Editor’s note: This story contains sensitive images of human remains.
WHEN DR. GREGORY HESS, chief medical examiner at Tucson, Arizona’s Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner, offered to show me around the facility at the end of June, I didn’t expect to end up in a parking lot at the back of a semi-trailer. As Hess pushed open the trailer’s long bar lock, I noticed a paper sign taped to the metal door, the letters “B.B.T.” hand-drawn in bone-shaped lettering. “The Bone Box Trailer,” Hess explained.
He opened the door and pulled out an access ladder. “Don’t be a risk management problem,” he deadpanned
