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It is possible to convict someone of murder without the purported victim's body in evidence. However, cases of this type have historically been hard to prove, often forcing the prosecution to rely on circumstantial evidence, and in England there was for centuries a mistaken view that in the absence of a body a killer could not be tried for murder.
A murder conviction without a body is an instance of a person being convicted of murder despite the absence of the victim's body. Circumstantial and forensic evidence are prominent in such convictions. Hundreds of such convictions have occurred in the past, some of which have been overturned.
Pages in category "Murder convictions without a body" The following 133 pages are in this category, out of 133 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Authorities, says Gregg, told him that without a body it would be difficult to charge Dale Warner with murder. Which is why Gregg called Missouri-based attorney and investigator Billy Little.
Robert Leonard Ewing Scott (July 27, 1897 – August 15, 1987) was an American convicted murderer. Scott was convicted in 1959, in California, of having murdered his wife; the case was one of the first to establish a "bodyless" murder, that is, a murder in which no body had been discovered to bear out that there had been a crime committed.
Without a body to show in the 1996 San Luis Obispo cold case, the prosecution concluded its presentation in the Kristin Smart murder trial with a sexually explicit screenshot of another woman with ...
A man has appeared in court after a "no-body" murder investigation was launched by police. Karl Hutchings, of The Hill in Christchurch, Cambridgeshire, appeared before Judge Mark Bishop at a crown ...
List of murder convictions without a body; List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1990–present; List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990; List of people who disappeared mysteriously: pre-1910; List of unsolved deaths; Lists of unsolved murders