What is the best method of disposing a body?
Now, I do not have a body to dispose of, but I am curious of which method is best to get rid of one without leaving any traces. Keep in mind that this is for a story that I am writing.
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isnodog say: Sense we're talking about a non human body that is already dead from natural cause ,road kill,old age, illness ect. And also, I'd check local and federal laws to see if it's legal or not and if it's a crime or not.
If a dead body we're to somehow find it's way on to a hog farm or feed lot such as a hog confinment. And then manage to work it's way into the holding pens or Corral's(zombie apocalypse).
It wouldn't be long until there is nothing left. Except for any DNA that could be found in the feces produced from said hogs.
Helping the cycle of life come round full circle.
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say: Okay. So why does your character have to do a good job at disposing the body. Maybe
your character is a screw-up who carries the body in a suitcase down main street at noon.
When the town hairdresser asks him what leaking from his bag, he says "Aw damn. So
that's where I put my 'pomegranate' juice.
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rahidz2003 say: Pulverize all teeth, burn off fingerprints, and disfigure the face. Forcing a DNA test to establish identity (if it ever comes to that) might introduce the legal/forensic hurdle that saves your *** down the line. An unidentifiable body can, in a pinch, be dressed in thrift store clothes and dropped in a bad part of town where the police are less likely to question it.
Assuming you have it inside a house where you can work on it a bit, the first thing you want to do is drain it of fluids. This will make it easier to cut up, and slow decomposition a little bit. The best way to do this quick and dirty is to perforate the body with a pointed knife, and then perform CPR on it. Cut the fronts of the thighs deep, diagonally, to slit the femoral arteries. Then pump the chest. The valves in the heart will still work when dead, and the springback of the ribcage can put apply a fair amount of suction to the artria.
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JazSinc say: Cremation.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-...
Note: I do not recommend committing crimes.
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say: I like the wood chipper used in Fargo.
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Sky say: Garbage disposal.
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Elaine M say: It would depend on what was accessable in the area for the killer.
Burying doesn't work now. In Wisconsin they located one with cadaver dogs on a farm -- the guy killed someone, wrapped them in a tarp, used a back hoe to dig down 20 feet, put the body there, added dirt then added a water tank on top of it and filled the remaining dirt in. The dogs still located it. Now if he'd buried a cow carcass OVER the body about 6 feet above it, that might have thrown off the dogs.
Acid isn't available everywhere, and you'd need barrels of it. On the TV show Dexter they covered things like dropping weighted bags over a deep sea trench, filling an oil barrel with concrete around the body (still able to be found by dogs as well as x-rays of the barrel) and many other ways. On one show someone even 'added' a body to the FBI Body Farm but that was found since all bodies there are recorded and checked weekly.
TV shows have also covered bodies being crushed in cars after being hidden in a trunk, shredded in paper shredders, picked up by garbage trucks, sunk in lakes (cadaver dogs can smell those VERY easily), mummified and shut up in walls of old houses, put under a rock slide, etc. etc. etc. They all seem to still turn up one way or another.
If it's left in a woods, there's the chance that a dog will find it and bring pieces home, like what happened in Minnesota when someone was out walking with their dog, he brought the owner a human skull. The police came and they followed the dog through the same area and located the body.
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billrussell42 say: I like the scene in the movie Fargo, the wood chipper. Then you can feed the pieces to pigs or burry them.
Other methods listed do not dispose of the bones.
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say: Don’t dump it in a ocean , bury in construction site or feed it to some pigs
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Hey say: Bury it under a new house being built before the house is built - (build house over the body) or bury it under something else being built, drop it in the ocean -way out, put it in acid
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