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* Translated by Brian McKnight; © University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, 1981. Quoted by kind permission. * From The Washing Away of Wrongs: Forensic Medicine in Thirteenth-Century China, by Sung Tz’u, translated by Brian McKnight; © University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, 1981. Quoted by kind permission. * For more information about UT’s forensic anthropology program—including body donation—see the program’s website, www.utk.edu/~anthrop/FACcenter.html. * From The Presocratic Philosophers, by G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, and M. Schofield; © Cambridge University Press, 1988. Contents FOREWORD The Mayor of the Body Farm CHAPTER 1 The Bones of the Eaglet CHAPTER 2 Dead Indians and Dam Engineers CHAPTER 3 Bare Bones: Forensics 101 CHAPTER 4 The Unsavory Uncle CHAPTER 5 The Case of the Headless Corpse CHAPTER 6 The Scene of the Crime CHAPTER 7 Death’s Acre: The Body Farm Is Born CHAPTER 8 A Bug for Research CHAPTER 9 Progress and Protest CHAPTER 10 Fat Sam and Cadillac Joe CHAPTER 11 Grounded in Science CHAPTER 12 The Zoo Man Murders CHAPTER 13 Parts Unknown CHAPTER 14 Art Imitates Death CHAPTER 15 More Progress, More Protest CHAPTER 16 The Backyard Barbecue CHAPTER 17 The Not-So-Accidental Tourist CHAPTER 18 The Bloody Beneficiary CHAPTER 19 Ashes to Ashes CHAPTER 20 And When I Die APPENDIX I Bones of the Human Skeleton APPENDIX II Glossary of Forensic and Anthropological Terms Acknowledgments Index G. P. Putnam’s Sons Publishers Since 1838 a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 375 Hudson Street New York, NY 10014 Copyright © 2003 by Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson Foreword copyright © 2003 by Cornwell Enterprises, Inc. Unless otherwise indicated, all photos are the copyright of Dr. Bill Bass. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission. Published simultaneously in Canada MSR ISBN 0 7865 5449 5 AEB ISBN 0 7865 5450 9 Book design by Kate Nichols First edition (electronic): February 2005 Making or distributing electronic copies of this book constitutes copyright infringement and could subject the infringer to criminal and civil liability. www.penguin.com
