. Spontaneous human combustion (SHC)in the book "The Bleak House" by Charles Dickens Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) Are all those cases murders, where the identity of the body wanted to destroy? Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is the hypothetical phenomenon, where the human body would combust without any outer reason. The fact is that in some cases, the SHC was the murder. After killing the victim, the criminal has destroyed the body by using the magnesium stick or scuba diver torch. One of those cases is Mary Reese's case from 1951(1). The thing that people found was her leg and a hole on the floor. If we are thinking about that case as a murder ewe might ask: why somebody wanted to vanish the body of that woman? The fact is that nobody has seen the SHC itself, and that means that every one of those cases might be murder. So in some cases, the heavy drinking victim would just face the fate that somebody has put the potassium sulfate in the bottle of spirit