No-Body Homicide Cases
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No-Body Homicide Cases

A Practical Guide to Investigating, Prosecuting, and Winning Cases When the Victim Is Missing

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eBook - ePub

No-Body Homicide Cases

A Practical Guide to Investigating, Prosecuting, and Winning Cases When the Victim Is Missing

About this book

A practical guide for police, death investigators, and prosecutors, No-Body Homicide Cases: A Practical Guide to Investigating, Prosecuting, and Winning Cases When the Victim is Missing, Second Edition takes an expansive look at both the history of no-body murder cases and the best methods to investigate, solve, and bring them to court.

How do you prove someone guilty of murder when the best and primary piece of evidence—the victim's body—is missing? Exclusively dedicated to the investigation and prosecution of no-body homicide cases, this fully updated Second Edition provides the author's insight gained from investigating, consulting on, and trying scores of no-body cases throughout the United States. Taking readers step-by-step from the first days of a homicide investigation through the trial, the book explores the history of confessions and discloses the investigative techniques police must use to catch these cunning killers. Chapters review methods criminals have used to dispose of bodies, delving into the psychological profile of the type of defendant who murders someone, then hides the body. Since the last edition published, the number of no-body murder cases investigated has skyrocketed, with more than 50 percent of all no-body murder cases tried and prosecuted have occurred since the year 2000.

New to this edition is a chapter on a full, singular high-profile case from start to finish, to illustrate the entire no-body investigative and adjudication process. A sample arrest warrant for a no-body murder case is provided in addition to Chapter 12 updating the prior edition's nearly 400 case summaries provided to the current figure, as of this publication, of 576 no-body murder trials in U.S. history. No-Body Homicide Cases, Second Edition continues to serve as an essential resource and the "how-to" manual for investigating, prosecuting, and winning no-body murder cases.

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032618081
eBook ISBN
9781003805656
Edition
2
Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction to the Second Edition
  8. About the Author
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Background and Overview
  11. 3 The Early Investigative Phase
  12. 4 Investigation: Later Phase
  13. 5 Cold Case
  14. 6 Trial
  15. 7 No-Body Murder Case Statistics
  16. 8 Personality of a Murderer
  17. 9 Future
  18. 10 Common Features of a No-Body Murder Case
  19. 11 United States v. Harold Austin: A Case Study
  20. 12 Summary of All 576 No-Body Murder Trials in the United States
  21. Appendix A: No-Body Homicide Investigative Checklist
  22. Appendix B: Keyword Index
  23. Appendix C: State Index
  24. Appendix D: Model Arrest/Search Warrant for No-Body Murder Case