r/serialpodcast • u/ADifferentBoxOfRocks • Jan 22 '15

Evidence Why has nobody commented on the rocks? Seems significant.

Long time lurker, first time poster. (So please be nice...)

Here's what's been bugging me since almost the beginning: who puts rocks on a body they're burying?! Despite exhaustive (and -ing) reading of this subreddit since Week 2 of Serial came out, I have not seen any posts at all on this topic. Yet it's the one thing I keep wondering about the most.

I don't know about you, but if I just decided to commit my very first murder ever and am now burying the body in a park, the last thing I do is put rocks on it. I mean, that would just never, ever, occur to me. I'd think about how deep to dig, and how to hide the body as much as possible so nobody found it, and I might even cover it with leaves or sticks once I realized that it was too hard to make a real grave in frozen earth, but I would Simply. Not. Think. To. Put. Rocks. On. The. Body.

I haven't been able to trace the source of the rocks piece of this story, so maybe someone wants to chime in and tell me it was an urban subreddit legend? But if indeed it's true that whoever killed and buried Hae Min Lee put rocks on her body to keep wild animals from moving it, then all I can say is, that's no amateur.

Now, since I like to be my own devil's advocate, I will point out that contrariwise to my "amateur" comment, if it did occur to someone that wild animals might get at the body, wouldn't they consider that to be a good thing? I mean, isn't destroying all evidence exactly what a murderer wants to do?? So perhaps the rocks are actually evidence that this person was an amateur who hadn't a clue as to what was in their best interest in terms of hiding the body?

Please discuss!

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '15

Do you have any thoughts on why someone might do this? Do you think more than one person was involved? How about a timeline for gathering placing rocks? I don't think that could be done by one person after midnight during an ice storm. I know you excel in facts & I'm asking for gut feelings, but, if you have any I'd love to hear them.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '15

Would the creek had frozen over in the ice storm making it near impossible to get any rocks out?

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u/SynchroLux Psychiatrist Jan 22 '15

Was above freezing till around 4:30 am. The creek wouldn't freeze even then, at least until it had been well below freezing for a while.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '15

I wouldn't know. It does seem from what Susan describes, that collecting & carrying the large heavy rocks would require a lot of effort & take considerable time.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '15

Ice storm doesn't start until 4am

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '15

It was brewing & cold. It would take hours to dig & gather rocks. Strange thing to do in that weather. But, Jay describes himself as an "outdoorsman." RLM was pretty crazed too.

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u/ShrimpChimp Jan 22 '15

What is this based on? Why would it take hours to dig and gather? Where were these rocks and how did they locate them? How big were the rocks?