This article is part of “Solutionaries,” our continuing commitment to solutions journalism, highlighting the creative people in communities working to make the world a better place, one solution at a ...

Jessica Beihl, the forensic science teacher at Spring Mills High School, created a unique project for her students. In an old flower bed behind the school, she set up what she called a "body farm," ...

This article is part of "Solutionaries," our continuing commitment to solutions journalism, highlighting the creative people in communities working to make the world a better place, one solution at a ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The University of Tennessee announced the Body Farm is getting more than half a million dollars in federal grants to fund two new research projects aimed at helping forensic ...

Jessica Beihl, the forensic science teacher at Spring Mills High School, is pictured at the “body farm,” where students can study how deceased pigs decompose under different conditions. (Photo by ...

A unique, hand- on crime solving college course has some Kennesaw State University students digging up clandestine graves. "We have several different bones in here that we've uncovered from the grave, ...

Together, the duo write under the name Jefferson Bass, and have published two nonfiction books about the body farm, as well as six fictional tomes about a forensic scientist who solves murder cases, ...