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And we would've gotten away with it too!
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There are many ways to keep a witness from identifying you. You just need to be creative.
Yes DM, this comment right here.
I see you have a lot of experience in the field
I'm writing a murder mystery adventure in my spare time, so... Yeah, it came up.
Depending on the edition, speak with dead requires the corpse to have a working jaw, so just destroy that. If you hide the head, someone can just find it.
Why hide it? A maul is cheap.
Mending fixes a single tear or break in an object. No way should that work on a head that's been splattered halfway across the Sword Coast.
And if you can't find all the pieces, what then? And even if you did, assuming a human skull is an "object" (which I dispute), there will certainly be more than a single tear or break. So what, is each pair of puzzle pieces now an object you can cast mend on?
I don't think that matches the intention of the spell at all.
Although CSI Faerun would be kinda fun, so maybe I'd allow it.
This is all stuff you'd have a reason to know in character when a setting includes something as impactful as the ability to use the dead as a witness. If the victim can be a witness, you need to either fool or silence the victim post-mortem.