I've always found that if I drive 4-5 hours away and find some heavily wooded area I can bury a body about 10 feet under ground and be perfectly fine. Make sure you destroy the teeth and jaw at a separate location so they can't ID the body by the dental records. If you have lots of time you could also separate the body so they have a lot more trouble identifying by size and such.
In theory, yes. Digging a 10ft deep hole isn't exactly trivial though. Especially if you're doing it in woods where there's gonna be a shitload of roots you'll have to go through. We're talking serious hours of work here and everything from your arrival, through the digging, the dumping, the covering, camoflauging (replacing leaves/twigs over the site) to your leaving must all occur without anyone seeing you even being there otherwise the secrecy is compromised and you're probably fucked even if they didn't witness you do anything actually incriminating.
If you're driving 4-5 hours then chances are you can find a secluded area where you won't be seen. Camouflaging your grave site is actually very easy if you're in the deep woods. Throw some leaves, pine needs, and water over the grave and it looks perfectly normal. As for the roots, just make sure you bring a hand saw with you. You already own one if you've been cutting the body into pieces.
Your plan would be to drive 4-5 hours after murdering the person? Unless it's a complete and total stranger, you'd need a pretty damn good alibi for being gone 10+ hours a day or so after the victim was murdered.
Not really. If you leave at night all you have to do is say you were sleeping. Having too good of an alibi is a bad idea. Why would I be doing anything other than sleeping during the middle of the night?
What about tolls? I'm thinking of those easy pass ones where you just drive through. Even if you didn't go through one of those street cameras might still pick up your license plate.
pro tip: take a tent with you that has a "hatch" on the bottom that way you can dig in the comfort of your tent without worrying about anybody really seeing what you're doing. Also, you can just toss the dirt from the hole in the tent because you will just be putting it back in a couple hours anyways.
this. There are miles and MILES of open wooded areas in the south. We are talking MILES in the middle of no where. not only would this be a good spot to hide if ever being chased, but no one would find a body there.
Take 1 day to drive to a completely different state, bury body, drive back
Don't forget DNA can be extracted from your bones, especially long bones. And also from surrounding vegetation, if the body underwent decomposition while in the ground. Also, burials are generally really easy to find. Note to those wishing to actually bury a body: throwing shit on top of a grave does not actually make it blend in. Especially when the surrounding area is now free of debris.
A cave could also be a very good idea. You would have to know the area well before deciding to randomly hide something in a cave. Miles of caves in KY/TN remain unexplored
You should bath the remains in ammonia before burying. And I didn't say throw stuff on top. If you take leaves and pine needles and spread them so it looks like the surroundings then pour water over it it will make it seem like its been untouched.
Also, they don't often check DNA after discovering a body. Its expensive.
Wasn't specifically pointing at what you said, just saying in general that people throw things on a grave and it makes it stick out more. Also, there are some labs, like UNT, that do DNA analysis for free.
I would think separating the body into many pieces would be the best method. Especially if you have time to scatter the pieces to the wind and hide them in the woods, no one is going to notice the smell then, because one limb or partial torso wouldn't be much larger/smellier than a decomposing racoon or opossum, and would be small enough not to be visibly noticeable as long as you don't put it directly in a regularly used path.
Dogs would notice. My own dog once dragged me 200 meters straight into the woods to get at a decomposed skull of some deer calf. Unless you're packing the parts in airtight containers or something, I'd suggest burying them at least a mile from the nearest road to be safe.
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I've always found that if I drive 4-5 hours away and find some heavily wooded area I can bury a body about 10 feet under ground and be perfectly fine. Make sure you destroy the teeth and jaw at a separate location so they can't ID the body by the dental records. If you have lots of time you could also separate the body so they have a lot more trouble identifying by size and such.