Hi experts,
My 16yo MC has killed a 17yo boy by a river and needs to get rid of any evidence linking her to his body.
In my current draft she deletes pictures and recent phone calls to her from his phone, wipes prints, places it back in his pocket. Then she rolls him into a shallow, slow-moving part of the river, supporting his weight, and scrubs his hands, face, under his nails, any part of his body that touched her with some moss. She scrubs the inside of his mouth, because he had kissed her right before he tried to kill her (she killed him in self-defense but doesn't think anyone will believe that), and she tries to wash off any hair, skin, blood, or other residual DNA from his body and clothes before she sends him down the river. Then she washes herself as best as possible before getting out of the river.
Is any of this realistic? Potentially effective? Could she do something more effective?
The complication is that my MC has a special gift where she can tap into general human consciousness - kind of like having her brain permanently plugged into Google. She can't read minds or know what one individual knows, but she knows the kind of general information you can find on the Internet.
This means I need her to behave not as a typical 16yo would in this situation, but based on the best possible, published information on how to remove evidence from a crime scene. From what I hear, CSI isn't the best source for this information, and what with the NSA's new Spy Center in Utah, I feel a bit weird looking up, "how to get rid of a dead body without leaving evidence" in Google.
Any advice is greatly appreciated!
My 16yo MC has killed a 17yo boy by a river and needs to get rid of any evidence linking her to his body.
In my current draft she deletes pictures and recent phone calls to her from his phone, wipes prints, places it back in his pocket. Then she rolls him into a shallow, slow-moving part of the river, supporting his weight, and scrubs his hands, face, under his nails, any part of his body that touched her with some moss. She scrubs the inside of his mouth, because he had kissed her right before he tried to kill her (she killed him in self-defense but doesn't think anyone will believe that), and she tries to wash off any hair, skin, blood, or other residual DNA from his body and clothes before she sends him down the river. Then she washes herself as best as possible before getting out of the river.
Is any of this realistic? Potentially effective? Could she do something more effective?
The complication is that my MC has a special gift where she can tap into general human consciousness - kind of like having her brain permanently plugged into Google. She can't read minds or know what one individual knows, but she knows the kind of general information you can find on the Internet.
This means I need her to behave not as a typical 16yo would in this situation, but based on the best possible, published information on how to remove evidence from a crime scene. From what I hear, CSI isn't the best source for this information, and what with the NSA's new Spy Center in Utah, I feel a bit weird looking up, "how to get rid of a dead body without leaving evidence" in Google.
Any advice is greatly appreciated!