Jane Haskett Bock is a professor emerita in biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
[2] In 1982, a medical examiner approached Bock and asked her to identify the food plants in the stomach of a murder victim.
[citation needed] Bock was featured in an episode of Forensic Files in which she helped police catch a killer by identifying a strain of grass that was found at the crime scene, on the body, and on the suspect’s shoes.
By proving that the grass from all the sources was identical, she helped police link the suspect to the crime and convict the murderer.
After their time at the "Research Ranch" in Arizona, Bock and her husband published a book in 2000 about their work, The View from Bald Hill.