title: Whispers from the Wild: Stories from a Wildlife Center (AWF)
author: Jacqueline A. Carl
description: Co-authored by twin sisters Jacqueline Carl and wildlife veterinarian Janette Ackermann.
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  ## The Body Farm
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Kay Scarpetta - 5 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Patricia Cornwell
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Patricia Cornwell
  
  
  
  
  
  ## The Body Farm
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These
  see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
  
  
  
  
  
  Psalm 107:2324
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## 1
  
  
  
  
  
  On the sixteenth of October, shadowy deer crept to the edge of dark woods
  beyond my window as the sun peeked over the cover of the night.
  
  
  Plumbing above and below me groaned, and one by one other rooms went bright as
  sharp tattoos from ranges I could not see riddled the dawn.
  
  
  I had gone to sleep and gotten up to the sound of gunfire. It is a noise that
  never stops in Quantico, Virginia, where the FBI Academy is an island
  surrounded by Marines. Several days a month I stayed on the Academy's security
  floor, where no one could call me unless I wanted them to or follow me after
  too 