Bones: Buried Deep

A Note From the Author

I would like to thank Lieutenant Chris Kauffman, CLPE, Bettendorf Police Department, Bettendorf, IA, for his expert input; and Lieutenant Paul Van Steenhuyse, Scott County Sheriff’s Department, Scott County, IA, for Patriot Act information.

Researcher/co-plotter Matthew V. Clemens wishes to acknowledge Stefan Schmitt, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, for his forensic archeology workshop at the IAI conference.

Also helpful were Michele Kuder and Mary Kay Majot from the Dorothy Buell Memorial Visitor Center, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana, generously sharing information about the Indiana Dunes Inland Marsh and related subjects.

I also wish to thank Kathy Reichs for sharing her anthropological expertise. And thank you to Scott Shannon for bringing us together, and to editor Jennifer Heddle; and also to the producers and writers of the Fox television series Bones, for sharing materials and providing inspiration.