richard suffocated her. he used a service merchandise bag to contain the bleeding, wrap the body in a sheet of plastic and placed her in the freezer. where she remained for the next three months. nyhuis fabricated the story about driving bun chee to the st. louis airport for a flight to thailand. when spring arrived and the ground thawed, richard took bunchee's body to the boy scout ranch, a two-hour drive from his home. he chose a secluded area deep in the woods for the burial. but made a number of mistakes. the lime he spread over the body most likely aided decomposition. but the grave was only two feet deep. not deep enough to keep burrowing animals from bringing her bones to the surface. and bun chee was buried in texwood jeans which told a story, since they were made and sold exclusively in asia. nyhuis never anticipated that his wife's remains would be discovered. and if they were, that they would ever be successfully identified. finding the texwood button, the pelvic bone that revealed the victim had at least two children. the mongoloid skull, the the forensic sculpture, and the photographic superimposition, all were essential elements in the identification. during the trial,