Cement overcoat

Cement overcoat

The term cement overcoat refers to the legendary practice of some mobsters of encasing a body of a victim of organized crime in cement, which makes it more likely that said body will stay at the bottom of a river, bay, or other body of water.

In practice this is a very difficult task for an individual to perform by ones self, i.e., as a method of discarding an entire human formFact|date=July 2007.

ee also

*Cement shoes


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