So What Did Margie Say About...Bones: The Party in the Pants

 

 

 

The 4/15/13 Bones episode titled "The Party in the Pants" used an abandoned building about to be demolished as the "dump site".  A dump site is as varied as the perpetrator.

 

Their usefulness is usually for one of two purposes: to destroy evidence and/or identity and hide the victim or to protect the victim so that the killer can visit, usually on the anniversary of the death.

 

A dump site may be out in the woods where the body is buried or covered with leaves and branches.  More respect usually requires that the victim is covered by rocks or stones.  There is more opportunity to recover evidence of the crime when the body is buried.  It is more protected from animal activity and environmental conditions.

 

The dump site may be a body of water.  The victims may be tied down with weights such as rocks or cement.  The body may be contained in a barrel or a 5 gallon drum or a suit case.  Usually, once decomposition occurs and gases are generated the body in a container will cause it to float.  If it's tied down and rotting occurs, then the weights are loosened and the body floats.

 

The simple dump is in the dumpster hoping that the body ends up in a landfill.  Once the body is dumped in tons of trash, it is difficult to find.  The usual indicators like smell or vegetation or overhead birds flying or bugs are commonplace in all the garbage.

 

Regardless of where the body is located, it is important to remember that it is really the remains of a victim and all attempts must be made to find the body or the evidence that remains.

 

Let's all remember those involved in the trauma and send good thoughts out to those in Boston.