History Main / ConstructiveBodyDisposal

* ''Series/GangsOfLondon'': Used in the introduction of ruthless Nigerian Gangster [[TheDreaded Mosi]]. Showing off a skyscraper he's having constructed whilst finalising a joint venture with Albanian Mob boss [[ALighterShadeOfBlack Luan]], as a warning Mosi introduces Luan to the last person who failed him then having the walls of his cage boarded up, all whilst he's still pleading for mercy, Mosi then has it filled with concrete becoming one of the skyscraper's pillars. The scene pans out showing multiple other pillars, suggesting it's not the first time he's done this.

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': During the Dennis Miller run of ''Weekend Update', disgraced Philippine politician UsefulNotes/FerdinandMarcos passed away in exile. The Marcos family wanted to repatriate his remains but many in the Philippines were against it. Dennis Miller quipped that Giants Stadium in New Jersey "had plenty of room in the end zone" in reference to the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.

* Shows up as a background gag in ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'': One interactive joke has Bart or Apu turning on a cement mixer. Fully-formed cement will fall out...in the shape of a human body...[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe which breaks in two]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Last Exit out of Springfield", Mr. Burns asks Smithers where the leader of the union is so they can discuss the new union contract, Smithers mentions that he hasn't been seen since he declared his intent to clean up the union -- cue CutawayGag of a [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball football player]] tripping over a body-shaped mound in the end zone of a football stadium. (Referencing a popular urban legend that famous missing labor leader Jimmy Hoffa was buried underneath Giants Stadium)

Compare with BuriedAlive, when sealing up the body is used as the method of murder rather than disposal (although there can be overlap between the two).

** In "Red in Tooth & Claw", the killer attempts to bury his final victim (while still alive) in the concrete being poured for the foundation of a new heating oil tank, but is stopped by Barnaby and Winter.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "Red in Tooth & Claw", the killer attempts to bury his final victim (while still alive) in the concrete being poured for the foundation of a new heating oil tank, but is stopped by Barnaby and Winter.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'': In the ''Far Harbor'' DLC, if the player opts to kill [[spoiler:High Confessor Tektus]] in order to resolve the main questline, they hide must hide the body in a fissure in a damaged wall, brick it up and move a shelfing unit in front of it.

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'': Whilst exploring the Cyrus Pinkly Museum, which [[ComicBook/ThePenguin the Penguin]] has transformed into his base within Arkham City, at several points if you turn on Detective Vision it will reveal a number of corpses within the walls of the building. This is unremarked upon in the narrative, but considering the [[WaxMuseumMorgue other horrors]] on display [[DeadGuyOnDisplay throughout the modified museum]] and [[ColdBloodedTorture brutal]] [[GladiatorGames acts]] you [[FedToTheBeast witness]] at the hands of [[{{Sadist}} Cobblepot]], it doesn't require much explanation.

* ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'': "[[Recap/CastleS1E5AChillGoesThroughHerVeins A Chill Goes Through Her Veins]]" opens with a body being found on a construction site after the killer attempted to dump it in the wet concrete but missed.

** Subverted in "Wings". A flight attendant is murdered in 1960 and her body was wrapped up and placed inside of an unoccupied section of a hotel, which itself was soon abandoned and eventually torn down decades later which lead to her discovery.

** ''[[Recap/ColumboS01E07 Blueprint for Murder]]'', in one of the rare cases of the series [[ReverseWhodunit not showing the murder]], it's continually implied that architect Elliot Markham stashed the body of wealthy industrialist Beau Williamson beneath the foundations for the city of the future he's building, so that as long as no one knows he's dead he can keep using his money for the project. Columbo eventually has it dug up only to find nothing [[spoiler:as intended by Markham, who had been stirring Columbo towards the idea all along, as now everyone knew Williamson wasn't buried down there he'd be free to actually stash the body without any danger of it being found. Unfortunately for him, Columbo figured out what he was planning and caught him in the act]].
** ''[[Recap/ColumboS10E14 Columbo Likes the Nightlife]]'' has a Mafia Don's son, Tony Galper hidden in this manner by Justin Price after his accidental DeathByFallingOver, but unlike in ''Blueprint for Murder'', Justin actually succeeds for most of the episode. However, Justin made the mistake of hiding the body [[spoiler:underneath where an under-floor fish aquarium was to be installed, forcing him to make it undersized compared with the normal fish tanks.]] This irregularity attracts the attention of Columbo.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E115TheNewExhibit The New Exhibit]], timid waxwork worker Martin Senescu ends up looking after wax figures of several infamous murderers, whom he has grown unnaturally attached to. Following his wife Emma attempting to destroy them, she is seemingly stabbed to death by the waxwork of Jack the Ripper. Upon finding it, realising the police won't believe a waxwork killed his wife, Martin drills a hole in the concrete basement, buries his wife underneath, and then covers it with a fresh layer of cement. Following Emma's brother Dave breaking into the basement and seemingly getting killed by the waxwork of Albert W. Hicks, Martin does the same to cover up his death.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': "[[Recap/CastleS1E5AChillGoesThroughHerVeins A Chill Goes Through Her Veins]]" opens with a body being found on a construction site after the killer attempted to dump it in the wet concrete but missed.

* ''Series/ColdCase'': In ''Sherry Darlin'", the BodyOfTheWeek was bricked up inside the old coal chute in the basement of the house where she lived. The police didn't even know there was a cold case until someone phoned up to confess to murder and tell them where the body was.

* Shows up as a background gag in ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'': One interactive joke has Bart or Apu turning on a cement mixer. Fully-formed cement will fall out...in the shape of a human body...[[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe which breaks in two]]. Definitely the work of the LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub.

* ''Film/WalledIn'': The film opens with a little girl named Julie being murdered by burial in cement through a combination of HumanSacrifice and DrowningPit.

* ''Film/WalledIn'': A famous architect murders several innocent people (including children) through a combination of HumanSacrifice and a DrowningPit in which the victim is walled up inside a hollow building column and buried in cement.

* ''Film/WalledIn'': A famous architect murders several innocent people (including children) through a form of HumanSacrifice in which the victim is walled up inside a hollow building column and buried in cement.

* ''[[Film/{{Jo}} Joe: The Busy Body]]'' (aka ''The Gazebo''): At first it seems like a clever idea to Antoine Brisebard to build a garden pavilion to hide the corpse in the foundation. However [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome as the corpse decomposes]] cracks begin to appear in the foundation. HilarityEnsues.