On another board, someone suggested that the perp(s) are playing word games: 1. the word "anchorage" might mean something to him/them, or suggest that the body has been "anchored down;" 2. the name Bass is associated with research on forensic science. The name Bass is not unusual, and the Bass family of AF is not believed to be any relation.
http://crime-scene-processing.suite101.com/article.cfm/forensic_anthropology
Could not be a just a coincidence. This murder was not merely the mad impulse of totally crazed & brutish stranger.
Are there any other names around the immediate area that might have meaning?
The latitude & longitude of the location of the body might also be symbolic: the latitude & longitude of Anchorage Farm itself according to the following site is 37.983631,-78.610791.
http://itouchmap.com/latlong.html
or roughly 38-79.
Could be code for a date that only means something to them; for example, March 8, 1979? Someone's birthday? Some event? Perhaps some event known locally.