The clothes for instance. They were carefully preserved, and the body was just as carefully destroyed.
10 seconds sound clip from the The Thin Man (1936) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:44:02 in the radio play.
Quote context
[...]
- Bless my soul, woman! I give you three murders and you're not satisfied!
- I want you to stay and find Wynant!
- He was down in the shop. It was his body that was buried there.
- Wynant's body? Yup. But they all said it was Rosewater's.
- What makes you so sure it's Wynant's body?
- The person who killed him counted on one thing: that all skeletons look alike.
- Sure.
- I remembered that Wynant had some shrapnel in his shin. They found it under the fluoroscope.
- Then he couldn't have committed those other murders.
- Wynant dead? Does Dorothy know?
- No. Nobody but you. I didn't even tell Guild.
- Why not?
- I want to lie low till I get the whole dope. I don't want to go off half-cocked.
[...]