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It has been said that this case was the source of a mistaken view that without a body there could be no trial for murder in England. [46] William Moore William Kidd: Indian Ocean: October 30, 1697 May 23, 1701 Privateer's gunner murdered at sea after making a disrespectful remark to Kidd, his captain. John Davidson Thomas Davidson
He had misinterpreted the Latin legal phrase corpus delicti (referring to the body of evidence which establishes a crime) to mean an actual human body. But evidence of a body was presented at his 1949 trial: part of the dentures from his last victim. Her dentist was able to identify them; Haigh was found guilty and hanged. [9]
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John Emil List (September 17, 1925 – March 21, 2008) was an American mass murderer [1] and long-time fugitive.On November 9, 1971, he killed his wife, mother, and three children at their home in Westfield, New Jersey, and then disappeared.
Her body has never been found. [2] Ian Simms, a local pub landlord, was convicted of her murder. The case is a rare example in which a murder conviction has been obtained without the presence of a body, and was among the first in the UK to use DNA fingerprinting. In 2015, McCourt's mother Marie began a campaign to require convicted murderers to ...
Lists of murderers include lists of rampage killers who kill two or more victims in a short time, including mass murderers and spree killers, and lists of serial killers, who murder three or more people over more than a month, with a significant period of time between the murders.
John George Haigh (/ h eɪ ɡ / HEYG; 24 July 1909 – 10 August 1949), commonly known as the Acid Bath Murderer, was an English serial killer convicted for the murder of six people, although he claimed to have killed nine.
His body was found three weeks later. His murder remains unsolved. [75] [76] Agapit Leblanc was a Canadian fisheries officer. He was 39 years old when he died on 20 October 1926 while investigating illegal smelt fishing. His body was found underwater, weighed down with rocks.