Authors Jon Jefferson and Bill Bass have published a number of fictional murder mystery novels based on the body farm at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville under the pseudonym Jefferson Bass.
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It was first started in late 1981 by anthropologist Dr. William M. Bass as a facility for study of the decomposition of human remains.
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The original "Body Farm" is the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility located a few miles from downtown on Alcoa Highway in Knoxville, Tennessee, behind the University of Tennessee Medical Center.
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The books and protagonist were inspired when Beckett visited the "Body Farm" (by its official name: the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, founded by forensic anthropology pioneer Dr Bill Bass) in 2002, doing research for an article for the Daily Telegraph.
"Recuperating from a near-fatal attack, forensic anthropologist David Hunter has returned to the renowned research facility where he first trained - the Body Farm in Knoxville, Tennessee.
He also wrote and directed for the National Geographic Channel a two-part documentary -- Biography of a Corpse and Anatomy of a Corpse -- about the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, which is also widely known as the Body Farm.
Bass has also described the body farm as "Death's Acre" – the title of the book on his life and career, co-written with journalist Jon Jefferson.