Better yet, find a graveyard that digs its graves the night before the service (and isn’t well-guarded at night), and under cover of darkness, bury the body in the bottom of the hole, so the coffin of the grave’s actual occupant will go on top of it the next day.
Apparently, short of total destruction of the body the main ideas fall into: a place where no one will look until after your natural life expires; rendering the corpse to a form that’s unrecognizable as a human body
I suppose that a combination of these two would be even better.
Perhaps if the chippered body had been disposed of in a concrete slab.
There’s the deep wilderness, the open ocean, outer space, under a building,
There’re acid and base combos, wood chippers, rock crushers,
Dennis Nilsson kept his victims under the floorboards for a while, then cut them up and flushed them down the loo.
He was caught by a plumber who found body parts in the outside sewer lines.
Yes, but acidic conditions are relatively frequent in nature so our body has built up somewhat of a tolerance to it(we’re slightly acidic on a whole), so I find that bases, such as Sodium Hydroxide work better. That’s why lye works so well.
However if I’m going to dispose of a body, it’s going into a radioactive decay barrel with some radioactive waste. Nobody’s going to check that thing for a century. :eek:
In a quote by the first supraliminal, it was written, “When bone and flesh had been reduced to a sludge-like mess, he poured the gooey residue onto the dirt surface of an open yard behind the building.”
So, a sludge-like mess is still left behind, which could still be used to identify the remains, right? Which means dissolving a body in acid is still not a good idea, no?
With burying, wouldn’t the body still be detectable if it’s not buried deep enough, especially if a dog is used in the search?
(Best methods so far seem to be feeding it to pigs (although certainly not foolproof) and burying it in a cemetary.)
WRS
Do bases dissolve the body, clothes, and stuff like acid does? How do bases work destructively? (I’ve heard about harmful acids than harmful bases, so please forgive my ignorance.)
WRS
In the novel Molôn Labé! By Boston T. Party, a body was disposed of by submersing it in a grave filled with Drano. According to the narrative in the story, a body submersed in Drano would essentially disintegrate after 1 month.
I think PatriotX has the right idea: destroy and hide. Going on a boat ride and dumping the acid-sludgified body over a few hundred feet of water would probably do the trick.
I wonder about dumping body parts into molten steel, too. Would that destroy everything identifiable?
There is a thread that I can’t find from either 1999 or 2000 asking how Dopers would go about disposing bodies. Some of the answers were disturbingly well thought out.
You’d just end up with sludged up steel (or rather, Iron with extra carbon and other traces that would probably not make the steel very good).
Lots of bodies are just buried and never found again. You probably have a 80% chance of never being caught if you bury the body in a field without anyone seeing you.
acid and base combos
My chemistry teacher told us that between hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide (?) all that wouldn’t dissolve would be the gold fillings in your teeth. He then mixed the two together and drank it.
Lyme pits.
Winging it from what’s left of high school chemistry,
hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide =
HCl + NaOH which yield when combined HOH + NaCl
which = water and salt.
All he had to do was match the concentrations.
Cut up your body, bag up the remains, and put it in the garbage.
Chop into little bits with an ax, and then incinerate in a natural-gas burning furnace.
How hard would it be to build a small crematorium in your own home? Say you lived somewhere rural.
That’s why you have a little nitric acid around. Mix one part of that with 4 parts hydrochloric acid and you get aqua regia which will dissolve gold.
I hope he let it cool first.
Both are caustic substances(deending on the concentration, vinegar is dilute acetic acid), an acid is a proton donor, a base a proton receptor. (Well, really electon denisty, but let’s not get into that) Highly concentrated acids and bases are very reactive, breaking down most chemical bonds. Don’t expect to be melting through steel like Alien, however.
Recently I have been expanding into dumping them into fast food chilli con carne. Just a bit at a time though.
I’ve read a number of books on forensics (yeah, I’m morbid), and they pointed out that it’s harder to dispose of a body than it seems at first. Burning one takes hours, and the fire has to be kept at a high temperature to make a body unrecognizable as such (and pathologists/forensic anthropologists can identify cremains as human–little bone chips and teeth stick around). Cutting a body up is difficult because the tendons and ligaments are tough and there’s a lot of blood. Burying isn’t easy because of the size and depth of the hole that’s needed to keep animals and rain from uncovering it.
To me, the best bet seems to be dumping a body deep in the woods. Critters will munch on it and scatter the bones. Someone may find it eventually, but it’ll take a long time. My $.02 anyway.