"William Bass", "Bill Bass", or "Billy Bass" may refer to:

* William M. Bass, U.S. forensic anthropologist

* Sir William Bass, 2nd Baronet, steward of the Jockey Club

* William Bass (brewer), founder of Bass Brewery

* Bill Bass, Canadian football player

* Big Mouth Billy Bass, an animatronic fish

* Billy Bass Nelson, musician

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The maggots told you something, but the decay of the bodies told you something else.

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[At the time,] there was nothing much in the literature, ... So I asked the dean if I could have a small piece of land to put bodies on. That was the beginning of what has been 29 years of trying to figure out what happens to people. I think all we've done is scratch the surface.

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It was a need-to-know thing.

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No, ... That's just how it turned out.

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We have five of them down there for them, ... They excavate the burials and look for evidence that we put there.

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The university lawyers have a form they've made up.

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People will have alibis for certain time periods, and if you can determine death happened at another time, it makes a difference in the court case.

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Once a year, we have a memorial service.

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Most of the characteristics used to determine length of time since death are determined by insect activity, ... Occasionally, there will be no flies in a house, and maybe it's two weeks since the time of death before flies finally find a way in, and then there are two different rates of decay.

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