Mafia snitches overstated corpse-dissolving properties of sulfuric acid – Boing Boing
Though informants had claimed that the acid used by crime boss Filippo Marchese in his “lupara bianca” (“white shotgun”) torture chambers would liquify a corpse in 15 or 20 minutes, researchers working with pig carcasses concluded that, at a minimum, a bath of sulfuric acid and water (which accelerates the acid’s effects) would take two days.
If I had a dime for every time I run into this old saw. …