Obsessed with True Crime discussion

Dr. William Bass is the founder and lead researcher at the Bass Anthropological Research Facility, often known by its acronym (BARF). Dr. Bass tells a story about the case that spurred him on to start researching the science behind time-of-death determination, when he was farther off than he wanted when estimating the length of time a certain body had been deceased. How far off was Dr. Bass in that case?

A) 25 crucial days
B) A whole year off
C) 3 years off
D) 112 years off
E) 42,000 years off

D

A.

D) 112 years off

D is for DING DING DING! He determined that a newly-discovered body had been in the ground about a year. The body proved to have been a Civil War casualty killed 113 years earlier.