Twenty-six years after a schoolteacher’s murder, cold-case detectives get a break when a relative of the killer uploads DNA to a public genealogy website.
Investigators in Virginia, probing the murder case of a sailor, seek the help of a forensic anthropologist from the “body farm” in the Great Smoky Mountains. Dr. William Bass became an expert on the human body’s rate of decay by watching bodies rot at his plot at the University of Tennessee and keeping tables of weather data.