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GRAND JUNCTION — The nation’s first high-altitude corpse research center may be back on track.
Mesa State College is trying to acquire a new site for its proposed “body farm.” It’s a forensic research site where donated corpses are left to rot. Forensics researchers then study decomposition of the bodies to assist in police investigations.
The body farm would be the fifth in the U.S. and the first located in a higher-altitude, semi-arid climate.
Some neighbors complained about the original site Mesa State proposed, and the school pulled that plan in March. Now college officials say they have a new site in mind, this one a mile from the nearest homes.
