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Article: Bodies Wanted; Maggots, raccoons, squirrels and bugs. A unique Southern study of decomposing bodies has inspired other 'body farms' to sprout across the country.
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- June 11, 2007
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Byline: Raina Kelley
Springtime in east Tennessee is a beautiful thing. Sunlight dapples through lush oak and maple trees. A warm breeze sends the invigorating scent of juniper through the air. Then the wind shifts, and suddenly the atmosphere is filled with the smell of human decomposition. So it goes in springtime at the body farm in Knoxville. Its official name is the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, though
most people just call it the Facility. It is barely two acres, but it is the current resting place for 188 corpses. Some of them are buried; others lie on the grass or in the woods, decaying. Since 1981, the Facility has ...