Specifically, what does dumping lime on a body do? I have always assumed that when I saw this in a movie, it was to keep the body from decomposing so the scent wouldn’t lead animals/investigators from digging it up. But if I’m trying to hide evidence, don’t I want the body to decompose? What’s a hitman to do?
BTW, this is just a hypothetical question.
Lime is caustic, it will speed up the process of the body’s disintegration.
By the way, if you ever find yourself in a situation where you have an inconvient body you need to dispose of quickly, there’s a handy-dandy service in most communities for that sort of thing. Like information (“411”) they have their own special three-digit phone number: 911. Just dial that number and tell them all about your little dilemma, and someone will be over to help you out right away!
Hey, alright, 911… let me write that down. You’d think the police would catch on to a service like that after a while.
Is there any reason lime would be more useful than say, Drano?
Thanks, Gaspode. I can finally allow myself to succumb to the effects of the NyQuil and fall into the waiting arms of Morphius who beckons me to a tranquil slumber.
Oh, well. I guess I wouldn’t make a very good serial killer/war criminal, huh?
Another promising career idea down the drain…
On a more cheerful note, I grew up in a small market town that had a number of claims to fame of which perhaps the most notable was as the home of one Percy Bysshe Shelley (Poet).
Another nearby resident came to trial in 1949, was a John George Haigh – commonly referred to as ‘The Acid Bath Murderer’. My surviving Granny remembers the day of his first court appearance in the small town Court.
Fromhere:
“Finally, and probably most difficult of all, was the traceless disposal of the body (vats of industrial acid). It was Haigh’s mistaken (and arrogant) belief that a corpse could be completely disposed of via the acid. Unfortunately for Haigh, certain parts of the human body are more resilient to attack than most people realise, either by their very nature (such as teeth and bone) and artificial items (such as dentures) and are usually picked up as trace evidence by forensic experts. Haigh’s false assumption that murder could not be proved without the body was to have lead to his downfall.”
All in a days work, I suppose.
excitableboy is you name IRL Gary Condit?
Ya know, that’s the first time since 9/11 that I’ve heard/seen Gary Condit’s name come up… Funny how what was deemed as newsworthy is now so petty, isn’t it?
Well, you could bury it. Then you could dig up its grave and build a cage with its bones…
There’s a self-help book for everything.
From the jacket blurb:
*Being forced to kill somebody in justifiable self-defense carries with it the very real possibility of being prosecuted by a corrupt, incompetent “justice” system. A.R. Bowman has some wild, tongue-in-cheek answers to this dilemma in his outrageous study of the dark art of free-lance corpse disposal. Explore all of the delicate options, as well as the gruesome “how-to” details. For entertainment purposes only! *
go out buy a glass tub and 20 car batteries , empty the acid into the bath and place body , and throw the slush in the river or lake or down the drain ,
or (from suicide methods) break into a car repair place they usually have acid baths for some unknown reason , which is STRONG acid dump the body into it and the body dissolves , the mechanic comes the next morning sees a broken window or what ever and things damned kiddies and walks past the already murky acid bath not batting an eye
course remove any glass items from them first
Maybe you could call some Teamster thugs and ask them how they took care of that Hoffa problem…
Or maybe you could weasel some hints out of a certain California congressman.
Cut body up, bury, plant tree on top of it.
Or, put in large box(sealed up well), and mail with insufficiant postage, and no return address. That way, it ends up in the dead letter office.
Seen on T-shirt
Friends help you move
Real Friends help you move bodies
excitableboy asked:
Build a cage with the bones. I thought that part was obvious.
Btw, I have the book in Bossk’s link, and I was disappointed by it. Most of the methods listed so far, plus a couple of others that I’ve used^H^H^H^Hthought up, are deliberately avoided because they are “impratical or excessively grotesque.” Well, duh, why do you think I bought the book?
I found this to be true. One day, my beloved Great Dane decided to explode for no apparent reason(actually, it was bloat, but nobody told me that Danes did that sort of thing). He was outside playing with my other dog one evening, and when I went out to let him in, he was laying on the porch, very dead, and well, I’ll spare you the gore, but it wasnt pretty. I called my sisters vet(she is in th greyhound rescue deal, so she has her vets home phone number), and she said told me that some times this sort of thing happens to danes, and since it went so fast, there wouldnt have been anything I could of done about it.
Then came the question, what does one do with a 160 pound dead great dane. Luckily my wife and kid had just left town that day, so they didnt have to see it. But here I am, with a bad back and a huge dead animal that I am was extremely attached to. I mean, you can’t really flush him down the toliet, or put him in a trash bag.
SO I called my Bass player, who was also a Dog lover, and got his answering machine. I called one of my best friend who lives about 30 miles away, and he said he would help, but that he couldnt come till tomorrow morning, the kids were in bed(it was about 11 pm. I put the other dog in the house, and went to bed and tried to sleep(yeah right).
The next morning, I got up and drove to my friends house. We stopped at walmart, and got a shovel, a big blue plastic tarp, and a big bottle of amonia to kill the smell so the other dog wouldnt dig it up, and a jug of bleach to sanatize everything. By the time we got back, it was already well over 100 degrees outside, and the dog had been out there for way too long. There was a nasty note on my front door frome the animal control, about my dead animal. Apparently one of my neighbors had looked over the fence. I call them up and explain that yes, my dog was dead, and that I was taking care of it as fast as I could. My friend throws the tarp over the remains, and we proceed to try and dig a hole. In my neighborhood in texas, you can go down about 3 inches and then you hit rock. I found this out that day. There was no way in hell we were digging a hole deep enough to bury that dog in. About this time, my bass player shows up and suggests we call the city. Since I’m pretty out of it by this time, he calls, and I can hear him telling the people that they need to bring at least 2 guys to be able to move this thing. THey tell him that we have to get it out to the curb first. SO…they find a big piece of cardboard, fold the dog, tarp and all up in the thing like a big taco, and duct tape it up. they manage to drag him down to the street as best they could without gagging from the smell, and deposite him curbside. My bass player goes back to clean up the porch, hoses it down with bleach. At some point he runs out of bleach, so he decides to dump the whole bottle of amonia onto the bleach already on the porch. My friend and I wander back around the house to see how hes doing, and hes staggering around from the fumes pouring off the porch. We see the empty amonia and bleach bottles, and drag out into the fresh air. (it was really a close call, because we were all out of tarps, and I don’t think animal control picks up bass players anyway).
THe animal control guy finally shows up, but insists in unpacking the dog before he takes it away. We left, locked up the house and got the hell out of there before he got it cut open.
Now those were real friends…
Didn’t you see the 1950s William Castle film House on Haunted Hill (starring Vincent Price)? You build a big vat in your basement and fill it with acid. Put a big trapdoor on top so you don’t actually fall in. Great for disposing of old rats and unwanted spouses, especially if you’ve got a skeleton puppet.
I don’t know if this showed up in the recent remake, but it should’ve.
Good call on the lime. by the wa. I think Bergan Evans wrote about the non-dissolution of bodies under lime back in The Natural History of Nonsense back in the 1940s.
If you live near the ocean, try this. First, you get yourself a 55 gallon steel drum and a boat. Put the body in the drum, then fill it with concrete. Then you take the boat out a few miles (all the way to international waters is best) and hoist it over the side.
Not that I know anything about disappearing bodies…
Wrong, you wise-guy wannabe.
A body in a 55 gallon drum, even filled with cement, will float to the surface.
As the body decomposes, internal gases will be generated.
History shows it will be enough to, shall we say, raise the dead. 
Just cut it up, bag it, & dump it in the trash. A large dumpster in a remote area. Nobody checks the garbage.
But, check for security cameras first.
This post for entertainment purposes only, you bet.