Dr. Bill Bass, founder of the University of Tennessee’s forensic anthropology facility, called the Body Farm, and professor emeritus of anthropology, will give a lecture about his research Monday, Dec. 6, at 7 p.m., at East Tennessee State University in the D.P. Culp University Center’s Martha Street Culp Auditorium.The event, sponsored by the ETSU Honors College Student Council, with assistance from the Student Government Association, the departments of Criminal Justice and Criminology and Literature and Language, and the Honors College, is free and open to the public.

In 1980, Bass created the University of Tennessee’s Body Farm, the world’s only laboratory devoted to human decomposition. Bass has written or co-authored more than 200 scientific publications, many of them based on the research facility’s part in murders and mysteries he has helped prosecute and solve. Bass also has authored or co-authored eight books: Human Osteology (known as the “Bone Bible”), Death’s Acre, Carved in Bone, Flesh and Bone, The Devil’s Bones, Beyond the Body Farm, Bones of Betrayal and The Bone Thief.

Bass will be available to sign his books immediately following the lecture. Volumes will be available for purchase only by cash or check.

Bass continues to be active in the field of forensic science through lectures and consulting on current and historic cases throughout the country. He turns each case, even the infamous Lindbergh baby kidnapping and the Big Bopper murders, into a learning experience in an attempt to bring answers and closure to the victim’s loved ones.

For more information or assistance for individuals with disabilities, contact Dr. Harold Zimmerman at (423) 439-6047 or zimmermh@etsu.edu.

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