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Science 11 August 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5481, pp. 855 - 857
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5481.855
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BODY CHEMISTRY:
Where Dead Men Really Do Tell Tales

Robert F. Service

KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE--Here at the "Body Farm," a research plot where human corpses are studied as they decompose, the corpses are teaching scientists much about how to reconstruct the manner and circumstances of unexplained deaths. In fact, new techniques developed at the site, officially known as the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's, Anthropological Research Facility, are already beginning to land criminals behind bars.

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