The Man Who Read Stories From Bones

From the New York Times:

With ghoulish geniality, Clyde Snow liked to say that bones made good witnesses, never lying, never forgetting, and that a skeleton, no matter how old, could sketch the tale of a human life, revealing how it had been lived, how long it had lasted, what traumas it had endured and especially how it had ended.
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“Bones can be puzzles,” he told The New York Times in 1991, “but they never lie, and they don’t smell bad.”
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“Witnesses may forget throughout the years, but the dead, those skeletons, they don’t forget,” he told The Times in 2002. “Their testimony is silent, but it is also very eloquent.”

No doubt he was an inspiration to Kathy Reichs, who is a forensic anthropologist and the novelist who wrote the books on which the TV show Bones is based on.

And for a Dolly Parton song to go with it: