[Airbornemama]

Was his body made of gasoline!?! Geesh that burnt all the way through!!

[Billthegravedigger]

Anyone else see something very wrong with this picture ? I understand that he was killed somewhere else, but I think he was set ablaze somewhere else.

Look at how charred his body is, it is burned right down to the bone in some places. That took a lot of heat for a fair amount of time for him to look that way.

However, look at the water weeds around him. If he was set ablaze in that very spot long enough to be burned all the way to his bones, I would think those watweeds be be consumed as well.

[kayo brizzle]

Those water weeds look like bamboo. I think the corpse half rotted.

[Billthegravedigger]

Originally Posted by kayo brizzle ↗

Those water weeds look like bamboo. I think the corpse half rotted.

There is decomposition there too, so I am guessing he had been dead about a day at least. However, look at the ground around him, it looks like he had gasoline or another type of fuel dumped on him and set ablaze in an attempt to throw people off. The ground shows signs of scortching and mild fire, but not enough to cause this amount of damage.

The signs of fire are spread out a distance from the body and the ground is black. It is like someone dumped him after killing and setting him on fire, and in an attempt to throw investigators off, poured fuel on him and poured it in a trail away from the body to keep from being burned themself. It just looks odd, I have seen bodies burnt up badly, and no matter what you do, you will not get rid of the smell for a while in an enclosed area like a car or van.

A human body has the worst smell you can imagine as it decomposes, and being burned to the bone like that only adds a new element of smell, one you can not forget. People who die in fires have certain qualities in common. The skin is charred badly, and they will break apart at their joints. You can go to move them and barely lift the leg to ready them for transport, and it will break off at the ankle, knees, or elbows etc.

To give you an idea of what I mean, we buried a teenage girl 4 years ago that died after hitting a tree at 65 mph, and the car caught fire and got hot enough to melt the rims. We had to put her in a body bag, add 60 pounds of lime to mask the smell, and she was buried in an airtight aco seal casket. We had to leave her and her casket in the prep room for visitations.

We put an empty exact copy of her casket in the chapel so they would not have to smell it.
When it came time to lower her into her grave, the smell was still very noticeable. We had to wait for the family to leave before we could take her out of the hearse, and even then some had to smell it.

[Airbornemama]

^^^^WOW Bill, that is A sad story about the girl! But thank's for the theory, it's A great read!! Ever thought about being A Gravedigging Detective???

[Billthegravedigger]

Originally Posted by Softballmama13 ↗

^^^^WOW Bill, that is A sad story about the girl! But thank's for the theory, it's A great read!! Ever thought about being A Gravedigging Detective???

Yeah, I really did at one point, but being a cop wasn't in the cards for me.