Editor's Note: WBIR is reporting this week on the evolution of the University of Tennessee's Body Farm. This is the first installment. It all started because Dr. Bill Bass needed a place to keep the ...

About an hour north of Tampa, Florida is a plain field, surrounded by a fence. It may look like ordinary land, but the fenced-in area is a burial lot for bodies donated in the name of science. The ...

A University of Tennessee professor is using her Body Farm research to help investigate a pre-Civil Rights-era cold case. Dr. Amy Mundorff is an anthropology professor who pioneered research to find ...

TORONTO (Reuters Life!) - It's known as the "Body Farm," a three-acre plot of land in Tennessee surrounded by a chain-link fence and filled with more than 1,000 human corpses and skeletons. Sign up ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- He's been a preeminent forensic anthropologist for half a century. His research facility inspired Patricia Cornwell's best seller ``Body Farm.'' And his triumphs include ...