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I'm giving away a major major plot twist when I ask for this advice, but I gotta know.
In my WIP, one character is a bootlegger in the 1920s. He keeps barrels of whiskey in the secret room underneath the garage.
His angry girlfriend kills him (in 1924). She is later arrested, but the police have no evidence against her and let her go. She soon steals his body from the morgue to prevent any further inspection.
She takes the body into the room in the garage and stuffs it into an empty liquor barrel (she's strong) and fills it with whiskey and seals it.
Flash forward to modern day when a character unwittingly drinks from this barrel, which still contains the whiskey, and dies almost immediately.
Here are the questions. Can whiskey preserve a body like this? Would the body decompose at all? Assuming the barrel was sealed tight and none escaped or evaporated, what would the body look like after nearly a century? Could someone die from alcohol poisoning this way?
Pretty twisted, I know, but it works in the story very well.
allen
In my WIP, one character is a bootlegger in the 1920s. He keeps barrels of whiskey in the secret room underneath the garage.
His angry girlfriend kills him (in 1924). She is later arrested, but the police have no evidence against her and let her go. She soon steals his body from the morgue to prevent any further inspection.
She takes the body into the room in the garage and stuffs it into an empty liquor barrel (she's strong) and fills it with whiskey and seals it.
Flash forward to modern day when a character unwittingly drinks from this barrel, which still contains the whiskey, and dies almost immediately.
Here are the questions. Can whiskey preserve a body like this? Would the body decompose at all? Assuming the barrel was sealed tight and none escaped or evaporated, what would the body look like after nearly a century? Could someone die from alcohol poisoning this way?
Pretty twisted, I know, but it works in the story very well.
allen
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