"We found this body 12 feet underground with a dead animal on top to throw off our hounds. Whatcha think he died of?" "pathology says undiagnosed diabetes" "Really? Ok, case closed then"

That's too complicated. The easiest way it to inject air into someone's veins. The bubble will travel to the heart, the heart won't be able to compress, then the victim will go into cardiac arrest and by the time they're opened up to see what killed them, the bubbles will have popped and it'd look like a classic case of a heart attack.

A lot of this is in the wrong order and why more people get caught. You don't put a dead body in your trunk and then drive around doing all that other stuff. You scout the spot, dig the hole, drive back and get more tools you didn't realize you need to dig a 12 foot hole, place the dead animal near the hole. THEN you get him near the hole and vulnerable on some pretext (surprise camping and bondage play?), do the rest, fill the hole, go home and act surprised that he didn't return home. Emphasis on "/S". If you are seriously considering any of this you are a bad human being.

You would need a backhoe to dig a hole 12 feet deep. I would imagine that sort of thing would get noticed pretty quickly.

or you can plant endangered plants over the body so the areas won't be disturbed

Everyone here is discussing insulin or the likelihood of this working, and no one is talking about the fact that it may have been written by the koala fingerprinted at that crime scene mentioned in the post above.....

An insulin injection is subcutaneous, not intravenous, so you don't have to worry about a mark. Additionally, not enough insulin in the blood (leading to too much sugar) would indicate diabetes, not the other way around. There are other indicators that would point them in the right direction...

Yeah, but the cops would look at your location history and go to where he was buried. Then when they used that ground ray thing to detect remains, they'd find it, even with the dead animal on top. Unless you don't know the person, you will be considered a suspect and they'll be on you like white on rice until they nail you or find the guilty party if it isn't you. These kinds of things were much easier before the tech revolution.

I've dug a few holes in my life and 12 feet is definitely out of my league.

Do you know how long it takes to dig a 12 foot deep hole by the shovel full?

Why are there Koala bear fingerprints all over her house?

A way to get rid of a body (living or deceased) is to feed it to a large group of pigs. Pigs eat everything... I mean EVERYTHING. Even more than goats. I only learned this TUI from a video about the critters.

The response was well thought out, and the suggestion of burying the body with an animal shows intelligence and maturity. Or perhaps, experience is a better word.

After you have finished the grave plant some endangered species of flora on top, so nobody would dare to touch them.

I think you're supposed to put it in the hole standing up, to make it harder to detect, then put the dead animal over it, just sayin'!

This reminds me of True Evil by Greg Iles. A wife hires a hit man to kill her husband, and he dies by insulin overdose. I won't spoil the best body part where an injection occurs in the book, but it was pretty entertaining!

Hit him in the head with a frozen leg of lamb, and prepare it for dinner for the investigation team.

Sounds like a good plan, but only in theory... because why would anyone go to so much trouble to get rid of a corpse and hide it, if they didn't kill it?

Testing for insulin levels is standard now. Excess insulin in an undiagnosed person makes no sense as they would have little to no insulin in their system rather than high levels. This person is an idiot and will get caught.

am still trying to figure out how you can inject someone under their tongue without them seeing what you're up to

You probably didn't hold him under long enough. I've found that 5 minutes works every time.

No problem!

Nice advice, thanks.