Iowa Prof. Seeks Funding for 'Body Farm'

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa - Iowa's rich topsoil and climate have nourished some of the nation's most plentiful corn and soybean crops. Tyler O'Brien wants to learn more about their influence on rotting corpses.

A biological anthropology professor at the University of Northern Iowa, O'Brien envisions turning some prime Iowa pasture into a body farm, where human bodies — buried, stuffed in car trunks or exposed to the elements — can provide scholars and criminalists with new benchmark data on human decay.

"This idea has strong scientific value," O'Brien said. "To answer the question of how long a body has been dead, how long a person has been missing, is critical to criminal investigations."

Read entire story here (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051129/ap_on_sc/body_farm).

[moneoa]

The guy in this link has been profiled on A&E in Cold Case Files and American Justice.
Farms like these are inceredible sources of knowledge and this one farm here has changed the feild of forensics because before this was done we didn't know a whole lot about how enviroment effects deocmposition and crime scenes.

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/10/31/body.farm/

[fleecy]

yep, i'm already an organ donor, but if they're not suitable, then they can farm me out...

[Krell]

I have followed the career of Bill Bass since he started the program

I think other need to carry on the programs tho, just not be friggin glory hogs for funding



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[B@lle]

i saw a porgram on discovery where they said that specialist fwarmers can grow up to a football(soccer) field of skin when using the tip of the penis that gets cut off when you get circumsised(spl)

[soulxtc]

I love science.....