How to Preserve a Body

It's hard to say for sure, in this case, without knowing more, what Bessie would have had to go through in order to shoot herself twice. It sounds like a standard revolver from information we get later. Police chief feral is just trying to build a case because he's convinced us his murder based on these two bullet holes that he's been told are there in her head. They take her head and they put it in a jar that's filled with alcohol, which is how they would have preserved it.