“While waiting for human donors, researchers studied deceased pigs, which are considered the best animal proxy for human decomposition due to similarities in bleeding, body fat, skin, and microbiome.”
https://washingtonian.com/2025/04/07/human-decomposition-has-been-a-mystery-until-now/
When former Prince William County homicide investigator Emily Rancourt (left) first proposed the body farm to George Mason forensic-science head Mary Ellen O’Toole, O’Toole looked at Rancourt “like she had two heads.”
