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Beyond the body farm, a legendary bone detective explores murders, mysteries, and the revolution in forensic science, Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson

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non fiction

Beyond the body farm

173748687144226762

Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson

a legendary bone detective explores murders, mysteries, and the revolution in forensic science

Introduction: A half-century of forensic evolution and revolution -- The golden bowl, the burning palace : applying modern science to ancient bones -- Splash landing, part 1 : finding answers in teeth and skull morphology -- Shedding light on a victims bones : using UV to illuminate identity -- Forensics at the speed of flight : interpreting teeth and trauma -- The rockets' red glare, bodies bursting in air : dealing with a mass disaster -- Dead for the holidays : determining time since death -- A Texas scorcher : finding a fingerprint in a frontal sinus -- No butts about it : convicting a killer by matching bite marks -- Listening to the bugs : pinpointing time since death with forensic entomology -- The professor versus the computer : harnessing software to determine race and ID a victim -- Science at the cutting edge : scanning a knife mark with electron microscopy -- Leoma Patterson, part 1 : reopening an old coffin and an old case with DNA -- Splash landing, part 2 : searching the depths with sonar -- Leoma Patterson, part 2 : putting a face on the dead -- The day the bopper died : digging for the truth, and finding it with x-rays -- Leoma Patterson, part 3 : pushing the limits of DNA testing