Why go to that kind of trouble to prevent identification? Wouldn’t it be far easier to just bury the body in a deep grave or weight it down and dump it in a body of water where it would never be found?
Sounds like a SATANIC RITUAL..................
“Why go to that kind of trouble to prevent identification?”
Well, my first thought is that the killer probably was not a stranger to the victim. There is a connection there, otherwise there’s no reason to be so paranoid about leaving the body in an identifiable state.
Eventually a body will float after it starts to decay and fills with decomposition gasses. My former congressman’s father was murdered in 1972 and found washed up on the beach a few days later even thouh he was weighted down with concrete blocks.
The perpetrator seems to have WANTED this to be noticed, and is connected to the victim enough that he (fat chance of a she doing this type of thing) believed that if the body was identified, he’d be tied to the victim. And lo and behold the sheriff says that the recent id’ing points out persons of interest.
Article does not reveal some interest data, such as was the victim reported missing in Santa Barbara? Did the victim travel to Alabama or was he taken there? Connections to people who lived in the area the body was found?
If the killer was familiar with the area and had time, maybe they would have done that (too). At the time, I imagine fingerprints, footprints, and dental records would be the clues the killer was worried about law enforcement gathering. JM.02