Editor's Note: WBIR is reporting this week on the evolution of the University of Tennessee's Body Farm. This is the first installment. It all started because Dr. Bill Bass needed a place to keep the ...

A body without a head or hands that was found hidden in a suitcase in New York state has finally been identified, 42 years after the victim was killed. According to a statement from the New York State ...

Forensic anthropologists face mental health risks due to chronic exposure to violent death. Vicarious trauma and burnout can ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Editor's Note: WBIR is reporting this week on the evolution of the University of Tennessee's Body Farm. This is the fourth installment. Look beyond the queasy nature of the place ...

Getting an accurate estimate of when someone died is a critical part of forensic investigations. In extremely cold conditions, molecular biology can provide critical information that the naked eye ...

Supporters of a man who has been missing in outback Charters Towers since 2017 say human bone fragments discovered in October ...

Forensic scientists have been on a quest for more reliable ways to estimate time of death and age of death from skeletal remains. A new study finds that burial methods influence the protein population ...

Forensic spectroscopy has emerged as a pivotal tool in the identification and analysis of body fluids at crime scenes, offering a suite of non‐destructive, rapid, and highly sensitive techniques to ...

Deep in the woods in Northern Virginia last month, two human bodies were carried to a remote spot among the trees and left to decompose. As nature takes its course, the bodies will exude organic ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — On a chilly fall morning here in eastern Tennessee, Raul Robles crouched alongside an open grave, surveying the bones his team had just unearthed. He was unusually relaxed, bobbing ...