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Old 10-08-2018, 07:55 PM   #27
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Default Re: Hiding the Bodies

Obviously, whether or not it's practical or necessary to hide or dispose of bodies depends heavily on what links the PCs to the victims. If the victims are their wives, parents, other family, lovers, known associates or people with whom they have a well known violent history, well, then yes, it might make sense to prolong their time around the crime scene and their chance of immediate exposure in return for making the crime harder to discover at all, delaying investigation and minimising any potential evidence from the remains.

On the other hand, if there is no preexisting relationship between the PCs and victim and the method used for the killing does not seem likely to have splattered biological evidence from the PCs over the victim, it may be safer overall to simply walk away immediately and dispose of the murder weapon. Assuming, of course, that the crime scene has no connection to the PCs either.

CSI to the contrary, there really isn't much investigators can do with a gunshot victim dead at the scene unless there was a witness. Any forensic evidence gathered from a bullet is pretty much moot if the weapon is never found and was never used in a crime before. And whatever the body can tell investigators is irrelevant to the PCs if they have no connection to the person that the authorities can uncover.
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