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To: Rose in RoseBear
Can't they find bone fragments, even after incineration?

How about switching caskets at a funeral? Tricky to pull off, and you've still got a dead body, but at least it's not your victim.
14,413 posted on 03/12/2004 7:40:38 PM PST by JenB
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14,417 posted on 03/12/2004 7:43:42 PM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (Yawn.)
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To: JenB
Sure, there are bone fragments ... but it's durn hard to pull DNA out of cooked bone.

Or, you could use a funeral home's incinerator.

It's very hard to switch caskets. Once a funeral home gets a body, it's too memorable --- good funeral homes know what "Mr. So-and-so" looked like; they may have pictures from the family. After the body gets to the funeral home, it's too visible to swap --- too many people see it, touch it, wash it, dress and adorn it. And then there's the funeral. Plenty of cultures prefer an open-casket service, even cultures that don't have the casket open for the funeral have a wake or something where the deceased is on view. And, also, most modern caskets are locked. The keys are easy to get, but, still, that makes it hard to swap bodies.

You could, of course, swap bodies before the funeral home gets the body but after the identification has been made ... or after the graveside service. Posit a crooked gravedigger ...

14,431 posted on 03/12/2004 8:02:17 PM PST by Rose in RoseBear (HHD [... plot-plot-plot ...])
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