College students in Ohio seek to solve murdered pigs mystery AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Sitting in a shallow grave and using a tongue depressor to scrape congealed fat off a foul-smelling pig carcass, University of Akron student Paige Dobbins is in hog heaven. The mystery is part of the Forensic Archaeology Field School, a joint UA-Kent State course that mixes archaeology and forensic anthropology. Two Lindas are behind the innovative class— Linda Whitman, UA instructor and community archaeologist, and Linda Spurlock, Kent State assistant professor of anthropology. Not only do Whitman and Spurlock have to devise a detailed backstory about how the pigs were killed, they have to create a crime scene and make sure there are enough clues left behind. Class starts with the students surveying the crime scene and finding clues. [...] the clues and bones are gathered, identified and placed in bags, the mystery will shift to the classroom, where the students will wash the bones and start to piece together all the clues.