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BONUS: How body farms can help solve cases
Published 4 years, 10 months ago
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This month, Stereo Chemistry is sharing an episode of Orbitals that features an interview with forensic chemist Shari Forbes, an expert in human decomposition who studies the odors of decomposition at a body farm in chilly Quebec. Research at body farms—research facilities dedicated to studying what happens to human bodies after death—supplies law enforcement with valuable information about the process of decomposition in various scenarios.
A transcript of this episode is available at bit.ly/3jdvLFN.
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