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A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science
William Morrow
September 2007
On Sale: September 4, 2007
304 pages
ISBN: 0060875291
EAN: 9780060875299
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
There is no scientist in the world like Dr. Bill Bass. A
pioneer in forensic anthropology, Bass created the world's
first laboratory dedicated to the study of human
decomposition—three acres of land on a hillside in Tennessee
where human bodies are left to the elements. His research at
"the Body Farm" has revolutionized forensic science, helping
police crack cold cases and pinpoint time of death. But
during a forensics career that spans half a century, Bass
and his work have ranged far beyond the gates of the Body
Farm. In this riveting book, the bone sleuth explores the
rise of modern forensic science, using fascinating cases
from his career to take readers into the real world of C.S.I. Some of Bill Bass's cases rely on the simplest of tools and
techniques, such as reassembling—from battered torsos and a
stack of severed limbs—eleven people hurled skyward by an
explosion at an illegal fireworks factory. Other cases hinge
on sophisticated techniques Bass could not have imagined
when he began his career: harnessing scanning electron
microscopy to detect trace elements in knife wounds; and
extracting DNA from a long-buried corpse, only to find that
the female murder victim may have been mistakenly identified
a quarter-century before. In Beyond the Body Farm, readers will follow Bass as he
explores the depths of an East Tennessee lake with a
twenty-first-century sonar system, in a quest for an
airplane that disappeared with two people on board
thirty-five years ago; see Bass exhume fifties pop star "the
Big Bopper" to determine what injuries he suffered in the
plane crash that killed three rock and roll legends on "the
day the music died"; and join Bass as he works to decipher
an ancient Persian death scene nearly three thousand years
old. Witty and engaging, Bass dissects the methods used by
homicide investigators every day, leading readers on an
extraordinary journey into the high-tech science that it
takes to crack a case.
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