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How 3 obscure acres became a world-class research center:
After a janitor cussed him out for storing a corpse in the bathroom, University of Tennessee forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Bass decided it was time to go to the dean. He needed some real space for the bodies he was studying.
Thus was born the Body Farm, the first forensic research center of its kind in the world. What goes on behind the locked gates:
Students, scientists or police are out every day at the Body Farm, working among the dead. Just what is it they do behind those locked gates? They read the bones so cops can catch the killers: