New Science for the Murder Victim Search

Unlike the behavior of insects, whose colonization of open-air corpses can vary tremendously depending on factors such as weather, season, even the thickness of a victim?s clothing, the bacterial decay of a buried corpse marches forward in a fairly consistent fashion. ?Buried bodies give us relatively uniform decomposition with a minimal amount of variables,? Vass says. Even a shallow grave keeps its contents relatively bug-free and nicely chilled to between 55