Comments on: The Mafia Was Wrong: You Can't Quickly Dissolve a Body in Acid

By: Andreas Krab Fernström

Andreas Krab Fernström — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:33:00 +0000

Damnit, I remember this acid from Breaking Bad, damnit damnit damnit i wished to be able to get rid of the stinking shit lying under my bed :/(

By: Chemist-in-training

Chemist-in-training — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:25:23 +0000

Seriously, AAFS.. Like the smart people above noted, if the pig doesn’t dissolve in minutes, you’re not doing it right. Applied heat did you? Consentrations and volumes appropriate? Maybe sulfuric acid doesn’t work, but I’d like to know how much you tried to make it work.

By: shadegem

shadegem — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:30:50 +0000

Or a historian for that matter, since aqua regia alone has been known since midieval times to dissolve “royal” or rather most metals and tissues when it was made by alchemists.

By: Jane

Jane — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:45:51 +0000

H2O2 + H2SO4
NaOH + H2O2
Aqua regia
Chromic acid

Ways to clean labware, gets rid of organic materials.

They should hire real chemists to do their studies.

By: Lou

Lou — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 04:50:56 +0000

Seems like Coca-Cola might be even better – didn’t I read about it dissolving steak bones? (;

By: john

john — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 04:16:20 +0000

You soak something in acid and it turns to dust?

some sort of dry acid?

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:44:48 +0000

Wasn’t there a case in Mexico recently? A guy who used to work for the drug cartels confessed. He had been disposing of bodies in barrels of some caustic compound. I think they said he’d been a part of more than 3 dozen murders.

It was tragic. Families with missing family members were coming to the crime scene. No one could (or would) tell them anything.

By: Number6

Number6 — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:45:06 +0000

Add hydrogen peroxide and it’ll work brilliantly. This is widely used in the semiconductor industry. Apparently there are no chemists in the AAFS.

By: Dutch follew

Dutch follew — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:50:36 +0000

Didn’t they chop the corpses to pieces? Bon apetit by the way.

By: plutosdad

plutosdad — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:32:05 +0000

Is he saying the pigs are smarter than some Georgia criminals? I believe it, pigs are pretty smart.

I read about Afro Set doing this in Ohio with many of the people they murdered (especially this one woman who ran part of it), but it was barrels of lye. The FBI found bodies years later which were not completely dissolved but were the consistency of ballistics gel, making forensic analysis impossible.