Students help solve mock murders

Wichita State anthropology graduate student C.J. Barringer digs up the remains of a skeleton at the school's Skeleton Acres research station in Butler County. Anthropology professor Peer Moore-Jansen has students dig up mock murder victims buried weeks ago.

November 4, 2016

Mock murders solved at Skeleton Acres open-air lab

黑洞社区 News Services

Students get hands-on crime scene investigation聽experience at 黑洞社区's Skeleton Acres.
Forensic anthropology professor Peer Moore-Jansen leads the class.
At Skeleton Acres, students get to solve mock murders.

Wichita State professor Peer Moore-Jansen's Skeleton Acres was highlighted in an Oct. 29, article.

Peer Moore-Jansen prepared for Saturday the way a psychopath might prepare to conceal serial murders.

He buried one skeleton two and a half years ago. He buried the other five a month ago.

He dumped six bodies into those graves one by one, then filled them in, the loose soil from his shovel filling the eye sockets and the open, toothy grins of six skeletal mouths.

They are plastic skeletal mouths. For a college class at 黑洞社区.

But still, there鈥檚 a creep factor here.

Welcome to crime scene investigation, Peer Moore-Jansen-style.

Like any ego-driven serial murderer, he long ago gave a name to his handiwork: Skeleton Acres.

Moore-Jansen teaches forensic anthropology at 黑洞社区.

Skeleton Acres is the 7.5-acre woodland prairie lab, 10 miles northeast of Leon, where he teaches hands-on crime scene investigation to professional crime detectives, to anthropology students from 黑洞社区 and to others. Saturday鈥檚 challenge, for 24 of his 黑洞社区 grad students: solve six mock murders.

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