By fair means or foul, Anna is most certainly dead now. If the means were foul, I have been thinking a little about the method.
The Parsons had an industrial-size furnace in their basement, where trash was also stored. The week Alice disappeared, Anna would not allow the collectors into the basement to collect the trash as usual. It was outside, tied up in a package.
The obvious conclusion was that Alice was disposed of in the furnace. But is so, if her body was shut into a furnace and burnt to ashes, what could the trash collectors possibly have seen? A closed furnace with ashes in it?
It makes me think that disposing of Alice's body may have proved more difficult than expected. Excuse me being gruesome, but she may have needed to be dismembered, and burnt in stages. That would explain Anna's reluctance to let anyone into the basement until the 'clean-up' operation was over.
Another question I had; I know that even with professional cremation companies, bodies are not burnt straight to ashes - bones are always left over and have to be pulverized before being passed to families. So I am wondering if Anna had been left with a lot of half-burnt human remains in her furnace, and had to bury them quickly, in the grounds. That might also explain why the FBI were so certain Alice was buried and made such a thorough ground search?
