"Sometimes fiction is stranger than truth. And sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction—and occasionally, one overtakes the other."
Welcome back to another gripping episode of the Kohroner Chronicles, where we peel back the layers of darkness hiding in autopsy rooms and crime scenes. I’m Dr. Roland Kohr, forensic pathologist, and today we’re revisiting a case that eerily foreshadowed a scene made infamous in Breaking Bad, years before Vince Gilligan ever dreamed it up.
Breaking Bad—Before Breaking Bad
Most fans of Breaking Bad will recall the first-season scene where bodies are dissolved in acid. But right here in Vigo County, Indiana, we faced a real-life version of that gruesome tableau long before Hollywood got wind of it.
It started, as so many tragedies do, with a drug deal gone south. One co-conspirator shot the other and was left with a harrowing dilemma: how do you dispose of a body? His answer: acid.
Hydrochloric acid isn’t exactly a household item. Yet in this rural part of Indiana, small oil wells pepper the landscape, and acid drums aren’t unheard of at those sites. Though we never traced the exact origin of the acid used, that theory remains our leading contender.
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