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French Killers Inspired By Breaking Bad TV Show

Posted by Soulskill on from the cranston-wins-another-emmy dept.

hcs_$reboot writes: Four people who planned to dissolve a young French woman's body in acid were inspired by hit US TV show Breaking Bad. Two men went to the woman's house to settle a €6,000 drug debt. There, they beat her violently, killing her through a blow to the skull. Later, they bought acid in order to dissolve her body. The victim's body was found decomposing in a flat in Toulouse on Monday night, after having being cut up into pieces, covered in cling film and shoved into a suitcase. Chlorine acid had been used to try and disguise any trace of the corpse. A similar "decomposition" scenario is featured in season one of Breaking Bad (2008-2013).

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  1. better solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Washing power dissolves tissue much much better. Put corpse in tub, add water, wait some weeks :)

    1. Re:better solution by weilawei · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Strong bases would work just fine for breaking down protein. Then you take the bones and digest them in the acid of your choice.

      Shit, even StackExchange will help you dispose of a body.

    2. Re:better solution by rgbatduke · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Pigs work better and faster. Feed a body to the pigs and you might end up with a few teeth in pigshit, nothing more. Use the pigshit to fertilize some fields, and the body is just gone.

      Dissolving tissue in bathtubs, etc, just leaves evidence in the trap, the pipes, (probably) in the bathroom and tub, and "weeks" is a lot of exposure.

      All good drug dealers need to invest in a hog farm. It's worth it even when you don't have bodies to dispose of! Tasty bacon!

      --
      Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. --- Bertrand Russell.
    3. Re:better solution by pepty · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Bingo.

      I worked in academic organic chemistry for quite a few years, and was constantly spooked by some of the careless and dangerous things organic chemists would do to speed things up. And got to see a few ambulances pull up after things went "boom". The one thing all the organic chemists were afraid of though was the pure hydrogen fluoride our lab was working with daily. People who do peptide chemistry treat their HF apparatus like an airplane: preflight safety checks every time. If we had ever had an exposure (no accidents while I was working there), we had 4l bottles of magnesium sulfate to douse ourselves with and calcium gluconate gel right at the hood. I also had MSDS and current standards of care attached to the fume hood and sterile injectable calcium gluconate, all to be brought with us to the ER. I also kept the phone number for the ER handy - and the phone number for the president our our research institute. He's a chemist and knows the president of the hospital we would be taken to, which I hoped would provide some leverage in getting the ER up to speed before the ambulance arrived.