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A lot of serial killers/murderers chop up their victims so perhaps a meat cleaver or saw?

You don’t cut through the bones, you cut where the joints are.And don’t forget the lime.

It is extremely hard to cut through thick bone with a cleaver. Or even the muscle in post-mortem phase, because they "lock" - this is why carcasses of animals are hanged on hooks, not just put on the floor, so gravity can relax this tension a bit. When it comes to taking animal apart, butcher's knifes must be literally sharpened every ten minutes or so, because they get dull from cutting through tense muscles. And these are so sharp that you need to wear butcher chain mail glove at least on hand in which you do not hold the knife, so you won't cut off your fingers clean.

Then, meat needs to be massaged in special machines looking like concrete mixers to make it tender. Or injected with some pickling salts. Often both. People think that a body gets floppy after death, but it is not true - the default state of muscles is constricted and energy (ATP) is expelled to switch between this and relaxed (in reality, stretched) state. Normally, in dead animals, muscles get naturally relaxed and soft only after decomposition process fully kicks in. Thus, meat cleaver is only really useful after all of earlier processing has already been done, i.e. if you have a piece of loin to cut into smaller chunks.

I stand by my choice of hacksaw. Cheap, convenient, you can get many blades cheap so it is easy to replace one after it gets dull or breaks

Potential serial killers on WP taking notes....was that a hacksaw KMCIURA ?

On a MrBallen video I heard about someone being cut up with an electric carving knife.

https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&s ... y=mrballen

Just put your victim in the deep freeze so they get stiff, and then... feed em through the woodchipper. Like that guy really did some years ago. Then sprinkle the bits around a river for the fish to eat up.

Popular choice is acid baths or incinerators. No evidence left.

You guys are overthinking this stuff, I spent several years breaking down hogs, lambs, and goats for a high end butcher shop, all you really need is a sharp knife and knowledge of how joints work to break down even a large animal, a saw (think a tree trimming saw not a chainsaw) is only necessary for certain cuts that cross bone. Even the cleaver doesn't get much use in butchery, I used mine far more often doing stuff like chickens and turkeys where I sometimes wanted to crack a bone or take off wingtips, 90% of the whole animal stuff was done with a 6 inch flexible boning knife that was sharpened religiously, and the other cuts were only done with a larger knife in order to make straighter cuts for steaks and chops, not because a big knife was needed.

You feed them to the hogs.Then sell the hogs.

Hey Mom, I found a tooth and fingernail in my pork chop

I do agree that cutting joint does work, but if one wants to dispose of the body, breaking it down to even smaller chunks is more convenient.

Caustic baths.  Most caustic substances can be purchased without arousing suspicion, and even common lye (NaOH) is sold in grocery stores.

The tissues (especially the fatty parts) become a soap-like substance, and the solid parts eventually dissolve and crumble.  All that is left are really solid parts, like tooth enamel, dental crowns, pacemakers, and other medical implants.  Most of the remains can be flushed down the drain after the alkalinity has been neutralized.

Several police procedurals on TV have covered this in recent years.

hmmmm, you seem quite familiar with this procedure Fnord...I have my eye on you

at least in the part of arizona i was in, it was still like that.

Yes, you can turn human tissue into soap using lye (or other strong bases). I had a really dumb student once who used to pick KOH (potassium hydroxide) pellets up with his hand while measuring them. His hand became slick and started to hurt each time. As I told him over and over again to wear gloves, he still had to literally learn about human soap the hard way.

Arizona isn’t the South.