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Began the page. Will add more later. Suggestions, corrections welcome.

According to at least one book which of course I cannot call to mind at the moment, locals used to call his project the Bass Anthropological Research Facility, or BARF. This may be too trivial for inclusion, but there is, anyway, a lot of information about him and his work in numerous non-fiction mass market books about forensic science and criminal investigation. What's there is good, but could be expanded.71.63.119.49 01:30, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

He's got another book, creatively titled "Beyond the Body Farm," pubbed Sept 07. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.147.106.121 (talk) 17:05, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]