No-Body Homicide Cases: A Practical Guide to Investigating, Prosecuting, and Winning Cases When the Victim Is Missing [Paperback]

1. Introduction? 2. Background and Overview? 3. The Early Investigative Phase? 4. Investigation: Later Phase? 5. Cold Case? 6. Trial? 7. No-Body Murder Case Statistics? 8. Personality of a Murderer? 9. Future? 10. Common Features of a No-Body Murder Case? 11. United States v. Harold Austin, A Case Study? 12. Summary of All 576 No-Body Murder Trials in the United States Since the 1800s? ?App A. No-Body Homicide Investigative Checklist? ?App B. Key Word Index? App C. State by State Cases? App. D Model Arrest Warrant for No-Body Murder Case

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.

Thomas A. (Tad) DiBiase received a B.A. in politics from Wake Forest University in 1987 and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1991. He is the nations leading expert on no-body homicide cases and has a website that tracks and discusses these cases at www.nobodymurdercases.com. He consults with police and prosecutors throughout the country on no-body murder cases and has formally consulted on more than two dozen no-body murder cases. He has appeared on television numerous times and has been quoted widely in newspapers throughout the country.

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 evidencethe victims bodyis missing? Excl