Those who have never dismembered a body before – and let’s face it, that is the vast majority of the population – would be most likely to attempt to saw through the long bones of the limbs, the humerus in the arm and the femur in the thigh. Research at our centre has indicated that, when faced with the necessity of dismantling a body, most people would reach for a sharp kitchen knife first of all, and only when they found that, while it could cut through the soft tissue of skin and muscle, it could not cut through bone, would they head to the shed or the garage for a saw, usually either a wood
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