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No-Body Homicides: The Evolution of Investigation and Prosecution


ISBN13: 9781032440705
Published: May 2023
Publisher: Routledge
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback
Price: £34.99



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For over 300 years, murderers in the United States and Canada could avoid prosecution by successfully disposing of the body of their victim. No-Body Homicides: The Evolution of Investigation and Prosecution examines how police and prosecutors have become more successful in obtaining convictions for homicide when the remains of the victim are unavailable as evidence. Based on an examination of over 600 cases in the United States and Canada, this book shows the length some killers will go to avoid punishment and the determination of police and prosecutors to bring them to justice.

No-Body Homicides provides the reader with a historical overview of prosecutions in which a killer destroyed or hid the body of the victim. It explains why prosecutions were once extremely rare, and how legal, attitudinal, and technical changes have made them more common. The book also explores how the logic of no-body homicide prosecutions differs from body-present homicides. It allows police and prosecutors to draw on the accumulated experience of hundreds of prosecutions. For criminology students, it provides fascinating insights into the process of investigating and prosecuting homicides – as well as a glimpse into the motivations and practices of killers who are so determined to avoid punishment that they remove the bodies of their victims.

No-Body Homicides will be of practical interest to police or prosecutors confronted with a missing persons case that could be sinister. It is also written to be appropriate as a supplementary text in an undergraduate criminology class or for an aficionado of "True Crime."

Subjects:
Criminal Law, Criminology
Contents:
Introduction: Homicides and Missing Bodies
Gone but not Dead
Opening the Door to Prosecuting No-Body Homicides
"Till Death Do Us Part": Intimate Partner Homicides and Body Disposal
Missing Are the Children: Disposing the Most Vulnerable
Societies Expendables: Sex Trade Workers and No-Body Homicides
Killing in Volume: Serial Killers and Body Disposal
Murder Incorporated and Its Imitators: Criminal Gangs and Body Disposal
Mid-Live Crisis, Murder, and Body Disposal
Deadly Synergies: Combinations Causing Homicide and Body Disposal
Black Box Explanations and Prosecuting No-Body Homicides
Explaining Success: Why Have No-Body Convictions Become More Common
Bodily Secrets: Negotiating Over Disclosure of Body Locations
"Only in Canada, Eh?": Mr. Big and No-Body Investigations
Prosecutorial Misfires: Unsuccessful Prosecutions in No-Body Cases
Results and Prospects for No-Body Homicide Prosecutions
Appendix: "True Crime" Accounts of No-Body Homicides
Index