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![]() Colloquially, facilities like these - this is the largest of six worldwide, all in the US - are simply called body farms. This operation, at a place called Freeman Ranch, is part of the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University. The most lurid are the fresh ones: week-old bodies that have ballooned to twice their normal size and crawl with thousands of maggots. Others have been picked over so voraciously by vultures that their bones are frayed. Some are fully mummified, their flesh dried out by the harsh Texas sun. Seven miles northwest of San Marcos, Texas, 50 or so naked human bodies in varying stages of decomposition are strewn about in a 16-acre field. Warning: this story contains graphic images ![]()
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