History Main / DisposingOfABody

** A lot of other cases subvert this, by instead using the body in such a way as to throw suspicion anyway from them or onto another person. A lot of killers actually ''purposely'' try and lead people to the body, as part of their plan. An example of this comes in ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestines Dual Destinies]]'' in case 3, where the killer used the way, time and place the body was found to make it seem as though he couldn't possibly be the culprit.

* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'':
** Dexter can't really be excluded from this trope considering his thoughtfully planned and executed methods of disposing of bodies. Not only does he completely cover a small room in plastic sheeting and prepare the scene, has everything he needs to both torture his victim (a villainous criminal implied to have no chance for redemption) with pictures of his victims, collect blood for his blood slide collection, then stab the victim in the chest, chop up the body, wrap it up in garbage bags, and deposit them at sea with his boat in the dead of night. Originally he weighted the backs down with rocks and had them sink, but that cache was discovered. He then changed to dumping them in a current which would take them out to sea, ensuring even if they were found, they couldn't be traced. All the while posing as the upbeat forensic blood spatter analyst for the police. Trope mastered.
** When his cache was discovered and he was forced to investigate it, he wound up discussing this trope with Masuka. Masuka instantly and casually listed the Everglades (presumably for alligators), [[FedToPigs pig farms]], acid, wood-chipper...
* ''Series/DexterNewBlood'': Dexter runs into some problems with this following his impulsive murder of Matt Caldwell. He considers the nearby lake (too shallow, so somebody will find it eventually), a cemetery (frozen ground, so impossible to dig), a woodchipper (too messy and leaves too much evidence), and an abandoned mine (unfortunately, occupied by a bear). He settles for temporarily burying Matt's body parts near his cabin before later incinerating them in an industrial furnace. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, this still creates evidence, since the fire wasn't hot enough to melt titanium pins in Matt's leg.]]

!!'''This is a DeathTrope; spoilers ahoy.'''

** [[spoiler:Iijima]]'s corpse is found buried at the side of the road, which is found to be so sloppy [[spoiler:it becomes clear that an unknown party was responsible for his death]].

* ''Film/Ms45'': After she kills the second man who rapes her, Thana first stows his body in her tub, then cuts it up before taking pieces away inside bags to drop off elsewhere at different places.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'':
** "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart]]":
*** When Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat de Lioncourt confront their vampire daughter Claudia about how she hid the corpses of her victims during her serial killing spree without the use of their incinerator. Louis then points out that she failed to take into account the geology and fluviology of the area that she chose as a burial site.
---->'''Louis''': Whole families, half a parade crew. The incinerator will be overflowin'.\\

*** Later, while Bruce was [[StalkerWithACrush spying]] on Claudia, he had observed her dumping the bodies of her human prey into the Missouri River, so when they meet, he informs her that she was being careless.
---->'''Bruce''': You've been sloppy out in Jefferson City.\\
'''Claudia''': How long you been followin'--\\
'''Bruce''': You shouldn't dump bodies in the Missouri. Even if you weigh 'em down with rocks, river's too fast. I find you build a shallow grave, sometimes a prairie wind'll catch, burns faster.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Discussed in "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E5AVileHungerForYourHammeringHeart A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart]]" when Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat de Lioncourt confront their vampire daughter Claudia about how she hid the corpses of her victims during her serial killing spree without the use of their incinerator. Louis then points out that she failed to take into account the geology and fluviology of the area that she chose as a burial site.
-->'''Louis''': Whole families, half a parade crew. The incinerator will be overflowin'.\\

'''Claudia''': ''(SuddenlyShouting)'' I buried them, okay?! Way out of town. Nothin' out there for miles. No one's ever gonna find 'em, except maybe criminals burying bodies of their own.\\

* In ''Webcomic/Homestuck2'', the original Vriska Serket, her namesake Vriska Lalonde-Maryam (dubbed Vrissy to save on confusion) and Tavros Crocker find themselves lumbered with the corpse of a prominent religious figure, namely [[spoiler:Gamzee Makara]], and end up having to sneak it through a school. Vriska is confident that they can just dump it in the incinerator, until she's reminded that they no longer live on a DeathWorld and schools ''don't have'' incinerators rated for corpses, and then the bell rings for end of period and things get ''way'' more chaotic from there.

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* In ''Literature/ILikeMonkeys'', a man tries to get rid of 200 dead monkeys; unusually for this trope, he doesn't care about hiding them and just wants them gone. He tries to get rid of the monkeys' bodies by flushing them down the toilet, putting them in a freezer, and burning them. When all of these methods fail, he then tries to throw them out with his trash, only for the garbage man to refuse to take them. In the end, he [[MyNewGiftIsLame gives them to his friends as gifts, to said friends' dismay]].

* ''WebAnimation/TheTwins2022'': It's a small detail, but in the reflection of Lucas's broken glasses on the street you can see (and hear) [[spoiler:Lake dragging his brother's body off the street. Seeing as he replaces Lucas, it's heavily implied Lake was disposing or hiding the body.]]

* ''Manga/MariaNoDanzai'': Maria disposes of [[spoiler:Kowase]]'s body by [[DismemberingTheBody chopping it to bits]] and [[FurnaceBodyDisposal burning it]].

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E115TheNewExhibit The New Exhibit]]", after his wife Emma is killed by UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper's knife, Martin Senescu buries her body under the basement floor.

--->'''Peter:''' "And that is why I killed himself, [[DismemberingTheBody chopped himself up]] and [[RefugeInAudacity put himself in the garbage]]." Wow, he must've had some demons!

--->'''Peter:''' "And that is why I killed himself, chopped himself up and put himself in the garbage." Wow, he must've had some demons!

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' had Lois attempting to dump a body in the river in order to protect her son Chris (who she thought killed the man, but in reality, he didn't). Things got complicated when a policeman came by, but Stewie handled the situation by sliding himself into the collar of the man's shirt and acting like it was his body.

* ''Anime/BlackLagoon'' has Sawyer the Cleaner, a CuteMute PerkyGoth who removes dead bodies for people by cutting them up with a chainsaw. As Roannapore is such a WretchedHive, this is less to keep the police from catching the killers (because the cops are all thoroughly corrupt) and more to keep the bodies from stinking.

* ''Series/DexterNewBlood'': Dexter runs into some problems with this following his impulsive murder of Matt Caldwell. He considers the nearby lake (too shallow, so somebody will find it eventually), a cemetery (frozen ground, so impossible to dig), a woodchipper (too messy and leaves too much evidence), and an abandoned mine (unfortunately, occupied by a bear). He settles for temporarily burying Matt's body parts near his cabin before later incinerating them in a furnace. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, this still creates evidence, since the fire wasn't hot enough to melt titanium pins in Matt's leg.]]

* In ''WebOriginal/ILikeMonkeys'', a man tries to get rid of 200 dead monkeys; unusually for this trope, he doesn't care about hiding them and just wants them gone. He tries to get rid of the monkeys' bodies by flushing them down the toilet, putting them in a freezer, and burning them. When all of these methods fail, he then tries to throw them out with his trash, only for the garbage man to refuse to take them. In the end, he [[MyNewGiftIsLame gives them to his friends as gifts, to said friends' dismay]].

* In the short-lived series ''Series/MissingPersons'', a girl is missing and her rich-kid boyfriend is suspected of murdering her. A cop [[PimpDuds poses as a pimp]] and sells him a hooker for the night, only to wake him up the next day screaming in his face [[WhatDidIDoLastNight that he's killed her with rough sex]]. Faced with this problem and a ScaryBlackMan roughing him up, the kid blurts out a good place to dump her corpse. The cop goes there and sure enough finds the dead girlfriend, which he reports to the police in an 'anonymous' tip.

* In ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'', Croup and Vandemar dispose of the mutilated body of [[spoiler:the Marquis de Carabas]] by dumping it in a sewer and letting it float away downstream, complaining that they aren't allowed to take their preferred option of DeadGuyOnDisplay. [[spoiler:The Marquis, [[ResurrectionGambit after being revivified]] is unimpressed, mostly because the impromptu trip has left him with a stomach and lungs full of sewerage.]]