Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1994, when Patricia Cornwell published her best-selling mystery novel "The Body Farm," few people outside Tennessee had ever ...

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," ...

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 ...