Dead & Buried by Adam Croft

Author:Adam Croft
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Circlehouse

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The man looked across at the driver and scowled for the umpteenth time that night. He couldn’t believe his colleague could be so bloody stupid as to reverse the van into a bloody gate post.

He’d had to get out and make sure they’d left no trace. Even the slightest fleck of paint on the wood could lead the police to them. The whole point was to ensure there were no witnesses. Leaving forensic material would be a hundred times worse.

The guns were modified as to be more or less untraceable. If they recovered bullets they’d be able to tell the type of gun used, but that would be about it. There’d be blood from the boys at the scene, too, but that was unavoidable. Anyway, no-one would’ve heard a gunshot out there. The lights had been off in the closest farmhouse the whole time — odd for mid-evening, which meant the occupiers were highly likely to be out. Besides which, gunshots weren’t exactly rare around these parts. Plenty of farmers shot rabbits and vermin on their land. How was this any different?

There would be no trace. A bit of rain overnight would wash any blood through the soil. It would be as if they’d never been there. If it hadn’t been for them reversing into a fucking gate post, that was.

He’d made sure he picked up every last piece of plastic from the broken tail-light. He’d combed the grass thoroughly, and was confident he’d got it all. It had meant they’d had to spend a good few minutes at the scene, whereas they’d been keen to get away as quickly as possible.

The plastic troughs in the back of the van would keep the blood away from the vehicle, just in case. The last thing they wanted was for blood to drip through the bottom of the van while they were stuck at traffic lights. People had been caught for dafter mistakes than that.

In any case, the van would be disposed of afterwards. The group had connections: connections which ensured they were able to get hold of second-hand vehicles with ease, then have them stripped down, destroyed and crushed without anybody asking any questions.

They sure as hell wouldn’t make the same mistakes as last time, either. This time there would be no burial. There’d be no chance of anyone coming across the bodies, because there would be no bodies. The firm had a contact who could, for a hefty fee, ensure the bodies were completely disposed of. He was known to them only as the Acid Bath Man, although the name was misleading, if not the complete opposite of what he actually did. A more accurate name would have been the Alkaline Hydrolysis Man, but it didn’t quite have the same ring to it.

Alkaline hydrolysis was used for a growing number of legal cremations around the world — as well as a few not-so-legal ones. It involved placing the body in a pressure vessel with a mixture of water and potassium hydroxide — caustic potash — which was then heated to 160 degrees Celsius.

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