William Bass

William Bass is the forensic anthropologist named in 121.极简法医鉴识手册：一切犯罪，皆有痕迹 as the founder of the University of Tennessee body farm. The episode uses him to show that knowledge about corpse decomposition does not come only from accumulated lore; it also comes from direct, controlled, and ethically uncomfortable observation.

Bass anchors Body Farm Forensic Research in the wiki. Bodies exposed in open air, shade, water, burial, trunks, and other conditions make Forensic Death-Time Inference more empirical, while also showing why death-time estimates remain dependent on environment rather than one universal timetable.

Connections

• Body Farm Forensic Research - research infrastructure associated with Bass in the source.
• Forensic Death-Time Inference and Forensic Entomology - methods that benefit from decomposition observation.
• Scientific Sampling Discipline and Observation Before Inference - methodological frame for why body-farm evidence matters.