prevent identification

But, wait, George might have killed Bernard to prevent identification and pursuit.

They decided not to throw the head in to prevent identification.

Paintings, he said, are sometimes cut into pieces to prevent identification.

This could surely only have been done to prevent identification of the bag's owner.

He told himself that he did it to prevent identification.

His body was dressed in shabby clothes, and the face disfigured to prevent identification.

He and Molly were said to have been buried together, to prevent identification.

Why had he believed that disguising the license plate would prevent identification?

She couldn't decide whether the accent was real or put on to fool her and prevent identification.

The settings themselves, which we picked out from among the other gold, appeared to have been beaten up with hammers, as if to prevent identification.