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[email protected]. INSIDE THIS ISSUE: FISHER SCIENCE EDUCATION EADLINE DISCOVERIE H TM S MAKING SCIENCE MATTER FORENSIC FARMING ehind the employee parking lot of the are tasked with finding An example of this was seen in a case where Dr. University of Tennessee medical center the bodies, collecting Bass was asked to help determine the time of is an area surrounded by a six-foot, evidence and evaluat- death of a family of three found dead in a remote B chain-link fence topped with razor wire ing the scenes. Mississippi cabin in December 1993. There were and hidden from sightseers by a wooden privacy clear signs of a dual rate of decomposition, and fence. Passersby might wonder what precious The Process this along with the insect activity documented at commodity is protected by all this foreboding the crime scene enabled him to determine the security, and most would be very surprised to Begins family died in mid-November, a full month before find out! the bodies were "discovered" by a relative. Decomposition begins Unfortunately for the relative, that was also the For, behind the fencing and padlocks lies a little as soon as a person time period when he claimed to have visited the plot of land frequently referred to as the "Body dies.