Olivers Deaths Acre

“Death’s Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm” written by Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson describes the life of Dr Bass during his work at the Body Farm. Each chapter explains different happenings involving the Body Farm and Dr Bass. The first few chapters of the novel describe cases that Bass was involved in. The early parts of this story show the personal life of Dr Bass and his son’s Charlie, Billy, and Jim. He speaks of where he had been employed and what he taught. As the novel continues, you hear of the Indian bodies he excavated by the Missouri River. In one chapter Bass describes crime scenes that were aflame. Bass speaks of the difficulty of finding body parts that have been in fires, disintegration makes bones almost impossible to find. Bass then mentions the advances in anthropology made by Bill Rodriguez. Bill discovered easier ways of identifying bodies and published these findings in the Journal of Forensic Sciences. He told of a protest calling for the Body Farm to be moved away from its current position. Eventually they were bribed and the facility was eventually moved away. Bass was pressured to do all sorts of stuff once the popularity of the Body Farm grew. People demanded video to be released of the experiments done at the facility. Bass turned the people down saying that they didn’t need to see the bodies. The novel “Death’s Acre: Inside the Body Farm” is an interesting story that explains the life of Dr Bass and his work at the Body Farm.