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Re: Hiding the Bodies
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The public are easy to get rid of - put someone in something like a cleaners' or security uniform out the front, close the doors, and have that person just tell everyone "Sorry, the toilets are closed for cleaning, the nearest alternative is just over there." [pointing to them]. As long as they can't see blood and/or body parts that's the public solved. Quote:
If you've done the killing right (so there's nothing of you on the body), weighting it and dumping it off a bridge a good distance from the scene of the murder on a quiet night is still good. But the big thing is making sure the cops don't look at you in the first place.
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10-08-2018, 06:03 PM | #22 |
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Location: God's Own Country
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Re: Hiding the Bodies
Contact: Ex-adventurer crematorium manager, Absolutely reliable, 15-. Not that expensive given the alternative.
In a secret magic campaign, I'd get the ashes and scatter them on the victim's yard or carpet for divinations to find, and wear a mask while doing so.
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10-08-2018, 06:06 PM | #23 |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Reykjavík, Iceland
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Re: Hiding the Bodies
My answer is generally the same as johndallman's. Though in the games I've played where we played special ops as I recall we didn't bother trying to hide the bodies since we'd already gone in with with lots of noise and explosions that made it readily apparent that lots of violence had just occurred.
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10-08-2018, 06:15 PM | #24 |
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Re: Hiding the Bodies
Last time I was in a modern game and the party generated corpses, I had access to miracles to dispose of them. On one occasion I made one into flower seeds and grew a silhouette of the body in daffodils, on another I arranged it as ~180 lbs of guano on a car that irritated me.
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10-08-2018, 06:23 PM | #25 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: Hiding the Bodies
Realistically, it's not that hard to dispose of a body and not get caught; it happens moderately often, particularly if they aren't the sort of people whose disappearance gets a lot of public attention. However, if you keep doing it, eventually you get caught.
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10-08-2018, 07:15 PM | #26 | |
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10-08-2018, 07:55 PM | #27 |
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Iceland*
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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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10-09-2018, 01:37 AM | #29 | |
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Any attempt to dispose of the body in such a public place is much more likely to get you arrested with the body than help in any way. If you need to do anything beyond walking away, it's worry about surveillance video, but that's something you need to keep in mind coming and going at all times and it may not be practical to just erase it as in the old days (because there is no guarantee that the 'tape', actually digital recordings, will be on site or accessible to anyone other than employees of a third party security company).
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10-09-2018, 04:44 AM | #30 |
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Re: Hiding the Bodies
The reliability and admissibility of video evidence is a constantly evolving topic in the field of criminal justice. While the general consensus is that video evidence helps support physical forensics evidence, the problem is that contemporary technology can allow people to alter video data in a fashion that leaves traces that are quite difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish from normal recording errors. If the system used to record the digital video was connected to the Internet on any level, a good defense attorney can create reasonable doubt about its authenticity by suggesting that the video file could have been altered/planted by third parties to incriminate their client in order to hide the identity of the 'real' killer.
Of course, even physical forensics evidence is not perfect. Familial DNA matches may incriminate the wrong relative, fingerprints have a 1:64 million chance of being being identical, and stuff like bite marks and palm prints are pretty much considered to be the pseudoscience of forensic evidence right now. This is why prosecutors usually prefer a plea deal, especially when they have suspects who have the resources for a decent defense lawyer, as they know that most criminal trials depend on a good story rather than on good evidence, and a decent defense lawyer only has to convince one juror that the story told by their side is better than the story told by the prosecution. |
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