I'm pretty sure the City of Macon garbage trucks pick up these green "herby-curby"'s. The sanitation worker grabs the handle of the rolling bin and puts it in position for the truck's lift mechanism to pick up the bin by a metal bar about two feet below the lid, on the side opposite the handle. The worker then flips open the top (that is hinged near the handle). The mechanism then lifts the bin and dumps it in the truck's bay.
The original point of the first post about the pick up method was that garbage men might very well discover the torso, even though it was wrapped in plastic. Two things occur to me:
1) The plastic might not have been clear (black, brown, etc) and not transparent. Still, there would be an unusually large plastic wrapped object, perhaps odiferous.
2) Because it IS very possible that garbage men would discover the plastic wrapped torso, this method of disposal must not have been the perp's plan of choice.
Even if this killing was not premeditated, the killer had several days to get rid of the body pieces. In my opinion, the torso was placed in the trash in the wee hours between the friends' visit and the MPD's arrival the next morning -- an act of desperation.
Perhaps this Golba body-hunter guy was right that SMD took the body parts to the law school dumpster, but the MLK bridge is a very inviting dump site, provided the perpetrator has no reason to think people might observe 1 or 2 AM trips from an apartment (downstairs fridge?) to a car?
So, why would he carry the torso to the trashcan but not his own car just feet away? If LG's car was parked in front of her apt., and SMD's in front of his, he would have to carry the torso in front of Ms. Spencer's window to get it to his car, but would only have to pass the window of the vacant downstairs apt to get it to the trashcan.
Just guessing ~
