how to dispose of a corpse and get away with it theme

We are made to ponder clever ways in which one might contrive to illicitly and quietly dispose of a corpse one has been inconveniently hampered with. The usual scenario is that the character saddled with the dilemma produced said corpse in the first place by, intentionally or otherwise, killing the living person that preceded it.

9 total · 2 choice · 6 major · 1 minor

Story	Level	Motivation
columbo1971e1x07	choice	Elliot hatched the following plot to dispose of his young lover's uncooperative but wealthy husband: Elliot simply shot the husband and hid his body in a barn, then tricked Lt. Columbo into digging up a huge sky scraper cement pile to look for the body. His plan was then to dump the body under the now-cleared cement pile and replace it. But the ever tenacious Lt. Columbo was one step ahead of him.
tftc1989e5x06	choice	The story revolves around Andy trying to dispose of his murdered wife's remains. In a surprise twist at the denouement it is revealed that Officer Fine had managed to dispose of his own spouse and spousal remains by cleverly pinning the murder on Andy.
ahh2x10	major	Harry hatched an elaborate plot to dispose of the body of his new bride's husband.
columbo1971e10x12	major	The funeral director Eric Prince bludgeoned a gossip columnist who threatened to expose his crooked operation, and cremated the body as part of an elaborate plot to get away with the crime. One gathers that he would have gotten away with it had the pesky Lt. Columbo not been assigned to the case.
columbo1971e10x14	major	Vanessa Farrow had, in self-defense, caused her ex-husband's death and therefore called her boyfriend to help her dispose of the body. They did so by hiding it beneath a fish tank in the floor of a rave club.
columbo1971e1x03	major	After shooting his accomplice dead, the retired war hero Major General Martin Hollister his the corpse in a secret compartment behind his closet, and later dumped it far out at sea. He would have gotten away with his crime had it not been for a young female witness and the ever-pesky Lieutenant Columbo.
columbo1971e2x05	major	The grand revelation of the story was that Nora had long ago murdered her husband and buried the body under the fountain in her garden.
tftc1989e6x14	major	Willa dumped husband's body in a vat of chemicals and made soap out of him.
ahh2x29	minor	George and Mavis made a minor deal out of burying the two bodies (one implied) beneath rose bushes in the garden.