Death’s acre : inside the legendary forensic lab the Body Farm where the dead do tell tales

Foreword / Patricia Cornwell -- 1. The bones of the Eaglet -- 2. Dead Indians and dam engineers -- 3. Bare bones : forensics 101 -- 4. The unsavory uncle -- 5. The case of the headless corpse -- 6. The scene of the crime -- 7. Death's acre : the body farm is born -- 8. A bug for research -- 9. Progress and protest -- 10. Fat Sam and Cadillac Joe -- 11. Grounded in science -- 12. The zoo man murders -- 13. Parts unknown -- 14. Art imitates death -- 15. More progress, more protest -- 16. The backyard barbecue -- 17. The not-so-accidental tourist -- 18. The bloody beneficiary -- 19. Ashes to ashes -- 20. And when I die -- appendix 1. Bones of the human skeleton -- appendix 2. Glossary of forensic and anthropological terms -- Acknowledgments -- Index. A forensic anthropologist traces his work at his Tennessee "body farm" lab and cites his contributions to the investigations of several murder cases, as well as his theories about such famous cases as the Lindbergh kidnapping