Chapter 6: Dead for the Holidays: Determining Time Since Death

In this chapter, Dr. Bass is tasked with identifying the time since death of the Assistant District Attorney, Ted Barnett, who was found dead in his bathroom with stab wounds. Dr. Bass says that as a rule of thumb, a body’s temperature drops by roughly 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit every hour after death. Dr. Bass was able to use the Body Farm as a model to solve when Barnett was murdered.