"erase evidence" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe the act of removing or getting rid of any physical or electronic proof or indication of a particular event or action. Example: The suspect attempted to erase evidence of the crime by wiping his fingerprints off the weapon.
Particularly in the latter two categories, malicious actors can erase evidence of their activities and presence to further complicate forensic investigations.
It has also been characterised as a gesture of defiance against religious extremists' attempts to erase evidence of the Middle East's pre-Islamic history.
Closer inspection reveals the story of a mid-20th-century Jewish family so determined to assimilate into American upper-class society as to willingly erase evidence of its own ethnic heritage.
Attempting to erase evidence of the camp in the final months of 1944, the Nazis deported many prisoners to Auschwitz and other concentration camps, burned some 9,000 exhumed bodies, and destroyed many of the installations.
Opposition activists said the government had delayed letting observers in because it wanted to erase evidence of war crimes, according to Reuters, and they worried the shelling would resume as soon as monitors left.
Although cleaning crews have spent the last few days trying to erase evidence of the fire, the smell of smoke still hangs in the hallways and the most heavily damaged parts of Boland Hall remain closed, its students relocated to other dormitory rooms, nearby college campuses and a local motel.
There is Beth Nina Garbirass), the idealistic schoolteacher who married Joe Bruno Camposs), an ambitious lawyer bent on erasing evidence of his impoverished childhood.
In the end, MGM spent $1 million digitally erasing evidence of the Chinese Army, frame by frame, and substituting in North Koreans instead.
This is the story of a Jewish family so determined to assimilate into American high society that it almost entirely erases evidence of its own ethnic heritage.
Mr. Curry built the plywood maquettes by hand, and it was important to him that the fabrication process not result in a super-slick piece that erased evidence of his touch, "so I don't meticulously cut," he said.
Visitors to the island are kept ignorant of the Tracys' double life with the aid of the "Operation Cover-Up" security protocol, which physically erases evidence of IR's presence.
