soil samples, and packing everything into boxes to return to Knoxville, the graduate students were forced to face a harsh reality.
They placed the remains, clothing, and soil samples in cardboard specimen boxes.
It was a box about 30 centimeters wide and 30 centimeters long and 1 meter high.
As Samantha emerged from the crawlspace carrying the box, Robert Ramsberg began to approach her.
Samantha looked at Bill, not knowing what to do, and whispered:
“What if he wants to see these remains?” said Bill.
“This is investigative evidence.
I can't show you.
Don't say anything.
“Don’t even look at me.” Samantha walked towards the truck with her eyes down at the ground.
Through her gaze, directed to the floor, and her pained expression, Robert Ramsberg could sense what was inside the box.
He was right.
It was his son
--- 「11.
From "The Man Buried in the Floor of His Own House"
If a gun leaves such marks as evidence, why wouldn't a saw do the same? Steve and I were certain it would.
But at the time, it seemed like only a few people thought that way.
Until then, it was common sense that each time a saw passed by, the traces left behind from the previous passage were erased.
In other words, the saw covers up the traces it leaves behind.
Steve was determined to prove otherwise.
There is a world within it that we need to look into more closely, a world that we need to collect more evidence about.
--- 「13.
Among the "Burnt Corpses, Dismembered Bones"
It's hard to say that Patty Rogers, murdered and burned by her husband, would be grateful, even after death, that she was found.
But as a forensic anthropologist, I am grateful that I was able to help find her, identify her, and at least get some minimal justice for her.
Her story wasn't as fragmented and fragmented as I initially feared.
No matter how hard you try to imagine, this can't be called a happy ending.
But I think it's a satisfying, albeit dark, ending.
Because in a murder case, this is the best happy ending we can get.
--- 「16.
From "The Death of a Wife"
Goodwin quickly called for a recess to give us time to discuss.
I excitedly explained to him what I had found in the photo.
It was the empty pupa shell I had been searching for all along.
It was the shell left behind by maggots as they completed their life cycle and transformed into flies.
Just as a butterfly larva creates a cocoon and emerges as a butterfly, a maggot makes a nest with its own secretions and settles in it, waiting for its wings to sprout.
It's quite paradoxical.
We think caterpillars are cute and butterflies are beautiful, but we think maggots are disgusting and flies are horrible.
But in my view, maggots and flies have their own beauty.
This was especially true in this case.
They appeared before me in court as an answer to prayer.
--- 「18.
From "The Abyss of Pure Evil"
From "The Abyss of Pure Evil"
Publisher's Review
Corpses lying in the field, corpses submerged in water, corpses burned,
A body hidden in a car trunk, a body covered in cement.
Where to learn the 'language of corruption'
The author's decision to establish a corpse farm actually stemmed from a humiliating mistake that was so widely reported in the international press.
The time of death of a headless body found in a tomb that had been robbed was judged to be off by a whopping '113 years'.
Although the body was in a state of complete decay, with pinkish skin, it was determined that the body had been dead for at most 'a few months', but it was later revealed to be the body of Lieutenant Colonel Shay, who died during the American Civil War.
According to funeral customs of the 1860s, the body was embalmed and the coffin was made of cast iron, which blocked water, oxygen, and flies, significantly slowing down the rate of decomposition.
The author, who had already been an official forensic anthropologist for the state of Tennessee for 20 years, came up with the idea of a body farm not because he was concerned about saving face, but because he was deeply reflecting on his ignorance of the afterlife process that begins when a person ends.
Since its establishment in 1980, the author has conducted experiments on the postmortem process by collecting donated bodies from across the United States and placing them in various environments and conditions at a corpse farm spanning approximately 4,000 square feet.
For example, when a corpse is placed in a puddle of water, when and in what form does wax (wax that forms on a corpse that has decomposed in a damp place) form? Which corpse decomposes faster between a fat corpse and a thin corpse? How do corpses decompose in shallow graves, in the shade of a forest, or in the trunk or back seat of a car? Furthermore, what activities do insects such as maggots, flies, and carrion beetles exhibit when a corpse decomposes? What chemical changes occur in the soil where a corpse is placed?
In other words, by studying and recording 'everything' that happens to a corpse from the moment of death until weeks and months later, when nothing but bones remain, the world's first 'timetable' of the decomposition process of a human corpse, or a database of the time elapsed since death, has been created.
There was only one goal in building this database.
When a murder victim is actually discovered, the purpose is to provide the police with the most scientific and definitive information about the person's time of death, regardless of the circumstances or stage of decomposition.
But why is the elapsed time since death so important? What does it mean that the author dedicated his life to building this database?
Bare bones, rotting corpses, maggots and flies
Reconstructing the most accurate 'time of death'
A time of fierce struggle
In May 1999, the bodies of a family were found brutally murdered in a cabin in Pike County, Mississippi.
The young couple was stabbed to death multiple times, and their young daughter was found strangled and decomposed in a condition that suggested sexual assault.
The suspect was a step-grandfather who claimed $250,000 in life insurance money within 24 hours of finding his granddaughter dead.
Due to six years of bitter legal battles, the body was buried long ago, and all that remains are photographs and notes taken at the time of discovery.
The author knew from decades of research in corpse farms that the process of corpse decomposition occurred in a predictable and consistent sequence.
When he factored in the slippage of the corpse's skin in the photo, the exposure of bones, the loss of hair, the activity of insects, and the temperature and humidity changes in Mississippi at the time of death into a formula he invented called "accumulated degree days," he was able to determine the elapsed time since death.
The problem, however, is that the suspect has a clear alibi on the date derived in that way.
Could the author's meticulous research, built over decades, have been flawed? Just then, a photograph he had overlooked was discovered.
In the photo, between the granddaughter's hair there was a shell left behind by a maggot as it transformed into a fly.
This meant that the family was murdered sooner than the author had initially predicted, and this evidence led the jury to sentence the step-grandfather to death.
This is precisely why the author has dedicated his life to studying the elapsed time after death.
Identifying a murder victim through the identification of remains can only lead to finding the owner of the remains, but if the exact time elapsed after death is known, it can be used to determine 'when' and 'by whom' the death occurred, and can be accepted as legal evidence, allowing the murderer to be punished in the name of the law.
Thanks to the author's translation of the stories left behind in the bodies of the dead into the language of decay, murder victims today can tell us the time of their death and reveal the identity of their killers.
Almost all postmortem examination techniques used today by coroners, forensic pathologists, police, and law enforcement agencies stem from the body farm research of Dr. William Bass and his students.
The changes that occur in what was once human 'flesh'
Anthropology and medicine discovered in the process,
And insight into the meaning of humanity
Each chapter of this 20-chapter book takes forensic science to the next level, detailing murder cases and detailed descriptions of bones, maggots, and the process of corpse decomposition.
Yet, what prevents this book from being a horrific read is the author's warm, compassionate, and sometimes even respectful perspective, which prompts us to reconsider the question, "What is humanity?"
“Lisa’s remains were buried shortly after the trial.
If Lisa were alive, she would be in her mid-30s now.
Maybe he had his own child.
And maybe she was just a pretty girl with thin blonde hair, a slight gap between her front teeth, and a fine groove visible between her middle teeth when she smiled brightly.” (p. 93)
Since the creation of body farms, ethical debates over the instrumentalization of human corpses have been constantly raised.
However, the author proves through the attitude towards corpses that a corpse farm is a place where life is saved through death and justice is realized.
From the bones of a woman who received no attention, whether while alive or murdered, he has raised countless forensic anthropologists, medical examiners, and FBI agents today.
Even with the bones burned to a crisp to prevent the killer from identifying them, they were finally able to determine the time of death.
He and his disciples discovered a way to identify the murderer even by looking at the maggots and saw marks left on the body.
Only humans brutally murder their own kind, employing unimaginable methods to hide the identities of their victims, yet only humans track down these methods and bring us justice.
That is the message this book tells us, and the love for humanity that the author has demonstrated through his life.
A body hidden in a car trunk, a body covered in cement.
Where to learn the 'language of corruption'
The author's decision to establish a corpse farm actually stemmed from a humiliating mistake that was so widely reported in the international press.
The time of death of a headless body found in a tomb that had been robbed was judged to be off by a whopping '113 years'.
Although the body was in a state of complete decay, with pinkish skin, it was determined that the body had been dead for at most 'a few months', but it was later revealed to be the body of Lieutenant Colonel Shay, who died during the American Civil War.
According to funeral customs of the 1860s, the body was embalmed and the coffin was made of cast iron, which blocked water, oxygen, and flies, significantly slowing down the rate of decomposition.
The author, who had already been an official forensic anthropologist for the state of Tennessee for 20 years, came up with the idea of a body farm not because he was concerned about saving face, but because he was deeply reflecting on his ignorance of the afterlife process that begins when a person ends.
Since its establishment in 1980, the author has conducted experiments on the postmortem process by collecting donated bodies from across the United States and placing them in various environments and conditions at a corpse farm spanning approximately 4,000 square feet.
For example, when a corpse is placed in a puddle of water, when and in what form does wax (wax that forms on a corpse that has decomposed in a damp place) form? Which corpse decomposes faster between a fat corpse and a thin corpse? How do corpses decompose in shallow graves, in the shade of a forest, or in the trunk or back seat of a car? Furthermore, what activities do insects such as maggots, flies, and carrion beetles exhibit when a corpse decomposes? What chemical changes occur in the soil where a corpse is placed?
In other words, by studying and recording 'everything' that happens to a corpse from the moment of death until weeks and months later, when nothing but bones remain, the world's first 'timetable' of the decomposition process of a human corpse, or a database of the time elapsed since death, has been created.
There was only one goal in building this database.
When a murder victim is actually discovered, the purpose is to provide the police with the most scientific and definitive information about the person's time of death, regardless of the circumstances or stage of decomposition.
But why is the elapsed time since death so important? What does it mean that the author dedicated his life to building this database?
Bare bones, rotting corpses, maggots and flies
Reconstructing the most accurate 'time of death'
A time of fierce struggle
In May 1999, the bodies of a family were found brutally murdered in a cabin in Pike County, Mississippi.
The young couple was stabbed to death multiple times, and their young daughter was found strangled and decomposed in a condition that suggested sexual assault.
The suspect was a step-grandfather who claimed $250,000 in life insurance money within 24 hours of finding his granddaughter dead.
Due to six years of bitter legal battles, the body was buried long ago, and all that remains are photographs and notes taken at the time of discovery.
The author knew from decades of research in corpse farms that the process of corpse decomposition occurred in a predictable and consistent sequence.
When he factored in the slippage of the corpse's skin in the photo, the exposure of bones, the loss of hair, the activity of insects, and the temperature and humidity changes in Mississippi at the time of death into a formula he invented called "accumulated degree days," he was able to determine the elapsed time since death.
The problem, however, is that the suspect has a clear alibi on the date derived in that way.
Could the author's meticulous research, built over decades, have been flawed? Just then, a photograph he had overlooked was discovered.
In the photo, between the granddaughter's hair there was a shell left behind by a maggot as it transformed into a fly.
This meant that the family was murdered sooner than the author had initially predicted, and this evidence led the jury to sentence the step-grandfather to death.
This is precisely why the author has dedicated his life to studying the elapsed time after death.
Identifying a murder victim through the identification of remains can only lead to finding the owner of the remains, but if the exact time elapsed after death is known, it can be used to determine 'when' and 'by whom' the death occurred, and can be accepted as legal evidence, allowing the murderer to be punished in the name of the law.
Thanks to the author's translation of the stories left behind in the bodies of the dead into the language of decay, murder victims today can tell us the time of their death and reveal the identity of their killers.
Almost all postmortem examination techniques used today by coroners, forensic pathologists, police, and law enforcement agencies stem from the body farm research of Dr. William Bass and his students.
The changes that occur in what was once human 'flesh'
Anthropology and medicine discovered in the process,
And insight into the meaning of humanity
Each chapter of this 20-chapter book takes forensic science to the next level, detailing murder cases and detailed descriptions of bones, maggots, and the process of corpse decomposition.
Yet, what prevents this book from being a horrific read is the author's warm, compassionate, and sometimes even respectful perspective, which prompts us to reconsider the question, "What is humanity?"
“Lisa’s remains were buried shortly after the trial.
If Lisa were alive, she would be in her mid-30s now.
Maybe he had his own child.
And maybe she was just a pretty girl with thin blonde hair, a slight gap between her front teeth, and a fine groove visible between her middle teeth when she smiled brightly.” (p. 93)
Since the creation of body farms, ethical debates over the instrumentalization of human corpses have been constantly raised.
However, the author proves through the attitude towards corpses that a corpse farm is a place where life is saved through death and justice is realized.
From the bones of a woman who received no attention, whether while alive or murdered, he has raised countless forensic anthropologists, medical examiners, and FBI agents today.
Even with the bones burned to a crisp to prevent the killer from identifying them, they were finally able to determine the time of death.
He and his disciples discovered a way to identify the murderer even by looking at the maggots and saw marks left on the body.
Only humans brutally murder their own kind, employing unimaginable methods to hide the identities of their victims, yet only humans track down these methods and bring us justice.
That is the message this book tells us, and the love for humanity that the author has demonstrated through his life.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: October 22, 2025
- Page count, weight, size: 420 pages | 608g | 145*225*26mm
- ISBN13: 9791171714452
- ISBN10: 1171714459
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