[chris]

Early on the morning of February 3, 1959, after a performance at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, the small four-passenger Beechcraft Bonanza took off from the Mason City airport during a blinding snow storm. It crashed into Albert Juhl’s corn field several miles after takeoff at 1:05 a.m. The crash killed all aboard: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Richardson and the 21-year-old pilot, Roger Peterson. In his 1971 hit song "American Pie," Don McLean referred to this crash in his song as "The Day the Music Died".

Richardson was survived by his wife and 4-year-old daughter. His son, Jay Perry Richardson, was born two months later in April 1959. At the time of his death, Richardson had been building a recording studio in his home in Beaumont, Texas, and was also planning to invest in the ownership of a radio station. He had written 20 new songs he planed to record himself or with other artists.

"The Big Bopper" Richardson suffered massive fractures and likely died immediately in the 1959 plane crash that also killed early rock 'n' rollers Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, a forensic anthropologist said Tuesday after exhuming the body.

The performer's son, Jay Richardson, hired Dr. Bill Bass, a well-known forensic anthropologist at the University of Tennessee, to look at the remains in Beaumont, Texas.

There have been rumors a gun might have been fired on board the plane and that the Big Bopper might have survived the crash and died trying to get help.

[Nyckname]

Waylon Jennings was in in Buddy Holly's band. He was supposed to be on the plane, but gave his seat to The Big Bopper.

[medicineman360]

Originally Posted by chris ↗

The performer's son, Jay Richardson, hired Dr. Bill Bass, a well-known forensic anthropologist at the University of Tennessee, to look at the remains in Beaumont, Texas.

*Old thread bump*

Dr Bass is the SHIT!!!! He's the man behind the Body Farm @ UT (which is, incidentally, right behind the UT medical center). Our former local forensic pathologist, Dr. Cleland Blake, was a colleague of Dr. Bass. I was fortunate to witness about 5 or 6 autopsies by Dr. Blake. He would tell stories about Dr Bass and the Body Farm in it's infancy. A truly fascinating person.

[güttsfükk]

Originally Posted by medicineman360 ↗

*Old thread bump*

Dr Bass is the SHIT!!!! He's the man behind the Body Farm @ UT (which is, incidentally, right behind the UT medical center). Our former local forensic pathologist, Dr. Cleland Blake, was a colleague of Dr. Bass. I was fortunate to witness about 5 or 6 autopsies by Dr. Blake. He would tell stories about Dr Bass and the Body Farm in it's infancy. A truly fascinating person.

i made this post about a book i bought by Dr Bill Bass before --> http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...dy-farm-11755/, there's an interesting little bit of documentary there too

[its me, derr]

I loved La Bamba

[medicineman360]

Originally Posted by parasyte ↗

i made this post about a book i bought by Dr Bill Bass before --> http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...dy-farm-11755/, there's an interesting little bit of documentary there too

At work, we take a lot of transfers to UTMC. Fortunately, you can't smell anything from there... even on the REALLY hot/humid days. (by "right behind the hospital", I mean there's a road in between the two). Once in a blue moon, we have to transport a body down to the facility for an autopsy. Talking about some creepy shit, they have educational posters on the wall that show the various stages of decomposition.

I studied anthropology at UT with the thoughts of going into forensic anthropology. That is, until I realized I had no desire to be around WAY dead bodies all the time. I like my bodies fresh.



PS - Did you know they store all the bones from all the cases IN THE INNER HALLWAYS of Neyland Stadium? (UT's football stadium)

[medicineman360]

Para... if you liked "Inside The Body Farm", then you should read "Death's Acre". I think it the book before the one you mentioned.




Amazon.com: Deaths Acre: Inside the Body Farm, the legendary forensic lab: William M. Bass, Jon Jefferson, Bill Bass, Patricia Cornwell: Books

[medicineman360]

OOH! I think the body farm should have it's own thread. I'll see what I can come up with!

[smackem]

Originally Posted by medicineman360 ↗

At work, we take a lot of transfers to UTMC. Fortunately, you can't smell anything from there... even on the REALLY hot/humid days. (by "right behind the hospital", I mean there's a road in between the two). Once in a blue moon, we have to transport a body down to the facility for an autopsy. Talking about some creepy shit, they have educational posters on the wall that show the various stages of decomposition.

I studied anthropology at UT with the thoughts of going into forensic anthropology. That is, until I realized I had no desire to be around WAY dead bodies all the time. I like my bodies fresh.



PS - Did you know they store all the bones from all the cases IN THE INNER HALLWAYS of Neyland Stadium? (UT's football stadium)

Interesting

[güttsfükk]

thanks for the recommendation, i havent read beyond the body farm yet. the one book I am really trying to track down though at the moment is ressler's first book before "i have lived inside the monster"

when you say they keep bones in the stadium, you mean they just have displays of bones along the hallways?