Non-Fiction by Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson |
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Renowned forensic anthropologist Bill Bass—founder of the Body Farm—tackles one of his most baffling cases ever in this real-life spellbinder. |
Publication date April 28, 2015 In 1978, 56-year-old Leoma Patterson left a bar in Clinton, Tennessee, and was never seen again. Six months later, a female skeleton was found on a wooded lakeshore. The bones were tentatively identified as Patterson's and buried in a family cemetery. But the family wasn't convinced. In 2005—believing that DNA testing could resolve their doubts—they asked Dr. Bass to unearth the rones and take DNA samples. And so began a case with more twists and turns than the harrowing roads that led Bass to a grave on a remote mountainside. |
“Careful attention to detail and the occasional darkly humorous aside. The authors keep the narrative flow moving nicely. Strong-stomached readers who like to get dirt under their fingernails will gladly follow the UT forensic anthropology team up mountains and into rivers as they put names and faces to long-decayed bodies.” |
Publication date September 4, 2007 In Beyond the Body Farm, readers will follow Bass as he explores the depths of an East Tennessee lake with a twenty-first-century sonar system, in a quest for an airplane that disappeared with two people on board thirty-five years ago; see Bass exhume fifties pop star "the Big Bopper" to determine what injuries he suffered in the plane crash that killed three rock and roll legends on "the day the music died"; and join Bass as he works to decipher an ancient Persian death scene nearly three thousand years old. Witty and engaging, Bass dissects the methods used by homicide investigators every day, leading readers on an extraordinary journey into the high-tech science that it takes to crack a case. |
"A witty storyteller with a welcome sense of humor...Bass brings death to life." |
 Publication date October 5, 2004Berkley Trade Paperback, $14.00 ISBN: 0425198324 View the Photo Tour In Death's Acre, the first collaboration between Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson, Bass and Jefferson take their readers inside the real Body Farm, recounting how it was created and some of Bass' more interesting forensic cases in his long career. |
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Publication date October 1, 2003