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0 Comments | AFP, May, 2007
CHICAGO (AFP) — A Texas university has scuttled plans to set up a human body farm after a nearby airport complained that flocks of vultures attracted to the corpses would be too close to its flight paths.
It was the second time a complaint from neighbors forced the university to look for a new site for the body farm.
The farm will be used as a forensic research facility to help law enforcement officers determine the rate at which bodies decompose. This will help them better pinpoint time of death in murder investigations.
It will house six to eight corpses at a time in various states of decomposition.
Some will be buried in shallow graves, some will be deep underground and others will be left on the surface.
A razor-wire fence will keep...
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