# Getting rid of the body **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 25, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-the-body/760883 "2016-07-25T20:17:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-the-body/760883/21 "2016-07-26T10:56:07Z")
Take it out to a deep part of the ocean, weight it down, and just drop it overboard. Even if the cops know exactly where you dumped it, they probably don’t have the resources to go after it. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-the-body/760883/22 "2016-07-26T11:08:59Z")
There’s a scene in [Molôn Labé!](http://www.javelinpress.com/molon_labe.html) where someone had to dispose a body. He dug a hole in the ground, poured 50 gallons of Drano in the hole, threw the body in it, and then filled it in. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-the-body/760883/23 "2016-07-26T11:35:49Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > With enough acid I expect you could completely liquefy a body. Not always, apparently. They found gallstones and part of an identifiable denture in the sludge that was all that remained of the final victim of Haigh, the “Acid Bath Murderer” of the 1940s. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-the-body/760883/24 "2016-07-26T14:53:59Z")
> [@drewder](#): > > You don’t know how long it’ll take them but they will know exactly where you dumped the remains. Your job is to prevent them from being able to prove that any body was ever there. In that case I’ll go wood chipper combined with a trans-Atlantic crossing. A little chum would do you. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-the-body/760883/25 "2016-07-26T15:01:01Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > There’s a scene in [Molôn Labé!](http://www.javelinpress.com/molon_labe.html) where someone had to dispose a body. He dug a hole in the ground, poured 50 gallons of Drano in the hole, threw the body in it, and then filled it in. So does Costco sell Drano in those large quantities? ---
**Author:** ![jayrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jayrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayrey)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-the-body/760883/26 "2016-07-26T18:04:48Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > 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.” Do we want to know how it is that you know all of this so precisely? No, I didn’t think so. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-the-body/760883/27 "2016-07-26T18:05:45Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Well, thank you for that. That’s a great weight off my mind. Now, if you wouldn’t mind telling me who the fuck you are, apart from someone who feeds people to pigs of course? See post #18 for the reference. 🐖 ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-the-body/760883/28 "2016-07-26T20:53:11Z")
Drop it into a subduction zone, a tectonic plate boundary where one section of crust is driven down under another. Notable subduction zones include the Marianas Trench and (a bit more accessible) the Sumatra Trench. When it next returns to the surface whatever elements once composed it will be magma + steam or groundwater. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-rid-of-the-body/760883.md?page=1)