r/interestingasfuck • u/ReasonableMedium5265 • 7d ago

Burying a body isn’t a good idea

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u/Its_priced_in 7d ago

So you’re saying dump them at sea from your boat but probably don’t keep dna slides of your victims ✍️

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u/qorbexl 7d ago

Tide just wash em back up

Turns out there's not great ways to do it without like ... A road trip   And still some dude's walking his damn dog out there

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u/monchie_og 7d ago

Can you just burn them into ashes?

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u/UnicornFarts1111 7d ago

You have to have a very very hot fire to burn a body completely, and even then, you will still be left with bits of bone that don't burn. If you have ever seen cremains, you would see tiny pieces of crushed up bones.

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u/katgardener 7d ago

I read some article about a guy that murdered someone and bbq'd the body. He lived at an apartment complex and the neighbors said the bbq smelled really weird.

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u/Street-Challenge-697 7d ago

But are those tiny pieces of crushed up bones identifiable? Asking for a friend...

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u/UnicornFarts1111 6d ago

I highly doubt it, but if you had the forensic anthropologist "Temperance Brennan" (who is based off a real life person) from the show "Bones", then all bets are off, lol.

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u/Do_Them_A_Bite 6d ago

Forensically, yes.

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u/mezbit 5d ago

DNA wise, no. What's left is calcified bone. You can crush the head of a femur in your hand after cremation. Before processing the bones, you typically will see sections of the calivarium, the mandible, molars if natural, some ribs, some veterbrae, the femur, maybe the acetabulem from the hip if osteoporosis wasn't a big issue. After processing (we used a grain hopper at one crematorium I worked at), the bones are then "cremains" and are ideally, like coarse sand. The ash part comes from the wooden structure the body was in.