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Identity Crisis

The Murder, the Mystery, and the Missing DNA

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Renowned forensic anthropologist Bill Bass - founder of the Body Farm - tackles one of his most baffling cases ever in this real-life spellbinder.

In 1978, 56-year-old Leoma Patterson left a bar in Clinton, Tennessee, and was never seen again. Six months later, a female skeleton was found on a wooded lakeshore in a neighboring county. The bones were consistent with those of the missing woman, and one of Patterson's daughters recognized a ring found at the death scene as her mother's. The bones were buried, and six years later, a relative of Patterson's - one of the men she was last seen alive with - confessed to killing her. Case closed.

But the tentative identification - made years before DNA testing was available to confirm it - failed to convince some of Patterson's relatives. And so it was that in 2005 Dr. Bass found himself winding around hairpin curves to the mountainside grave, where he would unearth the disputed remains and collect DNA samples. The forensic twists and turns that followed would test the limits of DNA technology...and of Dr. Bass's half-century of forensic knowledge.

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Perfect narrator exactly right for this book. I will look for more narrated by him.

too short but captivating

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Although the performance of the audiobook and the writing was excellent and did hold my interest, the actual content went on far too many tangents for my liking with many of them being pointless to the overall narrative of the case. That said, considering the unsatisfying ending and lack of content I'm not overly surprised that tangents and long lists of names were needed.

A Series of Tangents

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