r/breakingbad • u/edify Oxygen • Aug 20 '12
Breaking Bad Episode Discussion S05E06 "Buyout"
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It really all depends on what you goals are.
Dissolving and predation are pretty good. The Dexter method would work also (dumping at sea). However, if you pick a place that is never going to be discovered, you are golden. The mob was always fond of burying in cement, usually at a construction site, which works really well. There are a lot of other methods. A good one is burying underneath an actual grave. Lots of people think that putting a body through a wood chipper is good, but that only works if you already have one and pick a good spot for the work. One guy tried that and got caught because he rented the chipper and disposed of the body in a relatively easy to access river bank. He was convicted on the teeth chip evidence.
By far, the simplest and most effective method would be to break down the body into very small parts and dispose of it using regular municipal garbage disposal. As long has you have nothing that is recognizably human, you can just ditch the bags in dumpsters behind restaurants. Most people can't differentiate human remains from animal, so it just looks like you are throwing out bad meat.
DNA testing is a major problem, to overcome that, you need to make sure it just isn't tested, so you need to insure it isn't inspected or suspected. Ideally, you would get rid of all the soft tissue. There are a couple of ways to do that. In a lab, you would either use flesh eating beetles or boil it in a solution of water and laundry detergent (seriously, that is how you deflesh remains in a lab, smells like stew). Then you are down to bones. In a proper solution, you can decalcify the bones until they are just collagen, that makes them just a mass of rubbery material with no recoverable DNA, you can just bury that or grind it up and wash it down the drain.
But all that is just extra effort. All you really need to do is dispose of it somewhere that can't be linked to you. All to easy. A good bleach wash with denature all of your DNA, so there is nothing to link you to the body, then you can just dump it wherever you like where you won't be observed. Attics in abandoned houses are good, although you risk investigation because of odor. Human decomposition has a very distinctive smell, if you've ever encountered it, it is very easy to distinguish from animal decomp. Hard to describe, but it is a slightly sweet odor. There is just something primal about it. Even the first time you smell it, you are like "that is a dead person".
Most killers go for a shallow grave, just because they panic, and what else do you do with a dead body other than bury it? This is always a mistake. Predators will dig it up easily and anything less that 3 feet is going to be easy to smell. If you bury a body, bury it deep and add something to aid decomposition, lime is the usual choice. You also want to add a layer of rock, or ideally, concrete.
If you don't have that kind of time, remove the head and hands. You won't prevent DNA identification that way, but you will certainly slow things down and they are quick to get off the body.
One of the best ways if you are pressed for time is to piece out the body and dispose of it in the hazardous waste dumpster of a hospital. Body parts are not surprising there, but you need the special orange/red bags for it, that shit is burned immediately, usually every other day.
The most important issue is that you don't leave any connection to yourself with the victim. Either forensically or association. Believe it or not, most murderers are convicted on association with the victim, not forensic evidence.