What's wrong with saying they're dead and the b odies are lying around. It's very simple, clear and precise english.
Much better than the newspeak jargon spouted by police here where they obfuscate with near meaningless words that have little or no meaning certainly nothing with any precision.
Life wasn't meant to be easy as Fraser once said. Sometimes life can be very hard on occasions and the old army maxim of "S...happens" is often the best short description of what happened.
Life, get used to it as you can't escape it, well not easily.
