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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 129 pages are in this category, out of 129 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
List of kidnappings; 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
Molseed's body was found three days later, and a mentally ill man was erroneously convicted of her murder but later exonerated in 1992. Molseed's actual killer, Ronald Castree, was identified via DNA evidence in 2006, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Tucker was a 6-year-old American boy [57] who disappeared on June 23, 2002, and became the victim of a murder where no body was found. [58] His mother, Katherine Rutan, was convicted of first-degree murder in September 2007, and the jury recommended a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. [59]
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This is a list of solved missing person cases of people who went missing in unknown locations or unknown circumstances that were eventually explained by their reappearance or the recovery of their bodies, the conviction of the perpetrator(s) responsible for their disappearances, or a confession to their killings. This list includes ...