October 27, 2006

The Truths That Bodies Yield

By PETER MONAGHAN

This may be slender consolation: If you were, say, stuck 17 times with a shiv and then concealed in a shallow grave in the woods, your demise might be reconstructed, and your killer brought to justice, thanks to rather ghoulish research here at the University of Tennessee.

Twenty-five years ago, on an acre of scrappy terrain behind a large parking lot of the University of Tennessee Medical Center, across the Tennessee River from the university's campus, William M. Bass III created the

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