[MR] Quick Lime (Lye)

[Velsthe1 at aol.com]

>I'm less interested in soapmaking than in hiding the
>corpses. Is ashe lye suitable for this?
>Phillip Jones

Errr, well, it will work. The most popular (commonly used through history) method is to pile a number of bodies into an open pit then coat them in lye. Sun and rain doing their natural things will erode a body in a about a week, less if there is a lot of lye and rain. 

The most effective and easily disguisable way of doing it is burying the body with layers of lye and broken glass in this order (from the bottom to top): dirt, glass, lye, body, lye, glass, lye, dirt, glass, dirt to surface. The glass immediately above and below the body servers to grind the body and help the lye do it's job. The glass just below the surface is to discourage animals from digging up the evide...bod...object buried. Doesn't work as fast as the open pit method, but in about 3 weeks, there isn't much left but broken glass under about 3 feet of dirt. 

Just pay attention to make sure that the water table is low, and ground drinking water isn't too near (particularly yours).


Vels