Teen's Body Hidden in Woman's Grave

When I first saw this headline, I thought to myself, Awesome! Then I paused to compose myself, considered the seriousness of the matter, composed myself further, and read on. Apparently a 17-year-old Illinois man was killed during an argument with a 26-year-old Arizona marijuana dealer. He had journeyed across country to buy a bit of Ye Olde Greene Tea at Arizona's cut rate prices with the intention of returning to Chicago to sell it at nice little markup. Unfortunately, the deal went sour.

The killer, red-eyed though he might have been, was canny enough to devise what might have been a fool-proof plan: to find a freshly dug grave, and to bury his victim in it along with the grave's rightful tenant. Ingenious, but with one major weakness -- it required that he not confess. But confession is was that landed the pot-smoking wildman in the clink.

According to the detective on the case, that confession thing was a major gaff. "Had this guy kept his mouth shut, we would've never, ever found out what happened to this victim," Detective Tony Morales said.

Morales went on to say that, "If anyone else out there plans on killing someone, they'd be well-served to try this out. I mean, not the confession part. That was a giveaway. But the burying thing. That was really smart, and even now that we know about it, I'll bet we couldn't figure it out again. Seriously."

Analogcabin @ 1:36 PM
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