Best way to dispose of a body?

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KeithTalent

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Originally posted by: The_Dude8
Originally posted by: thepd7
Originally posted by: Arcadio
Originally posted by: K1052
You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together.

And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".

Damn you. I was going to post the same damn quote.

love that movie

What is the title of that movie?

Snatch.

KT
 

HybridSquirrel

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Originally posted by: K1052
You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together.

And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".

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coldmeat

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Originally posted by: rh71
but how do you people get it to the ocean in the first place? Not everyday someone drives a carpet out to the docks is it? I must be the only one without a boat too.

Cooler?
 

GagHalfrunt

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I've got a foolproof method refined through hundreds and hundreds of tests, but I'm not going to reveal it. The authorities would love that.
 

ryan256

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Originally posted by: K1052
You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together.

And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".

This...
I found new respect for Brad Pitt after seeing that movie.
 

rockyct

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lokiju

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The absolute best way I can think of would be to dump from something like a helicopter right into the middle of a lava pool.

Zero chance of ever finding that again.
 

mwmorph

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Go camping somewhere remote, nobody will ask questions if you have 1 large bag among many, especially if it looks like the rest of your camping gear.

Trek fairly far from the campsite and spend all day digging a hole.

Bury body, preferably in pieces for easier digging.

Profit?
 

TwiceOver

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If you work for a meat packing plant such as John Morell in Sioux Falls, SD. You are golden.
 

StinkyPinky

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Pretty easy here in Nevada. Just rent an all terrain vehicle and go into the desert a 100 miles from a nearby road and dump it under a rock. The animals will do the rest.
 

chuckywang

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First, be smart from the very beginning. 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 ass 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. I don't reommend that disposal method, I'm just saying an easily identifiable body is an even bigger threat than the opposite.

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. Do this in a tub. Plug the drain, and mingle lots of bleach with the bodily fluids before unplugging the drain to empty the tub. This should help control the stench of death, which would otherwise reek from your gutter gratings. Do everything you can to control odors. Plug in an ionizer, burn candles, leave bowls of baking soda everywhere. Ventilate the room in the middle of the night, but otherwise keep it closed. Keep the body under a plastic sheet while it's in the tub.

If you want to bury, I recommend seperating the body into several parts, and burying them seperately. For one thing, it's easier to dig a deep enough hole for a head than for an entire body. this reduces your chances of being discovered while you are actually outside and digging the grave.
That is the one thing you can't do inside the doors of your house, and represents a vulnerable moment you want to keep brief, under 2 hours. Do it between 3 and 5 am. It's also less likely for someone to call the police if their dog digs up some chunk of meat, than if they dig up an enitre body. They may assume it's an animal carcass disfigured by decomposition, and leave it alone or dispose of it. It's also more likely that the dog will consume all of it before anyone knows the difference. A whole skeleton is another story. You can cut a body into 6 pieces faster than you think. It's not much different than boning a chicken, but it takes more work, a big knife, and time. A hammer will be useful for pulverizing joints or driving the knife deep where it doesn't want to go. Anyway it's wise to crush as much of the skeleton as you can along the way. It will aid in making the body less identifiable for what it is as it decomposes.

Don't return to the same site 6 times for 6 burials.You'll attract suspicion from anyone nearby, and you'll wind up placing the body parts close enough together to be found by any serious investigation. Put them in plastic bags with lots of bleach, and store in a freezer until you have enough time to bury them all.

Depending on what tools you have available, you may find that you're get really good at deconstructing the body. You might prefer to slowly sprinkle it down a drain without leaving your house. This avoids the long-term risk of discovery associated with burial, and the overwhelming supply of bacteria in a sewer accellerates deconomposition, whil e providing a convenient cover smell.

Truly grinding down a body takes a lot more work, and you run the risk of fouling your plumbing and calling in a plumber. So don't try it unless you know how to clear bones and meat out of a drainpipe. A good food processor can be useful. But don't over-use it, or power drills or saws. They're noisy and they attract attention. And forget the kitchen sink. It's better if you actually remove one of the toilets in your house from its base, which will give you direct access to one of the largest sewer pipes that enters your house. Follow any disposals with lots of bleach and then run the water for 5 or 10 minutes on top of that. And plug that pipe when you're not using it, to prevent any sewer gasses from backing up into your house. Usually, a U-trap inside the toilet does that for you.
 

BoomerD

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I could tell ya, but then I'd have to kill ya...and I'm already up to my neck in bodies that need disposing...
 

KillerCharlie

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Originally posted by: newb111
Furnace, then put the ashes into the ocean.

That's not how it works... when someone gets cremated they have a machine that crushes and pulverizes the bone. If you throw someone in a furnace you'll be left with a skeleton.
 

b0mbrman

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Originally posted by: newb111
Furnace, then put the ashes into the ocean.

This is my inclination, but what about the smell?

[Edit] Ah yes...bones. It seems like bones would always be the biggest hurdle. The rest would get eaten (or composted) relatively quickly
 

SonnyDaze

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Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
Having buried a guinea pig, cat, two dogs, and a horse. I'm going to go with a backhoe. Shovels and picks work for dogs, but the horse really needed a back hoe.

A horse? Holy crap!! I thought I had it hard digging a six foot hole for a cat....damn.

 

iGas

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Originally posted by: b0mbrman
Originally posted by: newb111
Furnace, then put the ashes into the ocean.

This is my inclination, but what about the smell?

[Edit] Ah yes...bones. It seems like bones would always be the biggest hurdle. The rest would get eaten (or composted) relatively quickly
It is going to take a bit more than your average furnace to incinerate bones, because calcium melt at 839+/-2 °C