Body disposal

[kengr]

I was reading something with the typical "put the body in the hole before they pour the concrete bit.

This is practically a cliche, and the void that will result in the concrete could cause the foundation to fail. Which gets things looked at. Not good.

Then I recalled a scene I've seen in downtown Portland several times over the years when they were putting up skyscrapers. Piledrivers driving pilings for the foundations.

Now, I'm not certain how they start that process, but I'm assuming they dig a hole to act as a starter, then lower the piling in and start pounding on it to drive it deeper until it is deep enough (or hits bedrock).

So it occurred to me that dropping the body in the pilot hole, with a foot or two of dirt over it ought to work nicely,

Shouldn't take long for the body to be mush and bone chips. Even if anybody was going to dig down that for to look, I doubt there'd be much identifiable left.

Comments

[skjam]

Read a story a bit back where the criminal buries the corpse under a shallow hole that's going to be paved over as a tennis court. Only to find out the property owner's daughter changed her mind and now they're going to dig it out to be a swimming pool.

[kengr]

My thought is that if I could get enough of the right pigments (without the purchases being traceable, which is fairly difficult, alas)

I'd dig a hole somewhere isolate and half fill it with the thermite mix, dump in the body, fill the rest of the hole, insert the igniter and dump the dirt on top.

Then touch of the igniter.

Yeah, if somebody found the site, it'd be suspicious as all get out, but just *try* getting forensics on a chunk of iron with alumina slag on top.

You might be able to prove there'd been a body disposed off (via chemical analysis) but IDing it would be right out.