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* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E15Deception "Deception"]], Cad Bane, Moralo Eval and Rako Hardeen do this as a step in their plan to escape from prison.
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* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'': In "Stiffed", a family is lifting the coffin containing their grandmother out of a hearse when they drop it due to the weight. Grandma's body and the body of a naked man fall out. When the team investigates, they discover the naked man was the mortician who had prepared the grandmother's body. Ultimately they discover he had being coerced by a serial killer into disposing of bodies for him, and the team finds two more cases of second bodies concealed in coffins, and one of a body buried underneath a coffin.
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* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': In "The Black Hand", Murdoch is investigating the shooting death of a businessman from New York City when he learns of a sudden change in the funeral arrangements for the dead man. He and Constable Crabtree visit the mortician, and Crabtree notices the body seems to be rather high in his coffin. The cops find the coffin has a false bottom concealing another dead man [[spoiler: the fiancé of Anna Fulford, who stole counterfeit money from an organized crime outfit]].
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* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': In ''Recap/SherlockSpecialTheAbominableBride'', Sherlock thinks that there is a second body buried beneath the coffin of Emelia Ricoletti. [[spoiler:However, his attempt to dig it up is part of a drug-induced hallucination so the viewer never learns if he was correct or not.]]
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In "Goodbye Iowa", Initiative soldiers search Spike's crypt, reading to kill any undead person on sight. Realising from the still-warm television that someone has been there recently, they lift the lid off a stone sarcophagus, only to find a skeleton covered by a burial shroud. After they leave, Spike appears from beneath the corpse. Buffy herself has pulled the same trick when hiding from vampires.
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* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellArise''. The first episode opens with Public Security disinterring the grave of a military officer whose cyber brain they need to access. Instead they find the coffin empty [[BoobyTrap except for an android that tries to kill them]]. Later Motoko goes back to the gravesite and finds another coffin buried underneath the first, with the officer's body.
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* ''Film/ThingsToDoInDenverWhenYoureDead''. A mafia body is arranged to disappear this way. At the funeral we see the pallbearers stumble in surprise when they first pick up the coffin.
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* Literature/BrotherCadfael has to resort to this trick ''A Morbid Taste for Bones'', as well as some quick talking to explain how the dessicated bones of a saint suddenly weigh as much as a mortal man.
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* ''Series/FatherBrown'': In "The Curse of Amenhotep", the killer attempts to dispose of Father Brown by sealing him inside a sarcophagus.
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* Occasionally, a [[http://wreg.com/2014/01/24/cemetery-owner-arrested-for-burying-multiple-people-in-graves/ funeral home]] will be charged with burying more than one body in a plot. In this case, it's not to cover up a crime, but to fraudulently charge more than one family for the same piece of ground.
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* In the ''Literature/LordDarcy'' short story ''The Muddle Of The Woad'', the woodworkers trying to deliver the coffin ordered for the recently deceased Duke of Canterbury discover that the body of the Duke's Chief Investigator is already in it.
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* In the ''Literature/LordDarcy'' short story ''The Muddle Of The Woad'', the woodworkers trying to deliver the coffin ordered for the recently deceased Duke of Canterbury discover that the body of the Duke's Chief Investigator is already in it.
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* Variant in the ''Series/{{Scandal}}'' episode "Run." Olivia is kidnapped, and the bad guys smuggle her out of her apartment by hiding stuffing her BoundAndGagged inside a body bag, with her murdered neighbor placed on top of her to further the ruse.
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* In "The Meek" in ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' #32, a serial uses his day job as a gravedigger at Potter's Field to hide the bodies of his victims by interring them in pauper's graves he is digging.
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* The "same grave" variant is used in an episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}'', though it was already occupied when the murderer hid the second body there.
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* PlayedForLaughs in Episode 11 of ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', where a group of undertakers carrying a coffin climb into it one by one as they become exhausted.
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* In "The Meek" in ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' #32, a serial uses his day job as a gravedigger at Potter's Field to hide the bodies of his victims by interring them in pauper's graves he is digging.
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* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': The 'body buried in the grave beneath a coffin' is used in "Beyond the Grave".
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* Part of a plot by an undertaker to get rid of his wife in ''Series/{{Thriller}}'' episode "'Til Death Do Us Part".
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* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': In "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax", the villains are too squeamish to commit murder outright, so they chloroform Lady Frances and hide her in the coffin containing the body of her old nurse, which is due to buried the next day.
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* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': In "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax", the villains are too squeamish to commit murder outright, so they chloroform Lady Frances and hide her in the coffin containing the body of her old nurse, which is due to buried the next day. Which is still murder, only a slow and painful one by asphyxiation.
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* In the Literature/ElleryQueen novel ''The Greek Coffin Mystery'', the Queens search a dead man's man coffin for a missing will, and find two bodies inside instead of one.
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* Played with on ''Series/WWESmackdown'' in 1999: In a [[GimmickMatches casket match]] (where whoever puts his opponent into a ringside coffin first wins) which was originally scheduled to be Wrestling/TheUndertaker vs Wrestling/TripleH, the Undertaker pulled out and was replaced by two of his minions, Viscera and Mideon. HHH manages to get Mideon into the coffin and seal it, but then he gets told that because it's a two-on-one match he has to lock ''both'' of his opponents into the coffin for him to win. He loses.
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A SubTrope of DisposingOfABody, this trope involves hiding a body in a coffin that is already scheduled to be buried or cremated. This can be done with the connivance of a crooked funeral director or, for the more desperate or less organised, by breaking into a funeral home the night before a funeral.
If it is done by a crooked funeral director, then the concealment may involve a false bottom in the coffin. Otherwise, the second corpse will just be shoved under the first and the lid screwed back down.
In fiction, at least, this ploy will usually be discovered when the pallbearers drop the coffin due to the extra weight, and two bodies spill out.
A variation involves burying a body in the bottom of a newly dug grave, so a coffin will be placed on top of the corpse and the grave filled in.
Contrast TogetherInDeath, where lovers in life get buried together after they die.
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* This is how the vampires dispose of the bodies of their victims in ''Film/BordelloOfBlood''.
* In ''Film/{{Death at a Funeral}}'', the deceased's diminutive gay lover gets knocked out after his attempts to blackmail the two sons goes wrong, and the sons, thinking that they'd accidentally killed him, hide him in their father's coffin. Naturally, he wakes up at the worst possible time.
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* Invoked with an old joke about a politician whose gravestone reads "Here lies a lawyer and an honest man", prompting passersby to comment "I didn't know they made two-man coffins."
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* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': In "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax", the villains are too squeamish to commit murder outright, so they chloroform Lady Frances and hide her in the coffin containing the body of her old nurse, which is due to buried the next day.
* In the Literature/ElleryQueen novel ''The Greek Coffin Mystery'', the Queens search a dead man's man coffin for a missing will, and find two bodies inside instead of one.
* In ''Death Toll: A Mystery'' by Jim Kelly, the bodies buried at a cemetery are being moved to higher ground to avoid flooding. When the grave of Nora Tilden, buried in 1982, is opened, grave diggers are shocked to find another body, a skeleton, on top of the casket. The body had to have been thrown into Nora's grave on the day she was buried.
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* ''Series/SilentWitness'': In "Hippocratic Oath", a hearse crashes and two bodies are discovered in the coffin. The team is charged with discovering the identity of the John Doe corpse.
* ''Series/TheDoctorBlakeMysteries'': In "Mortal Coil", a coffin is dropped at a funeral that Jean is attending, revealing the body of Jean's friend and the local junk man. The investigation later reveals this is the second body to have been disposed of in this manner.
* In season 3 of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', not wanting to divulge the methods of his usual lifestyle, Dexter teaches Miguel Prado to dispose of bodies by burying them past the point of visibility within a to-be-used grave, intending them to be hidden beneath a new coffin.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'' ("Anatomy of a Murder") has the {{Body of the Week}} disposed of this way, and just like the trope description above, the ruse is discovered at the funeral when the pallbearers drop the coffin open.
* ''Series/TheCloser'': In "Saving Face", the funeral of an former police colleague of Flynn and Provenza takes an unexpected turn when the casket is dropped, revealing not only their friend's body, but that of a nude, blonde woman.
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In "For Gedda", the team investigates the murder of a man who was stuffed in an occupied coffin. The victim ends up being someone Warrick is familiar with.
* Part of a plot by an undertaker to get rid of his wife in ''Series/{{Thriller}}'' episode "'Til Death Do Us Part".
* The german crime show ''{{Ein Fall fur zwei}}'' had an episode where the criminal hides a body by killing a dog and burying it above the corpse (so when the scene is dug up, the cops only find the dog and think it's a waste of time). Only when the investigators have a EurekaMoment and think to dig deeper does he confess.
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* Allegedly this method was used by TheMafia to dispose of bodies; secretly burying the victims of mob hits along with the bodies of those who died of more natural causes. [[http://www.abc.net.au/news/2003-10-08/mafia-double-decker-coffins-used-for-body-disposal/1489720 Supposedly the double-decker coffins were used as early as the 1920s, and were the brainchild of Carlo Corsentino, an undertaker member of the [=DeCavalcante=] family]].
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If it is done by a crooked funeral director, then the concealment may involve a false bottom in the coffin. Otherwise, the second corpse will just be shoved under the first and the lid screwed back down.
In fiction, at least, this ploy will usually be discovered when the pallbearers drop the coffin due to the extra weight, and two bodies spill out.
A variation involves burying a body in the bottom of a newly dug grave, so a coffin will be placed on top of the corpse and the grave filled in.
Contrast TogetherInDeath, where lovers in life get buried together after they die.
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* This is how the vampires dispose of the bodies of their victims in ''Film/BordelloOfBlood''.
* In ''Film/{{Death at a Funeral}}'', the deceased's diminutive gay lover gets knocked out after his attempts to blackmail the two sons goes wrong, and the sons, thinking that they'd accidentally killed him, hide him in their father's coffin. Naturally, he wakes up at the worst possible time.
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* Invoked with an old joke about a politician whose gravestone reads "Here lies a lawyer and an honest man", prompting passersby to comment "I didn't know they made two-man coffins."
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* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': In "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax", the villains are too squeamish to commit murder outright, so they chloroform Lady Frances and hide her in the coffin containing the body of her old nurse, which is due to buried the next day.
* In the Literature/ElleryQueen novel ''The Greek Coffin Mystery'', the Queens search a dead man's man coffin for a missing will, and find two bodies inside instead of one.
* In ''Death Toll: A Mystery'' by Jim Kelly, the bodies buried at a cemetery are being moved to higher ground to avoid flooding. When the grave of Nora Tilden, buried in 1982, is opened, grave diggers are shocked to find another body, a skeleton, on top of the casket. The body had to have been thrown into Nora's grave on the day she was buried.
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* ''Series/SilentWitness'': In "Hippocratic Oath", a hearse crashes and two bodies are discovered in the coffin. The team is charged with discovering the identity of the John Doe corpse.
* ''Series/TheDoctorBlakeMysteries'': In "Mortal Coil", a coffin is dropped at a funeral that Jean is attending, revealing the body of Jean's friend and the local junk man. The investigation later reveals this is the second body to have been disposed of in this manner.
* In season 3 of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', not wanting to divulge the methods of his usual lifestyle, Dexter teaches Miguel Prado to dispose of bodies by burying them past the point of visibility within a to-be-used grave, intending them to be hidden beneath a new coffin.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'' ("Anatomy of a Murder") has the {{Body of the Week}} disposed of this way, and just like the trope description above, the ruse is discovered at the funeral when the pallbearers drop the coffin open.
* ''Series/TheCloser'': In "Saving Face", the funeral of an former police colleague of Flynn and Provenza takes an unexpected turn when the casket is dropped, revealing not only their friend's body, but that of a nude, blonde woman.
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In "For Gedda", the team investigates the murder of a man who was stuffed in an occupied coffin. The victim ends up being someone Warrick is familiar with.
* Part of a plot by an undertaker to get rid of his wife in ''Series/{{Thriller}}'' episode "'Til Death Do Us Part".
* The german crime show ''{{Ein Fall fur zwei}}'' had an episode where the criminal hides a body by killing a dog and burying it above the corpse (so when the scene is dug up, the cops only find the dog and think it's a waste of time). Only when the investigators have a EurekaMoment and think to dig deeper does he confess.
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* Played with on ''Series/WWESmackdown'' in 1999: In a [[GimmickMatches casket match]] (where whoever puts his opponent into a ringside coffin first wins) which was originally scheduled to be Wrestling/TheUndertaker vs Wrestling/TripleH, the Undertaker pulled out and was replaced by two of his minions, Viscera and Mideon. HHH manages to get Mideon into the coffin and seal it, but then he gets told that because it's a two-on-one match he has to lock ''both'' of his opponents into the coffin for him to win. He loses.
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* Allegedly this method was used by TheMafia to dispose of bodies; secretly burying the victims of mob hits along with the bodies of those who died of more natural causes. [[http://www.abc.net.au/news/2003-10-08/mafia-double-decker-coffins-used-for-body-disposal/1489720 Supposedly the double-decker coffins were used as early as the 1920s, and were the brainchild of Carlo Corsentino, an undertaker member of the [=DeCavalcante=] family]].
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