Jon Jefferson's work has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, and Popular Science. Together, writing as 'Jefferson Bass,' they have coauthored the novels Carved in Bone, Flesh and Bone, and The Devil's Bones.
Nowhere is there another lab like Dr. Bill Bass's: On a hillside in Tennessee, human bodies decompose in the open air, aided by insects, bacteria and birds, unhindered by coffins or mausoleums. At the 'Body Farm,' nature takes its course, with corpses bur...[SEE MORE]