The Mafia Was Wrong: You Can’t Quickly Dissolve a Body in Acid | Discoblog

It’s a sad day for aspiring kingpins and Mafia godfathers–it turns out that you can’t dissolve a corpse within minutes by dunking it in sulfuric acid. If that’s not bad enough, scientists have also shown that even if you wait days, acid alone cannot fully destroy “the evidence.” This Mafia technique of disintegrating human flesh is known as a “white shotgun” (or “lupara bianca”) murder, a term ...