Where Dead Men Really Do Tell Tales

摘要

Knoxville, Tennessee—Take one look at the half-naked middle-aged white man sprawled on a patch of gravel next to a wooded path, soaking up the summer sun, and you'd never know that a few weeks earlier he was wrestling with a weight problem. His leathery skin sags around his bones and is beginning to disintegrate. The muscles, organs, and other soft tissues are long gone, liquefied and consumed by bacteria and insects. Some of the flies buzzing around probably got their start as maggots that gnawed their way through the cadaver to the outside world.