By inspecting the bones, Bass and his students broadened investigators knowledge of what happened to the victim.
In starting the Body Farm in the early 1980s, Bass and generations of UT students gained a better understanding of the habits of bugs and their attraction to bodies.
They learned the growth patterns of maggots and what they could reveal about how long a body had been in place before discovery.
In the mid 1980s, someone killed several red-headed women and dumped their bodies across Tennessee and Kentucky.
Bass was there to process some of the scenes, including one along Interstate 75 in Campbell County in January 1985 at which a young pregnant woman was found. For years, her bones were kept at the Forensic Anthropology Center; she s recently been identified, along with her likely killer.
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104th Air Guard members go ‘down on the farm’ for forensic search-and-rescue training
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More than 35 members of the Air National Guard’s 104th Fighter Wing from Westfield recently completed training at the Forensic Anthropology Center at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Known as the “Body Farm,” the training center helped unit members with the Fatality Search and Recovery Team understand the principles of forensic-biological anthropology. (SENIOR AIRMAN SARA KOLINSKI / 104th FIGHTER WING)104th Fighter Wing
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By Lindsey S. Watson | Air National Guard 104th Fighter Wing
The 104th Fighter Wing has a wide range of deployed and domestic operations that we support, and we often train with partners. Recently, we traveled to Knoxville, Tennessee, to learn from the experts at Forensic Anthropology Center at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Amor Masovic has spent 28 years searching for human remains across Bosnia and Herzegovina.
But in that time, there have only been a few times, no more than 20, when people have come forward with information – tips on where the bodies are buried.
“The amount of information [obtained] from insiders who were involved in war crimes, or at least in burying war crime victims, is negligible,” Masovic, director of Bosnia’s Missing Persons Institute, told Al Jazeera.
Many participated in war crimes in Bosnia, and they still know where the remains are currently buried – from the person who pulled the trigger and the driver who transported the bodies from the execution site to the mass grave diggers.