Down on the Body Farm: Inside the Dirty World of Forensic Science

The Atlantic
Sometime soon, dead bodies will be scattered around John O’Laughlin’s land. Wanting to give students and researchers at California University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Criminological and Forensic Sciences a place to analyze human remains, O’Laughlin recently donated a sizable chunk of his 222-acre piece of property in southwestern Pennsylvania to be used as a “body farm.” His won’t be the first.