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Article: Corpses find new life in forensic research at Tennessee's Body Farm.
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- November 5, 2003
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Byline: Alexandra Witze
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. _ There is a place in Tennessee where dead men talk.
Their flesh may be rotting, but their tongues are not mute. Their stories waft upward as their corpses melt into the ground.
It's the University of Tennessee's Forensic Anthropology Center, a.k.a. the Body Farm.
To some, it is a ghoulish spot _ 2 acres of wooded hillside dotted with three dozen decaying bodies. But to forensics experts, the Body Farm is science at its finest.
It is the world's only facility dedicated to studying how humans decompose in a natural environment. Those who donate their bodies here may expect to be gnawed ...